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This is not meant to be competition with Neek, however I thought I might do the same for my grammar. Neek and I have started to write a reference grammar for our conlangs at about the same time IIRC, and I thought it would be nice if people could maybe point out inconsistencies and plain mistakes in...

Clueso – Bleib hier (from the Weit weg album)

Nortaneous wrote:Goddamn fascists need to stop being so good at music.

Can't simply ignore goddamn fascists?

I hardly ever use minutes unless precsion is required (such as setting a clock or cooking), intead saying things like half past and quarter of. Going in 5-minute steps is usually enough in everyday situations IME, so I frequently say things like "twenty past in a moment" (e.g. :18), or "almost 10 t...

if 2 o'clock is 14 hundred then 16 hundred must be 5 o'clock. I don't have the system down in my head. All you need is some simple arithmetics if you can't get this into your head: 0 - 12 6 - 18 1 - 13 7 - 19 2 - 14 8 - 20 3 - 15 9 - 21 4 - 16 10 - 22 5 - 17 11 - 23 And if you get 12+4 wrong, you s...

The digital clocks obviously inflect a lot upon us; I haven't used an analogue clock since I was little, I, contrarily, have always preferred analogue clocks. I don't have a problem with digital clocks although I find analogue ones easier to read at a glimpse. and I can barely read them anymore (I ...

Amsel wrote:(Some German will come along and correct me.)

That was a grammatically correct sentence.

Astraios wrote:Weil.

That wasn't. It's "Darum."

I've always understood 'lady friend' as a girl friend in the literal sense. A girl you're (close?) friends with, but you're not in a partnership with her. German is similarly stupid in this regard, since "Freundin" can mean both a girl you're friends with as well as a female partner you're not marri...

Also, why the emphasis on the brand name by emboldening it? The Zompist Bulletin Board℠ is not a corporate outlet for Amtrak™...

ICE in Germany is super-nice, but massively overpriced. Well, it depends. IME apart from being overpriced they're often crowded and there's way too little space for your luggage. The 90-minute journey from Berlin Hauptbahnhof to Leipzig Hauptbahnhof cost me... €42 about a year ago. Braunschweig-Kor...

£ 50 ~ 60 €... Deutsche Bahn would probably take twice that :| When travelling to my parents I mostly use these: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/1397/intercitysteuerwagen.jpg http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/7683/freshmkig.jpg http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/9136/re428nrw29dortmundhbfjl.jpg I ...

You know why all this is, right? Because Europeans have these: http://www.rps.psu.edu/probing/graphics/train.jpg Before you're ninja-editing again (he had a picture of a steam train for America there)... For example: http://silcre.com/silk/site/image/png/00/27/view/dw130.png Germany (this is an ICE...

Chibi wrote:1) That color scheme is weird to me, mostly because I'm used to the Facebook version, where green means "want to go to", blue means "visited" and red means "lived in"

Fix'd for social network overlordship consistency.

thedukeofnuke wrote:it's a lot easier for Europeans to visit a lot of countries than for people from the Americas.

Or even Australians!

Torco wrote:I've been to like... 8, and half of those are withing latin america...

Makes 7 countries.

Unlike most Germans I've never been to Mallorca or Spain proper.

goodphoto

Myself rambling a bit in English
Myself rambling a bit in German

YngNghymru wrote:'have' is generic possession, 'have with' is somewhere in the same building or on a trip - say you were in a hotel and it was in your room - and 'have on' is have, in your possession, about your person, right now.

I think this is a little like German "haben", "dabei haben", "bei sich haben"?

hwhatting wrote:(it is available on amazon.de, for 13.99 Euros).

I miiiight get it then.

amazon.de wrote:Gewöhnlich versandfertig in 2 bis 4 Wochen.

This is the only worrying part. Seems like their German office can't afford a laser printer either...

I don't have the answer to your question, but I can point out that the Scandinavian det works the same way (examples in Norwegian): Permissible with German "das" (DEF.NOM.N/that) as well: - War sie heute Morgen hier? (Was she today morning here?) - Ja, das war sie. (Yes, that was she.) - Hat er den...

Hm, I wonder whether something like del.icio.us would be useful for this thread... Or could neek maybe program something similar as an addition to KneeQuickie?

Lyrikline: Poets read their poems – large number of languages available, also some exotic ones.

I mess with where my adverbs go often.

Lo and behold, it's Skomakar'n without all his silly emo dress-up.

http://www.students.uni-marburg.de/~Beckerc2/zbb/gp-20100509-english.mp3 http://www.students.uni-marburg.de/~Beckerc2/zbb/gp-20100509-french.mp3 http://www.students.uni-marburg.de/~Beckerc2/zbb/gp-20100509-german-colloq.mp3 http://www.students.uni-marburg.de/~Beckerc2/zbb/gp-20100509-german-standard...

http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~fc503/zbb/stella-en.wav I think this was said before, but you don't sound Scottish at all. http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~fc503/zbb/stella-de.wav Nice. <Sechs> is pronounced [zEks], since -chs is [ks] when it all belongs to the same morpheme, e.g. des Dachs 'of the roof' ...