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samiyam
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Location: Moving North ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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May 30, 2009 - 9:19pm |
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The crazy woman upstairs is really crazy.
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jadewahoo
![jadewahoo Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/25260-1332575353.jpg)
Location: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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May 30, 2009 - 9:08pm |
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starcloud wrote:you've never had a true friend
I've never had want of one.
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starcloud
![starcloud Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/44371.jpg)
Location: Geo Update: 35.568622, -121.10409 you're close enough Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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May 30, 2009 - 7:45pm |
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you've never had a true friend
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Red_Dragon
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Location: Dumbf*ckistan ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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May 30, 2009 - 6:56pm |
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cookinlover wrote:You can make a working pistol using chewing gum and sawdust. If you're going for high caliber, be sure to buy Wrigley's gum.
for fully automatic function, nicorette is recommended.
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cookinlover
![cookinlover Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/56747.jpg)
Location: Auckland, New Zealand (former Boston native and Atlanta transplant) Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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May 30, 2009 - 6:54pm |
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You can make a working pistol using chewing gum and sawdust. If you're going for high caliber, be sure to buy Wrigley's gum.
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jadewahoo
![jadewahoo Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/25260-1332575353.jpg)
Location: Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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May 30, 2009 - 2:45pm |
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dionysius wrote:Not true with the lexicon for any given modern language, for example, which tends to get bigger and more complex as time goes by. English itself is a famous example. Why, we have a word for everything. ![](graphics/smiles/icon_wink.gif) And some modern languages are quite conservative grammatically, like Lithuanian, which proudly boasts all seven of the original Indo-European noun cases (wow, an instrumental case?!). Lithuanian also has the richest participle system of all I-E languages, with participles derived from all tenses with distinct active and passive forms, and several gerund forms. Sounds exhausting. Linguistic evolution isn't simply a progress from complexity to simplicity or vice versa; change can work in many different ways, some of them producing greater complexity, or leaving past complexity in place. Would you say all that again in plain Ingrish?
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PoundPuppy
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Gender: ![Female](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_female.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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May 30, 2009 - 2:28pm |
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Actually I think it is OK to Hassle the Hoff.
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(former member)
![(former member) Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/24247.gif)
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May 30, 2009 - 2:22pm |
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I'm big in Japan
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rachlan
![rachlan Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/41940.gif)
Location: nyc Gender: ![Female](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_female.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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May 30, 2009 - 7:23am |
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the term nerd was invented by Dr. Seuss ... in his 1950 book, "If I Ran the Zoo."
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justin_thyme
![justin_thyme Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/68547.gif)
Location: Windward O`ahu, Hawai`i Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Dec 2, 2008 - 1:20pm |
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FYI, Derek Bickerton's not just a gifted linguist and author; he's also the proud father of two famous sons: Ashley Bickerton, an astoundingly talented and successful mixed-media artist, and James Bickerton, a Honolulu superlawyer whose skillful advocacy on environmental, free speech, and community issues has been instrumental in preserving our quality of life here in Hawaii. (Ash and Jim are also amazing surfers . . . they travel all over the world chasing the best waves.)
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justin_thyme
![justin_thyme Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/68547.gif)
Location: Windward O`ahu, Hawai`i Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Dec 2, 2008 - 12:56pm |
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Lazy8 wrote:![{#Cheers} {#Cheers}](scripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/icon_cheers.gif) Thanks, I now have the perfect gift for somebody! You're very welcome. It's a great read . . . that "somebody" will really enjoy it!
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Talalala
![Talalala Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/13701-1337864694.jpg)
Location: Ã
rhus, Denmark Gender: ![Female](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_female.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Dec 2, 2008 - 12:55pm |
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justin_thyme wrote:Speaking of languages: I recently finished re-reading Bastard Tongues by linguist Derek Bickerton. It's a fascinating and very entertaining exploration of the evolution of creole languages around the world — as much an adventure story as anything else. I heartily recommend it! Here's the Amazon link in case anyone's interested. I'll have to check that out! I read his book Language and Species when I was in college and really enjoyed it.. He is a good writer, too. Keeps you engaged.
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Lazy8
![Lazy8 Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/23094.jpg)
Location: The Gallatin Valley of Montana Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Dec 2, 2008 - 12:44pm |
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justin_thyme wrote:Speaking of languages: I recently finished re-reading Bastard Tongues by linguist Derek Bickerton. It's a fascinating and very entertaining exploration of the evolution of creole languages around the world — as much an adventure story as anything else. I heartily recommend it! Here's the Amazon link in case anyone's interested. ![{#Cheers} {#Cheers}](scripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/icon_cheers.gif) Thanks, I now have the perfect gift for somebody!
