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 Topic: Songs you're embarassed to admit you really like |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 48 Views: 798 |
 Forum: Ephemera Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:29 pm Subject: Songs you're embarassed to admit you really like |
| Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On
on so many levels... |
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| Topic: Morning Coffee |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 51 Views: 821 |
Forum: Ephemera Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 2:00 pm Subject: Morning Coffee |
| Morning reads: The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, PolitiFact Truth-O-Meter (National and Texas editions)
Afternoon reads: Daily Kos, Wonkette, FiveThirtyEight, Cracked I feel kind of bad, I s ... |
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| Topic: Venting thread... |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 2112 Views: 29753 |
Forum: None of the above Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 6:05 pm Subject: Venting thread... |
| It's been a while since I read the book, but I seem to recall Reilly's biggest problem wasn't so much that he sat around doing nothing. It was that whenever somebody tried to get him to go out and acc ... | |
| Topic: Creativity of the day |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 286 Views: 5910 |
Forum: None of the above Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:20 pm Subject: Creativity of the day |
| This one, I think, looks less like a rip-off of Eurasia
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but https://sites.google.com/site/lane331/eddymap.jpg |
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| Topic: Show us how you live! |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 96 Views: 1714 |
Forum: None of the above Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 5:48 pm Subject: Show us how you live! |
| Oddly enough, the stark tidiness is actually what makes it feel like home. My parents are uncompromising neat freaks, so I guess that's where I get it. When I was a kid, my room was a fucking sty when ... | |
| Topic: Show us how you live! |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 96 Views: 1714 |
Forum: None of the above Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 3:21 pm Subject: Show us how you live! |
| Sko has got some deluxe computeration going on. I have to say I'm a little bit jealous.
Here's my apartment in east Austin. The pictures suck because the only camera around here that goddamn works ... |
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| Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 1011 Views: 14797 |
Forum: Languages & Linguistics Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 3:52 pm Subject: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
| ]Ye jupie tanä bin ye londie yi hén hémene da vlete. Ye hémenie a Colorado, USA bar ye pastiernie en mumfen a Frénhïh éqal en mentland skuljung o da vlet bin ye hipie sidiknen yi vam en frénög.
I'm ... |
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| Topic: Canadian Raising |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 35 Views: 692 |
Forum: Languages & Linguistics Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:54 pm Subject: Canadian Raising |
| I have /aɪ/-raising in spider, tire, mire, wire (n&v), hire (n&v), fire (n&v), but not in tiger, hydro-, Myer, or higher. I'm not sure about sire and spire: I feel like I want to rais ... | |
| Topic: Counting in your native language |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 42 Views: 939 |
Forum: Languages & Linguistics Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:39 pm Subject: Counting in your native language |
| I've been learning Finnish, and they have a way of shortening numbers to a (C)V shape that's very attractive for someone like me who talks fast and counts even faster. Yy kaa koo nee vii, bam. It's ha ... | |
| Topic: Drugs drugs drugs |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 209 Views: 5139 |
Forum: None of the above Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 4:44 pm Subject: Drugs drugs drugs |
| That man is Negatively Affecting Society because I wouldn't be caught dead wearing such a thing. | |
| Topic: Venting thread... |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 2112 Views: 29753 |
Forum: None of the above Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:09 pm Subject: Venting thread... |
| I'm not talking about just influence, though, I'm talking about going from [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBTn0ZVSU_o]this to [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsYKp8tEzPI]this in the space of ... | |
| Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 1011 Views: 14797 |
Forum: Languages & Linguistics Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:32 am Subject: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
| Suomi on vaikea, mutta se on hyvä. Mä tykkään haastesta.
