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Quote from: snabbott on March 28, 2011, 05:06:56 PM
Do you have multiple monitors for your computer?
No, but I have multiple monitors for multiple computers. :P

Which childhood/teenage trend are you glad is over?
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Would you have joined the resistance movement in France during the German occupation? :P
 
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Delling

I think I would have, yes. I mean we can't have the French ending up with a Germanic language because of WWII too, now can we? (can't find the clip, cf. Blondie. I'm sure Deloria knows of whom I speak. *shudders*)


Do you know why German and English have the similarities that they do? (Pro-tip: it's not WWII)
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...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

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Quote from: Delling on March 29, 2011, 05:18:59 AM
I think I would have, yes. I mean we can't have the French ending up with a Germanic language because of WWII too, now can we? (can't find the clip, cf. Blondie. I'm sure Deloria knows of whom I speak. *shudders*)
XD XD Ahem.

And this is Blondie. :P
 
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Quote from: Delling on March 29, 2011, 05:18:59 AM
Do you know why German and English have the similarities that they do? (Pro-tip: it's not WWII)

If I recall my second-hand English history correctly, I think it was the Norman Invasion in 1066.  The Norman and Anglo cultures sort of merged, and since the Normans were a Germanic tribe, their language became a huge influence for English.

Did I answer that question correctly?
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Sounds good to me, but what do I know? :P

Do you have random notes scattered about your desk from playing TSL?
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I did but then threw them away in attempts to keep the desk clean. Didn't work but still.

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Deloria

Quote from: LadyTerra on March 31, 2011, 02:31:32 PM
Quote from: Delling on March 29, 2011, 05:18:59 AM
Do you know why German and English have the similarities that they do? (Pro-tip: it's not WWII)

If I recall my second-hand English history correctly, I think it was the Norman Invasion in 1066.  The Norman and Anglo cultures sort of merged, and since the Normans were a Germanic tribe, their language became a huge influence for English.

Did I answer that question correctly?
Darthkiwi may kill me for simplifying this, but I have to leave in four minutes. :P The Normans (French) invaded the Saxons (a tribe speaking what is now more or less Low German (which is coincidentally spoken in the North of Germany)). English is German-based with huge French influences and lots of Greek-Latin hybrids. :P
 
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Quote from: Delling on March 29, 2011, 05:18:59 AM
Do you know why German and English have the similarities that they do? (Pro-tip: it's not WWII)

WWI then?

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Delling

Quote from: kindofdoon on March 31, 2011, 11:38:35 PM
Quote from: Delling on March 29, 2011, 05:18:59 AM
Do you know why German and English have the similarities that they do? (Pro-tip: it's not WWII)

WWI then?
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Quote from: Deloria on March 31, 2011, 10:57:13 PM
Darthkiwi may kill me for simplifying this, but I have to leave in four minutes. :P

He can't kill you. That'd be treason. :yes: ...and would surely bring the entire court down upon his head.
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...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

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Deloria

Quote from: Delling on March 31, 2011, 11:48:23 PM
Quote from: kindofdoon on March 31, 2011, 11:38:35 PM
Quote from: Delling on March 29, 2011, 05:18:59 AM
Do you know why German and English have the similarities that they do? (Pro-tip: it's not WWII)

WWI then?
My face--it hurts from the sudden involuntary impact with my palm.  :wall:
So does mine. :( :( I mean, it clearly had to have happened before the colonies had even been established, otherwise a pidgin would have developed in what is now the US because the old colonists would be speaking whatever it is they were meant to be speaking in Blondie's make-believe world before English was German-based and the new colonists would presumably be speaking German and the German oppressors would had to have banned all English and that just isn't how life works. :P Consider, for instance, that all French dialects except for Parisian were banned for quite a long time in France, but that didn't get very far in practice. :P

But really, a war of less than ten years changing rudimentary grammatical elements like structure and word order and leaving traces of declension in a principally almost uninflected language, even though the aggressors never got to the mainland? :P It's just silly. :P
 
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Quote from: kindofdoon on March 31, 2011, 11:38:35 PM
Quote from: Delling on March 29, 2011, 05:18:59 AM
Do you know why German and English have the similarities that they do? (Pro-tip: it's not WWII)

WWI then?

Quote from: Delling on March 31, 2011, 11:48:23 PM
My face--it hurts from the sudden involuntary impact with my palm.  :wall:

Quote from: Deloria on April 01, 2011, 04:58:53 AM
So does mine....But really, a war of less than ten years changing rudimentary grammatical elements like structure and word order and leaving traces of declension in a principally almost uninflected language, even though the aggressors never got to the mainland? :P It's just silly. :P

You guys know I was joking, right? I appear to have accidentally trolled both of you very well.

