No, plants don't do math(s).
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@da Doctah said:
@morbiuswilters said:
I always feel sad for the French, with their weird prescriptivist tendencies which try to keep foreign words from polluting their "pure" language. (French is about as pure as the thoughts of a crowd of Catholic priests at Vatican-sponsored Altar Boy Oil Wrestling Night. Their term for potato is literally "apple of the Earth". It's like a language invented by paste-eating Kindergartners..)
...with head trauma.Why on earth is the standard name for "ninety-eight" pronounced as "four twenty ten eight"? I shudder to think what they would have done with my late mother's phone number 890-9089, which in plain simple English is "eight ninety ninety eighty nine".
Try this in German... When they speak the numbers are reversed, they start with the unit; they don't say "twenty-five" they say "five and twenty". So your mom's number would be "eight ninety ninety nine and eighty".
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@Zemm said:
Most US TV shows I've heard it pronounced "awhnj".
Do you watch a lot of trailer park reality shows?
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@Ronald said:
Try this in German...
As in German, so in Dutch.
Trips me up when I have both English and Dutch in my head, which is always.
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@da Doctah said:
I shudder to think what they would have done with my late mother's phone number 890-9089, which in plain simple English is "eight million, nine hundred and nine thousand and eighty-nine".
FTFY.
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@dhromed said:
As in German, so in Dutch.
Of course, since Dutch people are just watered down pot smoking Germans without the edgy S&M scene.
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@Ronald said:
@dhromed said:
As in German, so in Dutch.
Of course, since Dutch people are just watered down pot smoking Germans without the edgy S&M scene.
Don't forget Apartheid.
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@Ronald said:
Try this in German... When they speak the numbers are reversed, they start with the unit
That idea lives on in English with thirteen through nineteen. Though there are four n twenty pies.
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@Zemm said:
@Ronald said:
Well if we're picking on þe olde English, the french style has hang-overs in English as well - threescore years and ten, and over in the states they've apparently got four score years seven.Try this in German... When they speak the numbers are reversed, they start with the unit
That idea lives on in English with thirteen through nineteen. Though there are four n twenty pies.
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@morbiuswilters said:
@Zemm said:
four n twenty
Leave it to the Aussies to make Americans look less like absolute pigs..
Please say those pies come in blackbird flavour? That'd be delicious.
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@Ronald said:
Try this in German... When they speak the numbers are reversed, they start with the unit; they don't say "twenty-five" they say "five and twenty".
Many languages are "backwards" compared to English. For example, putting the adjective after the word it describes instead of before. When I was a kid I saw a sign that said "wet floor" and beneath it was the Spanish "piso mojado". Being a kid, I thought it was funny that the Spanish word for "wet" was "piso" and was disappointed later when I learned that the noun comes first (piso = floor) and so it literally translates into "floor wet".
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@El_Heffe said:
Many languages are "backwards" compared to English.
verb/object reversal is a bitch in Dutch. I find the English sequence more sane in the flow of a sentence.
"I said [that] it was a big purple dildo"
"Ik zei dat het een grote paarse kunstpenis was"
Casual omission of the word "that" can sometimes really fuck up a sentence, though.
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[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23503694]BBC Science Is Best Science![/url]
How?
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@eViLegion said:
Look at who else won and I think you'll see your explaination. I mean a few of them are actually pretty good, but...
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The thing is... pretty much all of those other sites are better for science. I'm almost always appalled at how dumbed down the BBC coverage usually is.
I mean, in general its a reasonably good news organisation, if a bit left biased, but I wouldn't touch their science with a barge pole.