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justin_thyme
![justin_thyme Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/68547.gif)
Location: Windward O`ahu, Hawai`i Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Dec 2, 2008 - 12:16pm |
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Lazy8 wrote: Languages tend to get simpler as they get older . . . .
Speaking of languages: I recently finished re-reading Bastard Tongues by linguist Derek Bickerton. It's a fascinating and very entertaining exploration of the evolution of creole languages around the world — as much an adventure story as anything else. I heartily recommend it! Here's the Amazon link in case anyone's interested.
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Talalala
![Talalala Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/13701-1337864694.jpg)
Location: Ã
rhus, Denmark Gender: ![Female](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_female.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Dec 2, 2008 - 12:04pm |
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JustineFromWyoming wrote:Eating all this English toffee won't make me any less sleepy.
Sooooo wish I could help you!
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JustineFromWyomi...
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Location: Teetering on the edge of Avenue D Gender: ![Female](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_female.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Dec 2, 2008 - 12:01pm |
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Eating all this English toffee won't make me any less sleepy.
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dionysius
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Location: The People's Republic of Austin Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Dec 2, 2008 - 4:43am |
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Lazy8 wrote: Languages tend to get simpler as they get older, and the bits that fall off are the ones that carry no information. Like gender.
Not true with the lexicon for any given modern language, for example, which tends to get bigger and more complex as time goes by. English itself is a famous example. Why, we have a word for everything. ![](graphics/smiles/icon_wink.gif) And some modern languages are quite conservative grammatically, like Lithuanian, which proudly boasts all seven of the original Indo-European noun cases (wow, an instrumental case?!). Lithuanian also has the richest participle system of all I-E languages, with participles derived from all tenses with distinct active and passive forms, and several gerund forms. Sounds exhausting. Linguistic evolution isn't simply a progress from complexity to simplicity or vice versa; change can work in many different ways, some of them producing greater complexity, or leaving past complexity in place.
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winter
![winter Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/27907-1379983916.jpg)
Location: in exile, as always Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Dec 1, 2008 - 2:57pm |
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Lazy8 wrote: Languages tend to get simpler as they get older, and the bits that fall off are the ones that carry no information. Like gender.
Numbering systems tend to get simpler too—counting in Mandarin is much simpler than in English, which is simpler than French.
French has a further disadvantage: l'Académie Française. The French language actually has a sort of governing body that decides what is French and what isn't, a sure-fire way to freeze the evolution of the language and doom it to the dustbin of history in a few centuries. Assuming anyone pays it any attention.
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Lazy8
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Location: The Gallatin Valley of Montana Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Dec 1, 2008 - 2:52pm |
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dionysius wrote:Latin? Three genders but no articles. Closely related to Greek, three genders with articles. Lithuanian has strongly inflected noun system, like those ancient languages, but with no article. Icelandic uses only postfixed definite articles. English, with a developed system of definite and indefinite article, is more sophisticated than most languages. Try to have a Russian speaker make a quick and easy distinction between "a (any) banana lassi" and "the (one under discussion) banana lassi" and you'll get my point. That Frenchman was un homme complètement fou!
And I am aware that articles are weakened demonstratives, but demonstratives (like the Latin ille which yields Spanish el) are not used like articles in these languages!
Languages tend to get simpler as they get older, and the bits that fall off are the ones that carry no information. Like gender. Numbering systems tend to get simpler too—counting in Mandarin is much simpler than in English, which is simpler than French. French has a further disadvantage: l'Académie Française. The French language actually has a sort of governing body that decides what is French and what isn't, a sure-fire way to freeze the evolution of the language and doom it to the dustbin of history in a few centuries. Assuming anyone pays it any attention.
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musik_knut
![musik_knut Avatar](https://img.radioparadise.com/avatars/44453.gif)
Location: Third Stone From The Sun Gender: ![Male](graphics/icons/icon_minigender_male.gif) ![](graphics/clear.gif)
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Dec 1, 2008 - 2:41pm |
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Most people can not chew gum while simutaneously slapping their ass with both hands. ![{#Yes} {#Yes}](scripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/icon_yes.gif)
If someone offers to slap your ass while you chew gum, call the authorities.
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