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by rickardspaghetti
Sat Sep 05, 2009 5:00 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Scandinavian (Now with more isoglosses)
Replies: 161
Views: 36379

I'd like to see another map like this, but with the Finnic family instead.
by rickardspaghetti
Sat Sep 05, 2009 3:26 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Scandinavian (Now with more isoglosses)
Replies: 161
Views: 36379

What is wrong with it?
by rickardspaghetti
Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:55 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Scandinavian (Now with more isoglosses)
Replies: 161
Views: 36379

Could you call Elfdalian a separate language?
by rickardspaghetti
Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:22 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 663977

Åge Kruger wrote:
Io wrote:What's spoken at the northern tip of Sw?
Trees can't talk.
Fan va du e skön, Åge! :mrgreen:
by rickardspaghetti
Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:20 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Scandinavian (Now with more isoglosses)
Replies: 161
Views: 36379

"Rickard looks through the map once again." What!? There are Swedish speakers in Ukraine? It was founded in like the 18th century by people from the Swedish army when they were conquering stuff. It was founded by Swedes who were deported from Estonia by Catherine the Great. It was founded by Xenu, ...
by rickardspaghetti
Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:59 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Scandinavian (Now with more isoglosses)
Replies: 161
Views: 36379

"Rickard looks through the map once again."

What!? There are Swedish speakers in Ukraine?
by rickardspaghetti
Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:31 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Scandinavian (Now with more isoglosses)
Replies: 161
Views: 36379

What? I don't speak Swedish anymore!? :evil:
by rickardspaghetti
Wed Sep 02, 2009 3:29 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
Replies: 2235
Views: 453504

jal wrote:
rickardspaghetti wrote:I really didn't like this song before, but this guy has given me a more open mind to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vil-s82_LM0
Triple lol! Power metal FTW!


JAL
But the death metal version is FAIL.
by rickardspaghetti
Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:40 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
Replies: 2235
Views: 453504

I really didn't like this song before, but this guy has given me a more open mind to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vil-s82_LM0
by rickardspaghetti
Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:54 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 132871

TaylorS wrote:
Intransitive: experiencer-ABS verb

Transitive: agent-ERG verb patient-ABS
There you go.
by rickardspaghetti
Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:52 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 663977

Holy shit! I've been quoted! :o
by rickardspaghetti
Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:07 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 132871

Eridanian update: Now Eridanian is Ergative-Dative bo- = Ergative case, derived from English "by" Bill ate = bo Biu xeyee' Bill ate breakfast = Biu xeyeedi' bo brafosh I'm pretty sure 'Bill ate' is an intransitive sentence, and thus would use the absolutive case. "Eat" is a transitive verb for it c...
by rickardspaghetti
Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:26 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 663977

I'm quoting Qwynegold.
Qwynegold wrote:@Skomakar'n: se upp för bögarna.
Yes, queers are indeed something to look out for.
by rickardspaghetti
Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:50 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 663977

And this is our interpretation of Finnish in general.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL-S2JdCDHU
by rickardspaghetti
Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:55 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 663977

More specifically, Finnish wants to piss Swedish off.
by rickardspaghetti
Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:11 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 663977

bricka wrote:
rickardspaghetti wrote:I'm quoting this:
bricka wrote:
Sippan wrote:Wikipedia makes it sound awesome
Beware: Wikipedia would no doubt make the anal trill sound awesome.
Bricka, you're a genious!
A genious what?
Whatever genious you want!
by rickardspaghetti
Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:27 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Replies: 2878
Views: 663977

I'm quoting this:
bricka wrote:
Sippan wrote:Wikipedia makes it sound awesome
Beware: Wikipedia would no doubt make the anal trill sound awesome.
Bricka, you're a genious!
by rickardspaghetti
Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:35 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: the Old Granny thread
Replies: 624
Views: 195733

"Kladd spaghetti" AKA "damn simple carbonara" For 4 people Ingredients: 500g of spaghetti 2 packs of bacon 2 eggs 1dl of milk or cream any kind of oil (I prefer rape oil) salt black pepper How to: boil up water in a big pot and start cooking the spaghetti. slice the bacon into even pieces and fry. (...
by rickardspaghetti
Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:15 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 132871

Link to my thread. Read through the whole page.
by rickardspaghetti
Sat Jul 18, 2009 11:10 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 132871

If you'd check out my thread on CBB you'll get a better picture of what kind of system I mean. It's not nominative-accusative but ergative-absolutive, with separate cases for patient, reciever and theme.
by rickardspaghetti
Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:14 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 132871

I'm sure there's a better word for it.
by rickardspaghetti
Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:46 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Morphosyntactic alignment
Replies: 179
Views: 132871

What do you call a language that groups patient, reciever and theme into separate cases each?
by rickardspaghetti
Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:47 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Fictional Verdurian Money
Replies: 34
Views: 9175

In Sweden, the 100kr bill is the most common and features Carl Von Linné. Is he really the most important person in Swedish history? I'd say that among all those featured on Swedish bills, Gustav Vasa would be the most important but he is shown on our 1000kr bill (the highest we have) . I've come to...
by rickardspaghetti
Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:25 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition
Replies: 1735
Views: 372477