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Q: Evolution of Language vs Importance of Grammer

8:02 AM

@kiamlaluno Read that in context.)))

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Since language evolves over time, the best example I can think of is slang where it mostly doesn't follow grammar rules, why is there a need to preserve grammar or stress that proper grammar be used? My second question is if someone can get their exact point across to another person without usin...

Peeving?

psmears

8:49 AM

@RegDwight My feeling is that there's a genuine question in there somewhere. But I don't know what it is, and I'm not convinced it's on-topic here...

Q: What makes "like" and "so" popular?

9:00 AM

Um, people, how many more questions about "like" do we want?

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So, I was like, why does everyone say like and so in every sentence? Where did this trend come from, like, what started it, and is it actually grammatically correct to like, insert like into our speech in just about any position in a sentence? Reward for anyone who can tell me the cause of its...

word-usage speech

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Q: Why do like loads of girls my age like saying "like" so much, like?

Possible Duplicate: Is Valley Girl speak like entering the language? Please can you explain the origins of where the annoying over-use of the word "like" came from? Does this have anything todo with Facebook? Example: Logan is so - like - stupid when he says - like - anything! He's ...

word-choice

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Q: Is Valley Girl speak like entering the language?

So like, I had this teacher? And he's like, "You're late?" And I'm like, "There's like other people late too?" I've always cringed at the word "like" strewn about in a spoken sentence. Well now I've seen it in print, right in the middle of an otherwise articulate National Geographic articl...

colloquial language-evolution

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Q: How do you make a person quit using the word "like"?

One of my friends tutors a group of children aged 6 through 10. These children are addicted to using the word "like" inappropriately, their sentences are peppered with the word "like", and my friend wants to make them quit that habit! This is what I came up with: Teach them where the word "l...

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Now we have answers by @MrHen, @MrDisappointment, @Martha, @Kosmonaut, @nohat scattered all over the site. They should be all in one place, really.

9:34 AM

@RegDwight — There's a genuine question there, but it belongs on linguistics.se, not el&u. I voted to close.

Thanks.

And moin-moin.

¡Hola!

Stop stealing my lines.

What, you get royalties every time some Spanish-speaking person says that?

No, I don't. And that's the problem!

Stupid Internet pirates pirating my Spanish.

9:39 AM

You're still way in hock to me. I've been letting you run a tab for too long. When are you going to fork over some cash?

Apr 20 at 14:33, by Robusto

Hey! I discovered the adjectives. Every time you use one you should be paying me royalties.

May 4 at 16:00, by RegDwight

May 4 at 16:00, by RegDwight

Suit yourselves.

Using the words "stupid" and "Internet" in "stupid Internet pirates" means you owe me $.37*2=$.74

@Robusto El Duderino will write you a check.

He's another f***ing Welsher, man. This aggression will not stand.

@RegDwight: Think if I send my boss this picture I can get out of going to work today?

Feb 8 at 10:37, by Robusto

I can just say we were hit by a freak snowstorm out here that didn't affect the office.

1:24 PM

It didn't work. Here I am. At work.

Grats!

Meanwhile, I'm on my way out. :P

Wah.

Q: What is the meaning of “runneth”?

2:39 PM

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Q: Bible grammar, weird words

With all this rapture thing going on now, I noticed that trough the Internet, the english version of the bible book has sentences like: Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is. So what's up with all these words ending in eth ? Are they ...

grammar religion

Indescriptive titles FTW.

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What is the meaning of “runneth” in My Cup Runneth Over?

meaning middle-english

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Q: What happened to the "-est" and "-eth" verb suffixes in English? How were they once used?

Straining my mind to sound archaic, I came up with the following: Dost thou thinkest thou can escape thy sins? and Bringeth me my armor and favorite sword. I'd like to use these suffixes intelligently, so my questions are, how are "-est" and "-est" properly appellated in conjugations,...

verbs archaic

Voted.

Appreciated.

BTW, what is that rapture thing going on? I must've missed a memo or two.

@RegDwight Something about the rapture happening tomorrow. I have no idea why people are making a big deal out of it...

Um, I thought the Maya would wait until 2012???

I suspect some loon suggested May 21st and the critics turned it into a great straw man to poke fun at.

@RegDwight Perhaps the rapture occurs before world end?

2:46 PM

Aha! Everything makes sense now! Everything!

3:17 PM

@RegDwight judgementday2011.com/may-21-rapture-prediction

Seems legit.

