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On a related note, I'm longing for a swim now. It's been so long since I've been swimming, and I used to love it....

Do they need to learn it in primary school like we do? You learn it in primary school? Wow, that's a good idea. We never did. I wish we would have had to learn to swim(I don't know how). In the UK at least it's common for primary schools to take children swimming. In secondary school (11+) they usu...

Well a little more exact definition would be nice if possible. Your post seems also to conflict with itself a bit. What I mean is that first you state that lengthened syllables are always stressed. On the other hand you say that every other syllable is stressed. If I've understood the lengthening s...

The first time I went to the UK, in 1968 (I was 11 years old), we French kids were told a few basic facts about British life: in the UK people don't jostle; they are trustworthy, and they never cheat others on small change (metrication hadn't occurred yet, and change was a nightmare). They don't st...

I'm hoping to buy TY Catalan (with CD recordings) and this cheap dictionary within the next week or so. Apart from that, all I can find on Amazon is Colloquial Catalan , which only has cassette recordings and is more expensive, a more expensive dictionary , and a very large and dear grammar that I ...

Kebri and Flora = the UK (Kebri is Verduria's chief rival at sea, the Kebreni are daring merchants and colonialists; Flora is the gentler aspect of Britishness), In what way? :) I'm always interested in how people we (people from the UK) are percieved abroad, since of course the picture is differen...

Chinchilla

Switch to Chinchillas!!! They're so amazingly cute with their tiny little legs and big furry bodies....

Warmaster wrote: i never thought i'd ever see anything cuter than a seal pup

i was wrong.

That much cuteness can kill!

How does it manage to look so cute yet so evil!?!?!

The Verdurian future tense derives from the Cadhinor remote present, e.g. eliretao :> elirtao . The Cadhinor remote is essentially an irrealis, used for future, potential, conditional, or questioned actions or states. It developed into a subjunctive in Isma?n and Barakhinei, but into the future in ...

Ingolemo wrote:Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

They could be carried!

Do you mean an african or a european swallow?

ils wrote:

blank stare wrote:What's a shrubber?

Why, someone who arranges, designs and builds shrubberies, of course. This isn't a real job anymore; like most things from Ages Gone By, it has been outsourced to cold, heartless machines. Hopefully Almea avoids such a fate.

Ni!

3rd person is default. I'll make suffixs for 1st, 2nd, and 4th person. Diachronically speaking, first person would be more likely to be default; but no language I know of has any person as default. In certain circumstances (ie ergative agreement) Basque has null agreement for 3rd person singular on...