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Post by onlyMark on Jul 9, 2024 9:45:19 GMT
German capitalizses far more words than English.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 9, 2024 15:09:11 GMT
French capitalizes far fewer words than English Probably a romance language thing. Spanish doesn't capitalize those words either. When I write in Spanish, my brain forces me to capitalize days of the week before I can stop it. German capitali zses far more words than English. German seems to capitalize everything!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 9, 2024 15:13:16 GMT
I think it is only nouns (of which there seem to be quite a few) and also proper names.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 9, 2024 15:42:40 GMT
"Only" nouns?! Languages are made up of what -- at least half nouns.
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Post by onlyMark on Jul 9, 2024 16:33:37 GMT
They are weird with commas as well. Never mind large numbers using commas and points.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 9, 2024 17:16:50 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Jul 9, 2024 17:56:13 GMT
I am always lost with commas and dots for figures. I adjust to what excel wants.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 9, 2024 21:59:15 GMT
how large numbers are formatted in the United States, as well as in the UK and Ireland. aka "the correct way".
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Post by fumobici on Jul 9, 2024 23:22:34 GMT
Italian is the same as French and Spanish about no capitalizing, I think you're onto something Bixa.
I've noticed less literate Anglophones go big for inappropriate capitalizations. I won't even dignify ALL CAPS with derision.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 11, 2024 6:32:10 GMT
how large numbers are formatted in the United States, as well as in the UK and Ireland. aka "the correct way". 😂😂😂 Whatagain leave that body !!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2024 16:27:39 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 25, 2024 17:04:15 GMT
Perhaps they were loan sharks.
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Post by bjd on Jul 25, 2024 19:30:37 GMT
That reminds me of a flight from France to NYC many years ago, when pilots were not locked away in their cockpits and made jokes over the intercom. As we approached New York City, the pilot announced, "We are flying over the Atlantic where there are various kinds of sharks. In New York City, you will see others: loan sharks, pool sharks..."
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 25, 2024 23:39:26 GMT
Perhaps they were loan sharks. On loan from whom? the pilot announced, "We are flying over the Atlantic where there are various kinds of sharks. This is exactly the kind of thing I never want to hear over an airplane intercom! Honestly, I'm never happy flying over water, although it often seems to be the only way to get to where I want to go.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 26, 2024 3:11:55 GMT
When I flew across the Red Sea from Djibouti to Aden in a little 18-seat Twin Otter, you could see all the sharks in the completely tranparent water.
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Post by whatagain on Jul 29, 2024 21:31:46 GMT
I found out the source of Kerouac’s wealth. and my admiration for the man grew. ![](https://i.ibb.co/L1Mp7m9/IMG-1349.jpg)
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Post by fumobici on Jul 30, 2024 3:02:09 GMT
That would also explain the perpetual deep tan.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 30, 2024 3:08:18 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 4, 2024 8:38:46 GMT
In the mid 19th century in India they grew a live hedge some 800 miles long along the Custom Line. It took 10,000 staff, mostly Muslims, to patrol and maintain it. It was abandoned in 1879.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 4, 2024 17:36:07 GMT
I have this awful mental image of miles of scraggly brown and broken bushes standing here and there in the landscape like a scene in a disaster movie.
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Post by mickthecactus on Aug 4, 2024 18:29:22 GMT
I learnt this from reading about Carissa carandas which was one of the main shrubs in The Great Hedge of India as it was called. Apart from the live hedge there was also 1200 miles of dead hedge and wall,
It was built/grown to stop salt smuggling from the West of India.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 16, 2024 18:28:35 GMT
It appears the Christopher Columbus (his staff at least) discovered the hammock on his trip west. While it has never really replaced other nighttime accommodations in our area, it is still a brilliant item to have found.
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Post by bjd on Aug 16, 2024 19:19:05 GMT
Didn't sailors sleep in hammocks in those days?
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 17, 2024 2:16:05 GMT
Good question! Maybe Columbus came across the woven mesh hammocks such as those still used in the Yucatán. Probably you all have seen them, but if not, the weave is like those string bags for shopping. The sad thing is that some people buy the Yucatecan hammocks, then lie in them the way that people lie in canvas hammocks, which is all wrong for the back. Learning to use them correctly is a revelation -- it's like weightless sleep and very good for posture, back pain, etc. www.hammocks.co.uk/getting-in-a-hammock.htm
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Post by bjd on Aug 17, 2024 5:33:17 GMT
We have several hammocks, one of which is those string kind and others are solid cloth ones from Colombia.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 17, 2024 5:55:27 GMT
Didn't sailors sleep in hammocks in those days? The internet tells me that sailors started using hammocks in 1590 with the British Royal Navy adopting them in 1597. So this was well after Columbus and about 1000 years after the Mayans.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 17, 2024 7:06:07 GMT
And the French branle bas de combat means to lower stuff like hammocks to allow easy way in order to fight.
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Post by tod2 on Aug 17, 2024 8:00:16 GMT
I typed "branle bas de combat" into the Translate app on Google and it told me in English it means "Low combat jerk".... So tell me why is the area around Parc des Buttes-Chaumont called COMBAT?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 17, 2024 8:38:05 GMT
Combat is really not a glorious name for that district because it was named after the dogfights that were held there -- dogs against bulls and dogs against boars. Banned in 1833.
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Post by whatagain on Aug 17, 2024 8:38:52 GMT
Branler means being unstable (for a table) or yes … jerking. The sexual meaning is nowadays the most used.
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