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L14[09:54:03] <Deddly> !mission

L15[09:54:03] <LunchBot> Bill is perturbed with the ancient texts "The Art of War." So Bill invents a deadly-ish pulsed supermassive-neutrino generator in his quest to form "The State of the Art of War." You are zapped by PrefixCactus.

L16[09:57:51] <packbart> !mission add Your countdown starts at 11. Everyone else starts out at 10 but you need that one extra check to get you off the pad.

L17[09:57:51] <LunchBot> Added mission: Your countdown starts at 11. Everyone else starts out at 10 but you need that one extra check to get you off the pad.

L18[09:57:57] <packbart> it's one later

L19[09:59:27] <Althego> the quote should be before the period

L20[10:00:07] <packbart> yeah, I wasn't so sure that it should be part if the mission

L21[10:00:12] <packbart> *of

L22[10:00:27] <packbart> it's implied :)

L23[10:48:19] <Deddly> Althego, confusingly, there are conclicting standrads on that depending on what country you live in.

L24[10:48:28] <Deddly> satandards*

L25[10:48:35] <Deddly> Wow my spelling.

L26[10:48:42] <Deddly> conflicting standards*

L27[10:48:53] <Althego> the quote is for the title, that does not include the period

L28[10:49:16] <Althego> if there was a whole sentence quoted, i could understand some kind of ambiguity

L29[10:49:38] <Deddly> I agree, but I believe that in US English, the quote goes outside the full stop.

L30[10:50:00] <Deddly> Even when the "period" is not included in the title.

L31[10:51:32] <Deddly> Althego: "In US English, closing punctuation goes inside the quote marks, whether the quote is a complete sentence or not, and whether the punctuation was there in the original quoted material or not". Source: https://www.ciep.uk/resource/punctuating-quotes.html

L32[10:52:04] <Althego> there is this other thing, you cant call it dot and star, no you have to call them period and asterisk. which is even worse because i always think of asterix

L33[10:52:46] <Althego> stupid linguists

L34[10:53:23] <Mat2ch> yeah. We humans should've never started talking.

L35[10:53:57] <Deddly> English is honestly a stupid language.

L36[10:54:18] <Deddly> It's a mixture of so many other languages none of the rules make any sense.

L37[10:55:01] <Deddly> The word "asterisk" is Middle English and based on the Greek word for "small star", Althego.

L38[10:55:18] <Deddly> So yeah, it's stupid.

L39[10:57:00] <Mat2ch> Deddly: Oh, the sound shifts are even worse :D

L40[10:57:50] <Mat2ch> Back when the nobles wanted to be fancy and pronounced old english words in a frech style, which then changed almost every reasonable law about the language :D

L41[10:58:31] <Althego> hehe

L42[10:59:02] <Deddly> And we have different rules for plurals depending on whether the word is Greek, Latin or something else.

L44[12:59:11] <Deddly> !mission add You attempt to write a comprehensive and completely logical guide to understanding English grammar and punctuation.

L45[12:59:11] <LunchBot> Added mission: You attempt to write a comprehensive and completely logical guide to understanding English grammar and punctuation.

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L51[13:37:58] <Deddly> !mission

L52[13:37:58] <LunchBot> Bill kludges together some sepratrons in an unhinged attempt to create flow separation in the nozzle extensions. Cows become accustomed to the sounds of spaceflight.

L53[13:40:16] <Deddly> Why would he want to create flow separation?

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L57[20:00:44] <sandbox> !mission

L58[20:00:45] <LunchBot> You try to reach orbit with a paraglider. You *liked* your ribcage. It kept your goo in individually-wrapped baggies.

L59[20:02:27] <Althego> there was a time when you could reach orbital speed with a a glider

L60[20:02:39] <Althego> it made it almost impossible to land with some planes

L61[20:13:31] <darsie> A.I.R.B.R.A.K.E.S

L62[20:16:15] <Althego> were there airbeakes back then? in the soup and infiniglide