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- Mon May 19, 2008 10:39 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
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- Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:44 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
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As far as biological and medical aspects are concerned, I agree- but apparently she told her daughters about her own sexual experiences and how to perform oral sex. If any of my family members had talked to me like that during my adolescence (*shudder*) I'd probably have thought that jail was too g...
- Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:59 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
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Actually, kids of any recent generation would have to be painfully and extremely stupid not to know what a library is. I do think brainfart is the more likely explanation. But you do not have to be "painfully and etremely stupid" not to know what a library is, because even stupid people know what l...
- Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:20 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
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An idea whose time has come! :| My soul died just a little bit after reading that I'm almost thinking that can't be real... Bah, it's just another lame kids-today rant. How exactly has the internet made people stupid? All his example might show is that stupid people have access to the internet now,...
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:50 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
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- Views: 443308
- Fri Jan 11, 2008 1:31 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
- Views: 443308
This is pretty normal for the internet really. Just a combination of obsessiveness (which you should be well aware of) and Rule 34 (which you should also be well aware of).Eddy wrote:The weirdest fetish you are likely to see And I thought /b/ was messed up
- Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:44 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
- Views: 443308
Did you notice how when he says "consider whose fault it could be", "whose fault" is pronounced /hu/ (pause) /sfOlt/?ils wrote:Remember Zork? MC Frontalot does.
- Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:22 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
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They found a gene for height: http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2921881.ece Blecch. Scientists believe they have uncovered the genetic link to height – explaining for the first time why some children are smaller than their friends. " The genetic link"? No, because as we later learn, "This...
- Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:09 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
- Views: 443308
The story of Nasubi , perhaps the most disturbing game show of all time. So far. Euccchhh. How could they not have given him anything to eat, any underwear, or any toilet paper? That’s disgusting. There's a difference between challenges and sadism. But the Japanese use the same word for crisis as t...
- Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:33 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Online Classical Nahuatl texts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21313
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:54 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Bulgarian Thread
- Replies: 58
- Views: 72951
Bulgarian is a creole created when Slavic speakers mixed with the Turkic-speaking Bulgars. Bulgarian/Macedonian is basically Serbian without declensions. When foreigners learn a new language, they replace declensions and cases with articles, ie modern Latin languages dropped Latin declensions. As t...
- Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:20 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Online Classical Nahuatl texts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21313
Already got it.marconatrix wrote:An on-line version of one of the big dictionaries, also with a detailed grammar summary, in French however :
http://sites.estvideo.net/malinal/nahuatl.page.html
- Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:42 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Online Classical Nahuatl texts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21313
My attempt: Who am I? A little about me: I was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco. I have spoken Nahuatl for twenty years. Also I teach our beautiful language to many people. I know the dialect(s) of the Mexicans living in Guerrero, in Mila Alta, and in Cuextecapan. I live there. I have learned the now di...
- Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:33 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Online Classical Nahuatl texts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21313
Why yes. For example, I posted an analysis of a description of human sacrifice in Nahuatl from the Primeros Memoriales over on Studylangs.Q. Did these guys write anything more interesting than wills?
- Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:49 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Online Classical Nahuatl texts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 21313
Online Classical Nahuatl texts
EDIT: I'm just going to consolidate this into a big list of all the online Nahuatl resources I've found. Grammaire de la langue Nahuatl ou Mexicaine , Rémi Siméon's 1875 edition of Andrés de Olmos's 1547 Arte para aprender la lengua mexicana . The earliest known Nahuatl grammar. Aqui comiença un voc...
- Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:13 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Languages in Civ IV
- Replies: 55
- Views: 52351
- Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:45 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Languages in Civ IV
- Replies: 55
- Views: 52351
- Sat Nov 18, 2006 8:30 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Languages in Civ IV
- Replies: 55
- Views: 52351
- Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:05 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Languages in Civ IV
- Replies: 55
- Views: 52351
Languages in Civ IV
As you may or may not know, Civilization IV allows you to play as a number of different empires, the units of which speak an appropriate (if not entirely historically accurate) language when you click on them and give them orders. I thought it would be cool if we could see if anyone on the board kne...
- Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:22 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
- Replies: 333
- Views: 149931
it can't possibly be harder for you to master than it is for Americans to learn the use of the subjunctive in Romance languages. But... we use the subjunctive all the time... "If I were to go down there tomorrow..." "Thanks be to God..." You use constructions like that "all the time"? I know I don't.
- Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:07 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 314439
Frances Karttunen's Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl and James Lockhart's Nahuatl as Written are available online in PDF form here.
- Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:57 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Adjectival cases vs. adverbial cases
- Replies: 34
- Views: 31206
If you look again, you'll see "nebula" put asterisks before those constructions; this means he(?) considered them ungrammatical. No he didn't. I mailed [a letter to] Bob. IMD it is usually a deliberate ungrammatical usage. The point appears to be that people will know what is meant even though they...
- Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:22 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Adjectival cases vs. adverbial cases
- Replies: 34
- Views: 31206
I think I'm just assigning nouns to the roles that they make sense in. I think you're partly right, but it's also partly determined by the verb. Logically "gave" should act the same as "showed", yet **"I gave [a present to] Bob" is unacceptable. And I think using verbs like "mail" and "write" with ...
- Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:17 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: So... who're ewemi?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 19789
- Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:39 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Lesser-Used Sounds
- Replies: 113
- Views: 89553
Regarding voiceless implosives: Ngiti (Nilo-Saharan) is said to have /b_<_0 d_<_0 J\_<_0/ contrasting with /b_< d_< J\_</. I don't know any examples of voiceless implosives contrasting with ejectives though. /b_>, d_>, g_>/ are really hard to pronounce. More like impossible. You're trying to do two ...