Imralu wrote:You're right. That's much more convenient than no hotel at the hotel.zompist wrote:In Rio we found a hotel right at the hotel, which was fantastic.
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Salmoneus wrote:Thanks for the lecture on how to have a healthy, functioning multi-party democracy; I'm sure India will be the first place the nation turns to if it wants to learn about how to resolve political disputes. It's something we have very little experience with, in Britain. Your ideas are both novel and specific.
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Buran wrote:Try saying "complex clusters of consonants" ten times fast.
Pole, the wrote:…which isn't surprising as a “government shutdown” seems to be something specific to the US. It's a bit like saying Russian electoral system is better because Trump was never a candidate there.I agree that Israel's system is chaotic, yet it seems to work. Elections happen pretty often, yet there are no shutdowns like in the US.
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Imralu wrote:I homo! Yu wa i hu i he byu.
= Yum! I'm looking forward to you being a man.
I swear "homo" was entirely unintentional. It actually made me laugh out loud.
ìtsanso, God In The Mountain, may our names inspire the deepest feelings of fear in urkos and all his ilk, for we have saved another man from his lies! I welcome back to the feast hall kal, who will never gamble again! May the eleven gods bless him!
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Hydroeccentricity wrote:Now that the god-awful waste of time known as emailgate is winding down (though not gone - the GOP is going to whip this dead horse until November), I have some predictions about the next line of attack on Clinton. Here are the headlines:
Clinton Uses Incorrect Fork at Donor Luncheon
GOP Launches Probe Into Clinton's Use of 'Their' For 'They're'
Former Secretary of State Accused of Eating Fried Chicken with Skin Still On
Uproar Over Clinton Pick For This Evening's Netflix Binge
Ryan: "Clinton Refuses to Deny Peeing In Shower"
Rare 1982 Photo Shows Clinton Wearing 'Fat Pants' in Public
Can Clinton Fit Six Golf Balls in Mouth? Republicans Skeptical
Qwynegold wrote:ええ、すごいんじゃないか。finlay wrote:え…雷の好きの「変な人」のリストに追加するよ(これは殺すよー)
i'm adding you to my crazy people who like thunder list (that shit kills you)
Ee, sugoin ja nai ka.
But isn't it cool?
2+3 clusivity wrote:Hmm, yeah, we should totally replace moist with turgid.
Frislander wrote:Yeah, like a wonderful kind of perverted Australian.Vardelm wrote:I dig that consonant inventory.
Nortaneous wrote:[paragraphs of information about the Yia family and Proto-Yia on "H13 and Nort and Yng's conworld scratchpad"]
Morphosyntax: i forget
EDIT: Come on, I gotta include this one!Pole, the wrote:Well… I do basically the same. I was supposed to write an app in OpenGL for the next Monday, but instead I am sitting-laying on my bed with four tabs of Wikipedia and five tabs of TV Tropes opened. (I am so useless I stopped to procrastinate on Wikipedia to procrastinate on TV Tropes and then stopped that to procrastinate on ZBB!)This is my life. This is the story of Chagen, the once-happy boy in middle school and high school. A boy who once dreamed of faraway lands, yearning to put them onto paper and tell grand stories. Now he's a suicidally depressed shut-in who spends all of his time browsing the internet, playing video games, and consuming harem otaku culture because anime chicks are all I have.
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Pole, the wrote:Yay! Finally someone who understands me!mèþru wrote:I usually make a response to the literal meaning of the Pole's posts, as I cannot understand what position he is endorsing a lot of the time. From what I understand of the Pole's posting style, both literal and sarcastic interpretations are usually meant to some level.
(This post is sarcastic.)
(Or is it?)
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I was going to put that last one with the Pole! I guess we're even, Vijay.
ìtsanso, God In The Mountain, may our names inspire the deepest feelings of fear in urkos and all his ilk, for we have saved another man from his lies! I welcome back to the feast hall kal, who will never gamble again! May the eleven gods bless him!
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You can't really see the white text at the bottom when in quotes.
ìtsanso, God In The Mountain, may our names inspire the deepest feelings of fear in urkos and all his ilk, for we have saved another man from his lies! I welcome back to the feast hall kal, who will never gamble again! May the eleven gods bless him!
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Really? Hmm, I can. What do you think? Keep it white, or change it to black? What about the gray text?
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Just add:
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ìtsanso, God In The Mountain, may our names inspire the deepest feelings of fear in urkos and all his ilk, for we have saved another man from his lies! I welcome back to the feast hall kal, who will never gamble again! May the eleven gods bless him!
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Hahah, thanks! And done
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Zaarin wrote:We are not amused.Pole, the wrote:We will never know.Viktor77 wrote:Sal appears to have a thing against what I learned as "royal we." Perhaps it's an American thing?Travis B. wrote:Umm what? Replace we with I in my post. Does it make any sense afterwards?Salmoneus wrote:There's that "we" again.
It's a good thing you and Viktor aren't great friends. With your powers combined, the universe itself might tremble!
ìtsanso, God In The Mountain, may our names inspire the deepest feelings of fear in urkos and all his ilk, for we have saved another man from his lies! I welcome back to the feast hall kal, who will never gamble again! May the eleven gods bless him!
