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Ambrisio wrote:I have a strange feeling that something else might be going on. Has the system been hacked?

YES, it was hacked but I think spinn's fixed it now.

I don't know where I have read this, but there are some Norwegian dialects that has [ɬ] as an allophone.

Are you smoking weed?

Well, he's better off than the last 50 of them who resigned when the biggest concern that made them resign was that they where dead, or partly dying. But mostly dead. This is almost one of these a pop-corn moments.

din wrote:I'm glad you got use out of it 2 years after I posted it (if that's where you got it from)

If so, the credits go to my Indian cook book (by Madhur Jaffrey)

It would be typical of me - yes, but no. My ma does it sometimes when she makes food.

Yeah, I think I have solved it. I first max the heat and then lower it. Thanks!

^edit:I think this just uped the result of my cooking-abilty with like 50%. I now make semi amazing things instead of things that tastes just like... things.

I have tried to make the thing, where you put oil in the pan and then herbs and spices: the problem is that it's getting burned when I put something else in there to stir with it. Is there anyone who could share the secret of how not to burn the herbs/spices? I know my mother, and possibly my father...

Wait 8 weeks or something before you remove it from it's mother. That's important,

Es un "gable roof".

Where you increasingly drunken when taking the pictures?

the fuck where did you come from and who are you? That was unnecessary, I posted it because it was apropos of the discussion which you would have seen if you had read the post I referred too.

I also didn't know that Cornelis Vreeswijk grew up in Sweden and was well(?) known there. But then, I don't really know too much about him (happy now?) I didn't directly direct it at you because I thought that you, as a native speaker, would fail to catch his excessive use of [χ] which is pretty mu...

Nobody's gonna comment on the song I posted?

Apropos of this discussion, this song,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LOpK09gBwQ

Cornelis Vreeswijk - Bakker de Baksteen

Don't quote me on this one or even ask for a source, but I have read a summary of a study which pointed to that speakers of German and Dutch have a statically higher rate of throat aliments, because of all the fricatives.

Eddy, did you listen to the Salish interview? What did you think?

There's actually a bush language in Africa where the speakers end up with a lump in their throat. This is documented because it also happened to a researcher that learnt the language for studying purposes.


I wish I could remember it's name.

You two should listen to this Montana Salish interview.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gZUGV_Kc-k

It is now, yes. But that has probably not always been the case when we lived in small groups. Biologically, we are still apes with whatever comes along with that.

The retroflexed /d/ I believe, and/or the tones.

It would have been a lot cooler if the core came from Pomoan instead of the other way around.

So are you two just speaking different dialects or different languages? because both of your countries have a standing army. That's the question of today.

I'm fascinated that just by changing the gender of a Spanish word the semantics are changed, and as a conlanger it could be a good way of naturalising a language (Alahithian doesn't have gender, but I might have other ideas). I have a small list in my head, which is nothing compared to what I have ...

You expect me to keep track of all the ways French can fuck it's pronunciation of words? "Whoa". edit: Well, I don't remember the context but there was a case here where I live that some shop wrote "bite sale" on a huge sign advertising something, with the probably intended meaning "Come take a bite...

Gulliver wrote:The English word "bit" sounds a lot like the French word for cock. As it's often following "a little", French teenagers find this hilarious.

Don't forget bit sale.