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Is the same true in Europe?
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December 22nd, 2012 | #82 |
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Fiskars, the company that makes those orange handled scissors, was founded in 1649.
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December 23rd, 2012 | #83 |
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That it's impossible to find a 36DD bra.
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December 26th, 2012 | #84 |
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why Armenians have names that end in -ian:
The Armenians were easily identifiable. Centuries earlier, the conquering Ottoman Turks had forced them to add the "ian/yan" sound to their last names. They were dispersed throughout the empire, so they did not possess the same kind of geographical concentrations and strongholds that other Christians did in Greece and the Balkans. They never did organize armed resistance forces. That was what led to their destruction. They could not fight back. http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north367.html |
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Armenians were the wealthy merchant class of the Ottoman Empire, they were like a low-rent Jew in other words.
Many Armenians look very similar to Jews, they have common racial origins. Of course , there are some exceptions. |
January 13th, 2013 | #86 |
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Something I came across I've never read before:
Men's feet typically get larger as they age, go up in shoe size. All I've ever seen is that the cartilage in your nose and ears keeps growing, so your nose and ears get bigger as you age. |
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In my case, I can't tell if it's age or weight gain that's caused the increase in size. I've also read that bare-footedness is associated with increased in foot size. More and more I am persuaded by the wisdom of the Chinese, who are said to select shoes on the basis of cost per square inch. |
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January 23rd, 2013 | #88 |
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First man made object to break the sound barrier was the bullwhip, the sound of the bullwhip is actually a sonic boom.
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January 29th, 2013 | #89 |
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pen·ti·men·to [pen-tuh-men-toh] Show IPA
noun, plural pen·ti·men·ti [-tee] Show IPA . Painting. the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over. Behind the tragic elements of Regina's story, like some kind of pentimento, I saw my own. http://www.gq.com/news-politics/news...printable=true |
January 30th, 2013 | #90 |
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double-gaitedness - for faggotry
Scandal sheets like Confidential magazine took exceptional delight in outing the prominent, publishing cruel, mocking exposes littered with snide references to “tearoom arrests,” “lavender stripes,” “double-gaitedness,” and “forbidden satisfactions.” http://www.slate.com/articles/life/h...s_.single.html |
January 31st, 2013 | #91 |
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actinic
Actinic light is either light that affects photographic film,[1] or will facilitate photosynthesis or stimulate light sensitive species. Actinic lights are also common in the reef aquarium industry. They are used to promote coral and invertebrate growth. They are also used to accentuate the fluorescence of fluorescent fish. The term was first commonly used in early photography to distinguish light that would expose the monochrome films from light that would not. A non-actinic safe-light (e.g. red or amber) could be used in a darkroom without risk of exposing (fogging) light-sensitive films, plates or papers. |
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Masshole
N: Generalized term for a resident of Massachusetts......has evolved to mean any obnoxious loudmouth. The most genuine Massholes are so ignorant and belligerent that they think Masshole is a compliment. A Masshole takes pride in his aggressive and illegal driving habits. They are too cool to use turn signals. They will nearly wreck you as they cut you off pulling out of the local strip mall, and then drive 30 miles an hour in a 55 zone while they try to light their cigarette while screaming at their children. A Masshole's car could be a brand new BMW or a beat up 88 Chevy Caprice. It will probably have a "My Kid is an Honor Student" sticker and a sticker endorsing some Irish or Italian local politician you've never heard of. Massholes infest the nicer northern states of New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine during the summer months and, ironically, do nothing but complain about the lack of malls once they get there. For Christmas, Santa brings New Hampshire thousands of Massholes on vacation. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Masshole |
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bassholes
They drives us insane with their bass noises from vehicles equipped with sub-woofers.
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Classholes
Grammar snobs.
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The Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812
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February 18th, 2013 | #97 |
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[never heard of 'lexemic frequency dictionary']
How many words do I need to learn? Home > Guide > Vocabulary > How many words? One of the most common questions I get asked is 'How many words do I need to learn?'. The answer is of course to learn any many as you can, but I can be more precise. Some words are very common while others are rarely ever seen. This means that you can understand a large part of mosts texts with only a limited number of words. How many exactly is a question that you can answer with a lexemic frequency dictionary. These dictionaries are made by taking an extremely large corpus of texts (books, newspapers, etc...), grouping each words by lexemes and listing how many times they came up in the corpus. A lexeme is a 'unique' word that does not depend on conjugation or plurals or declensions. For instance the lexeme 'to be' would cover 'am, is, are, were' etc... These lexemic frequency dictionaries were made during the Cold War for the purpose of computerized automatic surveillance of other countries - especially Russia. I have one such dictionary in digital format for Russian. With the files I was able to create a graph of frequency versus rank: The result is that: the 75 most common words make up 40% of occurences the 200 most common words make up 50% of occurences the 524 most common words make up 60% of occurences the 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurences the 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurences the 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurences the 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurences the 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurences This shows clearly that vocabulary frequency follows both the law of Pareto (80% of occurences by only 20% of words) and the law of diminishing returns. So yes you can probably read any text with only 3000 or 5000 words, but you will always miss some key words. You can't really say that all you need is 3000 words although this certainly gets you to a more or less autonomous stage in your learning, from which you can learn many words by their context. Lexemic dictionaries also exist for other languages but are hard to find. Non-lexemic frequency dictionaries are useless as they would list you every single variation of words. They are not usable by a language learner. You can use such a dictionary (with the words and the frequency) to discover new, frequent words which you can learn, or to estimate the size of your vocabulary. http://how-to-learn-any-language.com...any-words.html |
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This is the first time I've seen the lexemic adjective.
I know what a frequency dictionary is. Routledge publishes a French one. Maybe the theory with lexemic is that they rank by the stems rather than the words themselves. So they wouldn't have two dozen forms of (their version of) a common verb like 'eat' clutter the rankings, differing by tense, number, mood, voice, etc. |
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I did NOT know that
dour is pronounced as it is. I thought it was D-ower like hour. But it's not. It's doo-r. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dour?s=t It occurs to me I've never heard anyone speak the word; only seen it used in writing. I will say I do know what many do not, which is the way err is pronounced. Not air. But urr as in burr. |
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