-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Zakama
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop?
OVER 9000!!!!
Zakama, that was awesome.
Somehow through a series of links I managed to get to this. Funny how you can get to almost anything on Youtube.
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Phase
The proper name would drive you all to insanity, as the place's first resident was Cthulhu. He has a summerhome there.
And doesn't that explain all the people who went to unimaginable lengths to get it. :smallamused:
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Gezina
<trim a lot of interesting Dutch perspective on Dutch history - cheers Gezina>
In fact, it gets very little mention in the Act of Abjuration
Coolest name for a law ever (at least, outside the field of Roman jurisprudence). I just get an image of dozens of plump, richly-dressed Dutch burghers standing in circles gesticulating and chanting in Old High German. :smallbiggrin:
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Gezina
Just because you English refuse to spell Jeruzalem right doesn't make the correct spelling wrong.
We both fail at spelling Heirosolyma. :smallwink:
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ghost_warlock
That's correct. If archaeologists would work harder, they might find the collection of throwaway paperback novels he'd read while vacationing there.
Such as the well-renowned for one summer then forgotten "Requiem for a Screaming Nightmare, Oh God I Can't Close My Eyes." or the famed self-help book: "So Every Mortal You Meet Commits Suicide: Coming to Terms With Your status as a Godless Abomintion."
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Having your security alarm go off at 4 in the morning for no apparent reason does not lead to a relaxing night of sleep. Apparently it does lead to a blinding headache, and a 5 year old who somehow manages to sleep thru...well...a security alarm going off at 4 in the morning. And still gets up full of energy a couple of hours later.
To make matters worse, being pregnant during this whole thing nearly guarantees that the baby will awaken when you do, and start kicking every spot you try to lay on to get comfortable, and generally stepping on your bladder. Multiple times.
*sighs*
Well, at least it wasn't someone actually breaking in at 4am.
*goes to get more coffee*
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
The Rose Dragon
If you want the most correct spelling, it's Kudüs. Not Jerusalem or Jeruzalem or anything like that.
So, fail.
I'm going to have to jump on the "naming Jerusalem" bandwagon with "Ierusalim". No "z"s.
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Destro_Yersul
"I'm never calling it that."
Anyone who gets that reference can have TWO cookies.
Titan AE.
Great film; wonderful flight and chase scenes.
Cookies please.
Pretty much no place is spelt the same in another language; but they're often recognisable. However, I suppose it depends on the alpphabet and language family.
London - English (Indo - European family)
London - German (see above)
Londinium - Latin (see above)
Londres - French (see above)
Londen - Afrikaans
Lontoo - Finnish (Uralic family)
Lākana - Hawaian (Malayo - Polynesian family)
Londra - Turkish (Altaic family)
Actually, now I think about it, choosing London may not have been the best choice as it does look fairly familiar. Hawaian might pose a bit of a problem though.
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
London - English (Indo - European family)
London - German (see above)
Londinium - Latin (see above)
Londres - French (see above)
Londen - Afrikaans
Lontoo - Finnish (Uralic family)
Lākana - Hawaian (Malayo - Polynesian family)
Londra - Turkish (Altaic family)
Naturally, the bolded one is the only correct spelling. All others are just posers.
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Hmm. Since lunch today, I've been feeling delightfully antisocial. :smallsmile:
Meh. My repressed cynicism kicked in in full force. :smallannoyed:
I wonder how long it'll take to go away. I'm guessing two or three days.
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Israel is big on cities with millions of scary-spelled names. There's one that is STILL called three things:
Acre
Akko
Akka
And historically it was Aak, Ake, Antiochia Ptolemais, Ptolemais, and who knows what else.
WHY?!?!
Well...it's 5000 years old and it's been possessed by the Greeks, the Romans, the Turks (Ottoman Empire), the English, the Persians, the French, the Arabs, the Jews...I suppose it shouldn't be any big surprise. But even on modern maps and signs, the name varies. :smallamused:
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Dragonrider
Israel is big on cities with millions of scary-spelled names. There's
one that is STILL called three things:
Acre
Akko
Akka
And historically it was Aak, Ake, Antiochia Ptolemais, Ptolemais, and who knows what else.
WHY?!?!
Well...it's 5000 years old and it's been possessed by the Greeks, the Romans, the Turks (Ottoman Empire), the English, the Persians, the French, the Arabs, the Jews...I suppose it shouldn't be any big surprise. But even on modern maps and signs, the name varies. :smallamused:
All I have to do is link one short music video... :smalltongue:
EDIT: Not the same city, but the same idea.
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
randman22222
Love that song, They Might Be Giants FTW!
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Wouldn't the correct spelling of the name of a place be the spelling that the inhabitants of that place use?
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
groundhog22
Wouldn't the correct spelling of the name of a place be the spelling that the inhabitants of that place use?
Of course not! How can you expect those silly people to know where they live? Nonsense, I say.
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
groundhog22
Wouldn't the correct spelling of the name of a place be the spelling that the inhabitants of that place use?
Argument:
中国
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by Groundhog22
Wouldn't the correct spelling of the name of a place be the spelling that the inhabitants of that place use?
This argument assumes that the inhabitants of a place have the greatest right to name it, which I do not believe to be necessarily the case: A name is merely a word used to evoke the idea of a spatial location or object, thus a person or place can have as many names as there are individual perspectives of that person or place.
