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jal wrote:Rom i koko.
I rest my case.

Pi's sa etimologi commar?
INT-N.SG.NOM be-PRES.ACT.3SG.CLIT ART-F.SG.NOM etymology-SG.NOM this-N.SG.GEN
What's the etymology of this?

I also get the 404, but when I search for the terms in the link, what I get looks what I'd call broadly Pflastersteine ("cobblestones") and specifically Katzenköpfe, lit. "cat heads".

Nikt nie chce rysować domu Św. Mikołaja?
Personne ne veut dessiner la maison du St. Nicholas?
Niemand wil het huis van Sinterklaas tekenen?
Nobody wants to draw the house of St. Nicholas?

(hug)

Dē Graut Bʉr wrote:So do I: there is no sunlight.

Nuc tun saulun widí nú.
PRTC ART-M.SG.ACC sun-SG.ACC see-PRES.ACT.1SG now
I'm seeing the sun right now.

@Imralu: I'm like that, sometimes. And I learnt that it often simply helps to explain your own weirdness to the people you have alienated. Example: not long ago, a friend called me out on why I never congratulate him on his birthday. Truth is, I remembered around what time of the month it was, but n...

Very much simplified and a bit exaggerating the positions, I can see that there are two different groups who voted for Brexit: There is a third group in this, if very small: the Loony Lefties who want to leave the EU because in their view it is a neo-liberal bourgeois hell-scape dominated by an unc...

The Brexiteers claim - and, let's be honest, on this they are quite right, that restricting the flow of goods and people between Europe and Britain is probably the single most important part of "what people voted for" in the referendum. Hmmm... I have my doubts on the "restricting the flow of goods...

As it's St. Nicholas today: Das ist das Haus vom Nikolaus. My goal today is not an exact translation, but one that has 8 syllables and mentions both Nick and his house: Dom Świętego Mikołaja. Дом Святого Николая. C'est la maison du Nicholas. La casa de San Nicolás. La casa di San Nicola. Domus Sanct...

Estic daurai supiayuntis?
PRTC ghost-PL.NOM sleep-HAB.ACT.3PL?
Do ghosts sleep?

Question 2: what is "traditional pop", and how does it relate to pop? (recent nominees include Bob Dylan, Lady Gaga, Willie Nelson, Andrea Boccelli (!?), and Seth MacFarlane) I would have guessed that it means "pop with more traditional instrumentation", but the list you give seems very random. Bes...

Well, you wouldn't be able to say whether they're "Indie", because for this their position vis-à-vis the music industry is the deciding factor. E.g., this is by a bona fide Indie band, but it sounds like Cliff Richard, the epitome of favourite-son-in-law wholesome pop. The Kooks, indie? Their debut...

That being said, I also think Celtic Woman (if that's the sort of thing you mean by "Irish Folk") is overrated, just in general. :P My favorite Irish folk music is probably sean-nós . Does anyone have any recommendations for traditional (not necessarily sean nós, but not contemporary in style) Iris...

@Sal: I think others have been trying to say that, but using Grammy nominations is probably one of the less optimal ways to find out what style a certain piece of music is. The categories are limited, so 1) they have to cram in things into categories that don't really belong there; 2) there's a lot ...

Also, a new election could see further AfD gains due to all the chaos among the more mainstream parties. That risk can't be excluded, but the current polls give no indication for a significant rise in AfD votes right now. In general, most pundits are more worried that another four years of GroKo, w...

Whatever exactly you add to pop to get rock... if you add a lot more of that, you get hard rock. Louder, more banging drums, the singer sounds angrier, you can't play it for Mom at all . Maybe your mom, and mine. ;-) That criterion stopped working some point in the 90s. The first generation of e.g....

Hier soir, le "Selwyn Snowball" s' est passé. Last night the Selwyn Snowball happened. J'ai dev en u si ivre que j'ai crié dehors de ma salle à quatre heurs de matin. I got so drunk I was screaming outside of my room at four in the morning. Il étai t cathartique en fait. I was quite cathartic in fa...

@Sal: purely legally, they could do so, but that would mean blowing up their own party. While CDU and CSU formally are two parties, they go into the elections as one unit and are seen by voters and members as such. It's a bit as if the Scottish Tories had their own seat and a veto at the negotiation...

The Economist thinks there should be a new election in the hopes of producing a clearer result: https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21731622-political-uncertainty-bad-germany-and-europe-germans-should-vote-again-how-break . What do y'all think of that? Horsefeathers, old boy Economist. The polls...

It might sound crazy, but would it be possible to have CDU-SPD coalition without CSU? I know a lot of people who would like that, but no, it won't happen. CDU and CSU are joined at the hip; even if they're legally separate parties, they form one parliamentary group ( Fraktion ), since 1949. There's...

jal wrote:Talking in general can cause problems...

Nu hoderun, ai ni waupús sís, wit cailai tacéntis nú.
PRTC good-COMP.N.SG.NOM, if NEG say-PRTCP.RES.ACTV.M.SG.NOM be-PRES.SUBJ.2SG, because whole-M.PL.NOM be.silent-PRES.ACT.3PL
You'd better not said that, because now everybody is silent.

For the last almost 70 years, it was mostly boringly predictable who would govern Germany after the election results wre announced (the exception being 1969, when the CDU thought they'd continue the first Grand Coalition with the SPD, but the latter teamed up with the FDP instead). This time is real...

next: to impose; bestow Tautisca: upudéten "to build, erect; impose"; prefix upu- "up, on" + déten "to put"; upuforten "to to carry / bring upwards; bestow upon, confer (up)on; assign to; task, entrust s.o. with (Dat / Acc)"; prefix upu- "up, on" + forten "to carry" Next: to expel, exile, banish

jal wrote:Wir vermissen dich auch, Viktor!
We miss you too Vik!

linguoboy wrote:Du hast uns sehr enttäuscht, HaWe.
We're very disappointed in you, H-W.

Sam jestem rozczarowanym.
Je suis deçu moi-même.
Ik zelfs ben teleurgesteld.
I'm disappointed myself.

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Well, I guess a year is too granular. I've made it a month for now— "What's New" should show you the months. Frankly I wouldn't advise checking the site more than twice a month.

I'll heed your advice. And thanks!