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Deloria

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I was still rambling about Blondie, not you. :P And showing off my knowledge of obscure French ordinances. :P
 
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Quote from: writerlove on March 31, 2011, 08:16:54 PM
Have ever you ever somebody so much it makes you cry? (90s kid reference here!)
....uuuhhhhh, I'm definitely a 90's kid, but I don't get it. :( There's a Brandy song called "Have You Ever," is that what you're referring to?

What's a weird consequence for a bet or dare that you were forced to do?
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darthkiwi

QuoteSo does mine. Sad Sad I mean, it clearly had to have happened before the colonies had even been established, otherwise a pidgin would have developed in what is now the US

Maybe she thinks language is updated by the software manufacturers instantaneously :P Germany invades England and just uploads its own v. 1.5 patch and suddenly all the Americans are speaking a partly Germanic language! XD

And, no, I wouldn't kill you, even if you butchered the history of the English language. :) Which you didn't, by the way. The only bits you left out were the little tricklings of Norse which occurred before the Norman invasion (which were fairly minor, since both AS and Norse are derived from the same Germanic roots) and loan-words like rucksack, bungalow and kiosk, which would happen in any language, really.
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Delling

Quote from: darthkiwi on April 02, 2011, 06:05:07 AM
QuoteSo does mine. Sad Sad I mean, it clearly had to have happened before the colonies had even been established, otherwise a pidgin would have developed in what is now the US

Maybe she thinks language is updated by the software manufacturers instantaneously :P Germany invades England and just uploads its own v. 1.5 patch and suddenly all the Americans are speaking a partly Germanic language! XD

And, no, I wouldn't kill you, even if you butchered the history of the English language. :) Which you didn't, by the way. The only bits you left out were the little tricklings of Norse which occurred before the Norman invasion (which were fairly minor, since both AS and Norse are derived from the same Germanic roots) and loan-words like rucksack, bungalow and kiosk, which would happen in any language, really.

I did notice the Norse thing, but she did seem spot on to me as well.


Quote from: kindofdoon on April 01, 2011, 10:43:59 AM
Quote from: kindofdoon on March 31, 2011, 11:38:35 PM
Quote from: Delling on March 29, 2011, 05:18:59 AM
Do you know why German and English have the similarities that they do? (Pro-tip: it's not WWII)

WWI then?

Quote from: Delling on March 31, 2011, 11:48:23 PM
My face--it hurts from the sudden involuntary impact with my palm.  :wall:

Quote from: Deloria on April 01, 2011, 04:58:53 AM
So does mine....But really, a war of less than ten years changing rudimentary grammatical elements like structure and word order and leaving traces of declension in a principally almost uninflected language, even though the aggressors never got to the mainland? :P It's just silly. :P

You guys know I was joking, right? I appear to have accidentally trolled both of you very well.
Yeah, I knew you were joking, but the hyperbolic response is sometimes the most amusing.

Quote from: Haids1987 on April 01, 2011, 12:16:29 PM
What's a weird consequence for a bet or dare that you were forced to do?

Hrmm... the only bet or dare that I can recall was a wager between myself and Deloria about the outcome of LoL matches... which ended in a bit of an anticlimax, but I wouldn't say it was all that weird.


Do you often get involved in bets and dares?
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...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

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Deloria

Quote from: darthkiwi on April 02, 2011, 06:05:07 AM
QuoteSo does mine. Sad Sad I mean, it clearly had to have happened before the colonies had even been established, otherwise a pidgin would have developed in what is now the US

Maybe she thinks language is updated by the software manufacturers instantaneously :P Germany invades England and just uploads its own v. 1.5 patch and suddenly all the Americans are speaking a partly Germanic language! XD

And, no, I wouldn't kill you, even if you butchered the history of the English language. :) Which you didn't, by the way. The only bits you left out were the little tricklings of Norse which occurred before the Norman invasion (which were fairly minor, since both AS and Norse are derived from the same Germanic roots) and loan-words like rucksack, bungalow and kiosk, which would happen in any language, really.
This is true. :P There were also places in which Norse dialects were spoken until quite late and Norn (which is similar to Faroese) was spoken in Shetland up until the 1850's, but I couldn't mention it because I had to rush off to be in time for my midterm. :P

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What did you do this weekend? :P
 
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