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Does exactly what it says on the tin. Some of the nonsense contained herein may be very loosely related to The Sisters of Mercy, but I wouldn't bet your PayPal account on it. In keeping with the internet's general theme nothing written here should be taken as Gospel: over three quarters of it is utter gibberish, and most of the forum's denizens haven't spoken to another human being face-to-face for decades. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Above all else, remember this: You don't have to stay forever. I will understand.
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James Blast wrote:am I to blame for this :oops: ...



Nac Mac Feegle... :innocent:

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bastid spoilsport etc etc ;)

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Mark 9:29.
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It's 22:33.

You're 13 hours late.

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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:It's 22:33.

You're 13 hours late.

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I'm only hingin' oan tae 00:00 so ah kin stert thi Big Yin's Ah Bidet thread...
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James Blast wrote:I'm only hingin' oan tae 00:00 so ah kin stert thi Big Yin's Ah Bidet thread...
No ya don't :twisted:

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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:
James Blast wrote:I'm only hingin' oan tae 00:00 so ah kin stert thi Big Yin's Ah Bidet thread...
No ya don't :twisted:

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I prophecy disaster

or The Knife

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[quote="James Blast"]am I to blame for this :oops: ...


No that would be me.Sorry about that, I got carried away a bit.
Won't happen again :oops:
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I've to take at least partial responsibility for joining in.

But don't worry, at least we don't all speak like that in real life...
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mh wrote:But don't worry, at least we don't all speak like that in real life...
Eh, whit!?
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mh wrote:I've to take at least partial responsibility for joining in.

But don't worry, at least we don't all speak like that in real life...
You *don't*?! Well, dammit, that's no fun! :( I was expecting o0o0o0odles of folks whose accents were worthy of my annoying mimicry... *Sigh* :|
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mh wrote:I've to take at least partial responsibility for joining in.

But don't worry, at least we don't all speak like that in real life...
You *don't*?! Well, dammit, that's no fun! :( I was expecting o0o0o0odles of folks whose accents were worthy of my annoying mimicry... *Sigh* :|
see Post #61 :innocent:
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Ach, well I have to put on the act for ya then, don't I? :lol:
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:It WAS becoming a rather interesting linguistical thread... :|

And yes, we had Ancient Greek in school, because I followed Modern Languages, which made for (at ages 17 and 18):

Dutch (4 hrs), French (5 hrs), English (4hrs), German (4 hrs), Latin (4 hrs), Ancient Greek (4 hrs).
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I blame her! :evil: She made foreign languages an option instead of being compulsory in schools, and study was only available to children over the age of 10. She also snatched my milk :cry:
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I didn't get to study a foreign language until I was 14! !@#$%^&*
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the only exposure to a foreign language I had was 3 years of French at high school.

...until I married a Yorkshire Lass :wink:
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We start learning French from age 10 (IIRC? Long time ago).

Of course, French is our second main language here in Belgium.

Then from age 13 on, English comes into play, and from age 15 you got added German or Spanish, and Latin and Greek.

Of course this all depends on the studies you wish to do. Modern languages had this, but the Math or Science people didn't even have German...

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I learnt French at school & used it once on a school trip.
As I recall, it was to buy a flick knife & some illegal fireworks :lol:

The last 6 years living here, I have managed to learn Hungarian, which was fecking hard.
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I did French and German at high school. My Latin and ancient Greek are self-taught.
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markfiend wrote:I did French and German at high school. My Latin and ancient Greek are self-taught.
That's auto-didact then, Mark! ;D

Seems pretty tough. Latin ain't that easy after all...

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Meh. To tell the truth, I'm not that hot. Puzzling out ancient texts without having to look up every word is about as far as I've got so far :lol:
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markfiend wrote:Meh. To tell the truth, I'm not that hot. Puzzling out ancient texts without having to look up every word is about as far as I've got so far :lol:
That's as far as I got after 6 years of study in school ;D

But it was a great help for understanding other, living, languages.

Even in English I understand things faster because I can see a correlation with an old Latin word or phrase.

Fabrice diem, pvnc! ;D

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:lol: Indeed. For instance, it helped me work out what "anabaric" lighting meant in His Dark Materials (Just started Northern Lights last night, but that's for another thread.
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Anyhoo, just read this on another forum:
Greek majuscule sigma is always written as C and never as Σ, at least, I cannot recall ever having seen it written in the now familiar manner. I will run off to wikipedia and look it up now but I suspect that the sigma that we are used to is a quite modern invention.
Wiki backs this up:
In Eastern forms of Greek writing (as opposed to the Western Greek alphabet used in the European Greek colonies) and in the Middle Ages, the lunate sigma (upper case Ϲ, lower case ϲ) — which resembles, but which is not at all related to, the Latin letter C — was often used. Lunate sigma was frequently used for writing Medieval Greek, and it can still sometimes be seen in inscriptions in Greek Orthodox churches, but also in certain printed editions of classical authors. The form of the Cyrillic letter С [s] and Coptic letter sima are derived from lunate sigma.
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