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by faiuwle
Sun Oct 16, 2011 12:57 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 906351

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (save the exhibitionism threa

It is called a shitty photo, and thanks for encouraging me to repost it. You're welcome! This is, after all, the thread for posting pictures in, not the thread for soliciting compliments on your appearance and throwing a fit when you don't get them immediately. edit: well defined pectoral muscles, ...
by faiuwle
Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:27 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 906351

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (save the exhibitionism threa

I guess we'll just have to go with the existing comments and imagine him as a bearded elf-lady.
by faiuwle
Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:39 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 906351

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (save the exhibitionism threa

No, she's a lesbian, not a troll.
by faiuwle
Fri Oct 14, 2011 5:53 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 906351

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (save the exhibitionism threa

Just want to get Jal, who IIRC claimed to be a happily married guy who is 100% not interested in having anonymous sex with random internet strangers, to admit to that.
by faiuwle
Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:17 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 906351

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (save the exhibitionism threa

jal wrote:
Queen Xalele wrote:I am a lesbian
Of course, the only woman posting pictures is a lesbian. Now y'all scorn me for posting that sentence.


JAL
Would you like to explain why, exactly, it matters?
by faiuwle
Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:29 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 906351

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (save the exhibitionism threa

It's the "would is the future tense of will" that is breaking my brain, here, really.
by faiuwle
Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:02 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 906351

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (save the exhibitionism threa

I just casually went to look up "would" on urban dictionary to see if it was a really real thing anywhere else, and found this definition as well: would A word used in place of the word "did" to make the sentence seem redundant and foolish. Despite "would" being the future tense of the word "will", ...
by faiuwle
Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:54 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 906351

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (save the exhibitionism threa

nah, really, not that I think so, but because it's objectifying her, is the underlying argument, I reckon. Honestly, I don't think objectification is a polar quality so much as a matter of degree, so that in terms of how objectifying they are, you could say: ogling disembodied pair of breasts > ogl...
by faiuwle
Wed Oct 12, 2011 12:02 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: What does "or" mean?
Replies: 46
Views: 8739

Re: What does "or" mean?

We also do already have single (though not all underived) words for "but not" - "sans"/"without" and "less". Normally Q is either a part of P, or assumed to come with P unless otherwise specified, but that's to be expected.
by faiuwle
Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:01 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: What does "or" mean?
Replies: 46
Views: 8739

Re: What does "or" mean?

My father has an incredibly irritating habit of answering questions of the form "do you want X or Y?" (meaning, make a choice between X and Y) with "yes". He doesn't do it because he misunderstands, but because he thinks it's cute or funny, like the xkcd strip that interpreted "will you marry me?" ...
by faiuwle
Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:46 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 906351

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (save the exhibitionism threa

I don't know. Something that didn't look like it could have been made by an open-pit mining operation, maybe. Also, at least at that time, there wasn't really anything to do except look at the big hole in the ground and shop at the visitor center.
by faiuwle
Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:20 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: What does "or" mean?
Replies: 46
Views: 8739

Re: What does "or" mean?

Republicans would never vote for a Mormon or a woman! Is there ever a case where "[negative verb] X or Y" wouldn't work out to "not X and not Y"? I'm not sure that's some kind of special context so much as just a property of negation. Besides, not(xor) means "either both or neither" which is not re...
by faiuwle
Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:55 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
Replies: 5496
Views: 906351

Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (save the exhibitionism threa

Heh, neat. I remember going to Meteor Crater when I was around ten; it stuck out to me at the time as being possibly the most disappointing tourist activity ever, second only to the Pima Air & Space Museum.

Seriously, though, I'll look forward to seeing the rest of the pictures.
by faiuwle
Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:08 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: What does "or" mean?
Replies: 46
Views: 8739

Re: What does "or" mean?

