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finlay wrote:Winona Ryder, or Skomakarn

... who's actually a guy

(yeah, we didn't believe it at first either)

I was trying to figure it out myself what with eyeliner being somewhat unisex again. I didn't want to say anything. No offense, shower cap.

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I had a neighbor who at least nominally converted to Zoroastrianism in high school. His mother may as well have been a model for Ricky's mom from Better Off Dead, foreign exchange student and everything. I don't think there's a corrolation there.

Heh. Amerocentrism ahoy! When you said 'Southwest' I figured you meant Arizona until I hit the political section. Also, it's a modern 'fast' one to make a single encounter more interesting. Edit: I also apparently glazed over the 'Nationality: English' part.

I am currently listening to Pet Sounds. At this very moment, both the album and the track.

That's my thumb. I didn't actually paint my nail; it's a photo edit.

Is this why this is the fifth one of these? Because they inevitably dissolve into petty back and forths?

Modern 'fast' zombie rules to make it interesting.

Who Would Win in a Fist Fight Between Michael Dorn and a Zombie Benjamin Whorf?: patrick stewart would send them both to the brig Make it so. We usually just use the laundry room. We don't have a brig. Mister Fry, take them to the brig. From the crossover that only occurred in my dreams. Also in th...

Well that's one way of doing it. I suppose that would be less time consuming than an elaberate scheme.

Astraios wrote:I like how no one's pointed out that this is the ZBB, not the ZZB.

Damn! Now that this typo's pointed out, I'll have to maintain a complicated deception that the site is now Zompist's Zomptastic Board! Any help on that from the powers-that-be?

[Edit: Typo] I'm sure something like this has been done before but I didn't see where. In one thread we were trying to decide statistical percentages so I figured that I'd ask it specifically. I don't ask anything I don't feel comfortable revealing so: Age bracket: 25-40 Gender: Male Nationality: Am...

Even if I pluck out my eyes, I will still see it!

Here goes! I do wonder, though, why conlanging attracts such a huge number of gay men My gut reaction is that this is a chance to create something fictional: a language, a culture. Something outside reality. Thus marginalized people of all stripes will gravitate to this. Of course, this should mean ...

For example, a common debate I've had is whether human societies naturally get more complex, and will almost always adopt technologies (in this sence, including cultural things like a representative government or writing or taxes aswell as more reguliar technologies like the wheel or guns) if they ...

Couldn't they just bite the bullet and just write down all the different ways to say, "I'm not talking to that son of a bitch."?

The Taylor what has an S at the end wrote: On a related note, what is everyone's preterit and past participle for "shit"? I have "shat" for both.

I avoid shat or shitted and just say (took a) shit.

I'm personally iffy about any site that has a book to sell . . . present company excluded of course. Seriously, their bit on punctuation reminded me of that old war horse I'm sure you've all seen:

a woman without her man is nothing

I think there's a difference though between the 'un-us' who violate every single one of our norms for the sake of violation and those that adhere to some and do not adhere to others with an internal consistancy. I think the former would lose audiences more than the latter, even if the violation is i...

Very good overview with interesting prompts. Keep it coming.

Pthug wrote:

sirred wrote:In private speech I use the f-word in all its various forms

how come you didn't just say "fuck" then?

Easy, I don't consider this private speech.

In private speech I use the f-word in all its various forms (although rarely as an infix). Also, in writing, I use also a lot. I overuse, I don't know if this is the right term, imbedded phrases.

This may well be one of those ultra-basic things taught in Linguistics 1, but are there any (I don't want to say rules) general characteristics of languages that have the glottal stop as a phoneme? Just to make sure I am not misusing the word, what I think phoneme means is a contrasting sound, like ...

I am a native speaker of American English. As a child I conflated the dental fricatives with the voiceless labialdental fricative /f/. With training I produced a dental fricative but ONLY the voiced. Incidentally, I also failed to produce l-blends, whatever that is, and r's. Somehow this combines to...

To 32nd, 'me and my sister's car' sounds natural to this American English speaker. Using 'mine and my sister's car' sounds a bit like still using 'whom'.

[Switched from previous because I could actually find an example on Youtube not from a compilation album]
Tzazae, Cheb Mami