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I've never actually used a compound bow, but I assume that they can be considered an improvement of the regular bow, and therefore something that would have been a very useful invention in the absence of gunpowder. Even in the presence of gunpowder, it's arguably a disincentive for the development ...

I've parked in a disability space before


...with my blind diabetic grandmother who can barely walk.

Delthayre wrote:Mea culpa, although I possibly relevant, I was neglectful in not noting the likewise distasteful bosom brother of corn subsidies: sugar tariffs.

Brought to you by the sugar industry!

Zameaf - independent, free, loose (from *s- not, without and *damäifa strap[s])

salt

Why would a contraction sound more old-fashioned than having the words separated, clearly articulated and less "unclear" and "slangish" as a contraction might tend to be? Hypercorrection could be the culprit, but I'd be more willing to bet that it's a stylistic change from imitating British speech ...

Too horrifying for my taste. Also I prefer it when the people overcame their prejudices and helped the "badly dressed" woman.

I admit laughing at this.

Everyone can agree that there's a phoneme /i/ in English, and use that for phonemic transcription when they don't need to be more specific. But you can say your /i/ is [i1_+_>] and I can say mine is [i_-] and Torco can say his is [i] and bricka can say his is [I_+], if we need to and none of that co...

I thought you had missed that Tropylium was suggesting use of broader phonemic transcription, and had talked about the need for narrower phonetic transcription. My point is that those are different things, which are not in the least incompatible.

Perhaps I misunderstood you.

Pro-tip Nortaneous: /phonemes/ [phones] and the difference matters.

/{nd D@ dIf@r@ns m{t@rs/
[{~n DI_- dIfI_-rI_-~ns m{4I_-rz]

Does Telèmor speak a romlang?

California English just moves almost everything possible towards . We have [eI)g] and [5eI)g] for egg and leg, [k_hI~ndI~m] for condemn, and [spY~n] (thereabouts) for spoon.

I'm more partial to this one.

Yiuel wrote:

vampireshark wrote:Yiuel looks most awesome and very stately in said picture.

I'm The Assembly of Melville's Secretary.

L'état, c'est lui.

So, Sal, to bring it back to the original question, the first requirement on your list makes it impossible (or at least very, very difficult) for an equatorial continent to have a Monsoon, right? If the ICTZ is crossing the continent at the equinoxes (roughly, in theory) as well as caught on either ...

The moving ICTZ causes the specific latitudes and absolute sizes of the cells to expand and contract, but not these proportions. The presence or absence of land also does not significantly affect these boundaries [confirmation needed]. I remember reading something once (can I find it now? Of course...

Another natural example: aspirate voiceless plosives ([t_h] for instance). To the average English-speaker the bold parts of t op and pre tt y are analyzed as being the same (ie, we can't recognize the difference between [t_h] and [t]). To a Hindi-speaker, however, they're clearly separate phonemes /...

People often have patchy red hair rather than solid. Or it could be light

Facial oils I bet.

Him, or is that what his shirt says? If not, what does it say (if you can decipher it)?

*wonders if it is highly inappropriate*

I'm not from "extremely" Northern California, but still a more inland NorCal area, and I have an accent that's appreciably different from what's been described here as Cascadian - I have the cot-caught, pen-pin, lenin-lennon and merry-mary-marry mergers, noticeable /u aU/ fronting (to [y]/[}] and [{...

Doodle du jour.

Actually, Indian is probably a better option as far as vegetarian goes. The point still stands, though, since just about the only place I could eat in Little Rock was a nice Indian restaurant (random aside, I lost ten pounds in ten days because I was visiting family and they wanted to go to places t...

He already has his arms ready.

vampireshark wrote:

benadam wrote:Here's hoping that there is a Hindu deity with two right arms

Some depictions of Shiva and Lakshmi, perhaps?

Also Saraswati, Brahma, Vishnu, all the bigger players usually. Then again, it's definitely more of a sometimes thing for most, than an all the time.

*cue the moar you know star*

Good lord, you people listen to common pop art trash for the proles.

This is the true music of the cultured