My father has an incredibly irritating habit of answering questions of the form "do you want X or Y?" (meaning, make a choice between X and Y) with "yes". He doesn't do it because he misunderstands, but because he thinks it's cute or funny, like the xkcd strip that interpreted "will you marry me?" a...
by faiuwle
Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:29 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Words you love because of their sounds
Replies: 285
Views: 43681

Re: Words you love because of their sounds

Well, if you guys didn't insist on using funky characters like å all the time we wouldn't. :P (Besides, you know they're probably just going to turn into /æŋstɹəm/ and /smɔ˞gəsbɔ˞d/ no matter how you spell them.) ETA: I see that å apparently isn't even the right character. My keyboard can't even do ...
by faiuwle
Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:12 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Gotten vs. got
Replies: 27
Views: 4976

Re: Gotten vs. got

For me, at least, "I've gotten" is always the perfect of "get" - there's just not a whole lot of opportunity to use it, most of the time. Even in get -passives, i.e. you have, e.g., "I've just gotten woken up", and never "I've just got woken up"? Yes, although I don't think I'd be very likely to sa...
by faiuwle
Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:44 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Spanish impersonal se syntax
Replies: 86
Views: 13557

Re: Spanish impersonal se syntax

Viktor77 wrote:I really can't find any difference between "Here Spanish is spoken" and "Spanish is spoken here" wn.
What about: "Here, they speak Spanish" vs. "Spanish is spoken here"? I get exactly the same implications from that as Torco is talking about with the inglés example.
by faiuwle
Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:36 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Words you love because of their sounds
Replies: 285
Views: 43681

Re: Words you love because of their sounds

Torco wrote:springstroll [that a word?]
I don't think so, but you could have also used Angstrom, which is. (Well, I guess that's a name. Blame the Swedes.)
by faiuwle
Mon Oct 03, 2011 3:56 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Gotten vs. got
Replies: 27
Views: 4976

Re: Gotten vs. got

Huh, and now "I've gotten" doesn't sound right... maybe it's only for adjectives, not nouns? I've gotten better. I've gotten worse. I've gotten sick. but *I've gotten hungry. ... I'm not sure, and I'm probably overthinking it. What about: "I've gotten bad grades" "I've already gotten chicken pox" "...
by faiuwle
Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:29 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Words you love because of their sounds
Replies: 285
Views: 43681

Re: Words you love because of their sounds

English:
dairy
synecdoche
pillow
splendid
shy

Spanish:
murciélago "bat"
aldea "village"
abogado (with [β ɣ ð]) "lawyer"
hueso "bone"
muebles "furniture"

In both:
plantain / plátano

Japanese:
suiyōbi "Wednesday"
byōin "hospital"
by faiuwle
Tue Sep 27, 2011 8:54 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: English: long sandwich
Replies: 141
Views: 21873

Re: English: long sandwich

Come to that, when he was on his ZOMGcarbsareevil kick, my father used to make hamburgers without buns, too. We still called them "burgers".
by faiuwle
Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:45 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: English: long sandwich
Replies: 141
Views: 21873

Re: English: long sandwich

Chuma wrote:Does ["sandwich"] imply that it's double? What do you call it when it's not double?
A sandwich with only one piece of bread is a "open-face[d] sandwich".
by faiuwle
Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:46 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Creativity of the day
Replies: 1704
Views: 379323

Re: Creativity of the day

Precipicio, maybe? It doesn't seem like it would really work there in either Spanish or English, but it definitely sounds like something Viktor would write.
by faiuwle
Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:01 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: English: long sandwich
Replies: 141
Views: 21873

Re: English: long sandwich

I always thought a kebab was meat and vegetables onna stick. No bread involved at all.
by faiuwle
Mon Sep 26, 2011 2:55 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: English: long sandwich
Replies: 141
Views: 21873

Re: English: long sandwich

That's a sub/sub sandwich. A grinder is a big sub with lots of vegetables and pepperoncinis on it. I have never heard "hero" used for food, and a baguette is 100% bread.
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