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Quote from: Akura on October 06, 2015, 05:12:28 pm

Trust me, there's a lot of words in the English language that derive from Latin like that. Despite English being a German language.

Really?  I thought it was "Let's stick all these languages together!".

Nah, West Germanic. Lots of borrowings from Romance, but that's not what genealogical attribution is about (it's about being descended from a common proto-language, in this case, you guessed it, Common Germanic through proto-West Germanic).

Speaking of flash games, I played Corruption of Champions. Holy crap. That game. I don't think there's anything in there that isn't hilariously absurd porn.

Well, there's also an absolute crapton of references. And perhaps select bits of Tel'Adre are not hilariously absurd porn, like the blacksmith and the pawn shop dude.

Quote from: Avis-Mergulus on October 06, 2015, 06:33:53 pm

Quote from: Helgoland on October 06, 2015, 05:10:32 pm

Quote from: Th4DwArfY1 on October 06, 2015, 05:01:38 pm

Caesar was a Kaiser.

Wanna hear something fun? Even Germans pronounce Caesar the wrong way.

The Russian word "Czar" is also derived from Caesar, if we're doing Fun Caesar Facts Monday.

I believe the comment was not about the origins, but about the pronunciation. The modern pronunciation of Caesar differs from the one likely used by Romans at his time, which was very similar to how Kaiser sounds.

Oh, comparative linguistics. Sorry, I understand, I just felt like Caesar Fun Facts Monday.

I'd check if they stopped at the same place or ate food or drinks (pilots can have drinks in their cabin, right? I mean, it would be downright mean to make somebody fly a plane for long without drinking) from the same supplier.
I mean, this is crime novel - tier bull, but that's the direction my thoughts went to.

Inducted into a Mexican gang.

A small Midwestern town and approximately three hundred milligrams of antimatter.

Quote from: Avis-Mergulus on October 04, 2015, 10:34:10 pm

...What exactly am I looking at here? Is it... tomatoes on sticks? Onions on a plate? What am I missing?

Onions painted red and glazed over to look like caramel apples.

Aaaaah. Yes. I would do that. But probably only once, because irrecoverable cranial damage would prevent me from doing it again.

Reminds me of the Russian roulette chocolate set. 11 vanilla cream-filled chocolate bullets. 1 chili pepper-filled chocolate bullet. Two to five people enter, only I leave because I've eaten raw chilies before anyway.

There's also the Bean Boozled set. Wherein you get jellybeans of different colors, and you spin a wheel to pick a color to eat, and each color can be two different flavors, one normal and one really gross, like "green apple" and "boogers".

Uh... hey. I haven't been around this thread before, because I didn't really have a reason to, I guess, but here I am. I'm almost completely useless right now, I've only got into programming a year ago (really enjoying it so far, though), and I had done absolutely nothing of that sort before that (discounting Pascal in high school, but that doesn't count for various reasons). I have a couple possibly-stupid questions to ask if somebody can spare the time.

1. Probably the dumbest one. Is it possible to like, start learning programming too late to be useful? I mean, roughly how long does it take before you have a more-or-less developed (marketable, if you will) skill at coding? Because I had classmates and friends that were already competent in like three languages at sixteen or something, and here I am just stumbling through things right now (I'm nineteen myself). I know it's sort of stupid and other people's abilities are largely irrelevant to my own progress, but it just nags at me and I can't get rid of it.

2. Can somebody recommend a good book or manual on programming in general, not any specific language? Just basic principles and guidelines that would be useful wherever. If there is such a thing, of course. I realize that's a bit broad, so just... I mean, what's a good read?

3. Right now, I'm learning Python, R, and SQL (I'm more or less a linguistics major minoring in data mining). What else would be useful or enlightening to pick up in addition to those?

I may seem a little clueless, but that's probably because I am.