kerbiloid Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 In English the "Z" letter can represent not only /z/ and /s/ sounds, but also /khr/ and /m:/. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 29, 2022 Share Posted October 29, 2022 In the n-dimension space-continuum continuity we are same but 3d. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryaja Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Z sideways is a wide capital N(or in my school laptop's case they are the same) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 I guess in New Zealand they are never sure which way around the laptop should be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 I use N, Z, И, Й. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Sirona Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 8 hours ago, kerbiloid said: I use N, Z, И, Й. What about ž Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 2 minutes ago, Maria Sirona said: What about ž It's in Poland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Sirona Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 11 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: It's in Poland. I for one know it is used in karelian (a small minority language spoken by maybe 12 people in Russia, near the border with Finland's Kainuu and North Karelia regions) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 16 minutes ago, Maria Sirona said: I for one know it is used in karelian (a small minority language spoken by maybe 12 people in Russia, near the border with Finland's Kainuu and North Karelia regions) I'm not among that Dozen of Chosen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Sirona Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 The word "trans" means "beyond" and the "-ia" suffix in in place names means "land [of]...". Therefore Transylvania (the name of the region in Romania that used to be part of Hungary) means "Land beyond ylvan". I wonder, what is this "ylvan"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 It's "sylvan-" ("forest-") written by the greedy Romans who were never spending more ink on double letters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Sirona Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 47 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: It's "sylvan-" ("forest-") written by the greedy Romans who were never spending more ink on double letters. So beyond the orest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryaja Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 Zero calorie food is really negative calorie food because of the energy to digest it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 So a sandwich from Subway is literally just a hamburger, but longer, I don't know why this messes with me so much but it does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 7 hours ago, Ryaja said: Zero calorie food is really negative calorie food because of the energy to digest it. Cellery. Best followed by some nice chocolate to get rid of the taste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted November 3, 2022 Share Posted November 3, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, Minmus Taster said: So a sandwich from Subway is literally just a hamburger, but longer Depends on the subway station where that fast meat was caught. Edited November 3, 2022 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 Why do they call the projectile "missile"? Do they believe it will miss, and get surprised when it hits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rutabaga22 Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 On 11/2/2022 at 11:39 PM, ColdJ said: Cellery. Best followed by some nice chocolate to get rid of the taste. Who needs opt remove the taste of something that numbs the tongue? School dances probably cost less than a normal child's birthday party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Afair, the Japanese use ginger to reset the taste between the foods. The cats just use their tongue to lick the nose for that. It stays unclear, how do the Japanese catgirls solve this dilemma. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdJ Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 14 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: Afair, the Japanese use ginger to reset the taste between the foods. The cats just use their tongue to lick the nose for that. It stays unclear, how do the Japanese catgirls solve this dilemma. So much I can't say. False nose made of ginger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maria Sirona Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 17 hours ago, kerbiloid said: Why do they call the projectile "missile"? Do they believe it will miss, and get surprised when it hits? In finnish "missile" is "ohjus". Compare that to "ohjata", which means "to guide". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 This morning I got up, made breakfast, poured myself a cup of coffee, then sat down and turned on my computer and started sending messages to a bunch of folks I know all across the globe. Forty years ago, when I was a teenager, this was science fiction. It's amazing what you can come to take for granted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 In the XXII century the geocentric system will be prevailing again. Since early XXI the night sky was covered with myriads of bright moving points, like a moiré pattern. Everyone is aware that these are communication satellites of varopus global networks. But if you have a telescope, or phenomenally sharp eyes, you can see several thousand motionless sat-like bright points far away. People call them "stars" (after "Starlink", the first of the sat networks) and they believe that these "stars" are comsats of the very first generation. They have drifted away long ago and now they look standing at fixed positions, because their geocentric orbit is too high to discern their parallax. Some enthusiasts even have found the names of "constellations" in antique files on the very rare obsolete data servers. These names sound rather funny for us, usually they are named after the old rockets and capsules, like Centaur, Orion, Gemini, and so on. Also two new preposition will be in use: "insats" and "outsats", to describe if an object is situated between the satosphere and Earth surface, or outside the satosphere. The "satosphere" term itself will be used, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll Another name of Bikini Atoll is Eschscholtz Atoll. E-schsch-o-ltz sounds and looks much better than just Bikini. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superfluous J Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 There's a Blood Moon Lunar eclipse going on right now. Go outside and see it if you can it's neat. But yesterday in the shower I realized it was happening on the morning of a major election in the US. THATs not ominous or anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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