"503 Service Temporarily Unavailable"

Can't get any more legit than that.

It's already begun!

judgementday2011.com/may-21-rapture-prediction

Hrm... Chrome may be messing with my linkage

Oop... there it went down.

Anyway, this is the best part:

> Even Harold Camping had a previous prediction of the Return of Jesus for the Rapture that was incorrect due to a mathematical error – when his September 1994 date came and went without incident.

> The number 5 equals “atonement”, the number 10 equals “completeness”, and the number 17 equals “heaven”.
> Christ hung on the cross on April 1, 33 AD. The time between April 1, 33 AD and April 1, 2011 is 1,978 years.
> If 1,978 is multiplied by 365.2422 days (the number of days in a solar year), the result is 722,449.
> The time between April 1 and May 21 is 51 days.
> 51 + 722,449 = 722,500.
> (5 × 10 × 17)2 or (atonement × completeness × heaven)2 also equals 722,500.

Well, I dunno. It's raining and thundering and lightninging right here right now.

The Hell is breaking loose.

@RegDwight No, Hell is below. That is heaven coming down.

No clue if that site really is the source of all of this, but I find it amusing.

@MrHen Silly me. I've been listening too much Vitaly lately, with his militant atheism. Now see where it gets me.

3:22 PM

@Boob Hej

2011 end times prediction

The 2011 end times prediction made by Christian radio host Harold Camping states that the Rapture (in premillennial theology, the taking up into heaven of God's elect people) will take place on May 21, 2011 at 6 p.m. local time (the rapture will sweep the globe time zone by time zone) and that the end of the world as we know it will take place five months later on October 21, 2011. Camping, president of the Family Radio Christian network, claims the Bible as his source and says May 21 will be the date of the Rapture and the day of judgment "beyond the shadow of a doubt". His followers cla...

There we go.

That seems like a good place to catch up.

A: What is going to happen in 2012?

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I can tell you right now what will happen: none of the predictions will be right, or, if any are, they will be right for the wrong reasons or in different ways from what the predicters expect. Even this prediction will probably be wrong in profound and unexpected ways. EDIT: Citation according ...

@Robusto is covering all our (b)as(s)es.

Politeness is not necessary for moderators?

Do elaborate.

Never ever, ever never .. um, i said "hej" .. at least you could shake your head

3:32 PM

I did. Several times. Even though you said "hej" to yourself.

9 mins ago, by Boob

@Boob Hej

@RegDwight You're an educated person, that's why i chose you as moderator

Q: What's up with all the words ending with "-eth" in the Bible?

@RegDwight, please bring down the Hammer of Closing on that -eth question

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With all this rapture thing going on now, I noticed that through the Internet, the English version of the Bible has sentences like: Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when Christ cometh, no man knoweth whence he is. So what's up with all these words ending in -eth? Are they corr...

grammaticality differences verbs suffix

it has 4 other votes now, so you wouldn't even be doing much

@JSBangs Correction: Four votes. Reg hasn't voted yet because he can't.

@MrHen Uh, eh? Four people who aren't RegDwight have voted to close the question. This means he can now cast the decisive 5th vote. The fact that his vote would've been decisive even if it was only the 4th (or 3rd or ...) is irrelevant.

@MrHen zay what?

why can't our strigiform mod vote?

3:45 PM

yesterday, by MrHen

So how does Mod vote to close work?

There is the conversation about it.

Q: Evolution of Language vs Importance of Grammar

I have no idea what you're all talking about. But it's closed anyways.

I am more interested in your thoughts on this one:

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Since language evolves over time, the best example I can think of is slang where it mostly doesn't follow grammar rules, why is there a need to preserve grammar or stress that proper grammar be used? My second question is if someone can get their exact point across to another person without usin...

grammar slang language-evolution

@MrHen this makes no sense as an answer to my question. i know that any mod vote brings down the Hammer of Closing. but you seemed to be saying that Reg can't vote at all. he can vote. his votes just count for more.

@JSBangs It isn't really a "vote" if your "vote" ends the discussion

@RegDwight interesting question. the asker has many of the usual misapprehensions about the meaning of the word "grammar"

@JSBangs Yeah, that's why I was hesitant to just kill it, but went on a commenting spree.

3:50 PM

i'll give a shot at an answer

Good.

@MrHen I see what you mean now. I wasn't around at that time, I only read the transcript of your discussion with Kosmonaut.

