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by pharazon
Sun Oct 25, 2015 12:17 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301896

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 ...
by pharazon
Sun Sep 27, 2015 8:40 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301896

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
by pharazon
Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:57 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370534

Re: Happy Things Thread

sirdanilot wrote:And as for the other european countries, I haven't been there enough to judge.
Yeah, that would have been a dumb thing to do.
by pharazon
Thu May 14, 2015 12:18 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
Replies: 2639
Views: 301896

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...
by pharazon
Wed May 06, 2015 2:00 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Personal names between languages
Replies: 206
Views: 32735

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...
by pharazon
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: 221781

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....
by pharazon
Sat Apr 11, 2015 7:16 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Happy Things Thread
Replies: 969
Views: 370534

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...
by pharazon
Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:57 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: SCA2 questions
Replies: 87
Views: 29481

Re: SCA2 questions

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
I haven't tried it, but there's this.
by pharazon
Wed Jul 09, 2014 5:56 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2
Replies: 812
Views: 203677

Re: Linguistic Quackery Thread, take 2

Kereb wrote:Neat, he even repurposes "guttural" for describing a vowel sound!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEfF6inQbDY
by pharazon
Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:10 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Who among you is within this isogloss?
Replies: 43
Views: 8752

Re: Who among you is within this isogloss?

Having any word at all for "spitted" pretty much makes you a Southerner, sorry.
by pharazon
Sun Oct 20, 2013 6:37 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: What do animals sound like in different languages?
Replies: 31
Views: 8084

Re: What do animals sound like in different languages?

vecfaranti wrote:In Iceland we call cats using "kis kis kis" or "ks ks". American cats don't understand this and just ignore you.
I dunno, Americans sometimes use "ps ps" for that.
by pharazon
Tue Oct 01, 2013 5:35 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Graduate programs in Romance Language Studies
Replies: 35
Views: 6750

Re: Graduate programs in Romance Language Studies

Thomas H. Benton is the pen name of William Pannapacker
Why would Mr. William Pannapacker want to write with anything but his own name??
by pharazon
Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:22 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
Replies: 313
Views: 109354

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.
by pharazon
Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:01 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
Replies: 933
Views: 205210

Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread

Keep one side of your face clean-shaven and the other hairy.
by pharazon
Tue Jun 18, 2013 8:46 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
Replies: 313
Views: 109354

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...
by pharazon
Sun May 26, 2013 12:32 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
Replies: 313
Views: 109354

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...
by pharazon
Sat May 25, 2013 11:16 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meanings
Replies: 313
Views: 109354

Re: One-syllable words with specific technical or rare meani

spraint
frass (I don't mean to be Shm Jay, I just ran across spraint and then figured there must be some others like it)

Also: sine
by pharazon
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: 765231

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s

Jipí wrote:FWIW & IIRC, Phar is about as old as me, i.e. 26.
Right. Everyone knows photos taken from above make you look old.
by pharazon
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: 765231

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s

Radius again:
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by pharazon
Sun Apr 07, 2013 7:27 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Non-obvious placename pronunciations
Replies: 253
Views: 40523

Re: Non-obvious placename pronunciations

Salmoneus wrote:
Elektor Dunkel wrote:How the hell do you even get [eə]
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].
I don't know if Viktor is one of them, but there are people who contrast /{/ and /e@/.
by pharazon
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: 765231

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s

Drydic Guy wrote:Mordred mortally wounds Arthur.

UCWHUTIDIDTHAR
I've been reading Le Morte D'Arthur, THANKS
by pharazon
Sat Dec 01, 2012 2:09 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB Census
Replies: 356
Views: 72167

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...
by pharazon
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: 765231

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s

vampireshark 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?
Around here
by pharazon
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: 765231

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: