Pineapple Hunter said:
I did that too! Except that it was without chicken and pasta, and it was actually a currywurst I got from the take-out across the street.
Quetzalcoatlus said:
I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean there.
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I did that too! Except that it was without chicken and pasta, and it was actually a currywurst I got from the take-out across the street.
I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean there.
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Quetzalcoatlus said:I was correct !!
Not a surprise : French and German are the most correct European languages this time, by the means
that purists still can find some ground on them
An example : Take a look to Les Liaisons Dangereuses : it's written more than 200 years ago, and yet
the language is practically the same -I certainly admire that
You cook as well -what a good girl
Les Liaisons Dangereuses is brilliant. And the translation is equally great. I seriously recommend!
I don't get what you mean by correct. Do you mean consistent?
Perun said:
Was that the Korean place?
Yes, I read your blog. The adventures of Terrabyte amuse the hell outta me.
I am just in the mood for some really good margaritas.... hell, i could just about skip the lime, the salt, the triple sec, and go straight for the tequila.
Language is supposed to evolve, 5. It's not supposed to stay the same, or we'd all speak Aramaic and Greek and Babylonian.
Pineapple Hunter said:Was that the Korean place?
Yes, I read your blog. The adventures of Terrabyte amuse the hell outta me.
Nah, the Korean place isn't open on holidays. This one is run by Croatians and to my knowledge unaligned to organised crime.
It's sometimes scary that I get so much readership. I guess I'll have to write a new entry soon...
Wasted CLV said:
Hell, yeah. This weekend, it's going to be all about drinking and headbanging. It's about time again.
LooseCannon said:
[geek]Not quite. We'd not even speak Greek, we'd be speaking a language that somehow, but not quite, resembles ancient Hieroglypho-Luvian, Slavic, Sanskrit and Gatha-Avestic.[/geek]
Oh man, I've been to the brain factory far too long now. It's going to have been four years this October, and at least three more coming up.
You know what I mean, you dirty kraut!
Me Grog. grunt grunt
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LooseCannon said:
I know what you mean, and I partially agree ; In France the language you speak on the streets
is different from the language of politicians and newspapers ; yet the written French stays the same
due to French Academy -and I know that German Academy is equally strict
This is the role of the Academy in each country : to be strict, and keep the language correct, as possible
Quetzalcoatlus said:
Sort of. But English is in the beginning stages of supplanting most Western European languages anyway. Probably within 200 years everyone will speak English, and languages like German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish will be secondary languages, maintained for ceremonial and basic gov't function only.
French and Spanish will survive, but probably not in France and Spain.
LooseCannon said:
No, there is actually a lobby forming for preservation of the German language. It's not as strong as the French one, but it's growing.
I think the English language has a more pleasant sound to it, but preserving German is worth it for the works of Schiller and Goethe alone.
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Mm. We need to get some Tequila in. It's been a while since I danced on the tables singing Galway Girl to a crowd of unwilling punters.
I think English is swamping others, like Loosey said. I mean, the German Academy might be strict, but think of how the Eszett is gradually falling from use in favour of a simple double s. French and Spanish might soon be only spoken in the former mandates.
Chinese contains so many languages within itself, that the possibility of just Mandarin or just Cantonese is likely in 200 years.
Serious evolutions of Chinese, Arabic and English, I think, will be this world's mainstays.
I think English is swamping others, like Loosey said. I mean, the German Academy might be strict, but think of how the Eszett is gradually falling from use in favour of a simple double s. French and Spanish might soon be only spoken in the former mandates.
Chinese contains so many languages within itself, that the possibility of just Mandarin or just Cantonese is likely in 200 years.
Serious evolutions of Chinese, Arabic and English, I think, will be this world's mainstays.
Lucky for me, I speak American
I think I need some Cabo Wabo....
I think I need some Cabo Wabo....
Pineapple Hunter said:Mm. We need to get some Tequila in. It's been a while since I danced on the tables singing Galway Girl to a crowd of unwilling punters.
Oh yeah, we need Tequila...
God am I ever glad you call it Eszett, like a good Prussian. Those friggin' Bavarians call it "Scharfes S"... Although you have to wonder what it's good for anyway. It only confuses non-Germans, and the Swiss don't use it at all in the first place.
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Keelhaul that filthy lad and send him down to the depths below
Make that bastard walk the plank with a bottle of rum and a yo-ho-ho!
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Wasted CLV said:Lucky for me, I speak American
.... lucky us, we're alive
For the third consequent day I'm home and sooo happy about that -I was doing all the works
cleaning, dishes, arrangements and it was like a blessing -and let's don't forget spamming as well
I'll be here all week
-then back to Suez -insh'allah! I'm off to bed for tonight
I made a budget on Jan 1. It was fucked on Jan 2.