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Happy New Year to those of us who can be happy!

For the rest of us, knuckle down and accept the continued suffering.

And now fuck off, 2016!!!
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Still a little early for me, but as I'll be at work for the hour: Happy New Year all. :D :ymparty:
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Well, by now I can say this to everyone- happy new year.
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Hi I'm drunk. The forum seems dead. :(
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It waxes and wanes. What was your nip of choice tonight?
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didn't realize jabber hasnt been posted in for such a while!
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Same.
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Well, seeing the most powerful man in the wordl does enough jabbering to cover the entire world's need for jabber... :P

Anyway.

Not really newsworthy: Girlfriend of a colleague of mine has one of these, then I saw another girl in the supermarket today with one. Promptly, CNN to the explanatory rescue.

Oh, I also sold some Magic cards to said girlfriend today. :)
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Link with the words

So.. German members of the forum? Why?
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A lot of those are obviously just dialectical variants the same word. Krose vs Kröse, frex. And a bunch are just adding various dialects words for 'apple' to the front of other ones.
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Exactly.

And I know pretty much none of them.
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English, supposedly, has the most words of any language in the world. This is probably because we tend to lure other languages into dark alleyways and mug them for their words, but...my maternal-maternal great-grandparents couldn't speak to each other in their native German because he was Prussian and she was Bavarian...And my maternal-paternal great-grandmother had trouble speaking to many Spanish-speakers from Latin American because she learned High Court Castillian Spanish...and my paternal grandparents may have spoken French, but nothing like they speak in Paris...

For all the ribbing people give English...everyone else is pretty bad too.
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Yeah, it's the same here with Spanish. Mexican Spanish is apparently pretty different from eastern NM Spanish. I think Shouri has made a tweet or two about how Argentinean Spanish is different from, say Uruguay. I don't really know any other language so I don't know if English has a good comparison to those or not.
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Well, we had exchange students that had interesting differences. We had one that wanted a "rubber" and it took a bit to clarify what was meant. Another liked the Viper car style, but pronounced it with a w sound. My parents visited some of them and their families later and some of their siblings were upset that they were learning the "wrong" English. There are some rather popular differences between English and American. One that we're commonly warned about is not to call it a "fanny pack" and say "bum bag" instead. The differences between dialects are mostly easy enough for people speaking the same language to at least understand each other. But even within this country you have the same drink called "soda pop", "soda", "pop", "coke", etc. So it can take some effort to understand each other.
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Artemisia wrote:my maternal-maternal great-grandparents couldn't speak to each other in their native German because he was Prussian and she was Bavarian...
And they went on to produce progeny instead of kill each other like they should???? =))
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