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Tankero - crappy English with a heavy Finnish accent. Just to clarify, the event described in that WP article is just a joke, not something that actually happened.

Ah no, these are all from this year. Three of the songs are form the Estonian selection, and two from the Hungarian (plus one not related to ESC at all). The winner of the Estonian selection was Elina Netšajeva and, AWS won the Hungarian selection. Actually, let me just check Wikipedia... This year ...

They've always had, even though the majority is in English. I haven't counted the number of non-English songs this year though (or any other year).

Yay! It's Eurovision season! These are the songs I'm obsessing over right now. Songs from Eesti laul: (English, sorry :P ) Sibyl Vane - Thousand words Classic dreams for classy girls (Italian) Elina Netšajeva - La Forza OMG that voice! (Estonian) Etnopatsy - Külm Hippie :-D And A dal: (Hungarian) AW...

情人節怎麼樣，你們？有沒有能和你們的伴侶或者好朋友會合？ :-D Wie geht/ging Valentinsdag für euch? Habt ihr getroffen ihrer eure Partner oder enge Freunde? How is/was Valentine's Day for you guys? Did you get to meet up with your partners or close friends? その「連れ合い」って、何？ Sono "tsureai"tte, nani? What is this "partner"? 「油の火曜日」＊...

Off topic: And why the hell isn't widespreadly a commonly used word? I can't remember what I'm supposed to say prescriptively without resorting to a longer phrase. Just saying "widely" is clear in context, I think.sorry can't comment on the rest of the post. Ha, thanks! Sometimes my word-searching ...

I have time, because I'm unemployed, but I have no energy. And it's not just conlanging, there's a lot of stuff that I want to want to do, but I just don't feel like doing it.

Something I saw on YouTube:
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Thanks, Qwynegold. I missed the bit about the comma. I'd change the translation, then, to the much simpler "Unlike big sister, I hate boys and such." "Unlike you" might be better. (The speaker is 16, and responding to a comment from her sister that the boys at school think she's weird, so in Englis...

Chigatte is the conjunctive form of chigau "to be different". It's not the main verb in this sentence. Oneechan to chigatte means like "unlike big sister". Kirai , or dai(k)kirai is special, because it acts like a verb, but formally it's an adjective. Kirai means dislike, and daikirai means hate (i...

I only learned IIRC through the ZBB, and have rarely seen it elsewhere. I think it has to do with what kind of conversations you are having at different sites.

Sinne perhaps. Is this a man or woman?

linguoboy wrote:It takes more than jokes to make something a "sitcom".

I recall them getting in all sorts of weird, comedic situations all the time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm currently playing Civ 5, but my brother has Civ 6 and I have played it on his computer. I want to play all civilizations in Civ 5 before I move on to Civ 6. ハハ、いいなあ。私は『シヴ４』も持っているが、まだし始めなかったよ。他のゲームを終えたいんだ。 Haha, ii naa. Watashi wa "Shivu 4" mo motte iru ga, mada shihajimenakatta yo. Hokano geemu...

Does Queer as Folk count as a sitcom? I remember there being some bits in it that were kinda like a sitcom. No, it's considered a drama. Ah, I think it's like a mixture of drama and sitcom. Or maybe I'm just misremembering the show. I think Davies' successor show Cucumber qualifies as "sitcom" thou...

Learning languages. Constructing languages. Historical linguistics. Reading. History. Playing golf. Playing Civ. Cooking. And you? どの『シヴィライゼーション』？こっちはもう『シヴィライゼーション３』をしてる。 Dono "Shiviraizeeshon"? Kotchi wa mō "Shiviraizeeshon 3" wo shite ru. Which Civilization? I myself am still playing Civilization...

Pabappa wrote:I have a conlang named Palli

Do you want to know what that happens to mean in Finnish?

When I first read the first few posts of this thread, I thought to myself "hmmmm, I've watched a bunch of British shows, but none of them were sitcoms. Oh, Little Britain! No wait, that's not a sitcom." But when I kept reading I found several I used to watch. Mr. Bean - It was funny back then, but I...

38) e: Yes, but adapt them to our phonology, except that the allophones [ç, x] of coda /h/ are borrowed like that.
39) b
40) a (regarding choices b and c, what velar fricatives? WP tells only of an allophone [ɣ])

18) c
19) a
20) d
21) c
22) a
23) c

13) d
14) b
15) d
16) d
17) b

Dodecahedron. Thank god for autocomplete, because I only knew it in Swedish, where it's dodekaeder.

Apparently, they were never taught how to sound out words, in the theory that English spelling is so irregular it's best to just skip it and teach words as indivisible wholes. But this apparently led to difficulties in pronouncing words from other languages, even languages with simple spelling rule...

Думаю, что нет. Ну, возмооооожно да...а это бы наверно было в Магнитогорске или Магадане или где-то, где я совсем не хочу жить. Я рассмотрел Казахстан, а предлоги работы не были так предстоящими, как я наделся. I don't think so. Well--it might be possible, yes--but this would probably be in Magnito...

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