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Astraios wrote:

Lyhoko Leaci wrote:I never got wet, even though I was trying to

I've never managed to get wet in dreams, even when I've been underwater.

Me either.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure I actually have the sensation of touch at all during dreams. I can't recall feeling wet, hot, cold, or anything during any....

I mostly simply use [l_G] in my personal transcription for L's that "should" be light.

[l]

Yes, ordinary "light" L, because mine is always either [5] or velarized [l_G], even word-initially.

More generally: If it's pharyngeal or not pulmonic-egressive, I probably have trouble with it. I can pronounce most clicks in isolation, but....

I think it's a useful exercise to practice avoiding passive voice, since (just like everything else) it can be overused to detrimental effect. This statement is doubted by me. No detrimental usage of the passive voice has ever been observed by me. Have a mirror. I was being deliberately sarcastic :P

Trailsend wrote:I think it's a useful exercise to practice avoiding passive voice, since (just like everything else) it can be overused to detrimental effect.

This statement is doubted by me. No detrimental usage of the passive voice has ever been observed by me.

What's more is that it's not even something that can be excused by (c wut i did thar?) Latinophilia, as Latin had a passive voice.

My recommendations: - Remove unwarranted silent letters made during the prescriptivists' "OMG LATIN IS TEH AWSUM LETS MAKE ENGLISH LUK LYKE IT!!11!1!1" phase; e.g. the <b> in "debt", the <s> in "island", etc. - Correct some of the more egregious spelling discrepancies with respect especially to vowe...

Astraios wrote:

Canepari wrote:

äreo wrote:

Canepari wrote:I would also say "I demand she stop doing that!".

Seconded.

Thirded.

Fourthed.

Fifthed.

I'd be more likely to say "Make her stop (that)!" though.

Sixthed and concur with Astraios.

Although it might actually be fifthed, since I don't see how Canepari can fourth what he/she firsted.

Risla wrote:Eresia is rather fjordy, and I just kind of absentmindedly kept going like that and overfjorded it. I'm going to smooth it out quite a bit.

I daresay this is the first time I've heard "fjord" used as a verb.

Radius Solis wrote:then why not use it all?

BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE
^u_n^r_e^a_lⁱ_s^t_i^c

If it helps, assuming no difference in density, gravity will be proportional to the radius: V = 4/3 * pi * r^3 for a sphere F = G * m1 * m2 / r^2 ; dividing by m2 (which we assume to be 1 kg) to get g, we have g = G * M / r^2 (M=mass of the planet). Letting M = rho * V = rho * 4/3 * pi * r^3, we get...

Pthug wrote:question betrays total ignorance of marxist science + the materially conditioned nature of doctrine

The ignorance goes beyond that. I don't know what either of the things you're talking about even are, which is something I'm completely fine with.

The Language Fairy offers you a native-level command of every language in the world, bar one. Which would you choose to be not fluent in? Inuktitut. It is time to elect the world leader, and yours is the deciding vote. Here are the facts about the three leading candidates: Candidate A: He associate...

You can go back in time and make three changes to Proto-Indo-European. What do you do? - Change all those */kʷ/s and */ɡʷ/s. - Make the number system duodecimal. - Change the word for "devil" or its closest equivalent to /lɒlθ/, because no time-travel trip is complete without inserting a D&D joke i...

Shm Jay wrote:You forgot "two".

$2 bills are rare enough that I feel necessary to specify "two-dollar bill."

Shm Jay wrote:By the way "single" makes it sound like a slice of processed cheese food.

Brand new, directly from Kraft®'s new CEO Ben Bernanke: Legal Tender Singles™!

I just call the bills a "one," "five," "ten," "twenty," "fifty," or "hundred".

Excel.

Last night I dreamed I had gone back in time to the year 2000. I spent most of my visit to the past on the Internet, though there were tons of anachronisms - for example, Wikipedia and TV Tropes both existed, even though neither had been created yet in Real Life 2000. They were , however, different ...

Yeah, Torco is pretty direct about things sexual in nature.

eodrakken wrote:next: promise

Mebharan:

verb: eginan
noun: egina, also andest, but andest has a thrust more along the lines of "guarantee" or "warranty".

There is also a verb limbron meaning, among other things, "to break a promise".

Next word: procrastinate

Is this going to delay Dhekhnami? *innocent angel face*

Not to be confused with the other thought experiment thread . If you ran a foreign aid organisation that helps starving children, and you were offered $1 billion on condition that you changed the organisation's name to "The Malthus Foundation", would you do it? Yes, and I would use the money for th...

Yes, but him and his dog is two entities.

Yay!

Though American, I prefer to call such garments waistcoats, though I don't use the "weskit" pronunciation.