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Corriander and cilantro have quite different flavors. Corriander is pretty mild, but cilantro has a pungent, cuminy-lemony flavor.

Coriander is the seed, cilantro is the plant/leaves.

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And besides, this is L&L Museum. Shhhhh! You're being distracting to people looking at the exhibits.

Context, Jose.

Cut the chatter. This thread is for quotes.

Pro - Very nice conlang, well presented too.
Con - A little proofreading is needed.

I was whipping up something for dinner yesterday evening out of whatever I could find around the house (like normal) when I came up with a very good recipe. One of the best things I've tasted in quite a while. I had some orange roughy filets - a mild whitefish - and I thought I could do something wi...

Ketumak wrote:Is thisthe strangest law suit ever? - asks Yahoo! News. It's about a man who pays a neighbour to impregnate his wife - and it gets stranger ...

Boy, that IS weird. Why would anyone name their daughter after a fish?

I wonder what their children will look like ...

Growing numbers of people marrying inanimate objects.

Thanks for typing all that up, Tengado. That's bound to be very helpful to those who are interested in doing tonal conlangs or who are learning tonal natlangs.

I'll pitch in with a link to a very good reference source for tone and autosegmental analysis.

http://www.vanoostendorp.nl/fonologie.php

Disco Stalin vs. The Martians!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfsSA6_ ... r_embedded

Obviously a parody. Everybody knows that Jesus' hair was black.

What would you want to specify for timing, specifically? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrony Surely there are conlangs that have contrastive syllable or mora timing - having both long vowels and double vowels but with differing ablaut patterns or tone sandhi, for example. Maybe not. Anyway, yeah...

Suprasegmental contrasts: timing, tone, stress, length, etc.

Olympics: I'm not racist. Some of my best friends are slant-eyes. "Published pictures show the world champion [Spanish basketball team] dressed in Olympic kit standing on a basketball court marked with a Chinese dragon. All the players are pulling the skin back at the side of their eyes. "I want to ...

English also has no direct translation of German "nervig" or "genervt". If a thing is nervig , it is steppping on your nerves — genervt is the state you are in then. Irritated? Agitated? Nervous? It's something like "annoying", but stronger. In French we have equivalents : C'est énervant = It's rea...

Sorry, I was unaware of that.

ils wrote:Note in particular the story behind Guinea's currency.

I've never seen a 10,000 GF note before. When I was there in 1990 the largest note was 5,000 GF which would buy you a trip in a bush taxi from Gueckedou to Conakry - about 500 miles.

The exchange rate was about $1.00 / 1,000 GF.

Vowel Harmony: HARMONY, DOMINANCE AND CONTROL by ERIC BAKOVIC http://roa.rutgers.edu/files/360-1199/roa-360-bakovic-1.pdf In this dissertation I argue for a general model of assimilation within Optimality Theory, with vowel harmony processes serving as a specific empirical testing ground. The model ...

Still looks yummy. I'll bet it's pretty nutritious with all those fresh herbs (even if it's a little high in fat). Do you just eat it like that with the potatoes or do you also eat it with bread or something else?

Guitarplayer wrote:Grüne Soße

Mmm.

Capsaicin is an oil. Just about anything oily should dilute it and lessen the burning sensation. Milk works because it's a colloid of proteins and oils, the higher the fat the better. Ice cream is milk on steroids, plus it's cold. I wonder how well various cooking oils might work. After diluting the...

Optimality Theory

Two foundational works available in pdf from the Rutgers Optimality Archive (ROA).

Prince & Smolensky 1993.
McCarthy & Prince 1993.

Many other papers also available.

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Questionnaires.

Tons of questionnaires.