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AnTeallach wrote: I've heard something that sounded (to my English ears) like [D] in RTE pronunciations of Garda.

Is this perhaps because the sound in Garda sounds like the way Irish people often pronounce what should be a [D] in English?

"Pegging" is something heterosexual couples do with strap-on dildos. There aren't that many options. Hint: They aren't using it as a utensil to eat pudding with. I really shouldn't meddle in such highly refined topics, but I am still intrigued: why use artificial devices when there is a perfectly g...

WurdBendur wrote:
TURTLE + TURTLE (yes, they're conjoined)

Is it wrong to say I've eaten these? (Admittedly it only had one head though)

In the thread about hm2k's new tattoo, which looks like: http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5365/newkamon8qk.th.gif "I liked their shavers so much ... I had one tattooed". http://www.karstadt.de/shop/_im1/dbimages/ek/5/0783109655_g.jpg http://img.2dehands.nl/f/normal/9243612.jpg Haaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaa...

Mihel Mest? wrote:I thought it was funny...

Tengado wrote:I'm a freak magnet.

It is funny. If you're not me!

Seriously though. Even my mum has called me this (independantly of hearing anyone else). Odd people flock to me.

Could someone post a link to a site that explains all the basic terminology - such as what a complementizer is - so that people with non-linguistics degree backgrounds can get the most out of it?

When I starting learning Chinese, I had difficulty learning the use shang4 "above" and xia4 "below" to mean, respectively "last" and "next" with regard to time (e.g. shang4ci4 "last time", xia4xing1qi2 "next week"). I've never thought of this as oddness, or particulary difficult to imagine a reason...

Now to say something on the actual topic of the thread..... When I learnt what a metaphor was, I was about 8 in primary school, and we were learning about literature and poetry (or "creative writing" as they call it when they think you're too short to cope with proper words). The etacher wa telling ...

When I starting learning Chinese, I had difficulty learning the use shang4 "above" and xia4 "below" to mean, respectively "last" and "next" with regard to time (e.g. shang4ci4 "last time", xia4xing1qi2 "next week"). Because we don't really use a vertical orientation of the TIME=SPACE metaphor in En...

It really does just look like an otter somehow got a duck's beak glued to it's head. If they'd been discovered near a university town they'd have been dismissed as a student prank for years. They did dismiss it as a prank for years. :) Haaaaaaaaaaa :D The platypus is the best argument against Theis...

I was wondering that to. And how did Euskera's "what happned comment" mange to be weird in a different way to the rest of the page?

Aren't computers wonderful?

Nikura wrote:

It really does just look like an otter somehow got a duck's beak glued to it's head.

If they'd been discovered near a university town they'd have been dismissed as a student prank for years.

If I'd known there was a quote thread, I'd have already quoted one of the posts UNPEAS quotedme replying to. I think it deserves special attention so will get repeated: I once kept some lizards in the freezer. Hokulani, obviously regretting buying The Illustrated Grammar of Tlingit instead of How to...