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- Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:19 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142705
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
I will visit Lithuania at the end of this month. I have never been there, and I would love to know what there is to see there. I will visit Vilnius, but I could also visit other regions of the country. I think Lituania is a very cheap country, and the train tickets aren't very expensive? Do they ev...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 10:11 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142705
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Да, и нормально. :) В последнее время был у нас тут знойный период с температурами около 40 градусов (а дождя уже пять месяцев нет *1) :p), а у меня настоящей работы ещё нет, значит, / поэтому я весь день нахожусь на пляже, в парке, или просто дома под мазганом, а между тем учусь языкам и , сплю с ...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 10:09 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
- Replies: 4604
- Views: 1142705
Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Eu vou visitar Lituânia no final desse mês. Eu nunca fui lá, e eu queria saber o que tem lá pra ver. Eu vou visitar Vilnius, más eu posso visitar outros regiões da Lituânia tambem. Eu acho que Lituânia é um país bem barato, e os tickets de trem não sera muito caro? Sera que tem uma sistema de trem l...
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:20 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Struggles Thread
- Replies: 97
- Views: 48813
Re: Linguistic Struggles Thread
I can *imitate* an actual englishman relatively well, but I can absolutely not speak like an actual englishman during random English conversation. I take out my Dunglish there automatically.
- Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:08 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Natlangs that look like conlangs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7099
Re: Natlangs that look like conlangs
Ulithian uses a, e, and o with a single dot over them in the alphabet, for who knows what, and I have seen a Taa example using a small capital g. Lithuanian also has single dots on letters how is that weird. As a general pet peeve, I think linguists should stop making up whacko symbols for the lang...
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 6:57 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 229004
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
Thats a dumb one cause such things happen all of the time.
As with Commissaris van de Koningin van Zeeland (commissary of the Queen of Zeeland) which makes it sounds like Zeeland has a queen, but Commissaris van de Koningin is just a certain function in the provincial governments in the Netherlands.
As with Commissaris van de Koningin van Zeeland (commissary of the Queen of Zeeland) which makes it sounds like Zeeland has a queen, but Commissaris van de Koningin is just a certain function in the provincial governments in the Netherlands.
- Tue Aug 18, 2015 5:28 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Natlangs that look like conlangs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7099
Re: Natlangs that look like conlangs
Ok that does sound like a conlangsuoenatroN wrote:there is a natlang called Ulithian
I think langauges like Taa are too complicated for even a conlanger to make up
- Tue Aug 04, 2015 5:45 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Linguistic Struggles Thread
- Replies: 97
- Views: 48813
Re: Linguistic Struggles Thread
I am in Lisbon right now but oh Lord I can hardly understand people here with my Brazilian ear and often just speak English
- Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:07 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Why do so many U.S. place names end in ee?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7480
Re: Why do so many U.S. place names end in ee?
On top of that, the correlation between genetic and cultural groups is rarely straightforward, for any number of reasons. For one thing (based on this article I read on Language Log ), it's very likely that both the male and female most recent common ancestors of all indigenous Americans whose geno...
- Tue Jul 28, 2015 9:57 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Why do so many U.S. place names end in ee?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7480
Re: Why do so many U.S. place names end in ee?
On top of that, the correlation between genetic and cultural groups is rarely straightforward, for any number of reasons. For one thing (based on this article I read on Language Log ), it's very likely that both the male and female most recent common ancestors of all indigenous Americans whose geno...
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 10:01 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Why do so many U.S. place names end in ee?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7480
Re: Why do so many U.S. place names end in ee?
Cameroonian should.be Amerindian sorry
- Fri Jul 24, 2015 9:59 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Why do so many U.S. place names end in ee?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 7480
Re: Why do so many U.S. place names end in ee?
That means that Greenburg might have been wrong; it doesn't mean that Greenburg was insane . Besides, it's true the proposal lacks adequate linguistic evidence; but then, you can't prove it's false either. Having an opinion on something where there's inadequate evidence to come to a robust conclusi...
