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I would say Finnish, Italian, and Japanese are the most beautiful to me. I find Afrikaans the ugliest language, though, and dislike southern American English as well (though obviously it does not count as its own language).

because you don't have a clue what the fuck you're talking about Eddy doesn't really listen to much of anything anymore or read anything or watch anything ... etc Indeed. I personally try to limit myself to explicitly left wing materials or else works recommended by left wingers. Expanding my horiz...

Mario soundtracks and pepperoni pizza aren't "propaganda" you fucktard. The pizza came from some Christian fundamentalist business (or some right wing presidential candidate) and buying it directly supports them. The soundtrack is something of an outlier compared to all the unabashed country music ...

Pthagnar wrote:why is this stupid? propaganda is by its nature persuasive. if you do not wish to be persuaded by it, because it is, say, an occasion of sin you know yourself to be susceptible to, then of course it could be wise to avoid it.

Finally, someone who gets it.

No. Don't apologize for telling Eddy to fuck himself. They asked what I disliked and I said it. I refuse to feel bad for responding to this question. @Esmelthien: Don't take it too personally. I do not particularly dislike Dutch, although it does sound kind of silly to me. Now Afrikaans, on other h...

Esmelthien wrote:Well fuck you too.

Which of those pisses you off?

Tieđđá wrote:Whatever man, Sebastian is a fucking AWESOME name

It still reminds me of the crab from The Little Mermaid for some reason. Perhaps because I honestly can't think of many people in real life with that name.

Some things that I find unappealing to varying degrees: — Uvular and pharyngeal consonants — Schwas and other centralized vowels — Too many fricatives and diphthongs — Nasal and maybe front rounded vowels — Southern dialects of American English — Non-rhotic dialects of English — Dutch and especially...

Reading Collapse by Jared Diamond, after having read his Guns, Germs, and Steel.

bíí’oxúyoo wrote:There's a youtube-spoof about The History Channel. You should look it up. Is pretty funny.

What is it called?

vertebra: /ˈvərtəbrə/
vertebrae: /ˈvərtəˌbre/
microvillus: /ˈmaikroˌvɪləs/
microvilli: /ˈmaikroˌvɪli/
Alabama: /ˌaləˈbæmə/
Cuyahoga: /ˌkujəˈhoɡə/

Ean wrote:Drink black coffee in a glass filled with ice cubes then.

That dilutes the coffee, though.

Astraios wrote:That's coffee for cheering you up, not waking you up.

I have found that coffee no longer wakes me up very well. I have gotten too desensitized to it over the years.

I on the other hand make Torco look manly given that I add not only milk but also sugar and chocolate to my coffee.

Alahithian [æləhɪθi.ən]

Gnoughish [noːɪʃ]

I pronounce them [hɚɹi] and [fɚɹi] respectively.

falafel [fə.la.fəl]
donkey [dɔŋ.ki]
lot [lat]
cloth [klɔθ]
strut [strʌt]
pianist [piæ.nɪst]

I begin to worry when #35 is Nevaeh which, besides looking difficult to both say and spell, looks like someone was an idiot and couldn't spell Nevada. Also it's heaven backwards, what's next, Susej? You can't tell me that's not worrisome. Well if nothing else, I also share your concerns. This combi...

The podcast raises some good points regarding the length of affixes and the resulting sense of naturalism. I would speculate, though, that the appropriate length for affixes depends on the phonology of the language as well. Japanese features many affixes with two syllables like - masu and - sase[ru]...

Nobody's pointed out yet all the astonishing things Mormons name their kids. Complete with Le-/La- and creatively spelled virtue names like MemRee and unpronounceables like X'l, inconceivables like Tiarrhea , and tongue twisters like DaLinda LaDale. Someone on this board would probably appreciate t...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v193/eddy_the_great/Skookum_house.jpg Model of the Skookum Collective coöperative house and café from all those vignettes I have written. I based the design on various houses that I have seen in Seattle and Portland through Google streetviews. This design does not ...

dhokarena56 wrote:Seems I accidentally ordered two copies. They've both been shipped...
...oops.

Give one to me.

I have read that many words in Xhosa and Zulu acquired clicks out of avoidance speech practices. Speakers got around bans on particular words by distorting them in various ways, often by replacing consonants with clicks. These altered words would often replace the unmodified word altogether, leading...

today, I worked on revising my conworld (current version has many geogrpahical/tectonic flaws). Took it to my dad, who's a wealthy/experienced geologist. We examined and worked on it for a couple of hours. Best one on one time in ages :) Cool. Didn't realize geology could be a lucrative field either.

Indeed, I have always wanted to read a grammar of Bella Coola (or Nuxálk as I believe they prefer to call it now).