Zompist Bboard Again

Vijay wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 1:11 pm Except that apparently, vertreten by itself means 'to represent' or 'to substitute'.

Yes, that, too.

Vijay wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 11:08 am How do you say it in German?

"Ich habe mich vertreten."

Not sure about the proper linguistic analysis of that. The prefix "ver-" often, including in this case, means doing something in a wrong way, and "treten" means "to step" or "to kick".

How do you call it in English when you try to take a step, and your foot somehow comes down wrong, and, as a result, something in your foot hurts for a while? "To twist one's ankle"? Colloquially, my ‘lect and every ‘lect I remember ever hearing, says “I twisted my ankle”. Formally/techni...

How do you call it in English when you try to take a step, and your foot somehow comes down wrong, and, as a result, something in your foot hurts for a while? "To twist one's ankle"?

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 10:19 am But to be sure, if Major decides against it, someone else will do it - like Gina Miller, the random activist woman who sued the government and won over May's plan to not consult Parliament on activating Article 50.

Ah, good to know.

Conservative former Prime Minister Sir John Major has declared he will if necessary take the current Prime Minister to court to prevent the prorogation. Hm? How would that work, and how would he try to make it work? The Queen's actions (qua monarch) cannot be challenged in court. However, she acts ...

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 9:46 am Conservative former Prime Minister Sir John Major has declared he will if necessary take the current Prime Minister to court to prevent the prorogation.

Hm? How would that work, and how would he try to make it work?

Ah yes, the "imprison sex workers for their own good" crowd.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sun Aug 25, 2019 8:21 am September 3. Then they have about three weeks until party conferences (hopefully the really good podium-letter-glue has been stockpiled in anticipation of Brexit). Then it's one more month left of Britain.

Ah, thank you!

Bumping this thread just in case that zompist overlooked it.

Out of curiosity, when is Parliament's summer holiday over?

I've started Margaret O'Mara's much-discussed The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America . It's quite interesting, and well-written. At the same time, it's apparently not quite what some of the people recommending it claim it to be. For instance, right in the introduction, there's this par...

Also, they're sending me a refund check for the balance (all of which will go towards paying my home insurance). So I'm like, "Yay, money!" but also like "WTF are you sending a check for?" I have a checking account with this bank; why don't they just direct deposit the money the...

The poster of Nighthawks that I ordered has arrived in the mail! Now I can make a pathetic attempt at making my room look like the room of someone who's a bit more sophisticated than I actually am!

So are the governments of Denmark and Sweden; doesn't mean they're anti-EU.

A tweet from the BBC's breaking news account:

"Man charged with murder of police officer Andrew Harper, killed while investigating a burglary in Berkshire"

mèþru wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2019 5:10 pm Even the SNP don't like the EU that much!

oh the irony

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Yep. Brexit looks like a damn good way of being forced to adopt the Euro. Oh, that seems unlikely to me. I don't think Denmark and Sweden would stand for that. What seems more likely would be various forces within the EU blocking the UK from being readmitted on any terms, either because they are le...

malloc: as someone who doesn't know that much about conlanging, I think your script simply looks nice. That's what I think in an "I don't know art, but I know what I like" way.

I think I remember seeing reports about something earlier today, but I can't find these reports, and I can't find independent confirmation anywhere. The something in question is that supposedly, some people in the Labour Party are planning to try to unilaterally repeal Brexit after it happened , onc...