To which I have little to nothing to add. You even linked to that canonical question on MSO.

doonesbury.com

Slang terms ≠ grammar rules (much like apples ≠ visiting a store)
Rofl

Q: How can I explain to a native English speaker what Ъ is pronounced like?

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I want to explain (in chat) to an English speaker (who reads Cyrillic, but doesn't speak Bulgarian) how the letter ъ is pronounced in Bulgarian. None of us has any education in phonetics. So while I have found out that it is pronounced as the close-mid back unrounded vowel ɤ when stressed and ɐ w...

pronunciation alphabet

Cast your votes, ladies and gents.

May I vote?

4:05 PM

NFO

I would ping JSBangs who's all into Bulgarian, but he's busy writing an answer to the slang-grammar question and I don't want to interrupt him.

Bulgarian, like Dutch, is a made-up language.

French. Don't forget French. French doesn't exist.

Mar 31 at 13:28, by RegDwight

@JSBangs Bulgarian has ъ's all over the place, where any self-respecting language would have vowels.

I think I will just post that verbatim as an answer.

Q: Why is "hyperbole" pronounced so differently from its spelling?

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I've often heard people say "hyperbole" exactly as it is written, "hi-per-bole", instead of how it is actually pronounced: "hi-pear-bow-lee". How did it get such an unusually different pronunciation from such a simple spelling?

pronunciation spelling

Is this a dupe?

Seems familiar

A: What words are commonly mispronounced by literate people who read them before they heard them?

It's a dupe of an answer to the "words mispronounced by literate people" question.

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hyperbole /haɪˈpɜrbəli/ (Evidently it's not the next step after the Super Bowl.)

Q: Why is "bicycle" pronounced differently from other obviously related words?

4:11 PM

@RegDwight Hmm...

Oh, and this:

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The word bicycle is pronounced /'baɪsɪkəl/ (bahy-si-kuhl), like sickle. However, the words unicycle and motorcycle both have the -cycle pronounced as /-'saɪkəl/ (sahy-kuhl). Is there some sort of reason for this, or is this just a vagary of English pronunciation?

pronunciation spelling

Silly mind; making connections between things that aren't there. :(

Well, I made the connection, too. It kind of is jumping on the bandwagon.)))

That happens all the time, though.

(And that's also why broken windows are dangerous.)

I'm progressing backward

That's not progress.

It is , I'm progressing

I'm not stagnant

Progressing in a negative direction = regressing

4:23 PM

But we digress ...

So now @Kosmonaut has posted an answer full of linguisticky gibberish to the off-topic Bulgarian sounds question. What is this world coming to?

(Btw, @Robusto: Thwack.)

@Martha — That's what the Linguistics Sisterhood does.

Q: Are there any indications that English is going to split into different languages in the next hundred years?

Hahaha.

I was just in the middle of writing a comment "leaving out Bulgarian would certainly make it more on-topic, but the thing is, it would also make it less answerable" yada yada.

Well, now let's wait and see if Kosmo actually edits the question to be more on-topic.

Because if it stays in its current form, I will bring the hammer down. :P

Meanwhile,

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Are there any indications that (global) English is going to split into different languages in the next hundred years?

dialects linguistics

Hello! Check the calendar! It's the Apocalypse!

"Next hundred years". Pffft.

4:38 PM

@RegDwight I added a close vote and comment with my opinion on that subject.

Q: Is there an English word containing the vowels ɤ or ɐ, and if not, which similar-sounding vowels are there in English?

@MrHen sounds good.

Meanwhile, Kosmo hasn't edited that other question, but the OP has.

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I need examples for English words which contain the sounds ɤ (close-mid back unrounded vowel) and ɐ (schwa, an unstressed neutral vowel). But I am not sure if there are such words at all. If there aren't, I'd like examples for words which contain similar sounds. As I don't understand phonetics we...

pronunciation alphabet

@RegDwight done now. i got interrupted by a phone call, and i wrote a heaping pile o' text

@JSBangs Reading...

@JSBangs (Your collar changes colors.)

(Now no more.)

@RegDwight as written, i'd say it's on-topic

@JSBangs You mean the current wording?

4:47 PM

@RegDwight yes. i haven't looked at the previous versions

I tend to agree. That's why I reposted it here for further review.

Because if there are no objections and it stays, I will (have to) clean up the now-confusing comments.

Say hello now

Hello now.

Hello.

When?

A minute ago

4:53 PM

That is...long.

