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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 25, 2021 21:54:26 GMT
Stalin was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 25, 2021 23:54:54 GMT
By whom or what?
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Post by patricklondon on Dec 26, 2021 6:47:15 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2021 7:17:03 GMT
My guess would be something to do with fighting Hitler.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 26, 2021 9:54:09 GMT
Yes that was it. Just looked it up.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 26, 2021 14:27:52 GMT
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Post by casimira on Dec 26, 2021 16:58:55 GMT
Speaking of Nobel Peace Prize honors. Desmond Tutu died this morning. A truly great man.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2021 18:23:29 GMT
Today is not Boxing Day in the countries that observe it. When December 26th is Christmas Sunday, Boxing Day is on December 27th.
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Post by fumobici on Dec 26, 2021 18:46:10 GMT
Just one more reason to thank goodness I didn't have to learn English in an academic setting. Bloody impossible.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2021 19:11:38 GMT
I think the other romance languages have pretty much the same rules. It's really no different from learning to put subject and verb in the correct order, unlike Yoda, who must have been stupid.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 26, 2021 19:21:12 GMT
English isn’t a Romance language. It’s West Germanic, according to Wikipedia.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2021 19:28:19 GMT
It wishes. It is at least half Romance. It certainly doesn't use German word construction.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 26, 2021 19:49:32 GMT
Maybe it did, but over time it absorbed so many other influences from Romance languages starting mainly with the Normans.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 26, 2021 20:17:34 GMT
In the order as per the link when describing an object, opinion - size - age - shape - colour - origin - material - purpose, in the languages we/you know, in which would that order be different? I don't think it is in German.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2021 20:23:42 GMT
In French (and maybe a number of the other Latin languages) some (but not all) of the adjectives come after the noun rather than in front of it.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 26, 2021 21:01:52 GMT
Maybe it did, but over time it absorbed so many other influences from Romance languages starting mainly with the Normans. My Dad's middle name was Norman. Not sure what he contributed.
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Post by onlyMark on Dec 26, 2021 21:05:17 GMT
Must have been a different Norman then.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 27, 2021 0:15:54 GMT
Maybe MY Dad, whose first name was Norman?
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 27, 2021 1:00:24 GMT
*sigh*
So much crap in my brain & now you all have dislodged another bit of it.
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Post by questa on Dec 27, 2021 3:11:17 GMT
Indonesian puts the adjective after the noun except in a few cases. They also use 'yang' if they want to emphasize something.It translates as 'the one that is...' or 'those that are'
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 27, 2021 6:30:33 GMT
If Gustave Eiffel had not changed his name, tourists would be admiring the Bonickhausen Tower.
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Post by Kimby on Dec 27, 2021 18:26:04 GMT
It wishes. It is at least half Romance. It certainly doesn't use German word construction.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 27, 2021 18:47:11 GMT
That is horrifyingly inaccurate. For example, it wipes Québec off the map!
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Post by Kimby on Dec 29, 2021 15:28:26 GMT
Whatagain taught me that there is a strategy involved in execution by fire: The only remaining question is to debate whether we will add humid wood so that she sufficates before dying or use dry wood and let her feel the burning till death.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 4, 2022 12:15:33 GMT
The population of California has declined for the first time ever. 173,000 fewer people (including 56,500 covid victims).
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Post by bjd on Jan 4, 2022 13:17:24 GMT
I read recently that the population of the US in general declined last year. Not only covid deaths but over 100,000 opioid deaths.
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Post by casimira on Jan 4, 2022 22:28:33 GMT
The population of California has declined for the first time ever. 173,000 fewer people (including 56,500 covid victims). If this statistic is accurate, one needs to ask if it is based on US Census numbers? If it is, it may not take into account the thousands of homeless persons in both Los Angeles and San Francisco and other less obscure locales that did not fill out census forms. The other thing one needs to consider is thousands of people have departed living in California because of all the deadly wildfires in recent years.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 5, 2022 3:44:18 GMT
It is from the census figures. It was mentioned that mostly the old and poor are leaving the state so that it can continue to evolve into a paradise for the affluent.
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Post by onlyMark on Jan 5, 2022 11:19:15 GMT
The last word in your sentence is spelled 'effluent'.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 5, 2022 21:58:26 GMT
Blue whales are one of the largest animals to have ever lived on earth. They can weigh up to 200 tons.
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