Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:39 pm
linguoboy wrote:Right, I can see that. It lends Yampa a mystical aura of Swedishness.
linguoboy wrote:Right, I can see that. It lends Yampa a mystical aura of Swedishness.
Especially if you take a look at the traditional dialects and not the modern ones which are basically accents/variants of the standard language. In the traditional dialects you can find long and short ô, which is usually described as a vowel "somewhere between å and ö" (a good reference point would be /ɞ/ and /ɞː/), and then there's the short /e/ which standard Swedish lacks.Wattmann wrote:It has VOWELS
Shouldn't it be <g> /k/?Wattmann wrote:I once considered learning Swedish instead of Icelandic, but the vowel inventory scared me - I could never speak it well.
Icelandic, OTOH, has <g> for /g/
No, it's /g/ but has [k], [ɣ], [j], [c], [x] as allophones.Avo wrote:Shouldn't it be <g> /k/?Wattmann wrote:I once considered learning Swedish instead of Icelandic, but the vowel inventory scared me - I could never speak it well.
Icelandic, OTOH, has <g> for /g/
Emperor Charles V wrote:Mark's world has the theory of evolution, heliocentrism, steamships and even reconstructed protolangs but no guns. This doesn't make sense at all. His world is bascially 1800's Europe and USA minus guns! That's the recipe for pure chaos.Yng wrote:seriously though do you promise to read a real history book
Edit: Also, going 'BUT THIS GUY'S CONWORLD IS JUST AS BORING. FOR GOD'S SAKE IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE GUNS' isn't going to get you anywhere. What's so original about guns anyway? We have guns in real life.
Emperor Charles V wrote:I mean the other Charles that were Holy Roman Emperors who are Charles I, Charles II, Charles III, Charles IV, Charles VI and Charles VII.Vuvgangujunga wrote:So as not to offend other Charles?Emperor Charles V wrote:
You forgot the "fifth by that name." Please don't confuse me with all the other Charles.
Legion wrote:Oh god, no, NOT OFFICIALLY.Emperor Charles V wrote:This is your last warning before I officially FOE you!Legion wrote:100% of which were junk.Emperor Charles V wrote: "Pro"-tip? I've made more posts than you
And stop lying.
Lyra wrote:In and old dusty board
where cons and langs thrived;
in a nerdy nerd's world
there came one Charlie Five.
Not to be confused with the others:
not the first or even the sixth.
His most noble Habsburg forefather
was none but Charles the Fifth!
He hinted at a user of old
A king of maps, of his kin.
And most verily, we were told,
that this brother was not him.
"You see, he was angry, a nerd,"
he said, "you guys were pricks.
Well, that what from him I heard."
Charlie also doesn't like dicks.
"I AM NOT GAY," he screamed.
He had a girlfriend he told all
and was a jock on a team,
the one of the foot and the ball.
His lang was a poor cipher
and had little hints of Maltese.
His world, dominated by knifers
who beat all gunmen with ease.
I could go one more, I know.
But the story is still ongoing
what will come of the morrow
with the stupidity still growing?
~Lyra
Charles V wrote:I'm used to everybody loving me at school I expected the same on the forum.
This is the only way to preserve the record of CharlieFive's golden age one the Thread that will NEVER Get Pruned, gets pruned along with the the OriKereb wrote:god damn this is totally going to become yet another Charlie thread
But is it worth it?Vuvgangujunga wrote:This is the only way to preserve the record of CharlieFive's golden age one the Thread that will NEVER Get Pruned, gets pruned along with the the OriKereb wrote:god damn this is totally going to become yet another Charlie threadncarya
Kereb wrote:yeah well my conpeople eat soup with a fork. They have spoons but don't use them for liquid foods because they think of spoons only as a tool to spread condiments, or dig ditches very slowly. They've never invented a soup spoon for the same reason that people in antiquity never invented a pudding-cannon: it just crosses too many conceptual boundaries.Emperor Charles V wrote:There are no bayonets for the same reason why no one in the ancient, classical or medieval times invented a knife to fit on a bow.
Also forks are made from a special alloy but spoons are made of a metal that explodes in contact with liquid, so spoons would be totally useless for soup. And it's worked perfectly for them for generations so don't even think of asking why they don't just make the spoons out of fork-metal. It would seem absurd to them.
linguoboy wrote:Planes, trains, border crossings, and nightclubs just blow themselves up. It's symptomatic of postmodern ennui.Legion wrote:Terrorists are just a fairytale, they don't exist.
xDTorco wrote:I'm descended from very high up indeed. just last day I was in an 18th floor, and now I'm not anymore
dabumCH
Vuvu wrote:Oh, Eddy begged the question. Otherwise, how would the question have been begged by him? You can't have a question begged by someone who doesn't beg the question, now can you? Duh.
Drydic Guy wrote:You doin' anything later tonight?Vuvgangujunga wrote:Why does it matter? I could be a transsexual prostitute from Vanuatu for all the relevance it has to this board. You know what? Screw it. I'm a transgender,Ni-Vanuatu sex worker. What're ya gonna do 'bout it?cromulant wrote:And I'd like to see some proof that you're on the football team.
Pthug, to Christoph Schröder the Compulsive Capitalizer, wrote:Don't you have a Job, Sir? Do you expect your Employer to "put up" with your Bullshit? If I were to do this I would lose my Employment and be sucking Cock on the Street.
so stop it