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As a response to this:
Regarding the possible association of vowels with grammatical(?) gender:jmcd wrote:you'll just have to call yourself ObliviousNewt now~~
mèþru wrote:Tell that to the Latin language.dyolf wrote:There definitely feels like there's something feminine about to me.
Salmoneus wrote:lingua anglica
zompist wrote:Travis B. wrote:The thing is Sal's objection to we is based on that it is referring to individuals who are not present in the immediate conversation, as if one had power over them. Does that change if I were to say "I think the US government should take steps to preserve English as a global lingua franca"? One is still speaking as if one has control over something that one does not (because if one were not, why would it matter whether one thinks the US government should or should not do something in the first place).
One is not understanding the objection. One is not saying that one cannot say things about government policy. One is saying that one is not making a distinction between things that can be changed by government action (say, whether Britain stays in the EU) and things that cannot (say, the sun's nuclear generation).
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mèþru wrote:I know lots of history due to reading lots of Wikipedia (and analysing it. Wikipedia is a good ressource, but shouldn't be trusted 100%) and reading history textbooks cover to cover.
퇎
Ο ορανς τα ανα̨ριθομον ϝερρον εͱεν ανθροποτροφον.
Το̨ ανθροπς αυ̨τ εκψον επ αθο̨ οραναμο̨ϝον.
Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν.
Ο ορανς τα ανα̨ριθομον ϝερρον εͱεν ανθροποτροφον.
Το̨ ανθροπς αυ̨τ εκψον επ αθο̨ οραναμο̨ϝον.
Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν. Θαιν.
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jmcd wrote:Margarine is the sign of a poor quality cuisine and poor quality cuisine is the sign of a loveless marriage.
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Zaarin wrote:And the term "4th person" is already used as shorthand for obviative and empathetic pronouns.
zompist wrote:The 5th person is the guy who really didn't want to play bridge anyway and will just sit in a chair and read.
The conlanger formerly known as “the conlanger formerly known as Pole, the”.
If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
If we don't study the mistakes of the future we're doomed to repeat them for the first time.
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Moistaneous wrote:daily reminder that palm trees are aliens uwu
say it louder for the people in the back
daily reminder that palm trees are aliens uwu
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ObsequiousNewt wrote:Actually, I'm afraid you'll find most sound changes are copyrighted. For example, o > oː / _(C)V (© 1876 Karl Brugmann)HazelFiver wrote:Everyone else here seems to put a lot of effort into coming up with their own sets of sound changes, but my current project uses sound changes that I found on the internet (mostly Wikipedia) for various stages of Celtic languages. I worry that this is uncreative or even a form of cultural appropriation, and I would like a second opinion.
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Yng wrote:Isn't it ~a thing~ that bisyllabic adjectives can often go one way or the other?
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Moistaneous wrote:Hello. Hello. Thank you. Such a wonderful crowd we have today. Thank you.
You want to know where America is going today? I'll tell you, folks, and it isn't pretty. It's not a good picture. There's this website, Tumblr, some of your kids are on it -- Yahoo bought it and it's not making any money, no one knows how to do business anymore, no one knows how to make deals, like the Iran deal, can you believe it? they're laughing at us! -- now, Tumblr, I gotta tell you, it's bad. It's dreadful. Here are some of the things that go around on this Tumblr website.
See, here's one about how all men are morally obligated to cut their dicks off. That means you, folks. That means your sons. This is what they believe. Do you want this to be America's future? These people are all going to vote for Hillary. Here's a post from the same person about how you have to vote for Hillary. To stop me. You wouldn't believe the things they call me. I can't repeat them. I can't repeat them.
Here's one about how Stalin was a good guy. Joseph Stalin. The mastermind of the gulags, of the Communist purges. They think he was a great guy. They're voting for Hillary. They think she's closer to Stalin than I am, that's why they're voting for her. Here's another one about Stalin. And another.
Here's one about how white people should be killed. That's what they want to do, folks. They want to kill white people. Can you believe it? They want to kill us. They call me a demagogue, they call me a racist, all this nonsense, and then they get on Tumblr and talk about killing white people.
Pole, the wrote:So, 'giving legal advice to racist organisations' and 'having a penis' are synonyms now?Moistaneous wrote:some politicians in the finnish green party are pushing a petition to ban even giving legal advice to 'racist' organizations, it's not at all specifically american unless you're koichi toyamajmcd wrote:Lol (or ow) I actually get relevant results on searching for 'masculinity evil'. It's like the SJWs or the neoreactionary movement: specifically American (?) things I only encounter (and only exist?) on some parts of the internet. It seems a continuation of culture wars. Though I think even SJWs are more widely known than this.