Finnish is hard, but that's okay. I like a challenge. It's really given me perspective on my Swedish, though. I guess I was at the point wh ... |
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| Topic: Venting thread... |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 2112 Views: 29753 |
Forum: None of the above Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:03 am Subject: Venting thread... |
| 1. I have this bizarre thing with the word "maudlin." That bizarre thing is that I only know it when I don't need it. When I actually want to describe something as "maudlin" (which ... | |
| Topic: Drugs drugs drugs |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 209 Views: 5139 |
Forum: None of the above Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:04 am Subject: Drugs drugs drugs |
| Drugs drugs drugs. I don't do drugs--not out of any sort of personal conviction, just because I don't really feel like doing them anymore. I went through my drug experimentation phase in high school, ... | |
| Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 1011 Views: 14797 |
Forum: Languages & Linguistics Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:30 am Subject: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
| Jeg håper England vinner, fordi det blir veldigt morsomt å se dem tappe mot Argentina.
I want England to win because I think it will be funny to watch them loose against Argentina. Mä pidän sun huu ... |
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| Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 1011 Views: 14797 |
Forum: Languages & Linguistics Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:03 pm Subject: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
| Minä olen vain ollut katsomassa jalkapallon MM-kisoja. Se on perseestä että Yhdysvallat hävisi Ghanalle, mutta tekivät paremmin kuin ovat tehneet pitkään aikaan. Nyt minun ystävät tulevat vodkan kanss ... | |
| Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 1011 Views: 14797 |
Forum: Languages & Linguistics Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2010 3:42 pm Subject: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
| Tämä säieestä tuli hiljainen. Puhukaa, ihmiset, puhukaa!
This thread got quiet. Talk, people, talk! |
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| Topic: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 631 Views: 13884 |
Forum: None of the above Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:38 am Subject: What are you listening to? -- Non-English Edition |
| Rap in Inari Sami: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSpMjs0g4Lo]Amoc - Kolle Ákšu | |
| Topic: Flags |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 215 Views: 5944 |
Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 1:54 pm Subject: Flags |
| The Talloese flag looks great but had me slightly confused. The green struck me as muslim but there is the cross that screams crusading knightly order to me. In my head I had two possible backstories. ... | |
| Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 1011 Views: 14797 |
Forum: Languages & Linguistics Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:29 pm Subject: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
| On puoliaika. Nyt katson Nigeriaa ja Etelä-Koreaa koska Kreikka ja Argentiina eivät ollut erittäin jännittävät. Tulos on 1-1. Molemmat joukkueet leikkivät hyvin mutta uskon että Nigeria on parempi jou ... | |
| Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 1011 Views: 14797 |
Forum: Languages & Linguistics Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:55 am Subject: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
| Since I finished the Italian I needed for my degree plan I've felt the yen to be learning a language. My Swedish is at the point where all I can really do is continue to expand my vocabulary and work ... | |
| Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 1011 Views: 14797 |
Forum: Languages & Linguistics Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:37 am Subject: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
| Io ricordo Vanilla Coke. Non fu tanto male, se ben ricordo. Non sono sicuro se si faccia più qui, non l'ho visto in un bel po'.
I remember Vanilla Coke. It wasn't all that bad, as I recall. I'm not ... |
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| Topic: How your idiolect differs from the standard language |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 371 Views: 7672 |
Forum: Languages & Linguistics Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:09 am Subject: How your idiolect differs from the standard language |
| Iˈm sure I've mentioned this before, but my idiolect is kind of a blend of Canadian and General American.
- My diphthong raising is kind of spotty. "House" and "about" are ... |
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| Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 1011 Views: 14797 |
Forum: Languages & Linguistics Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:27 am Subject: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
| This is actually pretty much perfect.
Nu är jag glad 
Now I'm happy. The only weird part is the underlined part, within which the kan should be moved to the end. Jo, jag tänkte på att "akti ... |
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| Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
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| Colonel Cathcart Replies: 1011 Views: 14797 |
Forum: Languages & Linguistics Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 9:08 am Subject: Help your fluency in a nifty way |
| Ja, ek wil glad in dit taal leer. Ek wens dat iemand dit sou met my hier praat.
Yea, I want to learn this language more fluidly. I wish someone here could speak it with me. Åge har rätt. Idealiskt ... |
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