@Cerberus I am familiar with the history of the American food regulation. There was a time when you could not avoid buying unhealthy milk. Reputation was not an issue: people bought what they could get, and what they could get often made them sick. Regulation made everything different.
@Cerberus Right, but you are continuing to argue about what prisons are today. They clearly need to be changed, but nationalizing isn't going to help: regulating (whether as a part of nationalizing, or not) is what will help.
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@MattЭллен Or people who are German and English at once!
@Cerberus By all means make arguments for nationalizing prisons, but make them so I can see why prisons should be nationalized but the food industry should not.
I can't really remember, but it seems like a prefrontal "executive" type of control. And my brain is telling me that it is basal prefrontal, not too far medially from some of the areas we discussed last time.
@Kosmonaut It was a source of much hilarity to us as children (growing up in the south of England) when my sister asked my father how to spell "furry", and he (from Liverpool) responded by asking, "Do you mean furry like a teddy bear, or a furry that grants wishes?"
@RegDwighт I don't understand what you're saying. Russian y is /u/, right? Dutch oe is also /u/, so how can they be that different? Sure, they won't be exactly identical, but vowels from different languages rarely are; they should be close enough?
@Cerberus I really don't understand Random House; they make an app for the "Game of Thrones" books but only on iphone and nook. WTF? Why not Android? yeesh
@Cerberus haha, ironically, this is how the conversation went: Her: "Is your old phone slower?" Me: "Yes" Her: "Oh." And then, like 5 days later, I asked her "Do you want to keep the GN? or what?" and she said "Well.... I don't want a slow phone"
@Cerberus It's not that at all! I like the GN's screen and horsepower etc. But the NS had such a nice feel.
So even though she probably wouldn't notice the difference between the Nexus S and the GN, software-wise, she doesn't want a "slow" phone, whatever that means.
When my girl was little I played a game of opposites with her that really got her interested: Green, Not Green. Smooth, Not Smooth. Dog, Not Dog.
If this question is Not Constructive, Not A Real Question, Too Localized, and General Reference (closevotes so far), why the heck hasn't it been closed yet!
@RegDwighт hm...no. GenAmE. German 'oe' = rounded midfront, 'English 'oo' in book = unrounded midback. hm... kinda different then. They feel the same to me except for the rounding, and even then big deal.
As part of that conversation, it really bugs me when English speakers are told to, when taught how to say the German 'oe', to make it sound like the u in 'turtle', because then they pronounce the mathematician 'Goedel' as 'Girdle'. makes my skin crawl and my fillings scream.
I think it is closer to reality for English speakers to pronounce it as 'book', 'Good-el'.
@tchrist geologically maybe.
@tchrist I thought they had just gotten independence.
English good is /gʊd/, which is clearly a rounded vowel.
The Spanish tend to mispronounce French u /y/ (as in tu sais?) as /i/ rather than /u/ the way Americans do, because they were told to make the /i/ sound and round their lips, but they forget to round.