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Looks like you're making a 2D computer game? Yep. Not sure if we will use a pixelated art style at all, though. We're playing around, testing things, and experimenting. Does this look appealing to you? Very much depends on the theme. If the topic is supposed to be reminiscent of 90's 'high school' ...

Looks like you're making a 2D computer game?

Filters != creativity.

Russian has some vowelless function words. So do some other Slavic languages (Polish?)

I speak neither Russian nor Polish, though. I just remember seeing them in texts.

(edit) well, there you go ^

For whatever reason, I never found it confusing to use both half ten and 'half tien' for times that are an hour apart.

A friend of mine did once have a problem with this, though, when we were supposed to meet up with someone and was planning to go an hour early due to miscommunication

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 go to the gym 3 times a week. To keep my heart healthy I bike to work. I find that to be the easiest way of exercising. It's flexible ('cos my shifts at work can be all...

Man, everyone always talks about working out to lose weight. What about building some muscle? Yup, I've been trying to gain weight for the past two years. I added about 8 kilos. I don't think any of it is fat, because I basically have Carsten's metabolism. I used to be 59 kilos at about 6 feet/1.81...

Shm Jay wrote:What's the taboo in Dutch about saying twenty-five? And if someone did say "twenty-five before/after", how would it sound?

'Vijfentwintig over één' is a few syllables (3) longer than 'vijf voor half twee'.

Plus it's too big a number for our brains to handle

Yeah, Dutch is pretty interesting when it comes to saying the time. As an example, between 1 and 2 o'clock it goes like this (with literal translations in brackets): 13:00 één uur; (one hour) 13:05 vijf over één (five over one) 13:10 tien over één (ten over one) 13:15 kwart over één (quarter over on...

Aszev wrote:

abeygail wrote:Download Google Chrome!

Complete with a free package of Google Parasites™ for your computer!

Not if you pay attention when setting it up...

Revolution.

The Ukraine?



Anyway; I think the ZBB does shy away from criticism, and then there comes a point where somebody is fed up with the niceness, and goes in the complete opposite direction. And neither will really get us any further.

Io wrote:Creeps.

Go take pictures of random bums or something

I vote that Catscratch posts pictures more often

Hmoob!

Apparently some Germans got there too, indeed, but the Swedes came from (what is now) Estonia. They apparently still speak some variety of German over there, and some even speak an old Swedish dialect

But there are probably other sources that contradict the ones some of us here have read

Wycoval wrote:Context, Jose.

And credit ...

What? I'd never checked this thread before, because I thought it was about complaining, old people-style. It's about cooking? Damn, I've missed out. All those years. I'm a very experimental cook, especially for lunch. My most recent wtf-creation was a pancake based on flour made from sunflower and ...

TomHChappell wrote:I am extremely gratified you liked the joke, Tropyllium, but is it funny without looking at this thread (Psellos's "Click Genesis?" thread in C&CQ) that it came from?

Hahaha! Thanks for quoting it, Tropy. I'd missed it.

Jaaaaaa wrote:

Baalak wrote:Perhaps a palatial approximant.

How's this work for you:

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I'm not sure this was ever intended for witty image responses, but, sue me.

In case the image ever disappears, it's a plasticy architectural model of a palace.

But we need to keep track of who was funny, and when, to be able to show that the community is not as nerdy as it seems at first sight

webuser : i am so ashamed of you sternest : Ya! Mafioso madhouse. webuser : killer whales in velvet pyjamas sternest : Well! Lively anathemas jerk VIPs webuser : can you make the connection? sternest : Make out. Cheat on innocency. It does seem to like dramatic exclamations. Oh! Edit: Okay, this on...

Eccentric Iconoclast wrote:Well, we do have 'uh-uh', which I don't know if it can be considered a word or not, but it exists.

But you can't say "He uh-uh did that!"
You can use emphasis on the verb 'to do', and negate it for the opposite, but it still isn't quite as good

What I miss in English is a good way of countering a statement with the opposite, in one word. "John is stupid" "it.is.not.so!" "He didn't go to the class" "yes.he.did!" French has "Si!" and German has "Doch!" for the 2nd. Dutch has "Wel!" and "Niet" can be used for the first example (usually in com...

I wish English would have a word for the macedonian Претркување or in slang Тицање. It is when you're driving and you go infront of of another car. I don't remember hearing that word in english to cut (someone) off...that's what's used around here, I don't know about other regions, but I imagine it...