kerbiloid Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 When you think that Long John Silver was a pirate quartermaster because he was as good in qua(r)ternions as nobody other among them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazalassa Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 3 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: When you think that Long John Silver was a pirate quartermaster because he was as good in qua(r)ternions as nobody other among them. haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 When you read. 14 hours ago, Nazalassa said: haha And imediately think this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 When you first start thinking about the RGB numbers of the picture above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazalassa Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 When someone asks you "what color is the sky" and you answer "(0,192,255) approximately"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazalassa Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 (edited) When you have four different desktop environments, on the same system... Edited March 3 by Nazalassa Removed unnecessary pictures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 When you are shocked that somebody doesn't use textual UI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazalassa Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, kerbiloid said: When you are shocked that somebody doesn't use textual UI. I sometimes do, no need to be shocked When you often use htop... Edited February 16, 2023 by Nazalassa Noob edit: fixed image [and spoiler!] tag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 When you see the above and think of Converse sneakers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 When you read Converse and first think of Convair's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 When you read "Convair" and think of "Con-Air" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben J. Kerman Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 12 hours ago, kerbiloid said: When you read Converse and first think of Convair's. When you read Aeropostale and think of Aerospatiale When you know the difference between the Chad and Romanian flags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 When you know that Chad has a flag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazalassa Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 When you love text files so much that you copy the whole IPA chart in a text file (with the help of U+2500 - U+257F box drawing)... ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ PULMONIC CONSONANTS ┃ Bilabial ┃ Labiodental ┃ Dental ┃ Alveolar ┃ Postalveolar ┃ Retroflex ┃ Palatal ┃ Velar ┃ Uvular ┃ Pharyngeal ┃ Glottal ┃ ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━┯━━━━━╋━━━━━━┯━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━┯━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━┯━━━━━╋━━━━┯━━━━╋━━━━┯━━━━╋━━━━┯━━━━╋━━━━━━┯━━━━━━╋━━━━┯━━━━┫ ┃ Plosive ┃ p │ b ┃ │ ┃ t │ d ┃ ʈ │ ɖ ┃ c │ ɟ ┃ k │ g ┃ q │ ɢ ┃ │ ┃ ʔ │ ┃ ┠─────────────────────╂─────┼─────╂──────┼──────╂───────────────┼─────────────────────╂─────┼─────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂──────┼──────╂────┼────┨ ┃ Nasal ┃ │ m ┃ │ ɱ ┃ │ n ┃ │ ɳ ┃ │ ɲ ┃ │ ŋ ┃ │ ɴ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ ┠─────────────────────╂─────┼─────╂──────┼──────╂───────────────┼─────────────────────╂─────┼─────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂──────┼──────╂────┼────┨ ┃ Trill ┃ │ ʙ ┃ │ ┃ │ r ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ │ ʀ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ ┠─────────────────────╂─────┼─────╂──────┼──────╂───────────────┼─────────────────────╂─────┼─────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂──────┼──────╂────┼────┨ ┃ Tap or Flap ┃ │ ┃ │ ⱱ ┃ │ ɾ ┃ │ ɽ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ ┠─────────────────────╂─────┼─────╂──────┼──────╂────┬────┰─────┼─────┰───────┬───────╂─────┼─────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂──────┼──────╂────┼────┨ ┃ Fricative ┃ ɸ │ β ┃ f │ v ┃ θ │ ð ┃ s │ z ┃ ʃ │ ʒ ┃ ʂ │ ʐ ┃ ç │ ʝ ┃ x │ ɣ ┃ χ │ ʁ ┃ ħ │ ʕ ┃ h │ ɦ ┃ ┠─────────────────────╂─────┼─────╂──────┼──────╂────┴────┸─────┼─────┸───────┴───────╂─────┼─────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂──────┼──────╂────┼────┨ ┃ Lateral Fricative ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ ɬ │ ɮ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ ┠─────────────────────╂─────┼─────╂──────┼──────╂───────────────┼─────────────────────╂─────┼─────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂──────┼──────╂────┼────┨ ┃ Approximant ┃ │ ┃ │ ʋ ┃ │ ɹ ┃ │ ɻ ┃ │ j ┃ │ ɰ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ ┠─────────────────────╂─────┼─────╂──────┼──────╂───────────────┼─────────────────────╂─────┼─────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂────┼────╂──────┼──────╂────┼────┨ ┃ Lateral Approximant ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ │ l ┃ │ ɭ ┃ │ ʎ ┃ │ ʟ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ │ ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━┷━━━━━┻━━━━━━┷━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━┷━━━━━┻━━━━┷━━━━┻━━━━┷━━━━┻━━━━┷━━━━┻━━━━━━┷━━━━━━┻━━━━┷━━━━┛ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ VOWELS ┃ Front Central Back ┃ ┃ AFFRICATES ┃ Bilabial ┃ Dental ┃ Alveolar ┃ Postalveolar ┃ Retroflex ┃ Palatal ┃ Velar ┃ Uvular ┃ ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫ ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━┯━━━━━╋━━━━┯━━━━╋━━━━━┯━━━━━╋━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━╋━━━━━┯━━━━━╋━━━━┯━━━━╋━━━━┯━━━━╋━━━━┯━━━━┫ ┃ Close ┃ i y ──────── ɨ ʉ ───────── ɯ u ┃ ┃ Affricate ┃ pf │ bv ┃ tθ │ dð ┃ ts │ dz ┃ tʃ │ dʒ ┃ ʈʂ │ ɖʐ ┃ cç │ ┃ kx │ gɣ ┃ qχ │ ɢʁ ┃ ┃ ┃ ╲ ╰╮ ╷ ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━┷━━━━━┻━━━━┷━━━━┻━━━━━┷━━━━━┻━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━┻━━━━━┷━━━━━┻━━━━┷━━━━┻━━━━┷━━━━┻━━━━┷━━━━┛ ┃ Near-close ┃ ╲ ɪ ʏ │ ʊ │ ┃ ┃ ┃ ╲ ╰╮ ╵ ┃ ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ Close-mid ┃ e ø ────── ɘ ɵ ─────── ɤ o ┃ ┃ NON-PULMONIC CONSONANTS ┃ Bilabial ┃ Dental ┃ Alveolar ┃ Palatoalveolar ┃ Palatal ┃ Velar ┃ Uvular ┃ ┃ ┃ ╲ ╰╮ ╷ ┃ ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━┫ ┃ Mid ┃ ╲ ə │ ┃ ┃ Clicks ┃ ʘ ┃ ǀ ┃ ǃ ┃ ǂ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ╲ ╰╮ ╵ ┃ ┠─────────────────────────╂──────────╂────────┸──────────╂────────────────╂─────────╂───────╂────────┨ ┃ Open-mid ┃ ɛ œ ──── ɜ ɞ ───── ʌ ɔ ┃ ┃ Voiced Implosives ┃ ɓ ┃ ɗ ┃ ┃ ʄ ┃ ɠ ┃ ʛ ┃ ┃ ┃ ╲ ╰╮ ╷ ┃ ┠─────────────────────────╂──────────╂───────────────────╂────────────────╂─────────╂───────╂────────┨ ┃ Near-open ┃ æ╲ ɐ │ ┃ ┃ Ejectives ┃ pʼ ┃ tʼ ┃ ┃ ┃ kʼ ┃ ┃ ┃ ┃ ╲ ╰╮ ╵ ┃ ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳┻━━┳━━━┳━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━┻━━━┳━━━┻━━━━━━━━┛ ┃ Open ┃ a ɶ ────┴───── ɑ ɒ ┃ ┃ Alveolar Lateral Click ┃ ǁ ┃ ┃ General Ejective ┃ (corresponding unvoiced plosive)ʼ ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━┛ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ (the vertical lines should be continuous, but the forums adds extra space between lines, so they aren't) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 When you know that alveolar lateral clicks are a subcategory of non-pulmonic consonants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 When I read the above and think of lungs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazalassa Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 ... and when you use above IPA chart to conlang ... Spoiler elifeiel aife iel eai awae io <-> The forest has been created by plants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 When you know 58 languages known by only one person in the world, you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow71 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 When you reply to the King of the Hill thread using Magic the Gathering cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 When you counter with Pokemon Cards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 When the word "pokemon" is associated with assembler for ZX Spectrum for you. (POKE - a byte placement command, MON - an assembler code viewer) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 When you fondly remember the morning cartoons from 40 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 27, 2023 Share Posted February 27, 2023 When one of your favorite first books in early childhood was How the atom is constructed. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 When you see the above picture and realise that one of the protons is hidden behind the other in that helium atom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 (edited) 41 minutes ago, ColdJ said: When you see the above picture and realise that one of the protons is hidden behind the other in that helium atom. Haven't seen it for decades, and now am shocked. Now I feel my university knowledge corrupted, too... Edited February 28, 2023 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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