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:22 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Creativity of the day
- Replies: 1704
- Views: 334747
Re: Creativity of the day
Only the top half of the image loaded because of this third-world country internet speed, but that part at least looks nice.
- Wed Jul 01, 2015 6:25 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377318
Re: Happy Things Thread
Yes, sorry !alynnidalar wrote:hearty, probably?
- Wed Jul 01, 2015 1:35 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377318
Re: Happy Things Thread
I am so happy to be back in Brazil now. It feels like home. The funny smells everywhere (one moment you smell poop and the other moment some delicious food which is being cooked next door), the lovely fruit, the lovely heaty cooking of my family, and of course seeing my family again after many years.
- Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:21 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377318
Re: Happy Things Thread
In any case, I have to go now to prepare for my flight to Brazil. It's too sad to leave today as it's like 30 degrees here, any time I go on vacation it happens to be beautiful weather here in Holland for some reason.
- Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:20 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377318
Re: Happy Things Thread
Ib my experience, Germans are very friendly but they are also a less 'enthousiastic' people, and more silent. Perhaps some people perceive this as if they were not nice people , but I do think they are nice, if a bit formal. Czech people are not so nice if you are not related to them. A lady in the ...
- Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:30 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377318
Re: Happy Things Thread
Tomorrow I will fly to Brazil, I am very excited and I will eat some good food as allways and see my family. I will go to Rio de Janeiro and also the southern parts of Brazil; I have never been in the latter. Brazil has wonderful buffet restaurant concept called 'restaurante ao kilo', where you can ...
- Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:20 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377318
Re: Happy Things Thread
Also, remember that the french Haute Cuisine is mostly based on dishes which were created for royal courts or for the guests of the most luxurious restaurants. This can be seen from the sheer lavishness of truly good French Haute Cuisine. Take something like Demi-Glacé, which is a stock made from r...
- Sun Jun 28, 2015 2:26 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377318
Re: Happy Things Thread
Also, remember that the french Haute Cuisine is mostly based on dishes which were created for royal courts or for the guests of the most luxurious restaurants. This can be seen from the sheer lavishness of truly good French Haute Cuisine. Take something like Demi-Glacé, which is a stock made from ro...
- Sun Jun 28, 2015 1:02 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377318
Re: Happy Things Thread
In France I don't think you can get very good food unless you go to very high end restaurants. Where did you go to eat in France? Hamburger Quick? no, it's just that I do not remember any good French food in particular even though I have spent more time in France than in Portugal, and I have memori...
- Fri Jun 26, 2015 5:18 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377318
Re: Happy Things Thread
I do refrigerate mine, but that's because I'm single and take so long to use a jar, it starts turning colors and tasting a little odd. But refrigerated peanut butter really doesn't taste any different from unrefrigerated peanut butter. You just have to let it warm up a bit before spreading it on yo...
- Thu Jun 25, 2015 5:20 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377318
Re: Happy Things Thread
Spanish food is nice but you do need to know what to order If you just randomly pick something odds are high that it's fried and that you receive no vegetables with it. For example if you order a bocadillo calamares (a sandwich with squid) you will not receive any salad or sauce on it which is bad b...
- Thu Jun 25, 2015 5:05 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377318
Re: Happy Things Thread
This, which people in the rest of America eat, looks much less good. Yeah of course it's nice for a snack, but I could not live off that for a main meal. As I say, I try to read your remarks in good faith, but it really strains my capacities to believe that anyone could know so very little about Am...
- Wed Jun 24, 2015 7:52 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 377318
Re: Happy Things Thread
^ It's true that south has a nice cuisine, right? I have read a lot about it, I am fond of food and drink and read a lot about it. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Shrimp_gumbo.jpg This, for exmaple, looks like good food to me, with fresh ingredients such as shrimp which are also l...