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Ladies and gentleman, Duck Juice . (I made this video) Aha, I see you are producing a cooking show! I'll check back periodically to see if any usable recipes show up - so far only #1 gets me anything I might like and didn't already know, but if y'all keep going with it it looks promising. Thank you...

Ladies and gentleman, Duck Juice.

(I made this video)

And I still wouldn't call a döner kebab a "kebab", I'd call it a "döner kebab". You're the only BE speaker I know who would. This wasn't a word I'd ever encountred before going to Germany. (assuming the word you are talking about is "döner") Really? I've watched enough British food television (that...

Greek:
panepistimio "university"

Spanish:
cosecha "harvest"
delgado "skinny"
césped "lawn"
puño "fist"

Japanese
oyoida "swam"

English:
sponge
spackle
raffle
waffle
punch
oyster

[Tr\] is one mofo of a combination. It always trips me up as well. --------- <rant> Opera won't allow me to use \ with UIM. </rant> Occasional American speakers will turn the r into an alveolar flap in this context. It's one of those weird features with a totally random distribution. (I've encounte...

Arugula is ugly. I also have an aversion to panties, but so does everyone else, it seems.

okay people are letting this thread die!!! Come on! :( bump with a Canadian favorite (common as hell here, but apparently not as well-known outside the Frozen Wastes). I encountered this when I tried to order a Bloody Mary a few years ago in Montreal. The waitress patiently explained that they didn...

Viktor's smile calls to mind the word "rictus."

Hmm. Might be a good idea to make a list of odd/non-SAE things found in European languages. The apical-laminal distinction is one (although Basque has apical-laminal-postalveolar, which I stole for Enzielu), then: * Germanic and Slavic tone * gheada * insane lenition in Manx * preocclusion And tusc...

All Albanian speakers I've heard have [ɹ] for the rhotic, or something similar. Also, a handful of Italian speakers, I think from some northern dialect.

I dreamt that I shot myself in the left temple, but it just caused slight bleeding, and I was having difficulty moving my face on the left side, so I looked like a stroke victim. I chided myself for doing something so dumb, and I started working on getting my face back to normal. Also, a friend from...

This is getting good, I want to see what happens in the New World. Question about Medieval Navarre: what was the ethnolinguistic identity of the kingdom? Was it a Romance-speaking ruling class with a mostly Basque population, or just all Basque? I'm not finding any clear answers on this.

Is sabelotodo just a calque of the English form? No idea. Calquing is a common source of nonstandard compound forms. Spanish has other examples like this not shared with English: hazmerreír, correveidile, tentempié, nomeolvides, enhorabuena, metomentodo, porsiacaso .. Those are cool. But we call th...

The Gringo Fill a glass with 2 parts dark ale and 1 part ginger beer. Add a splash of vanilla vodka and a few ice cubes. This is something I improvised at a party a few months ago. I can't vouch for the proportions though, or whether it actually tastes good. I thought it was pretty good - creamy, m...

El Hombre araña (the man spider) 'Spiderman' (appositive noun-noun compound: a man that is also a spider) (el) sacapuntas (takes.out-tips) '(pencil) sharpener' (verb-noun compound, more literally, 'a tip takeouter') (la) nochebuena (night-good) 'Christmas Eve' (noun-adj compound) (la) medianoche (m...

This tunneling is because Glasgow and London are major cities. The same thing happens with say Los Angeles and New York City. NYC youth have certain features (quotatives mostly, I think) in common with LA youth, but the mid-westerners in between have yet to adopt. This is less noticeable over time ...

I think I just heard a CNN anchor say "efforting." We are efforting to get someone on the phone. Is there some kind of verbing epidemic going on?

1. I stopped by a local school to see the middle schoolers' performance of some version of Gawain and the Green Knight . But one of the actors was missing, so I stepped in and played the part myself. I was the chief antagonist, a giant cat-demon. But I didn't know my lines, so I just pantomimed a lo...

I dreamt that I was in possession of a big pile of cotton fluff, and I was molding it around my head like a lion's mane, laughing hysterically.

Okay, I'm gonna try to reconstruct this one... a doctor said that he didn't use the internet or even a telephone, but preferred to send all messages physically via a courier because it increased his "swag." Then I was in a swimming pool with a few people and they decided to have a Shakespeare recita...

Wow, I forgot about the scene in The Maltese Falcon where the P.I.s are discussing how some now-dead gangster liked his moll to strap on a dildo and peg him - Bogie was nonchalantly explaining how an autopsy revealed that the guy's asshole had been lubed up. Then all the characters went undercover ...

Wow, I forgot about the scene in The Maltese Falcon where the P.I.s are discussing how some now-dead gangster liked his moll to strap on a dildo and peg him - Bogie was nonchalantly explaining how an autopsy revealed that the guy's asshole had been lubed up. Then all the characters went undercover a...

I was wandering around a European city, maybe Berlin, and stopped into an office that was shared by many small firms. I looked at the directory and impulsively dialed somebody's number. The person I called turned out to be an intellectual property lawyer. When he came downstairs I tried to explain t...

In a little town in a Japanese forest, like Nikko, but I noticed there were areas just within the city walls where there were trees growing in several feet of standing water. I went to a municipal office to go talk to the head of Town Planning or something, so I met with him and a girl I know, who h...

What is all this hate for soft-serve? Soft-serve is the best. I think I call the chocolate-vanilla combo a "twist."