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Some famous names: Joseph Stalin [dʒoʊsəf / ˈdʒəʊsəf ˈstaːɫɪn] or [ən] Wilhelm Röntgen [ˈvɪɫɦɛɫm ˈɹœːnʔgn̩] or [ɾentogen] because it's used in Japanese for X-rays Marie Skłodowska- Curie [ˈmaɹi ˈkʰjʉːɹi] Niels Bohr [niəɫs boː.ɹ̩] Erwin Schrödinger [(ɛɹwən) ˈʃɹəʊdɪŋɹ̩] or [ˈʃɹœːdɪŋɹ̩] if i want to sh...

Sure, have a Reunion

(low hanging fruit, sorry)

The name of the company we both work for that I don't want to post online.

Yeah i'll be in edinburgh mostly, I think. I'm not decided for sure yet, will probably try to travel around a bit if I can.

Atlantic : [ɘɾˈʟ̞ɛ̃(ɾ̃)ɘʔk]~[ɘɾˈɰɛ̃(ɾ̃)ɘʔk], in careful speech [ɛɾˈʟ̞ɛ̃ntʰɘʔk] what on earth is your dialect? when we finally got travis to post recordings to prove this, it sounded like he had a speech impediment. however, i have also since heard people with this weird lowered dark L aside from hi...

言葉は一対一じゃないからさ
it's not word for word

(a more direct translation would be "u mean like __?")

首がまた痛いわ…そして頭も痛い。そんな地獄は終わらない感じがある
my neck still fucking hurts. and therefore my head hurts too. it's like this hell will never end

Risla wrote:

finlay wrote:jesus. well at least you've got g***

good luck. come visit tokyo sometime

I am now trying to figure out what g*** is.

EDIT: oh doh I figured out what it is

I definitely want to visit Tokyo sometime. Probably this summer...

I'll be in the UK most of the summer. :/

締め Noun 1. tie up; bind; fastening; tightening​ 2. sum; total amount; total​ 3. judo choking (strangling) techniques​ 4. last meal eaten when going restaurant hopping​ 5. completion; conclusion; rounding off​ Counter 6. counter for bundles; counter for faggots; counter for bundles of 2000 sheets of...

for a second there i thought 'coming to the house by SMS' was a totally normal thing that happens to normal people

jesus. well at least you've got g***

good luck. come visit tokyo sometime

Risla wrote:Meanwhile…

Fake degree claims dog prominent Spanish politicians

ya beat me!

Naiketileigan nanfuzupitisa falusezei?
Is that the language of furries?

you mean like this?

jmcd wrote:The only meaning of cereal bar that I know of is this:

i.e. something you eat, not somewhere you go to.

I didn't even make the connection - I was thinking like, i'm sure i ate cereal bars in the US... what's he talking about?

consider that those numbers are almost a decade old Also consider that when i wrote that i was unemployed and wrote later in the thread that it's more like i was unwilling to pay more than £30. But I've bought a few sex toys since coming to Japan and I think the most expensive I've bought was the s...

yeah like i don't remember writing that at all. i'd be more coy about it now lol

oh i mean they're not only distinguished by syllabification. there's two t's in one of them...

the syllabification thing is moot anyway as you can always redefine the criteria as pre-stress and post-stress. i think if you do that then h/ŋ complementary distribution holds up i heard a lot of phonologists don't really use phonemes and allophones as formal linguistic concepts anymore, but then t...

ところで、弁当はカレシに 作ってただでかな？ 作るのが通常ですか？* tokoro de | bentou wa kareshi ni tsurutte tada de ka na By the way, is it (really) common to make bento for boyfriends? (In Japan I mean, of course) I've just tended to see it done a bit in Japanese media, that it's the done thing for any girl newly dating someone...

でもレントとかを祝わない Demo Lent toka wo iwawanai But I don't celebrate Lent or anything like that. Niemand "feiert" die Fastenzeit. Sie wird nur "eingehalten". Nobody "celebrates" Lent. It's only "observed" or "kept". まあ、そうだね。キリスト教じゃないんだからね。 spose so... i'm not christian, so... I'm glad you got some love fr...

バレンタインは、一人暮らし :cry: barentain wa, hitori gurashi i was all alone on valentines day D; ごめん、なんかメロドラマチックな感じだった。彼氏は仕事があっただけなので gomen, nanka melodramatic na kanji datta. kareshi wa shigoto ga atta dake nanode naw, i should stop being a drama queen, sorry. my boyfriend was just working 日本はバレンタインをおかしくやってる。...

同じだよ。マルディグラってフランス語だから。 Onnaji da yo. Mardi Gras-tte France-go dakara It's the same. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday". https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/マルディグラ をチェックして、英語では「告解の火曜日」とか呼ばれるって。イギルスではパンケーキデイとよく呼ばれるんだ。 wikipedia wo check shite, eigo de wa 'kokkai no kayoubi' toka yobareru tte. Igirisu de...

Imralu wrote:

finlay wrote:2週間前は6周年だった
Two weeks ago was my sixth Japanniversary

Unahisi upo nyumbani, au uko tayari kwa mabadiliko?
Do you feel at home or are you ready for a change?

知らねーーーー >_<
I dunnoooooooooooooo

I used to conlang a lot in high school, laid off it for a while when I was in university, and came back to it when I had that uncertain gap year between university and coming to Japan - basically when I suddenly had a lot of free time. Since i started working again I've barely had time for it. I pro...

(Implicit in this, I hope, is that we don't currently live near each other... :( ) Hata kama nisingeshajua, nadhani kwamba ilielea. Even if I didn't know that already, I think it was clear. :-) Sasa umeishi Tokyo kwa muda gani? How long have you lived in Tokyo now? Sasa ni saa 9 na nusu mchana na n...

まだ日本に住んでいるならニュージーランドへ行くべきだね〜 いつからも行きたかった I should go to NZ while I'm still living in Japan.... I've wanted to for a long time. でも今年は夏休みに一時的に帰ることになりたいなぁ。どうしようね But this year I want to go home in the summer for a bit. What to do... そう言えば、会社は今年に合併をするので、全国にいろんな場所で新しい支所を開所して、あの場所の中に彼氏の国にあるんだ。それから、どうしよう、本...