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Talloese:

ljossula
[ˈljuo̯sˌsʉːla]

ljos "light" + sula "column, pillar"

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See, this is exactly the bit I don't understand. I'm massively thick w/r/t economics anyway, but I still don't get it: why do such financial speculations encourage imports? It's not as if currency traders now have more Chinese money on hand which has to be spent by importers or something. Well, kee...

(e.g. what is the link between a currency being overvalued and drops in domestic production/rises in imports) It's pretty intuitive. Say, for example, the dollar is overvalued relative to the yuan. Since a dollar buys more yuan than it should, currency traders with dollars buy more yuan, which mean...

gierjā (+dative)
[ˈɟæɾjaː]
to scold, to reprimand

hjifrā įhau (+dative)
[ˈçɪvɾaː ihaʏ]
to scold, to go off on, to bitch at (idiomatic, lit. "to tear at")

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improbable

I probably spend too much time deriving political terms, so I'm going to do two. reikkiasto [ˈɾɛicːaˌsto] anarchy etymology: from reikkia "rule, authority" and - sto denoting lack or absence derivations: - reikkiastosair "anarchic" (+ sair , a conceptual adjective suffix) - reikkiastosarja "anarchis...

Talloese:

teremasta (pl. teremestā)
[ˈtʰeɾeˌmasta]
dynasty

etymology: neologism from tere "house" and masta "power, thing that exerts control"

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phenomenon

I was at some kind of high society party in this really swanky loft, which was itself an enormous glass elevator. There was a conversation about politics, and for the life of me I couldn't remember the name of Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX). It was right on the tip of my tongue, but I just couldn't spit it...

Eddy wrote:This one, I think, looks less like a rip-off of Eurasia

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but

I have /aɪ/-raising in spider, tire, mire, wire (n&v), hire (n&v), fire (n&v), but not in tiger, hydro-, Myer, or higher. I'm not sure about sire and spire: I feel like I want to raise spire but not sire, but both still sound kind of weird either way. Since I've lived in Texas my /aʊ/-raising has so...

Rap in Inari Sami: Amoc - Kolle Ákšu

The Talloese flag looks great but had me slightly confused. The green struck me as muslim but there is the cross that screams crusading knightly order to me. In my head I had two possible backstories. IIRC green used to be a symbol of truth, that combined with the cross makes me think of a motto “T...

Iˈm sure I've mentioned this before, but my idiolect is kind of a blend of Canadian and General American. - My diphthong raising is kind of spotty. "House" and "about" are [haʊs] and [əbaʊt̚] when stressed and revert to [hʌʊs] and [əbʌʊt̚] when unstressed, but "light" is always [ɫəɪt̚] while it seem...

Well it's a Nordic country, so yes and no edit to clarify: yes in that historically Christianity has been the dominant religion and most of the population belongs to the Protestant church, but no in that church membership is largely nominal nowadays and the populace on the whole is not renowned for ...

The Talloese flag is stunningly uncreative: http://sites.google.com/site/lane331/flag-m-b.png I made it in literally three seconds when I needed a flag (any flag would do) for some project when I first created the Talloes a couple of years ago. It's so simple that I'm shocked-- shocked! --that it's ...

Uncle Earl - Streak o' Lean, Streak o' Fat

The video is bewildering, but this may be conceptually one of the weirdest songs I've ever heard: it's an all-female old-time country band singing in Mandarin about Mao Zedong's favourite dish.

DJ Krush - Slit of Cloud . If anyone who speaks Japanese would be willing to translate (the singing ends at about 1:30 and picks up again at 5:00), I'd be interested to know what's going on in this song. Krush's work is usually instrumental, but it's interesting to hear the fusion of traditional Ja...

Kent - Välgärningar och illdåd. Den är ju den perfekta låten för en kall och regnig vinternatt.

Before that: Une Année Sans Lumière by Arcade Fire, which maybe doesn't count because half of it is in English.

Whoa, I was quoted twice in a row. I am on a roll lately.

To contribute:

Jose wrote:I was visually and cervically empressed

Jose wrote:indescribably apostrophic tests of ingenuity

Jose is my very favourite poster

Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Trió Guðmundar Ingólfssonar - Gling Gló.

Björk before she was Björk.

Seu Jorge's Portuguese cover of "Rebel Rebel" by David Bowie.

Before that, Sigur Rós's album (), which I guess you can say doesn't have lyrics in any language.