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Post by Sandafluffoid on Sept 28, 2011 0:39:20 GMT -5
/ai lɔːz dʌg eim/ vs. /ai lɒst ðə geim/ British accents: 1 Trolls: 0
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Sept 27, 2011 5:37:16 GMT -5
Thanks. I can see the Welsh and Hebrew, but Chinese? I don't know. My wife thinks it sounds kinda African. It's probably a good thing that it's not easily placeable. I'm working on writing a grammar that will include a pronunciation guide. I'm also planning to make some videos, so you'll get to hear it. Re: Draconic: Jewels and hoarding! Yes! From a quick perusal of the short story, I would say it orthographically looks Welsh (or possibly gaelic, it's all those h's in funny places), although it is of course impossible to judge the pronunciation. Looking at the gloss it seems to follow broadly Indo-European patterns although without the fairly distinctive conjugating for person, am I right? I look forward to seeing more on your new blog by the way.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Sept 27, 2011 4:46:16 GMT -5
I think you overestimate the unifying power of the monarchy. I do not think Britain shares a common identity (itself a questionable claim) more because of thousands of years of history building up an ethnic and linguistic identity, which America does not have. I also think a more sensible alternative would be for America to do what almost every other country on earth does and have a Head of State separate from the Head of Government. Especially if you have an involved Head of State (e.g. France, South Korea etc.) then you have a system that works nicely as a power check. It is of course possible for a monarchy to act as a power check but when there is a strong enough risk of a monarchy being toppled they can effectively be controlled by a putative rogue head of government (think Blair and the war in Iraq).
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Sept 25, 2011 5:45:03 GMT -5
I visited FSTDT again today, after about two years. I see people that I remember. How is everyone? I did the same! and then I realised how long it would take to catch up with all the threads I have missed and I was sad again.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Jun 30, 2011 9:58:36 GMT -5
Personally, I want to know who told Moffat that he should borrow this funny American concept of a mid-season break. You can't leave people hanging on a revelation like that...
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Post by Sandafluffoid on May 30, 2011 18:13:03 GMT -5
Whilst I get digging up an old thread just to say "lol yeh" is kind of stupid, I'm not entirely sure why it requires locking the thread, I dislike locked threads in the interest of neatness, so under my new regime if I were running a forum I'd only lock threads when drama got out of hand. I've heard necroing described as "rude", in which case I guess I am, for perhaps the first time in my stereotypedly-British life, out of the etiquette loop. I guess just meh.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on May 13, 2011 17:26:14 GMT -5
My girlfriend got adblocker on my computer, this is a significant impediment to my ability to collect hilariously mistargeted dating ads.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on May 5, 2011 3:38:23 GMT -5
I just returned from voting YES. I don't want AV, per se, I want an even fairer system, but if it's defeated today then we will never see another chance to change the system in our lifetimes.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on May 4, 2011 10:35:40 GMT -5
I think 50-90% of the excitement is over you even HAVING a girlfriend, I would take issue with this, but it is probably true.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on May 4, 2011 1:58:18 GMT -5
Nobody likes ads, so crushing them builds up some nice PR for them. My guess is it's a build up to switching to a paid service, I can't see any other reason they'd sacrifice revenue for a potential boost in popularity.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on May 4, 2011 1:53:52 GMT -5
Studying Chinese one expects that there might be a certain amount of yellow fever amongst one's classmates, but really there is no way anybody should get that excited about my girlfriend being asian.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on May 2, 2011 5:28:17 GMT -5
Lord Ronald Nutmeg-Hulton
This name needs to have adventures.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Apr 6, 2011 12:02:58 GMT -5
It should be mentioned that most American public schools (with exception of those with immersion programs, which are few and far between) don't even START teaching students to speak a second language until, at the earliest, age eleven or twelve--long past the point where it's believed the brain turns off the language-learning centres that make it comparatively simple to LEARN language. Actually, that's about the point where it starts to become easier to LEARN languages, but it becomes impossible to acquire them at all (that said you won't have been acquiring anything but pragmatics since you were five). If you want flawless pronunciation in any language you either have to be dedicated and talented at studying it, or be exposed to the sounds frequently in the first two years of your life. Whilst we're on the subject of boasting about languages, fluent french, intermediate Tok Pisin and Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese, German, Spanish, and Romanian at varying levels on the back burner.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Apr 5, 2011 7:40:16 GMT -5
Also, the morons in my Spanish class. Jesus fuck, this is your second year of Spanish. You shouldn't be pronouncing "manos" as "may-noss", dumbass. This only gets worse with French. Listening to people try and pronounce grenouille still sends shivers up my spine.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Apr 4, 2011 15:35:03 GMT -5
MAIH ZENWAEIGH ABUIDATIWEIH! *is unable to pronounce or write any Africanise language* አማርኛ?
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