A: Evolution of Language vs Importance of Grammar

K pipls give it up for JSBangs' answer he's too humble and shy to link to:

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Your question mostly turns on the definition of grammar. From a linguistic point of view, grammar is simply the set of patterns and rules that speakers use to structure their utterances. Grammar is absolutely necessary for communication. A sentence with literally no grammar cannot be understood,...

@RegDwight i've been called lots of things, but "humble and shy" is not one that i hear very often. um, thanks?

I am just pleased that we can keep this question open now, because you all know too well that it will keep coming up over and over and over again.

@JSBangs If you stay in this chat room long enough, I promise to eventually call you many more things than just "humble and shy".

Apr 4 at 15:13, by RegDwight

It's a doggy-dog world.

@Cerberus Wie ist das wetter heute? whistling

Prachtig.

4:58 PM

@RegDwight Bing bang boom

Bang Boom Bang

Bang Boom Bang is a German comedy film from 1999. The movie is set in Unna, Westphalia, which was, besides Dortmund, one of the shooting locations. Plot The part-time criminal Keek is in trouble, after losing most of the money on the horses. The money had originally been carried off a bank robbery, although this money actually belonged to his arrested friend Karl-Heinz, "Kalle", Grabowski. Meanwhile in jail Kalle watches a porn-movie, shoot by Keek’s friend Franky. When seeing his wife Manuela in the movie, Kalle goes crazy and escapes from prison. After killing Franky, the escaped Kall...

Heh, I wrote that article, what do you think really

das Hundertwasserkunsthaus?

What's with the sudden crickets? One puzzled look from a 10-month-old and you all run away?

Q: Is there a semantic difference between "pedophile" and "pederast"?

we've died of cute

SRSLY, VS2010SP1, could you possible take any longer to install?

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If I understand the etymology of pedophile and pederast, both mean child lover. Is there a difference in their connotation? In some recent local news stories that discuss changing sex offender laws, the controversy has centered around dividing the pedophiles and the rapists from the more questi...

meaning

good move on the pre-emptive protect, @RegDwight

5:17 PM

Haha.

@JSBangs Am I too outrageous?

i retagged

May 7 at 21:25, by RegDwight

I previously agreed with Kosmonaut to protect such questions right away.

but my retag was inappropriate... i feel guilty already

@JSBangs Made me laugh.

5:19 PM

@Kit if you like it, you can put it back. i was afraid you'd take it to imply that you're looking for a younger man

@JSBangs You forgot word-usage. How could you forget word-usage? Never forget word-usage!

@JSBangs What makes you think I'm looking for a man?

XD@RegDwight .com

@Kit Um, your nickname?

@RegDwight Be fair, Reg. I'm the one who forgot word-usage.

@RegDwight What nickname?

5:21 PM

Kit. Which is almost the same as KITT. Who is constantly looking for a good man to handle it.

@Kit pederasty is man-boy by definition. there are female pedophiles, but not terribly many

KITT

KITT is the short name of two fictional characters from the adventure TV series Knight Rider. While having the same acronym, the KITTs are two different entities: one known as the Knight Industries Two Thousand, which appeared in the original TV series Knight Rider, and the other as the Knight Industries Three Thousand, which appeared first in the two-hour 2008 pilot film for a new Knight Rider TV series and then the new series itself. In both instances, KITT is an artificially intelligent electronic computer module installed in a highly advanced, very mobile, robotic automobile: the or...

(and i don't know your gender)

@RegDwight I have no affiliation with Knight Industries.

@Kit Of course you would say that.

5:21 PM

@RegDwight :)

@JSBangs Is pederasty man-boy by definition?

Must... resist... urge... to star.

That blows up my whole argument.

@JSBangs But seriously, is this post okay? As soon as I hit the button, I thought, cripes, I should've asked first.

kiamlaluno

Is there any EL&U moderator? I need help understanding a problem with my account.

@Kit there's absolutely nothing wrong with your post

@kiamlaluno Huh wha?

5:26 PM

@JSBangs Thanks. I really liked your contribution on grammar.

@Kit, anyway, i answered. hope it clears things up.

kiamlaluno

@RegDwight It's something about an account merge; if you thinks it's better to not talk of that here, I am on TL too.

@RegDwight I am sorry to bother you, or any moderator.

Okay, I'll be in the TL in a second.

kiamlaluno

@RegDwight Thank you.

@JSBangs I should be clearer: I really liked your contribution on that "Language and Grammar" question.

