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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum To Vincent: I got a response from the André you remembered ... sadly, not the one who taught my class in Vincennes ... I'll PM his email to you/ Ok, thanks! That was a good guess, but it was stil…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Benjamin Frost Strictly speaking, it is. The American usage has taken over, though. Fortunately in France, we still stick to million/milliard/billion… and billiard! Don't cock a snook at me… Likewise, we still…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Benjamin Frost Change your working hours. Problem solved. I wouldn't mind. But my boss balks, and the teachers of my children too… The world is infected by conservative minds… There are Tories everywhere.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Benjamin Frost No! Toad refers to sausages and the hole refers to Yorkshire pudding. Yorkshire pudding isn't sweet, but is made from a kind of batter. It's a simple but tasty dish, served with gravy. Uh. Brit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Benjamin Frost No. Yorkshire. Oh, living mops?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Benjamin Frost My feeling is that the French's English is generally better than the English's French. I've been doing a French course for several months to brush up on my school stuff. It's a fun language to learn.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lorin Schultz The moderators here seem to be remarkably tolerant of interesting, informative, and/or constructive OT discussions. For that I am grateful! Yeah, I concur. But that's another reason why I wouldn't…
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Quote: Originally Posted by boredumb I do know what you mean - when I was a kid we lived in upstate New York, and in summer, it was still fairly light well after nine pm (although it was admittedly firefly-catching time for some of that). The…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX 1) Sure, not all languages evolve at the same rate, but regardless it's a social indicator that defines one's culture. 2) I find the Great Vowel Shift to have severe negative affects on my ability as a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by boredumb Shouldn't you be blaming latitude for this attitude? Well, of course. Though admittedly I'd be incapable of living in the tropical zone where days and nights are all the same all year round and seasons ha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX I'd say that's inherent to all spoken languages. It’s not the same everywhere. If you take Iceland or Germany as examples, you’ll see that the young generations are increasingly sloppy when it comes t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil I’m going to use this argument the next time someone whines to me about how the whole world should be on UTC or tries to tell me that I should stop petitioning to get my state off DST. It’s not going …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Benjamin Frost My main area of expertise around toads concerns ones in holes. If you haven't eaten toad in the hole, you haven't lived, particularly if it's made by your grandmother. Does it somehow relate to…
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Will answer in PM. I wouldn’t want to be charged with ‘thread polluting’ or ‘infinite tangent error'!
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Quote: Originally Posted by ThePixelDoc I fell in love with living in a multi-culti and diverse melting-pot... or at least having the opportunity to visit within an hours drive... after deciding to go to LA to study, after growing up in a very…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mac-sochist Could be. You'll have to take it up with the guy I got it from: Roger Penrose. If you've read The Emperor's New Mind, it's clear that he's a nut in some areas, but as a General Relativist, I think he…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mac-sochist That's not even the weirdest thing. The only three characteristics a black hole can have are mass, angular momentum, and electric charge. Now real black holes are undoubtedly electrically neutral, more …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Enjoyed talking ... (or wouldn't admit it So did I… Most French people are ashamed by their English. They don’t even try to speak unless they are forced or cowed. This is, in my opinion, due to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Oh, sure; right. Hey, I just thought of something. In talk of relativistic speeds, time passes more slowly for the mover than the external world as speed approaches c. But when talking of tachyons (th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mac-sochist Well, any galaxy that's outside our horizon is moving away from us faster than the speed of light. But that's from our point of view. From theirs, the reverse is true. If they'd had astronomers for a rea…