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Have fun with your goddamm toys. Good ridance. 
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

"We"? Confused
I guess this form of speaking doesn't exist in the English language. I'm not literally meaning "we" including I or anything related to me. I will attribute this to my poor adaptation of expression of my native tongue to yours. 


Or maybe Dean meant that they still have the good old pound in good old Albion.
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

Have fun with your goddamm toys. Good ridance. 

How is a bird program on a phone a toy? It is actually a tool. Just as a carpenter who uses a scientific calculator to determine the rise and run of a roof, a birder can use the bird program as a tool.
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Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

Have fun with your goddamm toys. Good ridance. 


Says the man obsessed with airplanes.
"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Pipe down young one, too much banter
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But I like to banter :( and the forum is one of my favorite forums for bantering. 
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

the forum is one of my favorite forums for bantering. 

Don't you get smart now. Angry
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What is going on... bird watching, computers killing people, youth hatred, bantering...... Wacko
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Some language really do sound faster than others
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Some language really do sound faster than others
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Or, as I like to say - bullsnot. "Syllable information density" does not explain why dialects and regional accents of the same language have different speeds, or why two people of the same regional accent have different speed.
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It's not a full explanation, but don't you think it gives a fairly good overview of the issue? 
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Some language really do sound faster than others
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Or, as I like to say - bullsnot. "Syllable information density" does not explain why dialects and regional accents of the same language have different speeds, or why two people of the same regional accent have different speed.


Some people are just slow, I believe …

I found the article very interesting. Greek is obviously a fast language where you need many syllables to express what you mean. It’s also a very rich and concise language, though "malaka" ("w*nker") seems to be the word they use the most.
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

It's not a full explanation, but don't you think it gives a fairly good overview of the issue? 
I'm not sold on the idea of syllable information density, though I admit how that is quantised in comparable measures across all languages is not covered in the article. Working backwards from an observation that all languages convey the same information per minute would lead to the conclusion that the languages with more syllables per minute will have lower information density per syllable - I guess I'm struggling to see how they worked this out from the opposite direction, ie they calculated the information density per syllable first, then determined that all languages contained the same information per minute... (does that even make sense?)
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Let’s compare a few words.

Greek:
Χριστουγεννιάτικο δέντρο (8 syllables)
Σαββατοκύριακο (6)
Μαχαιροπίρουνα (6)

Norwegian:
Juletre (3)
Helg (1)
Bestikk (2)

English:
Christmas tree (3)
Weekend (2)
Cutlery (3)

The Greek language has a lot of very long words, and the people here often speak very fast. That doesn’t mean that
Greek is an inferior language, of course. But the difference is obvious, and I could give you many other examples.
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^ No argument from me there, but you are giving each syllable equal weight and significance, the study did not do that, it gave some syllables more meaning than others and then calculated an average for each language.
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Yogurt makes your testicles bigger
Our Democrats need cases of it

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Yogurt could feed your sexual prowess, says the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 
Last summer, the MIT team wanted to test the link between eating yogurt and obesity.
The team fed mice with either a high-fat, low-nutrient diet or a diet more typical of rodents.
 
“The most entertaining aspects of all this were things we didn’t anticipate,” says biologist
Susan Erdman.   Male mice developed testicles that were 5% heavier than mice that were
only fed regular food, and 15% heavier than mice fed only junk food.

Wait, how do you weigh a mouse's testicles?
And don't say with a Mouse Testicle scale.
 
The extra yogurt boost also gave the creatures a “swagger,” researchers said. Male mice were faster
to inseminate females and had more babies than the other group. As a result, females had larger litters.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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The last effort to form a coalition in Greece failed, due to Alexis Tsipras who refused to participate in a government that would go against the people’s will. Quote from Athens News:

Where does that leave us? Right back where we started. No coalition government, no real meeting of minds and the hot potato that is the exploratory mandate back where it started, in the hands of President Papoulias. While there is still a theoretical chance of a coalition shaped solution in tomorrow's meeting of the political leaders under the President, anyone with an operating brain will realise that elections are the only way forward right now. Or backward, depending on how you look at things.

You can follow their live blog here:

http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/8/55470

I can actually understand Tsipras: The Greek voters said a resounding no to the parties that have been in charge for many, many years – and to their way of handling the crisis.
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:


Wait, how do you weigh a mouse's testicles?
And don't say with a Mouse Testicle scale.
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When I had pet rats who were male.... their balls were nearly bigger than their heads. These are creatures made for multiplying ShockedTongue
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This is for Slarti and all those who still vote for "the lesser of two evils" every few years:

 
Death and destruction are bipartisan issues and the last two president's differences are certainly only skin deep.


Time always wins.
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