IMHO German is best, mark, esecially if it's drunk in Germany. Guys, please... The respect reserved for wine in most countries is in Belgium also accorded to beer. No country can match Belgium in the gastronomic interest of its beers. No country has so many distinct styles of beer (though several h...

Try this site [now defunct] while I look for the one I have in mind. Great!!!!! While surfing that site, i came across the crazy-diarrhea story. I start to see a connection with the menu site... [i'm so sorry, this is so low... but i couldn't resist it]. ETA: THe one I'm looking for might be hidden...

Frank, look again. Gail was riffing on constanents.

Oooooooooops, oh my... Lol.


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One cowboy leg, waiter, one... While surfing on this very active Chinese message board , i stumbled upon a collection of Chinese dishes and their English, erm, well, "translations". Some of them are quite funny, others rather kinky. Reminds me in one or another way of a website i once foun...

I had not heard of "D'ni" before and took a look at that one. I was enchanted to see that its alphabet is comprised of constanents and vowels. I'll borrow a line from the Brazilian_dude here and say I don't know squat about this. But I'm guessing: the constanents are "stationary"...

Hi, I'm kind of working on a few websites (Chinese for speakers of Dutch and vice versa), but i hardly have any experience with it. Neither with making courses in the first place (it's easier to come up with a list of faults in existing courses than to make a course oneself), nor with the technical ...

Here you can find a collection of links to conlangs, artificial languages, auxiliary languages, etc.
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O.K. I take the bait. I have always been told that I talk like "all the people on the news channels" and that we Californians don't have much of an accent. At least most people can understand people from CA. and area states, so I'm told. Sometimes, the distinct accents in some areas make ...

I'll never forget watching an episode of "Family Fued" with a team of sisters from Louisiana. The question was, "Name a state where people speak with an accent?" The sisters had control of the question. With two unrevealed answers and two strikes against them they came up with P...

Thank you, Frank. I knew it had Arabic origins, but was real curious as to how it migrated into usage in some geographic areas of the States. Back in the 1960s, I knew some very old cowboys in New Mexico who regularly referred to them as "wadis". Perhaps the Spanish connection mentioned i...

wa·di (noun) or wa·dy
I have heard this used in the American southwest and also American Pacific Northwest in place of "coulee"...
Curious as to it's origins...

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Wikipedia

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Сan the 60-odd different verb conjugations we have for the same verb be counted as a word? Can masculine plural, feminine singular and feminine plural also be counted as words? I don't know.

If so, then i wouldn't like to start counting the billions of words in Turkish or Finnish...

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CIA Factbook: " Tensions between the Dutch-speaking Flemings of the north and the French-speaking Walloons of the south have led in recent years to constitutional amendments granting these regions formal recognition and autonomy. {Emphasis added}" Dutch seems to refer to the language, Fle...

On the one hand, you'll defend the ignorant spelling of "would of" in lieu of "would've", but on the other hand you'll declare that we must honor the formal name of a language as if it had some intrinsically pure value. Oh... then i think i didn't explain myself well. Anyway, it...

And on the putative distinction between Dutch and Flemish (or the lack thereof), please remember that they both have navies and therefore are different languages! So, according to this logic, people in the USA speak American and people in England English? There are differences between AE and BE, an...