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Sorry to hear that Imralu. I got those scintillating scotoma recently, when at work. First I thought that I looked too long in a bright light, but later it got bigger with those weird up-and-down moving pointy things. Twice that day, but never before or since. Weird. Luckily it didn't blind me. (Som...

Vijay wrote:I used to pronounce Thames [θeɪ̭mz], too.

I think I did as well. It doesn't help the Dutch pronunciation is /teɪms/.


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Sajiwan swel in af no jenda difa. Swifa pashm singgyula u "im" an plurl u "dem".
Sajiwan also doesn't have gender differences. Third person singular is "im" and plural is "dem".


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Hither Green burglar death flowers 'an insult' Not a garden path, but I was pretty confused about it until I read the article. Pretty garden pathy, imho. Is it the "burglar's death" that "flowers an insult"? Or the did the "burglar" send "death flowers" to insult someone? Or is it the insult the fl...

Sajiwan swel luk sem Jahmanik, kos mos a fi woh-dem el ota Inggles.
Sajiwan also looks Germanic, since most of its words come from English.


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Dē Graut Bʉr wrote:I think "great" is a better translation than "big".

Kul. Yu a go Maynifisan Beya :).
Cool. Great Bear you'll be :).


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jal wrote:"Bʉr" means "bear" in Bearlandic and "búr" means "farmer".

Poloji! Mi wil sta dis taym kol yu Bik Beya (sapos "graut" min "bik") :).
Appologies! I'll from now on call you Big Bear (assuming "graut" means "big") :).


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Vijay wrote:Huh?

Mi sahtm Bik Fahma pos tu taym, oba no nesfa pos ya sim banis.
I'm sure Graut Bʉr double-posted, but now the second post seems to have disappeared.


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Way yu ray tu taym sem ting?
Why do you write the same thing twice?


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Rom an koko
Rum and coconut

Exactly.


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Vijay wrote:I feel like that almost is word salad. (Even after starting to read the article).

I think they wanted to avoid "Porn star alleging Trump afair's attorney", which wouldn't be much more comprehensible, but at least would parse right...


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Imralu wrote:I could eat 16 Ferreri Rochers faster than all of you though.

Das betzweifele ich sehr :)
I doubt that very much :).


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Qwynegold wrote:http://www.goodseattickets.com

There's so much more where that came from :).


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Vijay wrote:Fish bones don't break your teeth. My mom always eats bones.

Dem fis bon stok imsef de yu swot.
Fish bones lodge themselves in your throat.


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masako wrote:He broke the bone which I gave him.

Im bwok bon a im mi gi im.

Dē Graut Bʉr wrote:I broke the bone he gave me. I didn't eat it. I don't eat bones.

Mi bwok bon a im im gi mi. Mi in it im. Mi in it dem bon.

Mi swel in it dem bon. Dem u bwok yu tis.
I don't eat bones either. They break your teeth.


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Travis B. wrote:There are tigers, bears, and snakes in b'õuk-land.

So Bonklan de Eja?
So B'õuk-land is in Asia?


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Dē Graut Bʉr wrote:Are there any other dangerous animals there?

No, fo lok Sajiwa in af no ray denja bis.
No, fortunately Sajiwa doesn't have truely dangerous animals.


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There certainly are deeper linguistic relationships than those discovered so far What is, according to you, a "linguistic relationship"? Like I asked before, if a certain language is spoken by a population and that population splits in two; the descendents of those two peoples keep speaking the lan...

Dē Graut Bʉr wrote:Luckily for you there are no tigers in the Low Countries.

Fo lok dem swel in de Sajiwa.
Luckily they're also absent on Sajiwa.


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Dem tayga an dem yuman les no geda.
Tigers and humans shouldn't mingle.


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EDIT: I think the way I intuitively read that headline is actually different from both of those interpretations, i.e. there is a black man who is now dead, a cop shot him, and now the cop has been sacked, regardless of whether the cop shot him before or after he died. You're right, that's a third i...

Salmoneus wrote:a mix of Swedes and Nigerians would be like a population of Labradoodles (...). Native Americans have genetics closer to the Otterhound end of the spectrum.

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Vijay wrote:I'm still more confused by the confusion than I am by the headline. I still don't get it.

Sure you get it. Either the police shot a man that was already dead (i.e. fired bullets in a corpse), or they shot a man that was still alive, killing him ("they shot him dead").


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They wouldn't be any more diverse than the descendants of 2000 Swedes. Yes they would. Genes, in general, don't intermix themselves, only chromosomes as a whole are mixed*. So it would be still very clear that some people of the population have a certain version of a gene (or small variations of a ...

I still don't see any talking tigers. Mi me nes taym ray dis ol tel bo tayga im tok: I can write this old story again about a talking tiger: Pagatulĩ kakehgi Ylĩdguh ada kakehgi, alũkuhkx ylũde, ylõdut alẽtaht pagatu. Pagatu akny tetuhgni phit kakehgi, ylõdut alũbetahlã phugakehgi phulãkih: "Pagatu...