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Imralu wrote:

Skomakar'n wrote:What even are you?

I thought I was the only one that say that sentence.

Well, Skomakar'n is you, after all, so technically, you are the only one that... say... that sentence... whatever that means. (?)

Now I'm playing Skyrim and Battlefield Bad Company 2. Skyrim is really awesome; I didn't like Oblivion too much, but Skyrim is much better. And Battlefield seems nice (haven't got the chance to play it yet - I'm running it now), and now I'll be able to play it with my friends.

I want to play Portal 2, but it isn't working.
So I'm playing Altitude instead. It's fun, and now some of my friends are playing too. I'm also playing eRepublik, as always... (since last month).

Avjunza wrote:Latin and Hiragana, plus about half of the Katakana.

About your signature: it's funny, because "ran" means "three" in many of my conlangs (numbers were often borrowed). So 1+1 =... 3?

Improving my mapping skills on RPG Maker VX ACE. Had some trouble with the chairs; all of the chairs are turning the same way, so I had to improvise for now. There are a bunch of things out of place there; there were also other things I wanted to add, but I was too lazy to change the room size again.

We had a discussion about this in another thread some other day... It seems that in most languages, it's named after the country it came from. So <peru> in Portuguese, and French, for example, it's because it came from the West Indies. And in English, I think someone said it's because it was brought...

Haven't read it yet, but great job. It seems really complete, useful and it must have taken a lot of work to do, so thanks. Definitely going to read this soon.

next: to take prisoner; prisoner of war Hefynĸoĸseću - to take prisoner, make a prisoner, from Hefynĸa - inmate, prisoner from *Hefynasĸa, itself from hefynacu - fasten, bind, stick, secure next word: to travel by train Western Unnamed lang: zug-kjenken, vlak-kjenken, zug & vlak being borrowings fr...

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I've seen people (L2 speakers of Arabic and Hebrew) switch to a left hand when writing in Arabic or Hebrew. Does this help writing right-to-left or just a writing comfort thing? Or a habit? And the greatest disadvantage of right-to-left writing is that when a right-handed person (such as me) writes...

For another point of view, according to Roger Wright, there was never a real Classical Latin -> Classical/Vulgar Latin stage, but just... a Latin stage, with a writing system/convention getting farther and farther away from the vernacular. Then the Carolingians came and introduced a system where wo...

Thanks! I'll look into this book for sure. By the way, this may be a strange question, but it is related to Latin. Namely, was Classical Latin ever a spoken language? I assume the written form was based heavily off SOME stage of spoken Latin, at least. Mainly what I'm wondering is, does the evoluti...

Yale is ugly. It's for linguist. Linguists' romanizations of East Asian languages are always uglier than the normal ones.

The only kana symbols i haven't recognized are the ones for nu, ぬ and ヌ, because they seem to be the least common by far - n can end a word on its own without an epenthetic consonant. But i'm getting better with kana just by being here - at first i wasn't 100% on which was which of クケタ, for example...

I can read and write the Latin alphabet, Greek (ancient/modern), Cyrillic, Arabic, Hiragana, some Katakana, ~100 Kanji, a bit of Hangul (pretty much the same as finlay here) and Hebrew. That's it, I think.

Arthur's theme song sounds so unnatural in English. The LORD obviously intended it to be sung in Hebrew.

I was reading TV Tropes and it raised an interesting question: If a man changes his name upon marriage, what does he call his old name? Obviously maiden name does not work. TV Tropes offers bachelor name. A neutral name may be birth name. The obvious answer is whatever he wants, but does anyone kno...

Doesn't matter who ruled Finland; it still means Finnish wasn't the language of the ruling class.

@Helios: for one thing, Legion always does stuff like this. You noticing it won't make him stop
Also keep in mind the fact that this time, he was pretty innocent. Just a little sarcasm

Portal. Bought Portal 1 & 2 yesterday. I'm finishing Portal 1 today, and in the meanwhile, I'm downloading Portal 2 in the background. A friend of mine is also going to buy Portal 2, so we'll be able to play together.

I'm not a native English speaker. I used to stress the second syllable, but then I heard my native speaker friend (and others, perhaps) stress the third syllable. I've been stressing the third syllable ever since.

Just because I need to know,
How do you pronounce "Baruch Benedictus Spinoza"? (as native English speakers)

Altitude. Fun and addictive. And a bit of Just Cause 2 every once in a while.

In Hebrew it's תרנגול הודו, /tarnegol hodu/, "India chicken". Sometimes it's shortened to הודו, /hodu/, "India".

In Hebrew, the root ʕ-R-B means "Arab", but also "interfere". So when you say "Don't interfere" in Hebrew, it looks/sounds like "Don't be an Arab". Not really the same, but it's funny. Well, I've never noticed that. However, there is a similar pun with ʕ-R-B. This is also the root for "evening"; so...