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02-27-2017, 03:40 PM
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Quality Contributor
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Luxembourg
Gender: Male
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Re: Miscellany
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02-27-2017, 05:14 PM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dee Cee
Gender: Male
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Re: Miscellany
There was a crack between their buttocks?
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03-01-2017, 05:57 AM
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NeoTillichian Hierophant & Partisan Hack
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Iowa
Gender: Male
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Re: Miscellany
They were probably plumbers.
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03-03-2017, 05:39 AM
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Admin
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Ypsilanti, Mi
Gender: Male
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Re: Miscellany
Been there done that.
No, I wore handcuffs. I didn't handcuff a nonagenarian.
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03-04-2017, 04:41 PM
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Just keep m'nose clean, egg, chips & beans, I'm always full of steam
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: so far out, I'm too far in
Gender: Bender
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Re: Miscellany
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Originally Posted by Stormlight
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Yo dawg I heard you like crack ...
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03-05-2017, 02:36 PM
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Solipsist
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Re: Miscellany
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03-06-2017, 01:06 AM
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Forum Killer
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Re: Miscellany
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03-06-2017, 05:47 AM
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NeoTillichian Hierophant & Partisan Hack
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Iowa
Gender: Male
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Re: Miscellany
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03-06-2017, 06:57 PM
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Shitpost Sommelier
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Re: Miscellany
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03-06-2017, 09:58 PM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Miscellany
That's easy for you to say! :shakegerman:
Also, on foreigners and their languages:
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We investigated whether and how foreign language influences moral judgment.
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Foreign language prompted more lenient judgments for moral transgressions.
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Foreign language reduced confidence in people's moral evaluations.
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Violations of everyday norms were judged less harshly in a foreign language.
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Foreign language might act through a reduced activation of social and moral norms.
Participants judged the moral wrongness of several private actions, such as consensual incest, that were depicted as harmless and presented in either the native or a foreign language. The use of a foreign language promoted less severe moral judgments and less confidence in them. Harmful and harmless social norm violations, such as saying a white lie to get a reduced fare, were also judged more leniently. The results do not support explanations based on facilitated deliberation, misunderstanding, or the adoption of a universalistic stance. We propose that the influence of foreign language is best explained by a reduced activation of social and moral norms when making moral judgments.
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How foreign language shapes moral judgment
So there, that's my excuse. But you evil bastards have none (except some of you wot do).
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03-06-2017, 10:17 PM
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Coffin Creep
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The nightmare realm
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Re: Miscellany
Words are symbols and acquire connotations that affect our perceptions. A rose by any other name might smell as sweet but the other name won't trigger the same reactions/associations in our minds. The local word for some act deemed immoral brings with it a host of associations that a description if the act does not, especially in crimes which mihht be deemed victimless.
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03-06-2017, 11:21 PM
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Jin, Gi, Rei, Ko, Chi, Shin, Tei
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Re: Miscellany
Yesterday was my favorite 10 11 year-old's birthday party.
Now Anna seems to work on the assumption that hugs are strange things that some adults do. For some strange, inexplicable reason. But real people don't hug. Ever.
I can sympathize, as I have a rather similar attitude -- toward most people, anyway.
So when she gave me a serious, completely genuine hug, I knew that I'd done well with my choice of gifts. And it pretty-much made my day.
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03-06-2017, 11:35 PM
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Shitpost Sommelier
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Re: Miscellany
Quote:
Originally Posted by Watser?
That's easy for you to say! :shakegerman:
Also, on foreigners and their languages:
Quote:
We investigated whether and how foreign language influences moral judgment.
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Foreign language prompted more lenient judgments for moral transgressions.
•
Foreign language reduced confidence in people's moral evaluations.
•
Violations of everyday norms were judged less harshly in a foreign language.
•
Foreign language might act through a reduced activation of social and moral norms.
Participants judged the moral wrongness of several private actions, such as consensual incest, that were depicted as harmless and presented in either the native or a foreign language. The use of a foreign language promoted less severe moral judgments and less confidence in them. Harmful and harmless social norm violations, such as saying a white lie to get a reduced fare, were also judged more leniently. The results do not support explanations based on facilitated deliberation, misunderstanding, or the adoption of a universalistic stance. We propose that the influence of foreign language is best explained by a reduced activation of social and moral norms when making moral judgments.
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How foreign language shapes moral judgment
So there, that's my excuse. But you evil bastards have none (except some of you wot do).
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Well I put pineapple on a pannakoek today!
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03-07-2017, 12:59 AM
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Projecting my phallogos with long, hard diction
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dee Cee
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Re: Miscellany
That's just conformism.
Pineapple is, if anything, less arbitrary as a name than ananas, which is simply a borrowing from an Amazonian Tupi language and has no semantic connection to anything else in non-Tupi languages. Pineapples do kinda look like pinecones, and like apples they are fruits (pinecones used to be called pineapples, actually, but the fruit made them switch the word).
It's also not unanimously ananas and variants (Swahili nanasi, Haitian zannanna, etc.)... English pineapple and Spanish piña (also due to the resemblance to pinecones) are also the source of a number of languages' names for the fruit (e.g. Afrikaans pynappel, Japanese painappuru, Tahitian painapo, Tagalog pinya). Other languages were like English and Spanish and came up with their own names instead of borrowing the name as well...
And of course other indigenous languages of the Americas have their own, and completely different, names for pineapples, like Quecha chirimaway, Nahuatl matzahtli, Aymara achupaya. Ananas isn't special, it's just the first word the Portuguese heard for it.
But yes, most languages use some variation of ananas.
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03-07-2017, 01:11 AM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Miscellany
That's pannekoek.
Also: you monster!
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03-07-2017, 01:15 AM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Miscellany
Also in Dutch we have aardappel (earth apple, like French pomme de terre) and sinaasappel (I suppose it comes from Chinese apple somehow but it means orange).
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03-07-2017, 01:16 AM
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Shitpost Sommelier
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Re: Miscellany
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Originally Posted by Watser?
That's pannekoek.
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And I actually knew that. Bad typo, bad.
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Originally Posted by Watser?
Also: you monster!
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And I used maple syrup.
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03-07-2017, 01:44 AM
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Shitpost Sommelier
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Re: Miscellany
That sounds crazy good.
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03-07-2017, 01:55 AM
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Fishy mokey
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Furrin parts
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Re: Miscellany
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03-07-2017, 11:31 AM
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Solipsist
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kolmannessa kerroksessa
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Re: Miscellany
Even in Finnish it's ananas. And Finnish likes to be different.
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03-07-2017, 12:40 PM
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Counter
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands
Gender: Male
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Re: Miscellany
Quote:
Originally Posted by Watser?
That's pannekoek.
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That's panne nkoek.
Ever since the spelling reform of 1995
Which is an unholy abomination
But still
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03-07-2017, 01:02 PM
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Solipsist
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kolmannessa kerroksessa
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Re: Miscellany
Dutch orthography fight!
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03-07-2017, 01:51 PM
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Coffin Creep
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: The nightmare realm
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Re: Miscellany
Epic Dutch Battles of HISTORY!
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