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- Sun Oct 25, 2015 12:17 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318597
Re: Venting thread that embraces everyone without distinctio
Vampireshark, I wish I had known that healthcare info earlier, I might've been able to save more than a grand! Then again the only insurance I could get here would be insurance I'd have to purchase for a paltry sum a month (5$ a month maybe or even free?) but I don't know if that'd qualify. I have ...
- Sun Sep 27, 2015 8:40 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318597
Re: Venting thread that embraces everyone without distinctio
Is there an Insider's Secret for how to not have the gap between your two biggest toes basically get sandpapered
- Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:57 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377164
Re: Happy Things Thread
Yeah, that would have been a dumb thing to do.sirdanilot wrote:And as for the other european countries, I haven't been there enough to judge.
- Thu May 14, 2015 12:18 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 318597
Re: Venting thread that excludes sirdanilot
But now things are just depressing because people I thought cared about us are flocking left and right. I invited 15 people, and neither my grandparents nor my partner's parents say they'll come. They say it's the travel, but I honestly find that ridiculous to say that traveling to basically anothe...
- Wed May 06, 2015 2:00 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Personal names between languages
- Replies: 206
- Views: 33565
Re: Personal names between languages].
Okay so who is being impolite here? The only people who I see behaving impolitely in this thread are you guys, throwing around swear words and all. I think you guys miss the point; if someone is so pretentious as to change their own name, they do not deserve to be called by their new name . You hav...
- Fri May 01, 2015 2:58 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 228776
Re: Cheese that smells
The problem is the word 'by'. Mr. Ramsey didn't lose 122 to 84, according to the article - he lost by 122 to 84. That means that he got 122 votes less than 84. Huh? No, "122 to 84" is what he lost by. That was the score he lost by. Your reading wouldn't make sense at all, regardless of the numbers....
- Sat Apr 11, 2015 7:16 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377164
Re: Happy Things Thread
I can certainly imagine that there are plenty of second language English speakers in the US who anyone would call competent but don't know "yarn", though I sort of suspect Risla was thinking of native speakers. In any case sirdanilot's reaction was way over the top... it's not a technical word, nati...
- Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:57 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: SCA2 questions
- Replies: 87
- Views: 30024
Re: SCA2 questions
I haven't tried it, but there's this.GreenBowTie wrote:is there a de-SCA somewhere? a Sound Change Reverser? it would be nice to be able to insert the rules and the results and get back a list of possible origins
- Wed Jul 09, 2014 5:56 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
- Replies: 812
- Views: 209111
Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEfF6inQbDYKereb wrote:Neat, he even repurposes "guttural" for describing a vowel sound!
- Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:10 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Who among you is within this isogloss?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 8946
Re: Who among you is within this isogloss?
Having any word at all for "spitted" pretty much makes you a Southerner, sorry.
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 6:37 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What do animals sound like in different languages?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8268
Re: What do animals sound like in different languages?
I dunno, Americans sometimes use "ps ps" for that.vecfaranti wrote:In Iceland we call cats using "kis kis kis" or "ks ks". American cats don't understand this and just ignore you.
- Tue Oct 01, 2013 5:35 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Graduate programs in Romance Language Studies
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6874
Re: Graduate programs in Romance Language Studies
Why would Mr. William Pannapacker want to write with anything but his own name??Thomas H. Benton is the pen name of William Pannapacker
- Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:22 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 114234
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
I think some of the confusion in this thread would be alleviated if we had a similar thread for two-syllable words. That way we could note the rare use of "common" to mean "rare", a meaning evidently most common when talking about how common rare words are.
- Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:01 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 933
- Views: 211955
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Keep one side of your face clean-shaven and the other hairy.
- Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:46 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 114234
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
Yeah call me skeptical. Of Urbanan? Everything I've found about it comes from a festschrift for James McCawley, so I think it's pretty reputable ;| No, of those specific of meanings being applied to monosyllables. Particularly Prime Minister and DNA; why would a dying possibly aboriginal tribe (the...
- Sun May 26, 2013 12:32 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 114234
Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani
Also: sine That reminds me of one-syllable words used in e.g. abstract algebra that are also commonly used words, but have a specific meaning when it comes to math. For example: - ring ("an abelian group with a second binary operation that is associative and is distributive over the abelian group o...
- Sat May 25, 2013 11:16 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
- Replies: 313
- Views: 114234
- Thu Apr 25, 2013 4:13 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 790031
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
Right. Everyone knows photos taken from above make you look old.Jipí wrote:FWIW & IIRC, Phar is about as old as me, i.e. 26.
- Wed Apr 24, 2013 12:17 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 790031
- Sun Apr 07, 2013 7:27 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Non-obvious placename pronunciations
- Replies: 253
- Views: 41613
Re: Non-obvious placename pronunciations
I don't know if Viktor is one of them, but there are people who contrast /{/ and /e@/.Salmoneus wrote:Vide supra. It's a silly way he's developed of writing /{/. [If he wants to write it [e@], fine, but calling it /e@/ is just ridiculous].Elektor Dunkel wrote:How the hell do you even get [eə]
- Thu Dec 13, 2012 7:31 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 790031
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
I've been reading Le Morte D'Arthur, THANKSDrydic Guy wrote:Mordred mortally wounds Arthur.
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- Sat Dec 01, 2012 2:09 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB Census
- Replies: 356
- Views: 74051
Re: ZBB Census
Torco, people talk about billions all the time, and sometimes trillions. Maybe it's just a thing of materialist America, since mainly these numbers appear in economychat, and sometimes when talking about population. A comparison . Admittedly I don't know what their corpus is like, maybe lots of scie...
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 2:40 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 790031
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
They got cocky.
- Wed Sep 05, 2012 3:18 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 790031
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
Around herevampireshark wrote:Pharazon: When I saw your pic, I immediately thought "Cathbad" (which is either a good or a bad thing). 'Tis a nice picture, though... where was it taken?
- Mon Sep 03, 2012 3:25 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 790031
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
I just updated my facebook profile picture for the first time in 4 years so I guess I might as well put it here too: