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WCDT: 2425-2429 (15-19 April, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
ankhtahr:
--- Quote from: Valdís on 17 Apr 2013, 07:13 ---Contrasting that with Icelandic speakers more or less being able to read the Old Norse texts a millennium later.
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Which is why I want to learn Íslenska one day. I want to be able to read the Edda in the original!
Compared to the changes German has undergone…
Mittelhochdeutsch (Middle High German), the German as it was in use between 1050 and 1350 is hardly comprehensable to a modern German speaker. Old High German is even worse.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Loki on 17 Apr 2013, 07:25 ---
--- Quote from: Westrim on 17 Apr 2013, 07:00 ---
--- Quote from: Loki on 16 Apr 2013, 01:42 ---Everyone my age knows that the most suitable way to deal with any bully is challenge him to a game, then kill and/or mindrape him when he inevitably loses because you are the King of Games.
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But if the bully itself is death, then he becomes a member of your band, and helps as you go on to found a new ideology of peace and rocking out.
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I am afraid that reference went over my head.
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Here, have an obscure cultural reference.
Valdís:
--- Quote from: ankhtahr on 17 Apr 2013, 08:11 ---Compared to the changes German has undergone…
Mittelhochdeutsch (Middle High German), the German as it was in use between 1050 and 1350 is hardly comprehensable to a modern German speaker. Old High German is even worse.
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Yeah, first it's a matter of actually standardizing things so that the spellings don't drift as much, which happens at different times. During that era Sweden was still Norse too and still mostly writing in Runes, so of course a lot has changed since then here. A lot of words ended up different in certain regions depending on how they chose to transliterate the Runes, too, since they have fewer letters by that point.
But once those issues get ironed out it isn't that big of a deal for me to read things many centuries old. The spelling-reforms haven't been all that radical.
Something pretty neat from the twilight of Runes, though:
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Drømde mik en drøm i nat
um silki ok ærlik pæl
"I dreamt a dream last night of equality and honest measure"
[Audio] Folksong notations with Runic lyrics, written down around 1300. :-D
GarandMarine:
--- Quote from: de_la_Nae on 17 Apr 2013, 02:01 ---Clinton made a bad first impression.
Then he made a bad second impression.
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Amusingly though, he's in the middle of a similar defensive reaction against Marten as he triggered in Marten by making an ass of himself to Hanners.
Oh how the tables have turned!
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: K1dmor ---We don't know that much about his life (just maybe that he have a job as an AI "consultor", or make interviews, surveys, etc).
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Isn't he a student? We can guess his major.
--- Quote from: ZoeB ---I know it's been mentioned before... but I think it needs emphasising.
Based on a whole heap of objective anatomical and consequent psychological evidence... not just subjective self-assessments...
Claire has always been his sister. She just didn't always look like it. Understand that, really accept it, you understand everything, it all makes sense, and is all so simple.
Try looking at the situation any other way, there will always be puzzlements and "wha....??" moments, things that don't jell.
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Understood, but when discussing Clinton's experience of the transition, isn't that what it looked like to him?
I wish all trans people had family members as supportive as Clinton.
--- Quote from: ZoeB ----confusing things in English-
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Would you like to repost that in the English is Weird thread?
--- Quote from: Valdís ---to the point of the same word being written the same way in completely different languages.
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A potential upside.
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