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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...

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...

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,...

Ketumak wrote:Australia's Macquarie dictionary has uncovered some great new words and phrases and is inviting readers to vote on which ones make the dictionary, according to Yahoo! News.

It's voting to select a word of the year, not which ones make the dictionary. That would be stupid.

Eddy wrote:The weirdest fetish you are likely to see And I thought /b/ was messed up

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).

ils wrote:Remember Zork? MC Frontalot does.

Did you notice how when he says "consider whose fault it could be", "whose fault" is pronounced /hu/ (pause) /sfOlt/?

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...

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...

Circ?us wrote:Introduction à la langue et à la littérature aztèques

I see you copied that from WorldCat. What is with that site and combining diacritics?

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...

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

Already got it.

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...

Q. Did these guys write anything more interesting than wills?

Why yes. For example, I posted an analysis of a description of human sacrifice in Nahuatl from the Primeros Memoriales over on Studylangs.

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...

Ran wrote:計画は何ですか? (Keikaku wa nan desu ka?) - what's the plan?

I thought it was ei, but I couldn't find keikaku in the dictionary.

Ran, would you mind adding the pinyin too, for us ilhanziate people?

Whose Russian am I supposed to use?

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...

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.

Frances Karttunen's Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl and James Lockhart's Nahuatl as Written are available online in PDF form here.

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...

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 ...

I'm abstaining.

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 ...