Woops. Minor failure of anaphora there.Cathbad wrote:[SIC]TheGoatMan wrote: Oil spills aren't very responsive to the subtle use of rhetoric. If they were, it would have stopped itself against its own self-interest.
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HelixWitch wrote:Can I meet your mom?Aid'os wrote:My first attempt at conlanging (I was six years old, I had hardly any knowledge of phonetics, only the IPA chart, which I had just discovered a month before) had a huge phoneme inventory, with ten series of fricatives, when possible, voiceless, semivoiced, voiced, breathy voiced, ejective, repeat for sibilants, at I think eleven POAs, with phonemic palatalization, velarization or labialization atop that...Torco wrote:your momma's so kitchen sinky, has nine series of fricatives
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Linked list? When I were a lad we used a scroll! You could delete at both ends in them days!TheGoatMan wrote:This is why I keep my books in a linkedlist.bricka wrote:Åge Kruger wrote:Classic ZBB quote. Raise your hand if you get the reference.WurdBendur wrote:Who keeps their books in stacks? That's a terrible idea. What if you want one from the bottom?
Zompist's Markov generator wrote:it was labelled" orange marmalade," but that is unutterably hideous.
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It's unsafe to have delete actions, especially on both ends of the scroll. You should replace it with a double-ended queue, pop, and let the scaffyman take care of the rest. It's the only way to do it safely.bricka wrote:Linked list? When I were a lad we used a scroll! You could delete at both ends in them days!TheGoatMan wrote:This is why I keep my books in a linkedlist.bricka wrote:Åge Kruger wrote:Classic ZBB quote. Raise your hand if you get the reference.WurdBendur wrote:Who keeps their books in stacks? That's a terrible idea. What if you want one from the bottom?
[quote="Soviet Russia"]If you can't join them, beat them.[/quote]
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On the subject of "why children are shielded from nudity/swearing/etc":
Pthug wrote:because looking at naked people and swearing are for adults to do, not children.
when adults see children behaving like adults, the whole illusory construct of childhood comes crashing down and the shell of civilisation cracks a little
At the risk of self-promotion, I thought a few of you might agree that this deserves a mention. I've taken the liberty of editing in some context.
Echobeats wrote:Shortly after I had posted a link to some online Inuktitut lessons, Jacqui wrote:Strange Phrase or Words From Conlangs
I'll go first with a very recent creation of mine:
Tułakarumanngittaaluyuna [tuɬakaɢumaŋ:ita:lujuna]
I cannot hear very well.Inuktitut wrote:Tusaatsiarunnanngittualuujunga [tusa:tsiaɢun:aŋualu:juŋa]
I cannot hear very well.
[i]Linguistics will become a science when linguists begin standing on one another's shoulders instead of on one another's toes.[/i]
—Stephen R. Anderson
[i]Málin eru höfuðeinkenni þjóðanna.[/i]
—Séra Tómas Sæmundsson
—Stephen R. Anderson
[i]Málin eru höfuðeinkenni þjóðanna.[/i]
—Séra Tómas Sæmundsson
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Shm Jay wrote:Barbarism is using a cucumber for a dildo.
Primitive civilization is using a cucumber as a foodstuff.
Civilization is using a cucumber as a foodstuff and dressing it with oil and vinegar.
Decadence is dressing the cucumber with oil and vinegar and then using it as a dildo.
"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."
LIRLATEddy wrote:Shm Jay wrote:Barbarism is using a cucumber for a dildo.
Primitive civilization is using a cucumber as a foodstuff.
Civilization is using a cucumber as a foodstuff and dressing it with oil and vinegar.
Decadence is dressing the cucumber with oil and vinegar and then using it as a dildo.
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linguoboy wrote:That would make their language both Justified and Ancient!Dewrad wrote:Mu?Echobeats wrote:Cool. Which continent's population are they the ancestors of?Soap wrote:I learned proto-World while I was away last year and travelled back in time to visit the Klêpeci family of Eoqaaniam. It's really a very nice language, though I was surprised to learn that early human languages went for more than 100,000 years before they developed any fricatives.
Siöö jandeng raiglin zåbei tandiüłåd;
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.
nää džunnfin kukuch vklaivei sivei tåd.
Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei. Chei.
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What does LIRLAT mean?Torco wrote:LIRLATEddy wrote:Shm Jay wrote:Barbarism is using a cucumber for a dildo.
Primitive civilization is using a cucumber as a foodstuff.
Civilization is using a cucumber as a foodstuff and dressing it with oil and vinegar.
Decadence is dressing the cucumber with oil and vinegar and then using it as a dildo.
"There was a particular car I soon came to think of as distinctly St. Louis-ish: a gigantic white S.U.V. with a W. bumper sticker on it for George W. Bush."
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Nortaneous wrote:linguoboy wrote:That would make their language both Justified and Ancient!Dewrad wrote:Mu?Echobeats wrote:Cool. Which continent's population are they the ancestors of?Soap wrote:I learned proto-World while I was away last year and travelled back in time to visit the Klêpeci family of Eoqaaniam. It's really a very nice language, though I was surprised to learn that early human languages went for more than 100,000 years before they developed any fricatives.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. - Mark Twain
In reality, our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, which indeed is a divine gift. - Socrates
In reality, our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, which indeed is a divine gift. - Socrates
Echobeats wrote:If you were 21 in 1908, shouldn't your screen name be Viktor87?Viktor77 wrote:To be fair, I was 21 in 1908 so I was quite young then, a fledging youth trying to find himself among London society.YngNghymru wrote:You enjoyed Frenchifying letters in 1908? I didn't know you were that old.
Viktor77 wrote:I'd like to think this was worthy of being quoted in the Quote Thread but I'll refrain from it due to the fact I'd look like a total arse quoting a quote about myself.
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Sir Rei wrote:Oh dear... please don't put me in a skin-squeezing skimpy leather outfit of any sort!Torco wrote:Your interest in people's sexual desirability borders on the level of fanfic enthusiasts, my friend. Perhaps you should write a soap opera featuring zeebers? that would be extremely funShm Jay wrote:So which group here feels worse about it, the heterosexual females or the homosexual males?Torco wrote:congratz on having a girlfriend, man
I did have a bizarrely similar (to the original poster's) accident about four years ago, in which I slipped over a cookie and somehow twisted my ankle so far that it broke
Aeetlrcreejl > Kicgan Vekei > me /ne.ses.tso.sats/What kind of cookie?