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I love Trier! It's been about 8 years since I've been though. Fuck, I just miss Germany/Europe, the last time I went was 2007. I've since been to 5 more countries on 2 other continents, but still. A lot of Europe is so charming in ways that other places I've been to aren't, it's so awesome to just w...

Your hair is much darker than I remember it being from your last pic. I thought you were basically blonde with darker roots, your hair looks brown (or even gray??? o.o) in this pic. Maybe it's just the angle.

Nortaneous wrote:speaking of linguists, I have a grammar of Atong written by a guy named Jonkheer Egbert Joost Seino Clifford Kocq van Breugel

I have no idea why, but it reminds me of the director of collections at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, whose name is Taco Dibbits

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Viktor77 wrote:Can we consider Shtetl one syllable?

not in english, no

edit: zek, zen

also probably some chinese loanwords from buddhism / east asian philosophy, but the only one i can think of off the top of my head is ren

Chi / Qi
edit: Also Dao

Well. There's this song...

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Thanks. I have grown attached to the Romanization and have ironed out the parts I didn't like about it. It is easy for me to read and understand. I don't really like using apostrophes for this language, but they are sometimes necessary to remove ambiguity (sometimes even creating orthographic minim...

Also: sine That reminds me of one-syllable words used in e.g. abstract algebra that are also commonly used words, but have a specific meaning when it comes to math. For example: - ring ("an abelian group with a second binary operation that is associative and is distributive over the abelian group o...

Awl - that thing that shoemakers or whoever used to punch holes in leather. (homophonous with "all" IMD)

Adze - a tool used to shape wood when carving (homophonous with "ads" and "adds" IMD)

From Connecticut here- any flowing body of water is either a river (big) or stream (small). Not really sure where the boundary lies with that one in terms of width, though I know rivers are usually very long, and streams don't even leave the town, or even park in many cases, they originate in (and r...

或（者）(huo4 zhe3) is used with statements, while 还是 (hai2 shi4) is used with questions. There's something more subtle about it that I don't quite know, but I do know that they both translate to "or" in English, and are not interchangeable. This reminds me of the (somewhat different) vel vs aut distin...

Forgot about this one in Mandarin: there are two words for "or". 或（者）(huo4 zhe3) is used with statements, while 还是 (hai2 shi4) is used with questions. There's something more subtle about it that I don't quite know, but I do know that they both translate to "or" in English, and are not interchangeable.

Fuck Internet in China, I just wrote out a long reply and it got eaten up. Let's try again. dunno if I mentioned it before, but Japanese people are always convinced there is a strict difference between "tired" (tsukareta) and "sleepy" (nemui). I think this is just poor teaching, because they're taug...

Re: tall, short, etc. Mandarin also doesn't distinguish between tall and high, but does distinguish them from long. Low is also distinguished, as well as short in length and height are different. Tall 高 gao1 Short 矮 ai3 High 高 gao1 Low 低 di1 Long 长 chang2 Short 短 duan3 I've been told on numerous occ...

In Mandarin, you can't "play" a sport or an instrument. You have to specify what action you are performing on the object (ball, instrument, etc.) when you are participating in the activity. 打篮球 da3 lan2qiu2 hit basketball 踢足球 ti1 zu2qiu2 kick soccer ball 拉大提琴 la1 da4ti2qin2 pull cello etc. There's a...

What does one purchase at a package store? One would think it would be boxes or fedex envelopes. Nope, you buy booze there. I understand a package store to be a liquor store as well (from CT here). It irritated and amused me that at my university the on-campus post office would have an arrow pointi...

And StG /œ øː ʏ yː/ traditionally map to /ɛ eɪ̯ ɪ iː/ respectively, but you do hear people with /oʊ̯/ for the first two (but these people sound wrong), and, more commonly, /juː/ for the second two (which is because people seem less familiar with the unrounded pronunciation of StG /ʏ yː/). In many s...

And StG /œ øː ʏ yː/ traditionally map to /ɛ eɪ̯ ɪ iː/ respectively, but you do hear people with /oʊ̯/ for the first two (but these people sound wrong), and, more commonly, /juː/ for the second two (which is because people seem less familiar with the unrounded pronunciation of StG /ʏ yː/). In many s...

Charlotte /SAr.lQt/ Not sure which Charlotte you're referring to here, but you just reminded me that there's a neighborhood of Rochester, NY called "Charlotte" with that approximately pronunciation (stressed on the second syllable pronounced exactly like "lot", and *not* pronounced like the girl's ...

Radius Solis wrote:The Appellation Mountains are always good for single-word homophony.

That's how non-Appalachians pronounce it. IIRC in Appalachia, they pronounce the third <a> as /æ/, and the <ch> is /tʃ/

Well, my own great home state of Connecticut falls into this category, as the standard pronunciation is [kʰə.ˈnɛ.ɾɪ.kɪt̚] there. Around where I grew up, there's Greenwich and Darien ([ˈgɹɛ.nɪtʃ] and [ˌdeə̯.ɹi.ˈeə̯n] -- "Grennich" and "Dairy Ann". I myself have [ˌdæ.ɹi.ˈeə̯n], but the key to pronounc...

I dunno, the time wasn't awful. It felt like forever, but actually it was only 45 days from start to finish, and with 11 people on the team, that's basically an average of 4 days. Which is just 1 day longer per person than the typical 3-day limit.

My mistake: 肌肉 (generic muscle/flesh/meat) and 雞肉 (chicken meat) are both pronounced jīròu . I was wondering where the chicken came from haha (so technically I wasn't at fault there, the Chinese text actually does say "chicken," treskro chose the wrong character :P) The POW thing was from me ( note...

Can we add a rule about having a reliable posting history to be able to participate, for the next round? Emma hasn't logged on since March 10th, her last post was her signing up for this back in January, and her post before that was in May 2012...so I'm not too surprised we're waiting on her, tbh...

"American Sign Language is the only sign language"

WeepingElf wrote:102! What else to expect from a Romance language of Germany?

Um that's literally not possible, the highest possible score is 100 (55 one-point questions, 9 five-point questions). Yours got 90 by my calculations, but I could also be wrong.