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Believe me: The average person knows as little about physics as they do about linguists. They don't so much believe the old theories as they just get the new ones *horribly wrong*. They know just enough about Relativity and Quantum Mechanics to be dangerous, and probably don't know much more than t...

jal wrote:

sano wrote:What? This quote is two days old.

I'm sure you can figure out what I mean.

Oh, I can guess, but that would spoil your chance at doing exactly what you're holding me accountable for...

jal wrote:

Also, does armor ever give you the itchies?

Dunno, never tried.

You little fibber.

jal wrote:After all these years, you still can't put it behind you, now can you?

What? This quote is two days old.

Also, does armor ever give you the itchies?

To me it seems that she's sick in the head to do this because not only she was throwing them into to the damn river but she was going "whee" too. Which to me signifies that something is seriously wrong with her mentally to the point I think she needs to be examined by a psychiatrist. In other words...

http://radiotime.com/index.aspx I found this url today while searching for some random lang info. It is wonderful for listening to almost any natlang you want, either talk or music. Just plug in the name of the lang you're interested in in the search bar and look for the stations that are currently ...

Also, to all: if you would like to know any particular word, let me know (probably in private message to avoid spamming) and I'll incorporate it into the vocab A suggestion; perhaps make the vocab installments go along a thematic trend, similar to a travel phrasebook, but in this case it would be h...

I think lesson 2 should delve a little deeper into verbs.

Just a thought.

finlay wrote:I've heard complaints about English word order and the prepositional verbs, or something like that.

Auxiliary verbs too...

Silk wrote:

Piotr wrote:Hindi शुक्रिया: coincidence or loan?

It's a loan. It's actually used more often by Muslims and Urdu-speakers, since the pure Hindi variant is धन्यवाद.

It's actually a loan through Farsi شکریه.

No way. Our heads are completely different shapes...

-ak and -ik are actually acceptable fus7a and can replace the remainders of اعراب such as the -u- in ismuk All right, fair enough. It's just that I've never seen this before. Oh snap, it exists without you having seen it!! <hr> @ Zeikan, I like what you have here, I would love to participate/learn ...

daryush wrote:next word: apartment

Kala:

mokumo - n. aparment (lit: sleep-place); as opposed to tsaka meaning house, home or abode

Next word: jug, serving vessel

zompist wrote:And my point is that there was no change of order. The Roman alphabet is precisely the same order as the Semitic:

Your missing the zayn. Also, I would say that the loss or addition of letters could be considered as a change in collating sequence.

Not at all... the exact order of the Semitic alphabet was preserved in Greek, and thence to Latin. The changes are due to sound change, dropped letters, and added ones (usually added at the end). Ok, but the change of order that occurred was just as significant as that from the obvious Brahmic deri...

I have never heard of this... Imagine my surprise. But Hangul doesn't fit the pattern quite so well. The order of Korean letters is: K N T L M P S... etc. K still comes first, and T comes before P, but otherwise the order is messed up. Maybe it's a recent thing. The alphabetic sequence (collating s...

rickardspaghetti wrote:Next word: sandwich

Kala:

satila - n. anything between two pieces of bread


Next word: create a meal, prepare food
(note: it does not need to mean to cook, as not all food eaten is cooked)

Tip: you can get a garlic press for 5 - 10 bucks and never need to manually chop garlic into a zillion tiny pieces again. Any store that sells kitchenware should have them, maybe even your local supermarket. It's seriously worth it. I has. It good. Most of the time I drop the garlic into the food p...

Homemade tzadziki is best. ---- 1 large cucumber, peeled and graded with either a cheese grader or the shredding tool of a food processor 4-6 cloves of garlic, chopped finely 1 tbsp of salt 1 tbsp of pepper, or cumin (my preference) 20 oz of Greek strained yogurt ( Fage brand is best) 3-4 tbsp lemon...

http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#

A superb source from the University of Iowa for learning IPA with nicely done recordings and animation to show points of articulation.

STUFF You see, that wasn't difficult. This type of post goes a long way toward helping people not think of you as an annoyance. There is no reason why you can't contribute in this way all of the time, y'know, instead of yelling your catch phrase and posting countless animated gifs. You've just prov...