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Post by Bitmap on Mar 4, 2023 16:13:02 GMT
What do people say instead of Flemings? People who live in Flanders and speak Flemish. Personally, I call them Phlegms, which is a bit unfair, as the Dutch of the Netherlands is much more guttural than the language of Belgium, whatever you call it. Robert Benchley said that two things kept him up at night -- trying to remember the word for people who live in Flanders and speak Flemish, and the present tense of 'wrought'. It's the equivalent of asking German speakers what the present tense is of '(aus)(er)koren', which you mention on another thread. I just looked up that it comes from work. |
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 16:21:14 GMT
I just looked up that it comes from work. I had actually learned that only a couple day ago. A tweet from a linguist I think. |
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Mar 4, 2023 16:23:46 GMT
I just looked up that it comes from work. Sure, but you had to look it up, the way most native speakers would. Similarly, the average German isn't aware of kiesen and its compounds in the present tense. |
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 4, 2023 16:24:18 GMT
Do the old ET threads still exist?
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 16:27:12 GMT
Do the old ET threads still exist? Yes. |
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 16:28:09 GMT
Well, one of them at least, if your plural is significant. That's the one that was in use when you guys got banned.
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 4, 2023 16:29:15 GMT
Well, one of them at least, if your plural is significant. That's the one that was in use when you guys got banned. I mean the other one. |
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 16:31:19 GMT
Ah. I don't think so, then, unless I'm mixing things up.
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 16:32:12 GMT
Is there a specific post you think was on that thread, and that wouldn't have been deleted?
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 16:33:03 GMT
FWIW, the one that remains is the one with your stupid manifesto.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Mar 4, 2023 16:34:41 GMT
It seems odd that they should keep them and junk the politics threads, and even odder that they should get rid of one and not the other, but then they can be careless about these things. After all, on my Strange Things thread in an open forum, Godmy still has a cactus up his fundament.
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Post by Bitmap on Mar 4, 2023 16:35:32 GMT
FWIW, the one that remains is the one with your stupid manifesto. It's not written by me. But I meant the other one. |
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 16:39:13 GMT
I see the concept of intellectual property and the need to credit things in the most unambiguous terms possible, is important to you. |
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Mar 4, 2023 16:39:20 GMT
Maybe Godmy trashed it in a fit of pique. After all, he was the one who restored it after Cinefactus dropped it, largely because I kept banging on about it being part of our history on the forum. And then forgot or never noticed that there was a successor thread, because it wasn't his sort of thread.
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Post by kizolk on Mar 4, 2023 16:41:58 GMT
Maybe Godmy trashed it in a fit of pique. After all, he was the one who restored it after Cinefactus dropped it, largely because I kept banging on about it being part of our history on the forum. And then forgot or never noticed that there was a successor thread, because it wasn't his sort of thread. All this time I had been thinking the one that remains was the original one. That explains some things. |
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