Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 22:28
James Blast wrote:am I to blame for this...
Nac Mac Feegle...
Waily!
bastid spoilsport etc etc
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Waily!
bastid spoilsport etc etc
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Waily!
bastid spoilsport etc etc
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 22:28
Who needs me?Mark 9:29.
Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 22:30
It's 22:33.
You're 13 hours late.
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You're 13 hours late.
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 22:30
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:It's 22:33.
You're 13 hours late.
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 22:45
I'm only hingin' oan tae 00:00 so ah kin stert thi Big Yin's Ah Bidet thread...
Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 22:49
No ya don'tJames Blast wrote:I'm only hingin' oan tae 00:00 so ah kin stert thi Big Yin's Ah Bidet thread...
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 22:50
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:No ya don'tJames Blast wrote:I'm only hingin' oan tae 00:00 so ah kin stert thi Big Yin's Ah Bidet thread...
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Beat me to it.
Well - you did leave yourself wide open James
Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 22:52
I prophecy disaster
or The Knife
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or The Knife
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Posted: 24 Jul 2007, 23:53
[quote="James Blast"]am I to blame for this ...
No that would be me.Sorry about that, I got carried away a bit.
Won't happen again
...No that would be me.Sorry about that, I got carried away a bit.
Won't happen again
Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 00:02
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...
But don't worry, at least we don't all speak like that in real life...
Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 00:32
Eh, whit!?mh wrote:But don't worry, at least we don't all speak like that in real life...
Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 00:39
You *don't*?! Well, dammit, that's no fun!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...
I was expecting o0o0o0odles of folks whose accents were worthy of my annoying mimicry... *Sigh* 
Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 00:46
see Post #61SINsister wrote:You *don't*?! Well, dammit, that's no fun!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...
Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 00:49
Ach, well I have to put on the act for ya then, don't I?
Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 00:54
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).
I blame her!
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 
Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 02:02
I didn't get to study a foreign language until I was 14! !@#$%^&*
Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 10:32
the only exposure to a foreign language I had was 3 years of French at high school.
...until I married a Yorkshire Lass
...until I married a Yorkshire Lass
Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 11:08
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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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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Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 11:55
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
The last 6 years living here, I have managed to learn Hungarian, which was fecking hard.
As I recall, it was to buy a flick knife & some illegal fireworks
The last 6 years living here, I have managed to learn Hungarian, which was fecking hard.
Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 12:40
I did French and German at high school. My Latin and ancient Greek are self-taught.
Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 14:18
That's auto-didact then, Mark!markfiend wrote:I did French and German at high school. My Latin and ancient Greek are self-taught.
Seems pretty tough. Latin ain't that easy after all...
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Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 15:20
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
Posted: 25 Jul 2007, 19:57
That's as far as I got after 6 years of study in schoolmarkfiend 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
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!
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Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 09:35
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.Posted: 26 Jul 2007, 14:33
Anyhoo, just read this on another forum:
Wiki backs this up: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.
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.