zompist bboard

I realize there are likely other exceptions in the language; I just had a thought about an "empty string" question word and thought it was interesting enough to share with the forum. Esmelthien, thanks for the corrections; I'm still learning, and the spelling is something I need to improve, and my G...

I was in Dutch class last night, and we were covering Dutch sentence structure and the placement of the verb. Like German (my second language), the verb is always in the second position in Dutch (it and German are among the so-called V2 languages). For example: Ik besteel een kaffe nu. Nu besteel ik...

I'm a native speaker of English, but I often lament the absence of the word "doch" in the language. I also wish English had single words for "the day before yesterday" and "the day after tomorrow" like German and Dutch do. I feel like there should be a "Concepts/Words Not In English" category on Wik...

Listening to it at the moment actually - Glósóli by Sigur Rós