5:30 PM

okay, i've been googling "pederasty" and "pedophilia" for the last several minutes, so my employer is probably suitably freaked out

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@JSBangs Oops.

@Kit i'll blame you if i get fired

@JSBangs Thanks for the link. Odd that it's in a medical dictionary.

@JSBangs Bring it. I'll hire you here.

where is "here"?

@JSBangs Maine.

5:33 PM

Whi os yo

@Kit i've never been to maine. is it nice there? i currently live in the midwest

@JSBangs IMO, nicer than the Midwest. Except for Carhenge.

well, i just moved here and i'm not going to move again for a very long time, d.v. but maybe i'll come visit sometime

i hear you have lobster there

In other news, I need to stop coughing on my keyboard. Where's the Lysol when you need it...

(The previous post was brought to you by the Department of Too Much Information.)

@JSBangs We do have lobster. For a little while longer anyway.

5:44 PM

what do you mean "a little while longer"? are you going to eat it all?

@JSBangs Actually, it makes me vomit (speaking of the DTMI), so no. But there are increasingly tighter restrictions on fishing.

@Martha Martha Martha

Well, I'm back to the grindstone. Check in later. Ciao.

@Kit Ha det bra

@Boob I can never tell when your account has been hacked and when it's... well, just you.

studiohack

5:52 PM

ah, so this is where you are a mod @RegDwight :P

@RegDwight Huh?

@Martha — Martha plays the baby card again.

@RegDwight Um, have you noticed?

Ok, I've successfully killed this room twice in a row now. I think my work here is done. TTYL.

6:08 PM

Well done

6:24 PM

What's "illegal sex"?

No idea!

I bet it is a myth.

Pederast:"a man who has illegal sex with a young boy"

It means rape or something

My brain is locked

Error 404

"This question is protected to prevent "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users. To answer it, you must have more than 10 reputation." hugh

It just refers to the common Athenian practice in Antiquity of men courting young boys.

One was supposed to have hair on his chin while the other didn't. Then, as the boy developed hair, he'd assume the other role and court a younger boy.

6:40 PM

Kidding?

No? That's the way it was.

It was the same in some other poleis.

Pederast person is also bisexual?

or gay?

It is not an identity, just something people do.

We can only guess about their innermost feelings.

Probably a majority of Athenian men were courted or did court other men at some point in their lives.

And nearly all eventually married a woman. That's all we know.

Aha , You mean no one is pederast nowadays?

It depends on your definition; but I'd say modern paedophiles more or less practice the same things as the pederasts of Antiquity.

Consider Der Tod in Venedig by Mann, for example (I hated it, but it is a good example).

6:48 PM

Von Thomas Mann?

Ja, demselben.

vielen dank

Homosexuality in ancient Greece

In classical antiquity, writers such as Herodotus, Plato, Xenophon, Athenaeus and many others explored aspects of same-sex love in ancient Greece. The most widespread and socially significant form of same-sex sexual relations in ancient Greece was between adult men and adolescent boys, known as pederasty. (However, marriages in Ancient Greece between men and women were also age structured, with men in their 30s commonly taking wives in their early teens.) Though homosexual relationships between adult men did exist, at least one member of each of these relationships flouted social convent...

vielen danker

AFK.

6:51 PM

The vielen dankest ever

Haha.

O.K.

If you want to read more about the subject, and view interesting depictions on vases, read Greek Homosexuality, by Kenneth Dover.

I want & I will

Throughout history, paedophilia has rarely been so taboo as it is now, possibly due to the pervasive influence of American puritanism felt throughout the Western world.

6:59 PM

I mixed up all my thoughts , bisexual , homosexual, pederast, pedophilia, gay ..

Well, at least you're not putting people in boxes!

7:21 PM

Haha.

We may not always be able to agree

F'x

hi all

“Shelosha Ve'arba'im Umatayim - mi yodeya?” says the SE ad today; I wondered for a second how fucked my brain was after a week of intensive work

Oh jesus

@Fx Evening

Q: Does nothing rhyme with "Orange"?

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Is there no other word in the English language that rhymes with "Orange"?

language english phoenetics

Haha.

Interesting...

F'x

“16% of words have no rhymes at all” — that's one of the things I love in French, rhymes are aplenty! (and thus, easy to make)

7:59 PM

Hoppla , jetzt komm ich ..

But French cheats!

If I leave out any consonant I like at the end of a word, it's easy!