Moistaneous wrote:cmon dude, obama started his political career as a no-shit capital-C Communist and learned to pretend not to be the son of a deep state operative and a dispossessed foreign elite by fucking about with black nationalism and look what we got. replacement of liberal justices with more liberal justices, an attempt to establish a liberal lockdown on the court that's (rightly) being stonewalled by the opposition, and a health care plan that was probably designed to fail, and two more terms of a less entertaining dubya. you have fucked up chimp politics emboldening his supporters to be like "hell ya dude let's permanently dispossess our traditional enemies and just beat the shit out of them forever until they're all dead" but i haven't seen any indication that the man himself couldn't be replaced by a dead catاحمکي ارش-ھجن wrote:These past few weeks have plagued me with the question of whether dumb people without sound judgement should vote or not.
Donald Trump is giving off too many red flags and I cannot help but question the judgement of anyone who would vote for them.
also, consider that it's demonstrably trivial to establish support within USG for foreign terrorist groups, and that huma abedin existszompist wrote:OH NOES LIBERALS REPLACING LIBERALS CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER
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Salmoneus wrote:in technical terms, it makes him a git.
Moistaneous wrote:Anyway, the most important thing is geography, so:
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* Sestmag (Sestmag: /ɕɕmɒ/) fuck it who cares about Sestmag
Pole, the wrote:Oh come on, now your dreams have become establishment agenda!Soap wrote:i had a dream Michelle Obama was running for president and people were grilling her the way they did Hillary. there had been some attack in New Hampshire and she was criticized for why she hadnt responded to it in time ... she said something I dont remember, somehow all that was left in the USA were Indonesian soldiers and "the regular army" which she said shoudlnt be used to repel an attack on US soil.
then, since this was a dream, suddenly i was on my smartphone listening to someone say Ann Telnaes "makes her strong" and i accidentally thumb-pressed something on a chart about Hillary
Imralu wrote:I've heard lots of Australians say "most furtherest" which is even more ridiculouser.HoskhMatriarch wrote:What really baffles me is the people who appear to earnestly be saying "more ...er" and "most ...est", which doesn't really bother me since it's not making English into adegenerateanalytic language (I mean, one of the first examples I heard was "most expensivest") but still makes me go like "where the heck is that from?".
(For some reason, I find it mildly amusing when people seem to unintentionally say things that rhyme).linguoboy wrote:Hold on, you mean there are standards for that thread? Shut the front door, why did nobody tell me this before?Serafín wrote:Also, why did you quote Yng in the Quote Thread for what he said? It doesn't seem Quote Thread-worthy to me.
linguoboy wrote:Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. *eyes roll backwards into brain*Pole, the wrote:Wait. So, do you mean that if I don't support a global nuclear war then I cannot enjoy playing Defcon? ;_;linguoboy wrote:I'm not big on actual cockfighting either.Qwynegold wrote:OMG How can you not like Pokémon?
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Sex joke (read the whole thing to understand):
ìtsanso, God In The Mountain, may our names inspire the deepest feelings of fear in urkos and all his ilk, for we have saved another man from his lies! I welcome back to the feast hall kal, who will never gamble again! May the eleven gods bless him!
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Heh, I'm glad you liked my little joke.
linguoboy wrote:Gestern (ihr lebt in der Zukunft, ihr Europäer)hwhatting wrote:It's your birthday today? Herzlichen Glückwunsch und Alles Gute!
zompist wrote:I don't think it's the movie that makes people think that women might be pretty.
mèþru wrote:He's banned? I already made a nice a counter-rant and everything! Come back! (For the humor-disabled, this was sarcasm.)
For those interested, here's the rant:
I don't really have any affiliation with Greece or special fondness for Greeks. It just was the first thing that popped to my head. [...]
"Lithuania can into relevant?" is a Polandball joke. Polandball is [...]
mèþru wrote:Judging by their behavior towards Lithuania now, that must have been some EPIC trip.sirdanilot wrote:hwhatting wrote:sirdanilot wrote:I will visit Lithuania at the end of this month. I have never been there, and I would love to know what there is to see there. I will visit Vilnius, but I could also visit other regions of the country. I think Lituania is a very cheap country, and the train tickets aren't very expensive? Do they even have trains? [...]
A tempo de despidir vai chegar, a minha última hora chegará de aqui ao poco pra mim nesse forum. Eles não podem aguentar os meus opiniões diferentes, eles não confiavam os seus proprios opiniões; cada opinião que é diferente do opinião deles é como uma gota de chuva ardida que queima o corpo deles.
The time to say goodbye is nearing; my last hour shall arrive soon for me on this board. They could not bear my different opinions; they could not have trust in their very own opinions; every opinion different from theirs is like a burning rain drop which burns into their flesh[...]
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alynnidalar wrote:No. And you shouldn't talk too loudly about the possibility of doing it either; the International Phonetic Association's assassins are always watching.garysk wrote:Is it allowed to conjure up undocumented or undescribed sounds?
ìtsanso, God In The Mountain, may our names inspire the deepest feelings of fear in urkos and all his ilk, for we have saved another man from his lies! I welcome back to the feast hall kal, who will never gamble again! May the eleven gods bless him!
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alynnidalar wrote:"Doctors HATE this one weird trick for achieving immortality! Learn a Quechuan language today!"Aili Meilani wrote:It's obvious, all 8 million speakers are five thousand years old.alynnidalar wrote:How is Quechua, a family of languages currently spoken by over 8 million people, "ancient"?