odeon's ask away-thread

[Triste]

I assume 'ja' means yes.  But what does the rest mean?
And do you have to do something different to your computer to type English.

[odeon]

Ja, visst kan jag ge dig en mening på svenska.
Kyllä voin antaa sinulle lauseen suomeksi myös.

Yes, sure, I can give you a sentence in Swedish/Finnish. (More or less, the languages are differently constructed but that's basically what one would say...)

I assume 'ja' means yes.  But what does the rest mean?
And do you have to do something different to your computer to type English.

No. My computer has a Swedish keyboard, which means that characters like "/", "\", etc, are placed differently since the accented characters ("å", "ä", "ö"--don't know if your browser will display these, though; it depends on the installed fonts) need their own keys. The Swedish--the Finnish is identical to Swedish--alphabet is a superset of the English one. What I had to do was to tell KDE (my window manager of choice in Linux) to use a Swedish keyboard layout to get the Swedish characters to show up.

[Triste]

Brilliant.

I was in a Paris train station, waiting to go to Belgium, when I heard John Lennon was shot.  I was devastated.
Where were you?

[odeon]

Walking home from school. I stopped at the newsstand and saw the headlines. The time was about half past three in the afternoon, and I was devastated.

[McGiver]

odeon,

I take it that you don't consider McJ to be "really fucked up"?

do you?

[odeon]

odeon,

I take it that you don't consider McJ to be "really fucked up"?

do you?

No, I don't. I like you.

[McGiver]

odeon,

I take it that you don't consider McJ to be "really fucked up"?

do you?

No, I don't like you.

that is not a very kind thing to say.

[odeon]

A little quoting mishap there, eh, McJ? 

[McGiver]

 

yeah, i read it like that upon first glance.
thought it would be funny to post my initial read.

[odeon]

yeah, i read it like that upon first glance.
thought it would be funny to post my initial read.

I actually had to check what I wrote. For a second, I thought I had actually written that.

Did you really think I'd say that?

[McGiver]

yeah, i read it like that upon first glance.
thought it would be funny to post my initial read.

I actually had to check what I wrote. For a second, I thought I had actually written that.

Did you really think I'd say that?

nah, you seem to have a bit of a time frame between placid and boiling points.  i do not think that i have brrought you to that point yet.
but who knows, i may surprise you...

[odeon]

You're welcome to try. 

[McGiver]

don't expect an argument from me, because you are too concerned with facts.

[odeon]

don't expect an argument from me, because you are too concerned with facts.

The facts have a nasty habit of getting in the way.

[McGiver]

yes,
except i cannot be arsed to adhere to them.

they are interpretable based upon the peron assessing them, and actual facts seem to drift in a new direction every half generation or so.

things are in constant flux.

i only trust my own observations.