zompist bboard

Actually, I have an idea. Demonstrate to us that you can write in French and German at a superior level and you are welcome to correct those who ask for it. D'accord, mais comment ? Est-ce que tu veux que j'écrive quelque chose dans ce fil ? Est-ce que tu veux que je poste un lien ici pour que tu p...

Salmoneus, I'm sorry to hear about that. Maybe I can kind of relate because my mom's many siblings have been dying one by one pretty much throughout my life. Some of them have some form of cancer, too. IIRC, some are in hospital right now. I know some of them better than the rest, but it doesn't rea...

Does that contradict what Chengjiang was saying, though?

No, I'm saying it "has" the attack leopard in the sense that it's in the school...but doesn't own or possess it.

Well, that one does. But it attacks people in the school instead of being owned by the school or something.

Yep, it's an Indo-European language.

Woohoooooo!!! All righty then! Time for me to post one! OK, this might actually be pretty easy, but this time, I'm posting one that's NOT written in Roman script. ;) (Just so we're clear, though, this is the orthography I found in my source). It's an excerpt from a poem. Once someone manages to figu...

Tumak, Dije, Motun, Mawer, or Gulei?

Saba, or maybe Jelkung?

Sokoro?

Mawa?

Aha! So it's either West Chadic or East Chadic.

Is it spoken in Nigeria?

Is it a Masa language?

Here's one that isn't a headline and isn't even in English. It's in an article in a magazine in Malayalam called Vanitha warning against the dangers of using certain wrappings or containers for certain purposes, e.g. using newspaper to wrap fried foods. It begins by asking the reader whether they do...

Is it a Biu-Mandara language?

Auntie?

When I first looked at that headline, I thought it looked almost like word salad. I'm still trying to figure out what it could possibly mean other than "implying that it's a crime to feel guilt for being a Polish Nazi" or something. EDIT: Oh wait: The government of Poland plans to introduce a law ma...

Azumeina/Marba?

Yeah, I kind of would like to grow out my beard and mustache (or at least wanted to when I was growing up), but my mom wants me to be clean-shaven, lol. So when I was a teenager, I made a compromise with her that I'd grow it out every week until Sunday, when I'd shave it off. That makes today shavin...

Is it a Chadic language?

Tera?

Is it spoken somewhere in Africa then?

Is this another non-Austronesian language from Papua New Guinea?

Yessan-Mayo?

It's not Manambu or Abelam, is it?