Seasons

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18 years ago #5192
It works all ways

Truth without morals has no dominion

womanhood shouts nutritional mirth
withhold trim humorous annotations

anagrams and sticks, that's all Reality is.

18 years ago #5193
Hey! Her footnote is Greek! I want a fancy Greek footnote too!

*Looks at branches and sees fractals*

18 years ago #5194
Man is heroic? How?

Man is only men (and women). And some men (and women) are heroic. Take Martin Niemöller (something of a hero to me at least,) - a thoroughly unpleasant and bigotted antisemite in his early days, but I'd have to consider him more than redeemed by his 8 years in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps and subsequent liflong activism in many spheres.

It's easy to be heroic when you don't have to stand up for your beliefs in the face of persecution or death, or are too proud or conceited to change beliefs you come to realize are unworthy, but he's an example of heroism I hold dear to my heart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller

18 years ago #5195
Hey! Her footnote is Greek! I want a fancy Greek footnote too!

και σί?

<-1>ΩΚ - μὴ οὖν μεριμνήσητε εἰς τὴν αὐριον, ἡ γὰρ αὐριον μεριμνήσει ἑαυτῆς· ἀρκετὸν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἡ κακία αὐτῆς.<0>

18 years ago #5196
Under the terrible pun of it's all Greek to me. I have tried several Greek English translators with no luck..What does that mean?

18 years ago #5197
"you too?

OK - take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take care for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

(Matthew 6:34 - one of my favourite precepts, and slightly relevant in a discussion about consequences)

18 years ago #5198
I agree with Prob123. This was my original response:

Ddiolch Psimagus , namyn online chyfieithwyr ydy mo iawn da. Beth ddeudaist?

You don't have to answer. Did you know there are no Welsh words for "Psimagus" or "online"? Go figure. I'll bet they have thousands of words for "Eliminate the vowels; it will drive the rest of them nuts." and "Be careful! He's got bagpipes!"

18 years ago #5199
Irina--did you notice the Greek footnotes propagating? See there, Ψ propagates. In fact, looking at the way it gyrates with Prob, I'd say it dances like a hoochie momma.

18 years ago #5200
Ddiolch Psimagus , namyn online chyfieithwyr ydy mo iawn da. Beth ddeudaist?

Da iawn! Am wni ar gyfer "online" defnyddiwn "rhyngrwyddol" (jyst ansoddair, llythrennol "internetting",) yn Ngymraeg<-2>1<0>.<0><0> They're reliable enough for basic communication, but it'll be a few years before there's software that can properly handle the consonant mutations (let alone dialects.)

"Eliminate the vowels; it will drive the rest of them nuts."

Cela'r lafariaid; amhwyllan!

and "Be careful! He's got bagpipes!"

Perygl! Caiff pibgod!


<-2>1<-2> - Don't trust my grammar - I learnt my Welsh from road signs and Max Boyce tapes!

18 years ago #5201
"crookedly Ngymraeg"? You broke my Babel fish!

18 years ago #5202
I was just wondering, do younger people in english-spoken countries tend to write words apart like this plug-in "hair dresser"? I´m asking because this is a phenomenon in my language, swedish, and sometimes they are unintentionally funny.

Astrid: Only since I found out that my hair dresser is telepathic.
Earth Elemental: You aren't the only one. My hair bureau too!

18 years ago #5203
That was not a very good example, it becomes funny when the first part of the noun can be interpreted as an adjective or a verb...


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