Zompist Bboard Again

For me, my grandparents were Oma and Opa on both sides; if I needed to differentiate, I just added their first names. That's interesting, my gransparents (from both sides) would've very much disapproved the use of their first names, it was not done (I also sie t zte them, as was common in those day...

I should have gone to trade school. Oh, if you had learned a trade, you might now be arguing with non-professionals who think they know your trade better than you. After having needed 1.5 - 2 years each time for projects at my house (new rain pipes and gutter, then a wallbox and a new fuse box), be...

My niece's family makes use of the fact that she is married to a native speaker of Tamil, and thus the (German) maternal grandparents are Oma and Opa , and the (Tamil) paternal grandparents are Tata and Nana (if I remember those words correctly). Similar with my daughter - her German grandma was Om...

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:03 pm It is kinda carbs on carbs .

That's also a Russian thing, but they do that with bread - they even have bread with dough / pastry based meals, like pancakes or pirozhki.

I don't know about Welsh but the English construction "It's X, who is/are ..." on television confused me when I was in the UK because I couldn't identify topic and focus and couldn't think of a corresponding construction in German. Isn't it the case that German has cleft constructions too...

Here's a recent paper showing Kloekhorst's view of the position if Anatolian in IE and about the internal branching of Anatolian. I don't agree with him on some points - I assume that Anatolian didn't lose the distinction between Aorist and Present, but that it was only formed in core IE, and that s...

All he could figure the poster might be talking about is a place in Bonn called "Tacos Bonn", which he doesn't remember actually having tacos on the menu when he last went there. Either his memory is faulty or they've updated their menu, since they're there now (crispy tacos, but tacos al...

I'm a bit surprised to hear that. I would have thought France would be full of people who take pride in not knowing anything about English. We have those too, but that might be more typical of older generations. I've heard all the horror stories about how the French don't talk English and prefer to...

Lambuzhao wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2023 12:50 pm ¡¡ Dolchunus im, Hwhatting!!

Uffipulís wuscu!
serve-PARCT.PRES.ACT.M.SG.NOM be.pleased-1SG.PRES.ACT
You're welcome! (lit: I'm happy serving.)

every year? is this... dareisay... the norm in the first world? Well, you mentioned people in Peru doing that, and from what I read, going home for Chinese New Year from the big cities to somewhere in rural China thousands of kilometers away each year is a mass phenomenon in China. I mean, that was...

I don't think i know that that was the case: we know goods moving across vast distances wasn't rare in the ancient world, the byzantines had mostly danish royal guard, christianity spread pretty fast... I don't know whether people migrate more now or whether they did so more back in the day (for an...

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 10:45 am I found the article and still don’t get it. Where did that random ‘at last’ come from?

A typo for "at least"?

I have the feeling that socialism, rather than leading to post-scarcity, requires it to work. And how do we achieve post-scarcity in a finite world? We are already over-exploiting our planet now. I don't know if this is a full solution, but a good start would be to stop imposing artificial scarcity...

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:38 am I never expected 'coz' to date back to 1597. (Wiktionary also has a quote from Romeo and Juliet, in fact.)

Yes, Shakespeare uses it all the time. I must say that I've probably seen it more often in Shakespeare than in modern texts...

So, how competent do you guys think Putin's handling of this little Horus Heresy interlude was? Has he finally finished calculating and decided that the risk of pissing off Wagner is worth it, or does he think Prigozhin's moment has passed and that it's finally safe to off him? The latter. It looks...

sure it was, what do you mean? it just takes long... weeks or months instead of one or two days. but i know peruvians who take a *bus* to Lima from Santiago, three days of sitting down, to spend christmas with their peeps, and that's when a one-day alternative is relatively easy to access for three...

My condolences, too!

Thanks to you both for the clarifications!

*nods* brochure or pamphlet both work for me... Not a native speaker, so just to be sure - for me, brochure is independent of content, while pamphlet implies some kind of ideological (religious, political) content, or at least some kind of opinion-piece / rant. Or am I just carrying that implicatio...

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 3:31 am

hwhatting wrote: ↑Thu Aug 24, 2023 3:23 am Sorovikin and Prigozhin out of the game on the same day,

I've seen people doubt that they were really both on that plane, precisely on the grounds that they'd be unlikely to be that dumb.

Huh? Surovikin (sorry for the typo) wasn't killed, he was just removed from his post.