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Junes wrote:By the way, should this be moved to NOTA? I don't know if pruning happens automatically, but that would be a shame.

Seconded.

jal wrote:Das betzweifele ich sehr
I doubt that very much .

Zorganizujmy zawody po jedzeniu Ferrero!
Let's have a Ferrero eating competition

Travis B. wrote:Next: grain

Tautisca: gornun "grain, (seed)corn" (cognate with Englis corn" and Latin granum); baitun "grain, cereal; food" (from PIE*gweiH- "live").
Next: green

Telémor is almost ready to join the Euro.

linguoboy wrote:I swear, every day this week has felt like it should have been Friday but wasn't.

Good news: Today really is Friday.

D ie Firma hat den Fehler gemacht , mich nach Feedback zu ihrem "Support" zu fragen . The company made the mistake of asking for my feedback on their "support". Der Tenor meiner Antwort was "Was meinen Sie mit 'Support'?" Vertrösten ist kein "Support"! The thrust of my reply was, "What support?" Pu...

Samstag fahre ich ab nach Saarbrücken, wie jedes Jahr während*1) Oster n . Dort gibt es die Revision demo party. Ich gehe zusammen mit einem Freund. Wir fahren dieses Ma h l*2) mit seinem neue n Porsche. Ich hoffe, das s wir es überleben werden. Saturday I go to Saarbrucken, like every year during ...

Why people always insist on aligning the arbitrary numbering of the laryngeals to the front-back dimension of PoA is utterly beyond me Due to the colouring. (h1 = e, h2 = a, h3 = o). Agreed, there are other solutions to that (i.a. h1 being actually non-colouring), but it's tempting. It's like the o...

Die Schuld dafür gebe ich am allermeist en den Mann'schen Werken . It is the works of the Mann family which I chiefly fault. Ja również chcę uczyć się polskiego , ale nie mam czasu... I also want to learn Polish, but I don't have the time... Bossa Nova Linguoboy żyje w 19-m wieku, Vijaj w latach 60...

A Turkish family finds out that the Voynich manuscript is in some kind of Old Turkish. And all the known back story is wrong, it was actually stolen from Ottoman archives. Looks totally legit.

I also was awarded, for that talk, the German Liquid Crystal Society's "Young Scientist Award" for the best presentation by a Ph.D. student at the conference. Complete surprise to me, seeing as how I'm not German and I wasn't thinking my talk was the best (plus, well, I was part of the hosting/orga...

Travis B. wrote:next: ocean-going ship

Tautisca; nau "ship" from PIE *neH₂-u-. There is no specific term for an ocean-going ship - any ship is by definition supposed to be able to go out to the sea, otherwise it would be a boat (nauca).

Next: strong

Er hat meinen Versuch, Polnisch zu reden, verlacht*1). Er fragte mich, warum ich aufgehört hab, es zu lernen, und ich sagte "straciłem zainteresowanie". Dann hat er mir vorgeworfen, Google Translate benützt zu haben! He laughed at my attempt to speak Polish. He asked me why I'd given up studying it...

Kann sein, dass ich ein en neue s Mitglied er für die Bärengruppe gefunden hab. Er kann auch Französich und Polnisch und wasweissichnoch. I may have found a new recruit for the bear group. He also knows French and Polish and who knows what else. Sein Mann kann nur Englisch. Das muss für ihn ein Ärg...

Highly likely.

linguoboy wrote:

Salmoneus wrote:So far as we know, one of my parents doesn't have any horrible cancer (see note from last month in the venting thread). This is good.

That is excellent news. I'm very relieved on your behalf.

Me too.

Raphael wrote:Found this on Twitter.

Priceless.

I now listened to all your Bach examples. Reinforced my love for that man's music. BTW, the first Bach piece I learnt to recognise (besides the "Toccata and Fuge") is the Bourree from Lute Suite BWV 996 ; of course, the version I heard first is this one . I also re-read part of the thread; some rema...

I remember fusion cooking being the hot trend here in Germany about 10 years ago. There still are fusion restaurants or places that call themselves that way, but my impression is that the hype has passed.

Zehn W ochen ohne S chlaf en *1)? Ja, das klingt tatsächlich schrecklich! Ten weeks without sleep? Yeah, that sounds awful indeed! *1) Or: ohne zu schlafen . To me, ohne Schlafen sounds somehow wrong, but I'm not sure that this would be the same for all native speakers. Brak snu może zabijać. Manqu...

Common misconception. It's true that our colonisation attempts (from the early 18th century onward) were small-scale and unsuccesful - we certainly never attempted a colonisation on the scale you tried! India was "small scale"? I think Sal is referring specifically to colonisation attempts in Vietn...

It cannot be excluded that Proto-Uralic borrowed the 'name' word from an IE dialect (or a lost sister language of PIE) with a similar form, even though 'name' is a basic vocabulary item (Décsy's claim that the early Uralians did not use names and acquired naming only when they met Indo-Europeans is...

In Germany, you'll find Vietnamese restaurants in every city and biggish town. Vietnamese in Germany are mostly South Vietnamese refugees who arrived in the West in the 70s or Northern Vietnamese guest workers in East Germany who stayed on after reunification.

Nu nérí tu eftumun dichtun!
PRTC NEG-be-PRES.OPT.3SG ART-N.SG.NOM thing-SG.NOM
May it not be the last thing!

Хаха, меня не было в школе уже шесть недель благодаря зимнему перерыву и приготовлени ю к пяти конкурсам (я победил в математике, фи з ике и русском языке!), но сегодня я пон има л больше всех из повторени е к экзамену по польскому языку лучше всего , котор ое все кроме меня будут пи сать завтра. М...