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Strictly speaking, you could also use a kettle and a solar panel. But anyway. Is it somehow impossible to heat a greenhouse above the boiling point? Unless you can find a way to insulate it such that energy can go in but not out and at the same time change the humid air often enough to get fresh dr...

Hmm, the phrase "Look at all the X!" seems to fit most animals, the exceptions seem to be harder to find. You could say "Look at all the lobster!" refering to an aquarium or something full of live lobster, or "Look at all the vulture in that field!" but not when talking about pig or shark. I kind of...

I don't see why you would need to supply a reason at all. The only thing that is certain is that society will change, not that it will "progress." I firmly believe that intelligence as is currently popularly viewed is a sort of cosmic accident, something that wouldn't naturally have much reason to c...

However, natural language grammaticalize a whole lot more than this, and that's a good thing. It's a failing, not a virtue, of predicate calculus that it's extremely awkward for expressing tense/aspec/mood, or topicality, or emotional content. That was my original hypothesis. There's a phrase you u...

That verifies my suspicions. Well, we expect a certain type of word to appear in that context. I was trying to put nonsense words because I wanted to see if how much of the meaning of the word you can tell by grammar alone. For example, if you saw the same verb several times you could determine the ...

He pocked the slubber off the ground and jibberly sugged it crouse-about. It was far enough vim to decranth the creppler's dreck, so he javed one more sug abard and encreathled the lout slubber entack. Sleavening along vimly and wrastering tot abard he brandoubled accoutly into a snib all tubbered i...

I don't think I've ever heard vent before. It's always damper for the piece controlling the air going into the stove and flue for the piece controlling the smoke going out of the stove. A register is very specifically the big metal thing that has hot water going around it to warm a room, what I thin...

Skomakar'n wrote:I don't understand why English speakers trying to speak French bother with going for a trill. It doesn't sound more like a uvular rhotic than an approximant does, so why even bother changing the pronunciation at all?

In New Brunswick and Maine that's how it's actually pronounced.

This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ffAsHAgNnI
This cracks me up. I love how one of them goes '...ten thousa... ten mille dollars...'

Sent. And confused.

Unless it gets to me in the next hour or so, it will all be on pause until the 10th. Don't get your hopes up for finishing first, my team! :P Well bah, I finished all but one phrase in the last sentance this morning before I headed off to work, had I seen this then I would've finished it all then a...

Can you do into the NLK transcription of Bengali? And just how different grammatically is it from Pali? I might might might be willing to translate out of it. I feel like this is a horrible, and fun, idea. Would you mind writting a sentence or two and I'll give a shot at translating it into English...

Into and out of Bengali, Latin, German, and Finnish, or English if you really have to. I'll be gone from August 7th to August 12th. Can you do into the NLK transcription of Bengali? And just how different grammatically is it from Pali? I might might might be willing to translate out of it. I feel l...

From: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Pali (Latin alphabet only), Indonesian, Dutch
To: English, French, Spanish

Ok, so I retract my statement, I couldn't make sense of it, haha.
In retrospect translating from Dutch probably wasn't that good an idea. Although I really want to put from: Indonesian next time.
It's sent onwards now, last one for our team.

I think I can actually make sense of this, but I'm stuck between translating it literally and translating it to make more sense. Just adding and removing some pronouns and changing the valency of some verbs, and changing where phrases begin and end, but I don't really know if I want to do that since...

Woo, Dutch at the end of the run, this'll be hard. Will be fun. I am looking forward to it! 10. míkl: Afrikaans (6 Jul) 11. merijn: Dutch (9 Jul) [This is a lousy link, I know, so if you want you can also do into Zulu; again, nobody else offered Zulu so I couldn't put that down] I don't mind at all....

Drydic Guy wrote:where are the murder holes

and the oil cauldrons

They're hidden. You should see that thing when it's under attack - cannons spring out of it like it's the rock of Gibraltar.

From: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Pali (In the Roman script only. I can't understand Devanagari)
To: English, French, Spanish

Four tones, high, medium, rising, and low, marked as î i iî and ì, or â a aâ and à respectively. Three vowel lengths, short, normal, and long, marked as ï i and ii, or ä a and aa. Long vowels have only one tone, and if there are two vowels next to each other the tones do not mix. Short vowels have n...

I really like this and want to see more! Could you please do a basic introduction to how societies change over time, and how culture gets exchanged between neighbouring societies? Or are there any rules governing this like those of historical linguistics? Forgive my ignorance on this field, I don't ...

I think it's very much possible. I'd say that the largest issue regarding how much food one can gather is in preservation, not so much a limit to the amount one can gather. I can't give examples for a tropical climate but atleast in a boreal climate, which ought to be less productive food wise, it i...

The horse raced past the barn fell down.

I'm pretty sure I'd posted this on here long ago, I don't think the same website you were talking about, it still has similiar type information you might find useful, although mostly on gender roles: http://books.google.fr/books?id=7co0qhoOT9wC&lpg=PA16&ots=3keka_OPCE&dq=basket%20weaving%20gender%20...