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Too bad r0ry.co.uk doesn't exist anymore (since he's gone to Ohio I think?), i.e. Rory's page with its Mirror.

This makes me want to completely revamp my conworld as a project over the summer holidays (besides writing a 10-page paper and reading a ton of books for next semester, as well as trying to advance my grammar). Thanks!

Hair stubble ain't exactly silky, neither are pubic and axillary hair.

It might help if you shave frequently in your younger years. I hear this encourages faster, denser growth. OTOH, I've often heard this quoted and contradicted as a common myth. Hair feels more rough when the tips are shaved off, which is apparently what gives the impression of hair being stronger w...

In a flash of creativity I scribbled down the other night (some of these aren't too inventive, but meh): CARRYING A CHILD IS GROWING FRUIT (obvious idea is obvious) LOVE IS A GARDEN (huh?) THINKING IS RUSTLING LEAVES (your brain's one loud computer, dude!) LIFE IS A SEA JOURNEY (yeah, on the sea!) R...

And the difficulty is that what I would put as my hometown (Ansbach, Germany) doesn't seem like it should count because I'm not German. FWIW, I don't have a "hometown" filled out in my profile either because I don't have emotional ties to my birth place and haven't lived there for the past 20 years...

Also don't accept random people (e.g. a sockpuppet of your future employer) as "friends".

Manacá - Diabo

This is a good point. Why do straight men always think gay men fancy them? Do I sense an ego? I said this because of the way Viktor often talks of those exchange people. I have one gay co-student and one that I think might be bi, and I get by well with both of them. Also, I'm aware that gay people ...

Eric: Do those guest students your family are housing actually know you fancy them?
Nils: What do you do to gain? Sports? (Since I'm not doing any training I guess I could need some anyway, just for enduringness)

I'm pretty sure only good things can come of going cold turkey on HFCS. An American I've talked to once (herself vegetarian) supposed that probably one reason many Americans are fat is because corn syrup is put into almost everything (thanks to lobbyism) and that it would be turned into fat much mo...

In German, it's read as [ts] before front vowels. Nativized spellings even render it as <z> or, in the case of original <ci>, <ti> [tsi].

Ikea. Families, and young people who get their first own flat. My desk is from Ikea, also my desk chair, my desk lamp, my armchair, my nightstand, my paper bin, all three of my shelves, my eating table plus chairs, the frames of the pictures on my wall, and my night lamp. Also various cooking tools,...

If there are no other words than "half" and "ten", and "half" is first, why would one assume a plus rather than just treating it as an adjective modifying the "ten"? [sperg]You could argue that "half 10" is actually 5[/sperg] Maybe this actually works in the same as "anderthalb" = "second half" = 2...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw4OMxYTJpA I fucking love this song, the video's moving as well. Always gets me at the point the Indians appear.

53 kg / (1.72 m)² = 17.91. That's underweight, and indeed I'm just flesh and bones. Doctor says I shouldn't worry though.

Ivo beat me to it. Anyway. I'ma add subtitles later.

I'm only 53 kg.

On a whim, I made this today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-PvktLddj8

EDIT: I uploaded it on youtube.
EDIT2: I added subtitles to it, with interlinears

And then, there's this...



My hands. Right side long nails, left side short nails.

So 7:41 and 7:49 are both "Relaax, I got like a quarter of an hour still.", but 7:51 is "HolyshitIgottagetgoing". Yes, I get that too sometimes. 13:20 twintig over één (twenty over one) 13:25 vijf voor half twee (five before half two) 13:30 half twee (half two) 13:35 vijf over half twee (five over ...

vampireshark wrote:250ml lemon-flavored Fanta

I guess you've got non-American Fanta in mind, as I've heard the American version contains corn syrup instead of sugar and tastes awful?

Before that, Sigur Rós's album (), which I guess you can say doesn't have lyrics in any language. Hopelandic, though that is only babbling (and a bit repetetive at that, jú sælon í sæ jú sólæ jú só ...* ). --- *) At the beginning of Dauðalagið I always understand something like "Don't you lie" :P

Wir sind Helden-- The Geek (shall inherit) Great song that one. Anyway, usually they've got great lyrics in general for a pop band. I want to get my hands on Von hier an blind as soon as possible (I only have Soundso , but love it). Unfortunately all my music is on my own computer, 200 km away from...

I believe Nuntar was referring not to this <s>, Zukunfst s philogie but to this one: Zukunf s tsphilogie Wow, I definitely skipped over that s :oops: Since that one hasn't been sorted out yet -- you're both wrong :P. It's Zukunftsphilologie , and the OP was right: 'future' is Zukunft (not *Zukunfst...

http://urts120.uni-trier.de/glottopedia/index.php/Main_Page -- Martin Haspelmath et. al. are currently setting up a professionally edited wiki about linguistics. http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachwissenschaft/proxy.php?port=8080&file=lido/servlet/Lido_Servlet -- "Terminological und bibliographical data...