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No, it's not that all (or most) men are psychos - it's that in most cases, men have the ability to abuse, manipulate, threaten, or otherwise coerce women without most of the bystanders considering them to be anything but perfectly normal, nice guys . I'm sure most men wouldn't do that, but there's ...

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It made me come up with a few new words and adapt a few invented ones to the translations. I'll get my notes and show how it translates literally (e.g. "bind the all" becomes "circle them all" and "find them all" becomes "take them all"). I'm thinking instead of come up with a list of abitrary word...

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Grunnen wrote:
treegod wrote:Ejh vawes baraw angod, ejh vawes ajhey ang, ejh vawes ritew angod ing vawey ang thôopa gof.
It's not original but I had to do it... Can you guess what it is?
One Ring

I agree with Grunnen.

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Gojera wrote:My amazing Google powers couldn't find it, but I did find this video Lips of Babel, which is great.

Yes, it's great! Thanks.

TomHChappell

Read the description under the two examples here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_grammar#Mood There's a syntactic difference between then in addition to a semantic (though similar) one, but in some cases, it can cause ambiguity...which means, to me, that they mean two different things. If the...

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Putrid wrote:There is no ɔ but o̞.

And œ is its prophet?

TomHChappell

English "set" has the most meanings of any English word in any respectable dictionary of the English language. In a highly "complete and unabridged" one such as the OED it has about 400 meanings; especially if you let yourself take it as an alternate spelling of "sett". The longest entry in the OED2...

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My kid sister hosted the Thanks-Giving Day dinner for six of us; herself and her husband, my brother and his daughter, my Mom and me. In telling my niece about how she made it she mentioned "basalmic vinegar". I pointed out she meant "balsamic". She said she thought she had said "balsamic". Everyone...

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Lithray wrote:Bump

Are you aware that this thread will persist for at least 90 days since its last reply? So you don't need to bump it?

TomHChappell

On [url=http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=35705]the Dream thread[/url], Risla wrote:Lucius Malfoy had coerced me, by threatening me with Avada Kedavra, into going to his mansion and doing his taxes. A lot less exciting than my last dream involving him.

TomHChappell

If you want a thematic dictionary, which might help you to generate your vocabulary, one of them is: Descriptionary : A Thematic Dictionary, Fourth Edition Format:EBOOK Authored by: Marc McCutcheon From the Series: Writers Reference Trim Size: ISBN-10: 1438129742 ISBN-13: 978-1-4381-2974-7 Imprint: ...

TomHChappell

Chris will like that. I won't. I do like stuff to do with social deixis... I like registers, including formal vs informal, or polite vs "common, business-oriented", or whatever. And social deixis of the "intimate vs acquaintance vs stranger" type is fine with me. But honorifics and humilifics don't...

TomHChappell

I dreamed my dog ate an orange scorpion and I had to take him to the vet. I was in my bedroom in my apartment, where my dog has never been IRL -- he still lives at my ex-house IRL. For some reason my floor was sandy ground instead of carpeted concrete as it is IRL. A small scorpion -- not one of the...

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Well, I looked, and I didn't see anyone post this:

My dad used to say (he never wrote:Q: Compadre, comprame un coco.
A: Compadre, yo no compro coco, porque como poco coco como, poco coco compro.

TomHChappell

I don't intend to change how much of it is inspired by Algonquian languages, but to make it unique by having enough non-Algonquian features to balance it out; the word order, the trigger system, evidentiality and the auxiliary verbs, at the very least, are not particularly Algonquian. I'm really li...

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Jashan wrote:English:...

Theophilus Throckmorton thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of his thumb?

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Amsel wrote:Very wary voles beware of very wily wolves, for nary a wily wolf will wolf down a very wary vole.

Excellent!

And if I understand correctly, it's new with you? That is, you just created it in the last two days?

TomHChappell

Once I was working in a post office in the summer and a Spanish woman came to the register to buy some stamps. Needless to say, it was quite hot, the middle of August, and before I help her I take of my cardigan and say "Estoy tan caliente." Yeah, I said it. God it was horrible. She wasn't even amu...

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Borges's character "Funes the Memorious" spoke Argentine Spanish AFAIK, though his surname was Portuguese IIANM.

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Torco wrote:yo!
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That's a pencil, not a cigarette; right?

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Skomakar'n wrote:English

Moses supposes his toeses are roses;
But Moses supposes erroneously: ---
For, Moses nose knowses his toeses aren't roses,
as Moses supposes his toeses to be.

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Rorschach wrote:Apparently, Melpa has a binary counting system.

What's their word for "toast"?

TomHChappell

Guitarplayer wrote:Applications Menu > Accessories > Charmap > Ctrl-F > interrobang > select > Ctrl-C > Alt-Tab > Firefox > Ctrl-V

I am missing:

Applications Menu
Accessories
Charmap
Firefox

. Other than that I'm all set.

TomHChappell

Catal Huyuk Yes, IRL, Çatalhöyük seems to have been a town much like you described the earliest towns in your conworld. But it no proof has yet been published that the motivation for building Çatalhöyük was similar to that your conpeople had. Also, Çatalhöyük seems to have been thriving before agri...

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Guitarplayer wrote:‽

How did you type that interrobang?

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