Nothing is easy

AFAIK

8:21 PM

Thanks a lot for your attention

@Cerberus Not as badly as Hungarian, at least in this respect: if you want to rhyme in Hungarian, just choose words with the same class of vowel, and then put them both in the same case (read: tack on the same suffix).

@Martha: That sounds easy... I bet I could easily slam together a poem in Hungarian!

But what do you mean by class of vowel? Is it that any word has only one vowel in all its syllables due to vowel assimilation (endings excepted)?

> Bóbita, Bóbita táncol
Körben az angyalok ül*nek*
Béka hadak fuvoláznak
Sáska hadak hegedül*nek*

I see... and what is this ül part?

I presume that's what you mean by vowel class...

Hungarian has something called "vowel harmony": a word like "fuvoláz" (he/she plays the flute) gets a suffix with an a in it, while a word like "hegedül" (plays the violin) gets a suffix with an e.

ül means "sits". The -nak/nek suffix makes the actor plural, so ülnek means "they sit".

8:31 PM

Ahh interesting. I knew it had vowel harmony, but I didn't know it worked like that.

It still works

Though I tend to confuse Hungarian and Turkish... ducks

I can teach you English if you want

Really?

Cool!

30$ per hour

Cooler

8:32 PM

Nah then I'll just ask my questions on this site.

As you wish then

@Cerberus Well, Turkish does tend to use some of the same diacriticals as Hungarian, so they can look alike to the untrained eye.

Yeah, and they are related, aren't they?

But no other language uses ő or ű, so those are good distinguishing characteristics.

Ah ok; but in fact we use those for umlauts!

8:33 PM

@Cerberus That's a highly debated political question. :)

Hehe.

Well, we are all central Asians in the end!

(The IE languages are said to originate somewhere on the plains of central Asia.)

@Martha speaking of Hungarian, can you explain this phrase: Ha már lúd, legyen kövér! I googled it but I'm not sure... this is supposed to be a translation but there is no mention of a goose: eudict.com/…

@Cerberus Ah, but Hungarian isn't Indo-European.

@z7sg Literally, it means "if it's a goose, it should be a fat one". The phrase basically means "if we're gonna splurge, might as well splurge on something good."

@Martha: I know, but you are Finno-Ugric/Uralic.

@Cerberus Ah, ok, so you were saying that IE comes from Asia, same as Finno-Ugric?

8:38 PM

The Hungarian hordes are well known to have come from central Asia in the, what, 9th century? And, yes.

You and the Vikings made our lives pretty miserable!

Tee hee.

Then again, we got back at you with Marx.

Hmph.

We're quits now, OK? We made up and now we're friends?

:D

8:40 PM

@Martha Thanks. It's curious that google translates 'legyen kövér' as 'be fat' and legyen kövér! as 'be bold!'.

Bold? Eh? Machine translators (still) suck.

Thank God they do!

We don't want our translators to become redundant...

Ah, I thought it was the language

Well not that it sucks, just that it's very different

@z7sg No: there's no context in which "legyen kövér" means "be bold".

kövér only ever means "fat". There's no way to translate it into "bold".

Bold face?

Fat letters?

8:49 PM

Whoa, so much peoples in hier!

And them alls speak Hungrian...

@Cerberus Oh, hadn't thought of that meaning of "bold"!

@Reg: Yes, we are celebrating the 1200th anniversary of the Magyar invasion.

@RegDwight mich nicht picht

@Boob Du bist aber ziemlich erpicht darauf!

I believe that "boldface" in Hungarian is, indeed, something like "kövér betű". (Italic is dőlt betű.)

8:51 PM

@Cerberus Aha, you are correct!

It's still a dumb translation though.

@RegDwight ähm , bin ich? ich wusste es nicht .. sehr nett von dich , wirklich, dichdich

@Boob "Sehr nett von Dir." Dativ. :P

Can't beat a gay British knight at the game of German.

@RegDwight Heh, Wanted to test your German knowledge

Jaja. Aber klar doch. ("Ich weiß, was 'jaja' heißt, es heißt...")

es heisst "ne ne", oder?

8:56 PM

@Cerberus Huh, I thought we had enough celebrationz on March fifteenth?

Mar 15 at 14:29, by Martha

Oh, and since I'm in a complainy mood: why do none of the "today in history" sites list what happened on March 15, 1848?

@RegDwight Your birthday?

March 15

In the Roman calendar, March 15 was known as the Ides of March. Events *44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. * 221 – Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty. * 351 – Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. * 933 –...

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