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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, ...

I guess we'll just have to go with the existing comments and imagine him as a bearded elf-lady.

No, she's a lesbian, not a troll.

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.

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?

It's the "would is the future tense of will" that is breaking my brain, here, really.

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", ...

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...

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.

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?" ...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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.)

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" "...

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"

Come to that, when he was on his ZOMGcarbsareevil kick, my father used to make hamburgers without buns, too. We still called them "burgers".

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".

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.

I always thought a kebab was meat and vegetables onna stick. No bread involved at all.

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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