08/13/10 07:36 - ID#52439

translation

These are supposed to be the translated instructions for growing some seeds on a Chia pet type plastic toy, flower box.

What are we really supposed to do. Do they just mean to put them in

warm water? Seriously, what kind of seeds can live through an hour of boiling.

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07/08/07 07:26 - ID#40008

Languages and Cases

I was thinking about how I was getting bored with only computer languages and wanted to branch out back into human ones when I realized historical languages might be more fun.

Old English (WIKIPEDIA - old english) piqued my interest because of its tied to the germanic languages and because it is so interesting. I am over that desire now, but while I was researching the languages of yore, I found a site dedicated to linguistic that talk about cases.

I thought German having dative, accusative, nominative and genative was over the top but there are so many other cases out there

I think I am going to just go back to german and maybe just research a dialect.

metalpeter writes at 06:53:48 07/09/07 - Comment #20569: I'm bad at languages. But If I could learn them I would love to learn Chinesse. Of course with my luck I would learn the Manderian dialect and then try to speak to someone who only knew Cantonase. I did see part of a special that showed how Chinese has changed over the years. They showed how something used to be a picture of a tree and how that writing changed over time. Korean might be preaty cool to since from what I have been told they use the Chinese Characters for some things and then they have the own language for other things. If I was going to do it for fun I would learn Klingon or maybe some Elf Langauge but only if someone told me if there was really a way to right Moon leters light in the hobit. Those are letters that only appear when the papper is held up to the moon.

james writes at 08:19:41 07/08/07 - Comment #20537: There was an onion article, or an actual real article, I can't remember which, who's headline read "Now more speakers of Klingon than Cherokee."

I have a problem learning languages because I never need to use them. It has never been useful knowing German except one time when I was a waiter and had German tourists at a table. It was never useful learning Japanese except to decipher what idiotic characters people had tattooed on their ignorant bodies. With no need to use it, I have forgotten both.

So unless you really dig Beowulf.

jenks writes at 08:13:09 07/08/07 - Comment #20536: to book = the book

jenks writes at 08:08:49 07/08/07 - Comment #20534: ooh paul old english is cool. I took a 'history of the english language' class in school and we studied a lot of old english. way cool. Yes, very germanic. And a lot of latin too. And cases. I think I have to book somewhere if you want to see.

mrdeadlier writes at 08:00:50 07/08/07 - Comment #20533: The only thing better than historical languages is made-up ones. That said,I want to learn Elvish!