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Wine education time?

http://bumwine.com/

Good; box wine is bad.

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Torco wrote:might

can we have some evidence please, instead of philosophy?
please?

Travis B. wrote:English lacks dedicated ejective phonemes

This would be why it's missing. Note that the page uses // everywhere, which means phonemes.

quidquidus latinus dictus situs altus viditus

also: wow i'm more than half a year behind. currently on #19

Astraios wrote:root [rUt]

Common

Astraios wrote:processes [prA:s@si:z]

That's a noun, right? [ˈprɑː.səˌsiːz] doesn't sound too awful. Somewhat scientific, in fact.

Greek apparently went from [y] to [f]~[v] in certain contexts. Fortition like this and that of [j w] above weirds me.

Travis B. wrote:As for the word zoophilia itself, I would tend to pronounce it with the spelling mispronunciation rather than the diachronically accurate pronunciation

ftfy

your favorite language sucks

Avaja wrote:中島みゆき - 地上の星 (Nakashima Miyuki - Chijou no hoshi)

Ew, vibrato. I thought that was a purely English perversion.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuh-QKFeRFk though maybe it shouldn't count since I only care about the instruments

soon

dhokarena56 wrote:

Bob Johnson wrote:define important

Well, that's one of the things up for debate...

apparently not, since half the people are just spamming lists

define important

Wattmann wrote:

Chuma wrote:To me, a cracker is a variety of hacker. But I was raised on the internets, I guess.

Crackers are the people who crack copy-protection, hackers are the people who crack website, system, etc. security - that's how I've learned it.

Kids these days.

Speaking of dialects, wasn't there a guy here that said that he spoke an American dialect where the whole syntax was reversed and shit and stuff? edit : here comes the remember-train: He posted an example that went something like: "Strange my way of speaking it certainly is". Yes, I'm very familiar...

Viktor77 wrote:

Torco wrote:really? how so?

Calling someone inbred is quite a severe insult over here. I'd save it's right up there with calling someone a c***bag.

hey now, somebody else said his grandparents were cousins first, why don't you go yell at that person instead

Torco wrote:

Bob Johnson wrote:well paint me red and shove a crowbar up my nose

half life reference! intentional ?

no, misremembered a garfield comic from 22.5 years ago

well paint me red and shove a crowbar up my nose

Jipí wrote:

Lyra wrote:I will give you muffins! :3

So you're on the Dark Side of the Force, eh?

Indeed-- only a Sith deals in muffins.

It sounds like the equivalent of hiatus, between two of the same vowel.

Qwynegold wrote:

Bob Johnson wrote:Yeah, he didn't say from-ja; I could go easy on him or something?

Yeah, no weird grammar please.

汝が言ふ辞をば我守る。

The Count wrote:Britney Spears on riceburner diet...

Yep, that's pop.

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