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[Brentai]

You're probably better off pirating Rosetta Stone and using the fluent speakers here for practice than actually trying to learn from people with no teaching experience or awareness of how a non-native speaker would have to think.

[François]

Right. It's like, if I see or hear a mistake I can easily explain what went wrong and how to do better, but to start someone up from scratch, before even mentioning the amusing extra little quirks of French like gendered nouns and the twenty-odd tenses*? It's not that I don't want to help, but I'm brutally unqualified for it. I mean, I started learning English by playing Dragon Warrior games with a dictionary in my lap, and that gave me a huge leg up when I started receiving formal instruction in the language at school, but it did take a straight-up professional teacher to give me a real grasp of grammar and complete my basic vocabulary so I could talk about more than just tremendous blows and finding that damnable Sun Crest.

*: Avoir, "to have"

Indicatif présent
j'ai
tu as
il a
nous avons
vous avez
ils ont

Indicatif passé simple
j'eus
tu eus
il eut
nous eûmes
vous eûtes
ils eurent

Indicatif passé composé
j'ai eu
tu as eu
il a eu
nous avons eu
vous avez eu
ils ont eu

Indicatif passé antérieur
j'eus eu
tu eus eu
il eut eu
nous eûmes eu
vous eûtes eu
ils eurent eu

Indicatif imparfait
j'avais
tu avais
il avait
nous avions
vous aviez
ils avaient

Indicatif futur simple
j'aurai
tu auras
il aura
nous aurons
vous aurez
ils auront

Indicatif plus-que-parfait
j'avais eu
tu avais eu
il avait eu
nous avions eu
vous aviez eu
ils avaient eu

Indicatif futur antérieur
j'aurai eu
tu auras eu
il aura eu
nous aurons eu
vous aurez eu
ils auront eu

Subjonctif présent
que j'aie
que tu aies
qu'il ait
que nous ayons
que vous ayez
qu'ils aient

Subjonctif passé
que j'aie eu
que tu aies eu
qu'il ait eu
que nous ayons eu
que vous ayez eu
qu'ils aient eu

Subjonctif imparfait
que j'eusse
que tu eusses
qu'il eût
que nous eussions
que vous eussiez
qu'ils eussent

Subjonctif plus-que-parfait
que j'eusse eu
que tu eusses eu
qu'il eût eu
que nous eussions eu
que vous eussiez eu
qu'ils eussent eu

Conditionnel présent
j'aurais
tu aurais
il aurait
nous aurions
vous auriez
ils auraient

Conditionnel passé, première forme
j'aurais eu
tu aurais eu
il aurait eu
nous aurions eu
vous auriez eu
ils auraient eu

Conditionnel passé, deuxième forme
j'eusse eu
tu eusses eu
il eût eu
nous eussions eu
vous eussiez eu
ils eussent eu

Impératif présent
aie
ayons
ayez

Impératif passé
aie eu
ayons eu
ayez eu

Infinitif présent
avoir

Infinitif passé
avoir eu

Participe présent
ayant

Participe passé
eu

I ain't putting this out there to discourage anyone, and we don't use all of those tenses in common speech, but we're not talking about sticking "will" in front of an infinitive to make it future tense and "-ed" after to make it past tense.

[Büge]

I mean, I started learning English by playing Dragon Warrior games with a dictionary in my lap

I should do that with Blacksad and Songes: Coraline! I'll be speaking "La Belle Langue" in no time! :D

[Brentai]

I have a feeling this will still end in only being able to talk about tremendous blows.

[Mongrel]

During conjugal visits with François.

Songes: Coraline

Haw haw haw. Come on, you don't need to READ that. The words are wholly unimportant.

I sure wish they'd get on with volume 2, though.

[A²]

So I want to get my dad a portable music player for Father's Day. He disliked his old Sansa Fuse, and doesn't want to deal with iTunes and that shit. He wants to take mp3s and just drop them onto the device.

So far the only suggestions I've gotten from people are "Store brand $20" and Creative Zens. Any other suggestions from anyone?

[Thad]

Rockbox works with straightforward drag-and-drop, is easy to install, has an inordinate number of different options, and supports a variety of devices -- not sure how many actual CURRENT devices it supports, though.

I stuck it on an old iPod Photo and it worked pretty decently.  Not for very long, but I think that's because the battery in the thing is dead and not because of anything wrong with RockBox.

[James Edward Smith]

What does it actually do? Why does it exist?

[Thad]

Basically it's designed as a unified frontend/backend for all sorts of portable music players.  It supports a whole lot more formats than a typical player, and has a better interface than what you often get with a cheapo device.  It also supports skinning and some low-end apps if that's your thing.

