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The die is cast:
ere ta äšin
The liver has been read.

The will of the gods, which has been seen through divination, is immutable.

"Any problem solved is a new problem made." - Karl Pilkington

How absurd, Torco! Surely no rational person would do such a thing. Sure, getting with the (wo)man of your dreams and all, but it would waste a perfectly edible goat! Joking aside, that sort of thing could crop up with anyone in a position of power. Those who have the powerful's ear can (and do) inf...

One major function of the priesthood in Chompi society is to act as an oracle. For example, when a Chompi couple is engaged, the bride-to-be's family will bring a goat to the local temple (poorer families will use a chicken, or a dog). The priest will slaughter the animal and read its liver. If the ...

Jesus. Are y'all anti-semitic? Why would you think the Jdag represent Jewish people when 1. they're portrayed sympathetically in my conworld and 2. the only similarity you can draw involves some long discredited text and nostratic-style sound associations Let it be noted the Jdag have nothing to do...

The Jdag follow a religion known as Pacÿn . There's a strict moral code and system of religious codes & taboos covering relations within their community. Outside it, an Idakṣ may do as he wishes... no deed done against non- Jdag - or Cuäc , from cuer "filth" - is forbidden. If the Cuät ever found o...

Chompi naming: There are three major Chompi name sources. The first category is natural phenomena. So, a child may be named Ashim (thunder) or Tan (rock, stone). The second category is for aspirational names. So, a child might be named Tiimoten (wealthy) or Mełak (devout). The third category is for...

Yes, but what about the whole number one most watched Youtube video? 800 million views? Even though it's not very possible to compare to pre-Youtube times, I would argue that gives Gangnam Style a higher popularity than other foreign top 100 songs in the past. 800 million could easily be a deceptiv...

#1 Hits on the Billboard Hot 100 that were not in English: "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)" by Domenico Modugno [Italian] (1958) "Sukiyaki (Ue o Muite Arukō)" by Kyu Sakamoto [Japanese] (1963) "Dominique" by The Singing Nun [French] (1963) "La Bamba" as sung by Los Lobos [Spanish] (1987) "Macarena ...

Can we work in a joke about C++ next?

Yeah, that's sort of the point. It's something so basic to English useage, the fact that you can't end a sentence with contractions like "he'd" or "he's" and would have to use "he would" or "he is", that it took an L2 speaker violating the rule (by contracting "he would" at the end of a sentence) fo...

Kinda sorta example. My brother was talking to a francophone in English and the francophone ended a sentence with what would normally be "he would" but contracted it to "he'd" on the grounds that we do this elsewhere. So, my brother was left there waiting for the rest of the sentence. We were talkin...

France Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims Palace and Park of Versailles Paris, Banks of the Seine Germany Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg Wartburg Castle Holy See Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extr...

Neoconfederate-anarchists tried to take my mom's house over by planting their flags on the front lawn/adverse possession. They never said as much but in a dream you just sort of know. They never attacked, only gave chase and caused property damage. I chased them until my mother and brother came, at ...

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regional flags

Must be a bitch if there's a civil war and you're color-blind and trying to find friendlies.

The only language-related thing I know is that my mother's grandmother was a monolingual Swedish speaker who only spoke enough English to order a Pepsi.

Wouldn't this be contaminated by how English categories?

I'm hunting wabbit?

Flag of Hellea http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy358/Artiseghi/Senyeres/Flamadeestreta.png Bearded flag of Hellea http://i807.photobucket.com/albums/yy358/Artiseghi/Senyeres/Flamadebarba-1.png This really looks like it was made in paint, especially the bearded part. I think the coloration has so...

True true. Especially by the distance created by the use of the possessive as opposed to "How's Sarah?"

Hm, is pretentiousness the same as rudeness? Maybe if you're purposely trying to talk over your audience or something.

Fair enough, but if everyone spoke in the same register (neutral) or spoke the same dialect, then it wouldn't make any sense to speak of registers or dialects anyway. I am perfectly aware that we don't. And therein lies the problem. Can you speak to a judge in a neutral register? Yes. Can the bench...

While we're at it, Istret is just a recolored Democratic Republic of Congo flag with different proportions.

Yeah, no country which wanted to be taken seriously would put a cartoon bomb on their flag. You might as well put a mustache-twirling man tying a woman to train tracks on it. Also, El-F (that would be bomb-flag, not Weeping), is English your L1 (first) language? I don't mean to be rude. I can unders...

I am going to give this a huge red flag and say that this is from what I remember of Japanese classes from nearly a decade ago, but from what I remember it was more of a situation where pronouns differ based on the speaker's gender. Women generally are expected to use more polite forms than men. I t...

In a bit of thread necromancy:

This is the flag for the Chompi.


The flag represents seven sacred peaks under a starless night. This is an allusion to the Chompi holy texts.