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the 112th chapter of our friday threads (pg. 2)
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| Swamper |
| Carl Cox for my bday tonight and then various shenanigans tomorrow. |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Big one tonight. It's my birthday, and a whole bunch of us are off to see Andrew Weatherall lay down six hours of slow motion grooves. The weather forecast for the weekend is scorching, which should make tomorrow easier to bear, and then I'm flying to Poland on Monday morning for a week in the mountains. |
Happy Birthday! (+ very jelly. Whatever Weatherall plays tonight, us muppets will be discovering in about 6 months to 2 years time).
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Carl Cox for my bday tonight
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Cox for your birthday? you sound like Jenny :toothless
Still extremely Jelly. Review please. |
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| Zoso |
| Ended up at the cabin last night, chilling to some beers and Spike's latest Windmill Sessions from the DJ Promo forum. Other than the humidity, it was great cabin weather. Saw a very, very healthy coyote as I pulled through the gate to head back to the cabin. Not sure what he's been eating to stay so filled out, but I'm thinking the guys running cattle on our farm should do a head count. :D |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| Headbanging hurts my neck. |
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| Lews |
Well this weekend I went through 7 years of British newspapers in a previous century trying to find a piece of information, with no luck, then checked one random issue of a Dutch paper in that period and found exactly what I wanted. I suppose that's a victory? Big meeting tomorrow, so I'm very glad I found the data, but damn I wish I had done something else this weekend.
I was not built for this weather; 30c/90f today, absolutely destroying my delicate system :( |
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| Lira |
Long weekend. I slept in, I took a nap, and then I had some shut-eye. And, after that, some rest. It was a much needed break :p
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Well this weekend I went through 7 years of British newspapers in a previous century trying to find a piece of information, with no luck, then checked one random issue of a Dutch paper in that period and found exactly what I wanted. |
Wait, you actually speak Afrikaans? (assuming that's why you can read Dutch) |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Long weekend. I slept in, I took a nap, and then I had some shut-eye. And, after that, some rest. It was a much needed break :p |
Sounds exhausting. |
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| Lews |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Long weekend. I slept in, I took a nap, and then I had some shut-eye. And, after that, some rest. It was a much needed break :p
Wait, you actually speak Afrikaans? (assuming that's why you can read Dutch) |
It was a Dutch paper, but written in French, thankfully. :)
I used to speak some basic Afrikaans, though never very much, but that went out the window when I started learning German when I was 13/14. My grandfather was not pleased, he thought/hoped I would progress from basic Afrikaans to basic Dutch to fluent Dutch. I overheard many angry comments when someone told him I was studying German! |
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| Trance-M |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Well this weekend I went through 7 years of British newspapers in a previous century trying to find a piece of information, with no luck, then checked one random issue of a Dutch paper in that period and found exactly what I wanted. I suppose that's a victory? Big meeting tomorrow, so I'm very glad I found the data, but damn I wish I had done something else this weekend.
I was not built for this weather; 30c/90f today, absolutely destroying my delicate system :( |
That must have been really old newspapers. Think the last Dutch newspaper in French was like 1892 or something.
Tomorrow 32 degrees over here...pfff |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Sounds exhausting. |
lol
| quote: | Originally posted by LEWS
It was a Dutch paper, but written in French, thankfully.
I used to speak some basic Afrikaans, though never very much, but that went out the window when I started learning German when I was 13/14. My grandfather was not pleased, he thought/hoped I would progress from basic Afrikaans to basic Dutch to fluent Dutch. I overheard many angry comments when someone told him I was studying German!
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It's weird though how interchangeable those languages are; my other half is Swiss and they used to get dutch radio when she grew up and after about 10 mins, could understand everything. Then a dutch mate came over the other week, I was speaking Swiss German to my missus in front of him and he suddenly "got it". Afrikaans just sounds like scouser Dutch :p |
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| Vivid Boy |
| Tore my labrum in my shoulder back under the scalpel. Fucjin my luck. I need to stop thinking I'm invincible and slow my down |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
Sounds exhausting. |
Totally, I'm knackered :D
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
It's weird though how interchangeable those languages are; my other half is Swiss and they used to get dutch radio when she grew up and after about 10 mins, could understand everything. Then a dutch mate came over the other week, I was speaking Swiss German to my missus in front of him and he suddenly "got it". |
Actually, it is English that is the damn outlier here :p
The Germanic languages haven't split that long ago, and there are quite a few words that are still pretty uniform across all languages (such as "hand", with the occasional vowel shift). If you measure the lexical differences among European languages, you'll see English hanging on its own, far from both the languages from Western Europe and the Scandinavian ones (with Danish being a bridge in more than just one way).
As a native speaker of Portuguese, though I feel English is to Germanic languages what French is to its closest relatives. Can I read French? Yup, no problem. Can I understand a French speaker? Now that's a whole different ballgame, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out Cristiano Ronaldo can shout something in his native language to Paul Pogba during a game and make himself understood, but I suspect it doesn't go both ways. Hell, even Romanian (a distant Romance language no one else understands in spite of the fact they get what everybody else says (pdf)) sounds more familiar :p
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
Afrikaans just sounds like scouser Dutch :p |
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I wonder if Trance-M concurs :D
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
It was a Dutch paper, but written in French, thankfully. :)
I used to speak some basic Afrikaans, though never very much, but that went out the window when I started learning German when I was 13/14. My grandfather was not pleased, he thought/hoped I would progress from basic Afrikaans to basic Dutch to fluent Dutch. I overheard many angry comments when someone told him I was studying German! |
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I guess he may have underestimated how much ít takes to go from basic Afrikaans to vloeiend Nederlands, although I can see why it made sense. Don't you feel like learning Dutch though? If you're studying German, and English is your native language, it'll feel like "German lite"... although it's just a matter of time until you start mixing it up with German and Danish :D
(I had no idea the Dutch wrote newspapers in French. I know it's writing in English to a foreign audience when French was the international language du jour, but still) |
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