[Smiler]

You haven't lived until you've played Doom on a shitty scroll wheel.

[Lottel]

OK. SO. Law type things here.

I'm not entirely sure but at every job I've been at, I was told it was the law that the business reimbursed drivers for gas mileage. My current job doesn't reimburse drivers at all.
Whether or not that's not entirely legal, they ARE telling people they are paying us. They file paperwork and send it up through corporate they pay us for gas.  I've seen them do it every time I leave work.
Now, I know that's bad, franchise-wise. I could get the owner of this franchise in a lot of trouble with corporate for falsifying reports.
But am I being taxed for this money I'm not actually getting? Is there a way to check without tipping off my bosses?
I've already been taking photos and whatnot of various safety violations and health code violations that I am not allowed to fix. I don't know what to do with this stuff, but I feel it's a good idea to keep record of it, in case there's a need for it.

[Thad]

I think they'd probably be taking it directly out of your paycheck if they were.  I don't think that's something that you fill out later on your tax form.  But I could be mistaken.

[Royal☭]

OK. SO. Law type things here.

I'm not entirely sure but at every job I've been at, I was told it was the law that the business reimbursed drivers for gas mileage. My current job doesn't reimburse drivers at all.
Whether or not that's not entirely legal, they ARE telling people they are paying us. They file paperwork and send it up through corporate they pay us for gas.  I've seen them do it every time I leave work.
Now, I know that's bad, franchise-wise. I could get the owner of this franchise in a lot of trouble with corporate for falsifying reports.
But am I being taxed for this money I'm not actually getting? Is there a way to check without tipping off my bosses?
I've already been taking photos and whatnot of various safety violations and health code violations that I am not allowed to fix. I don't know what to do with this stuff, but I feel it's a good idea to keep record of it, in case there's a need for it.

Pro-tip; Whistleblow on that shit. If you get canned, the government will make the company pay you for a years salary. If you don't, your workplace improves.

[Classic]

I'm not really optimistic, because everything I know about wistleblowers indicates that they get fucked and fucked hard, but this is the same establishment that's been looking for an excuse to fire you, no?

[Shinra]

OK. SO. Law type things here.

I'm not entirely sure but at every job I've been at, I was told it was the law that the business reimbursed drivers for gas mileage. My current job doesn't reimburse drivers at all.
Whether or not that's not entirely legal, they ARE telling people they are paying us. They file paperwork and send it up through corporate they pay us for gas.  I've seen them do it every time I leave work.
Now, I know that's bad, franchise-wise. I could get the owner of this franchise in a lot of trouble with corporate for falsifying reports.
But am I being taxed for this money I'm not actually getting? Is there a way to check without tipping off my bosses?
I've already been taking photos and whatnot of various safety violations and health code violations that I am not allowed to fix. I don't know what to do with this stuff, but I feel it's a good idea to keep record of it, in case there's a need for it.

Lottel, where do you work? If it's food delivery, do they give you a portion of the delivery fee? Because if they do, they're probably marking that as mileage.

[Mongrel]

Also: Who the fuck really cares about getting fired from a food delivery job? 

I mean, we all know that the entire female population of the midwest wants to have Lottel's babies, but he doesn't actually have any kids yet*, so it's not like he has dependants. 



*(that we know of)

[Lottel]

I'm not really optimistic, because everything I know about wistleblowers indicates that they get fucked and fucked hard, but this is the same establishment that's been looking for an excuse to fire you, no?

They used to but then my boss started banging some dude and is no longer a cranky bitch. And I don't say things like that often.

Lottel, where do you work? If it's food delivery, do they give you a portion of the delivery fee? Because if they do, they're probably marking that as mileage.

I get paid minimum wage plus whatever tips I get.


I do want to whistle blow on some of this stuff, but I don't know how 'bad' this stuff is.

[Shinra]

If they're not paying you a mileage fee per run report their ass for tax fraud.

[Lottel]

Didn't we have a podcast thread at one time?

I'm looking for some podcasts to listen to while I do other things. The small list of podcasts I used to listen to stopped a few years ago apparently.

Honestly,  I'd prefer RPG podcasts with episodes of actual play,  but I'll take nice quality podcasts about anything other than politics.

[François]

Hmm, maybe Role Playing Public Radio? I've only listened to a few episodes of theirs a long time ago, but it was pretty entertaining and they're still updating.

Otherwise the only podcast I'm keeping up with nowadays is Roguelike Radio, which is very interesting if you, uh, enjoy roguelikes.

And if you're into absurdist comedy I can recommend the Tweet Me Harder archives; the show itself is concluded but it's still over 75 hours of material.