In terms of communication this is something of a double edged sword; while you may personally have a particularly evocative word for a specific place, which best represents the intricacies of your idea of the place, that idea may very well contradict another individuals idea of the place and thus be useless in the sense of communicating that particular location to another individual.
I have always found the idea of having 'intimate' names, a name which invokes a specific set of ideas and feelings within a select group of people, to be rather Romantic.
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
All right, I take your points. But this means that on a global scale, there's no correct spelling for anything. (I bet anyone who's failed a spelling test before can concur with that.)
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
groundhog22
All right, I take your points. But this means that on a global scale, there's no correct spelling for anything. (I bet anyone who's failed a spelling test before can concur with that.)
Well, there's precious few things that are absolute globally anyway. Since spelling is a (formalized) best guess at representing spoken language, it's no wonder that people spell things differently where the languages are even slightly different. When people have entirely different words for the same thing, spelling is bound to get mucked up.
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
中国 = zhong guo
If we were to use that, we would also use the correct word...right? :smalltongue: But asking us to call China "Zhong Guo" would be like asking them to call Mei Guo "The USA". Though we did make the switch from Persia to Iran in the '50s or whatever, which was very kind of us. :smallamused:
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
So, we agree the proper spelling for the Chinese homeland is Çin, right?
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
ghost warlock
Well, there's precious few things that are absolute globally anyway.
Come to think, is there anything that's absolute globally? The only thing I can think of is the 7-day week, and even that's doubtful. I know that communist Russia tried to institute a 5-day week once, so it wouldn't surprise me if there are place where a week doesn't have 7 days.
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
groundhog22
Come to think, is there anything that's absolute globally? The only thing I can think of is the 7-day week, and even that's doubtful. I know that communist Russia tried to institute a 5-day week once, so it wouldn't surprise me if there are place where a week doesn't have 7 days.
There's actually a tribe of nomads in Australia (can't remember the name, but the tribe still exists) where they doesn't use the week system at all. So, no, it's not competely global.
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
groundhog22
Come to think, is there anything that's absolute globally? The only thing I can think of is the 7-day week, and even that's doubtful. I know that communist Russia tried to institute a 5-day week once, so it wouldn't surprise me if there are place where a week doesn't have 7 days.
Well, I was thinking more like gravitation, everyone has DNA, fire is hot (in comparison to room temperature); that sort of thing. :smallwink:
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
Titan AE.
Great film; wonderful flight and chase scenes.
Cookies please.
Pretty much no place is spelt the same in another language; but they're often recognisable. However, I suppose it depends on the alpphabet and language family.
London - English (Indo - European family)
London - German (see above)
Londinium - Latin (see above)
Londres - French (see above)
Londen - Afrikaans (see above)
Lontoo - Finnish (Uralic family)
Lākana - Hawaian (Malayo - Polynesian family)
Londra - Turkish (Altaic family)
Actually, now I think about it, choosing London may not have been the best choice as it does look fairly familiar. Hawaian might pose a bit of a problem though.
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, and if you want to get even more precise, it's one of the three currently living Low Franconian languages (The other two are Dutch and Limburgian)
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Gezina
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, and if you want to get even more precise, it's one of the three currently living Low Franconian languages (The other two are Dutch and Limburgian)
Ah, wasn't exactly sure because those languages are a bit odd.
Why am I still in love with Queen? Actually that's a redunant question; or more accurately, a poorly phrased one.
Let me start over:
Why am I still listening to QUeen after roughly four straight hours of doing so? Wouldn't most people switch, even for only one song, to another bad before coming back?
And my inner turmoil over Queen + Paul ROdgers still goes on.
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
Why am I still in love with Queen? Actually that's a redunant question; or more accurately, a poorly phrased one.
Let me start over:
Why am I still listening to QUeen after roughly four straight hours of doing so? Wouldn't most people switch, even for only one song, to another bad before coming back?
Because good music needs to play over and over and over and over until you hear it even when it's not playing. :)
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Dragonrider
Because good music needs to play over and over and over and over until you hear it even when it's not playing. :)
Indeed.
*starts humming Tantric's Something Better*
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
CurlyKitGirl
Titan AE.
Great film; wonderful flight and chase scenes.
Cookies please.
Here you go, two cookies. They have chocolate chips. You are also entitled to one free book from our extensive collection. Enjoy!
:smallbiggrin:
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Dragonrider
Because good music needs to play over and over and over and over until you hear it even when it's not playing. :)
Exactly. Music is meant to do this.
-
Re: Cristo's Consistently Confusing and Constantly Casual Random Banter #105
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Dragonrider
Because good music needs to play over and over and over and over until you hear it even when it's not playing. :)
In college I live in two worlds. One is for the learning where you listen to the teacher. The other world is divided into two realms: the Realm of Imagination and the Realm of Music.
The latter Realm is always working; I can hum and sing along to every Queen song I know, Sweet song and more bands time perfect, but not pitch perfect as I don't believe I can sing.
That's why I need no iPod. My brain is one.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Destro_Yersul
Here you go, two cookies. They have chocolate chips. You are also entitled to one free book from our extensive collection. Enjoy!
:smallbiggrin:
White chocolate?
Please. I love white chocolate to pieces.
And as for the book . . . how about Across The Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn. I've already dropped the hint to dad (by picking up the entire series the shop had - four out of five, quite nicely, but not the first one) on Saturday as a Christmas pressie.