zompist bboard

Guess there ain't none?

My main device now is an HTC EVO 4G. I'd like to bring language learning into the 21st century. What are the best apps for that? I've got flashdroid for vocabulary. I'm not asking for any specific language, if a language-specific app exists that's good, go ahead and shout it out.

[quote="Christoph Schrader"— the Latin orthography is absolutely hideous.[/quote]

If by "hideous", you mean "awesome", then yes, it is hideous.

The people of Columbus' time most definitely did not believe in the Earth being flat. From Wikipedia: "The modern misconception that people of the Middle Ages believed that the Earth was flat first entered the popular imagination in the nineteenth century, thanks largely to the publication of Washin...

Why do the vampire hunters name themselves after a shitty movie?

I like it. I don't plan on learning Slovene, but it's a language I don't know much about, and I'll definitely keep an eye on this.

Death of Ophelia wrote:If & When Almea Ends...

HERESY.
*brings out the stakes*

Speaking of it- where is the VV board? I can't find it.

tombom wrote:I'd just like to say that I don't like Elkar?l just becuase it's not very Indo-European - there's just something that clicks

For a second, I was thinking, "Elkar?l has clicks???" Please excuse me, I haven't slept inawhile.

vegfarandi wrote:I've practiced swimming for seven years. Here, everyone has to go to swimming classes in school from six to fifteen.

Just in case the island sets on fire and you have no other method of escape?

Yaaaaaay!!

Zomp, you should feel really special, now that someone has tattooed you on them.

HASH BROWN

LLAMA

For my list of "I am a large potato" in many languages, I attempted to work it out in varios Almean languages. Are they in any form of correctness? Verdurian- Se ai boly?sh? susluoma Barakhinei- S? s? k?shk? (potato) Isma?n- Se sa boze (potato) Cuēzi- Sēo bōye (potato) sāi. Axunasin- Siu dai (potato...

Ah, dammit. You beat me. I was going to say that when I saw the name.

I used to say 'was' for everything. I've started to use 'were' though. But then I use a bilabial fricitave in place of 'f' in my idiolect, so I may just be strange.

That was the point.

You spelled 'nitpick' wrong.

Yes! Welcome- I would say something in Finnish, but I don't know much.

But yes, pickles are a very good thing.