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Pole, the wrote:Sleeping cycle? What is a sleeping cycle?

It's this thing that neurotypical people claim to have that makes them sleep at regular times, generally in the night.

My stupid sleeping cycle! I missed out on a date today because I missed a phone call because I was asleep and had white noise on to block out my noisy flatmates. And I don't know how to be apologetic without being overly apologetic in my reply to his lovely text and my brain is like "YOU WILL BE ALO...

That sounds in some ways like a dream I might have, but Im curious, what color was the warning light? It was blue :-/ For some reason, I can't ever text or use e-mail in my dreams. It's gotten to the point where last night I remember thinking before I tried, "This probably won't work since it never...

Nililala mchana kutwa. Niliota ndoto ya kwamba ningekuwa katika kundi la watu walio na uwezo wa ajabu, kama X-Men. Wengi wa watu hao walikuwa watu ninaojua kwa kweli, lakini kwa kawaida ndotoni, utambulisho wa watu na mahali ulibadilisha-badilisha. Vyovyote vile, uwezo wangu wa ajabu ulikuwa uwezo ...

hwhatting wrote:Kutlarım!

Neno "tebrikler" ni la kawaida zaidi.
"Tebrikler" is more common.

First, thanks Imralu and hwhatting for the corrections. I shouldn't write anything in a foreign language (be it German or English) when tired, it seems :). Unaruhusiwa kuandika wakati popote unapotaka na jambo lolote unalotaka. Usiogope makosa! You're allowed to write whenever you want and whatever...

Tanzania
Rwanda
Burundi
Uganda

(Please with phonemic and phonetic representations!)

that sounds like utter crap. "Flakes falling on water" is hardly a word for "snow alone" any more than "light powder" is. It does, but that's not his own narrative. He might very well have describe the extensive vocabulary or expressiveness of certain languages with regards to their surrounding, an...

Dunno ... He discovered that some 16 languages spoken in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh have 200 words for snow alone - some of them ornately descriptive like "flakes falling on water", or "falling when the moon is up". ... that sounds like utter crap. "Flakes falling on water" is hardly a ...

Not needed in US English, but I find that so bizarre that Americans can indicate the recipient of writing with a direct object . Ich finds bizarr, dass eine "Unterkunft" etwas ist, woran man "schreiben" kann. I find it bizarre that an "accommodation" is something you can "write to". Ndiyo, ninadhan...

@ Serafín: Gracias! Since I started watching these videos, lots of people whose videos I've watched have died. I hope there is no causal link. ;-) Nadhani kwamba kutamaza kwangu hakukusababisha vifo vyao, lakini nadhani kwamba kuruka kwao huenda kulivisababisha. I don't think my watching caused the...

Nimeambiwa kwamba ni uyoga ambao husababisha hiyo. I've been told it's mushrooms that have that effect. Yē dē a maktall? Is that a conlang? Ni Kiimralu ... sawa, ni Kiswahili changu kibaya. It's Kiimralu ... OK, it's my bad Swahili. Hakuna mazungumzo katika uzi wa lugha za asili. There's no discuss...

Nimeambiwa kwamba ni uyoga ambao husababisha hiyo.
I've been told it's mushrooms that have that effect.

Rio [ɹʷɪi̯.ʲɐʉ̯] real [ɹʷɪi̯.ʲəu̯] Formicinae [ˈfoːməsənæɪ̯] vertebrate [ˈvɘ̹ːɾəbɹət̚] vertebrae [ˈvɘ̹ːɾəbɹæɪ̯] -10° [ʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭˈmɑe̯nəs ˈtʰɛ̝n dəˈgɹɪi̯zʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭʭ] infamous [ˈɪnfəməs] machine [mə̥ˈʃʷɪi̯n] Using ʷ to represent the labialisation of ʃ and ɹ seems really weird to me bec...

Thanks, people arrived and it all began a bit late. I had a good night, but my brain is totally full now. Glad I went, but I'm so tired!

Standing outside the building where there's supposed to be a Swahili meetup now and all the lights are out ... my social anxiety is through the roof anyway, so part of my brain is relieved but I won't let myself leave yet

I was living at my parent's house, kind of, but it was different and it wasn't their house ... and the street light across the road had some kind of warning light underneath that was flashing. And then a little while later it started arking electricity through the air and it hit the front two rooms ...

Das sieht sehr gefährlich aus! (Das F liegen, nicht das S chauen.) That looks quite dangerous! (The flying, not the watching.) Hujui namna ninavyozitazama! You don't know how I watch them! Ndiyo, kwa ukweli ni hatari sana. Tangu nilipoanza kutazama video hizo, watu wengi ambao nimetazama video zao ...

Ninatumaini kwamba falsafa ya Kiswahili ina maana muhimu kidogo kuliko nilichosema.
I hope Swahili philosophy is a little bit deeper than what I said.

Siwezi kuacha kutazama video za waruka wenye mavazi ya kuumbia.
I can't stop watching videos of people flying in wingsuits.

Who knew there was an Oktoberfest in Barcelona? And for six years already! Presumably the people who have attended it have known that it exists. Czy zostałeś filozofem? Est-ce que tu es devenu philosophe? Has sido un filósofo? Sei diventato filosofo? Ben je filosoof geworden? Have you become a phil...

Wer wusste, dass es ein Oktoberfest in Barcelona gibt? Und schon seit sechs Jahren! Cé aige go raibh a fhios go bhfuil Oktoberfest i Barcelona? Agus le seacht mbliana cheana! Who knew there was an Oktoberfest in Barcelona? And for six years already! Inaelekea watu waliohudhuria wamejua kwamba ipo. ...

hwhatting wrote:

jal wrote:benutzen.

Nadhani watu wanasema benützen katika sehemu kusini.
I think people say "benützen" in the southern areas.

['kʰæɚ̯mʊ] You're from Australia and... you're rhotic? Not really; phonologically it's still /kærəməl/ (in AuE). It's just that I tend to collapse vowel clusters with intervocalic /r/ into a rhoticised diphthong. (In fact me pronouncing each syllable separately feels a bit stilted to me.) Wow, quit...

That might not be possible because Jal doesn't hear very well. I don't know if he can phone or not. Genau, das ist das erste Problem. Das zweite ist, das ich Telefonangst habe. Der Gedanke, dass ich jemand anrufen würde, den ich nicht gut kenne, reicht um mir das kalte Schweiß aus zu brechen lassen...