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I'm starting to suffer from a bad case of election fatigue.
Can't the damn thing be over already?

Also, I still have no idea who to vote for.

In any case, it looks like Wilders didn't do that well in the poll. The iron grip of our Belgian overlords remains as tight as ever! All hail Lord Gambrinus, our Lord and Savior, Master of Yeast and Hops! May we rejoice in His Lightly Buzzed Embrace and be warmed by His Occasional Belch for ten thou...

cunningham wrote:Vote for Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen!
Europe's last hope!
Destroy the EU!

It may seem surprising to some, but I like the EU.

Thanks

A related minor vent: I'm a little sad the Pirate Party failed in France. Our electoral system is extremely dissuasive for outsiders.

Damn, it's election day and I still haven't made up my mind about what party and who I'm gonna vote for... Tough decision this year... JAL I'm curious as to who the contenders are and what they stand for. There's been some mention of the Dutch elections in the news over here, something that happens...

Nēntʼṇ ubi sōl o sēn su lāqhareħ loŋṇ (mēw doʕa lā...).
soon be.FUT day of holy and OPT-sleep long / if daughter allow
It's the weekend soon and I'm going to sleep in. (if my daughter lets me)

A typo I caught in passing in the nouns section: Some common, formal or poetic nouns show predictable verb changes in the genitives: I don't mind the orthography myself - it's more realistic anyway. And besides, it's easier than English or Swedish in that respect! a Having the occasional transcripti...

Hello everyone. It's been a while since I was here last. (I doubt anyone remembers me though) Ləʕin sōl, Ultimate Ridley, kamə gen ləʕi cu. Hello, Ultimate Ridley, and welcome back. Oy Ultimate Ridley. Fo ray mi in memba yu :). Nōʕsən de, inosħe daʔne fasinosi məs siman :). That's strange, that lan...

I believe that's common enough. I grew up speaking with a slight Northern accent ; now I speak unremarkable Parisian French. It wasn't really voluntary; my speech just drifted to what people around me spoke. And I tend to switch back to a Northern pronunciation whenever I speak with someone with a N...

It's technically science-fiction, although it's closer to fantasy in overall feel (it's set in a non-industrial civilization ; what advanced technology there is is not readily recognizable as such).

English might be evolving a little too fast for us non-native speakers to catch up.

The novel I've been working on for a year is coming along nicely, I believe, although I had to start over from scratch, again, and if things continue to go well, I'll have a solid first draft at the end of March.

I have a feeling I can't quite explain that the isolation thing is just, well, "alternative fact." I could see very well a return to the good old days of Bush; it wouldn't be that hard to find a pretext for another nasty little war in the Middle East. The good news (for France, at least) is that if ...

So, I finally went on my first date ever at age 25. Why is this not in the Happy Things thread, you may ask? We were supposed to go to this concert/music festival, but stopped on the way to get a bite to eat. She mentioned having food allergies, and despite requesting food without the offending ing...

Melchîe kam! Rani, ô menu!
[mɛl'tʃiə˧˥˧ kam 'rani o:˧˥˧ 'menu]
rooster come / run-ABL VOC fool
The rooster is coming! Run, you fools!

More of a passive-agressive thing, but it still made me laugh: fighting the neighbour's shitty music with Mongolian throat singing.

Derivational morphology Content words are derived from roots, or borrowing. Roots can be monosyllabic : kio, pleasant, san, sun, baa, second sun, on, house or disyllabic: bapa, grasshoper, áiro, common, kiimái, bald yòtneès, nostalgia Some roots can be used directly as content words: san, sun, dá, ...

Well, "cellar door" doesn't do much for me; but I have my own "cellar doors" as well. I have to fight that tendancy sometimes, because it can lead to an SAE-ish feel to the languages. Not that I think there's anything wrong with it, but my conlangs are supposed to be spoken on another planet. Delibe...

Dewrad wrote:

I too would be interested to learn more about the conculture. Is there a conreligion?

There is a conreligion, which I can post an outline of if there's interest. It's my conworld's equivalent of Buddhism, but with added body horror and nihilism.

Please do. You had me at 'body horror'.

ta ke teya yoha ka 2sg suggestion have Q Do you have a suggestion? ula uampa ua ina ua kihu nketle INDEF politics or food or weather NEG-REL Something that isn't politics, food, or weather... Ià kan! Wén raat stà waáh de ŋìibó naá ? Waí raat Kári Xéniŋ dé Astéke duú, to waá waáh, aadá déŋ Astéke ná...

ya napu! Agreed! ke ta haloue ka O 2sg discuss-VOL Q What would you like to discuss? Sróŋ to né wen sá me. Siowaí kéh kan naá? To sióxe wánmes. Kéh wi en Séras. verily IND NEG REC know PERF / weather HYP do.so.DIST Q / IND day-this hot-humid. HYP we.EXCL in Séras Honestly, I had no idea... How abou...

Xe et haá saáras meìt. Taíta xe ià xíin è da óiskií !
Here IND indeed too.much quiet / each.other-talk here JUS again make 3s.ACC alive
It's too quiet in here, let's revive this thread!

That is really great, with a nice East Asian feel to it, yet with plenty of interesting constructions. I would like to see more of it, with forcible application of boot to rear end if necessary :) Basically, what gach said. Besides that, I'd be interested in learning more about the associated concul...

Other analyses are possible, of course. In particular, the concept of content words can be seen as controversial. It could be interpreted, indeed, as an extensive use of zero-derivation. A key point of my analysis is the lack of a copula: it could also be argued that the copula does exist in Kao, wi...

Parts of speech The loss of inflections and the loss or reinterpretation of forms of the verb 'to be' has led to a complete restructuration of the parts of speech, leading to a typology strikingly different from our contemporary IE languages. Classical Kao can be analysed as having the following th...