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Re: The Answers to Discussion Topics

Postby Deinonysus » Thu Dec 20, 2018 4:04 pm

Iversen wrote:Q: An opera fan's log - Deutsch bis zum Maximum!
A: So willkommen Mozart, Lortzing, Marschner und Wagner - aber Verdi, Puccini, Saint-Saëns Janacek und Mussorgsky, bitte draußen bleiben (Ach du lieber Augustin, alles ist weg weg weg)

I prefer Werdi und Putschinie in the original German. ;)


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Re: The Answers to Discussion Topics

Postby Iversen » Thu Dec 20, 2018 4:12 pm

Gut, Verdi, Puccini, Saint-Saëns, Janacek und Mussorgsky bitte Deutsch lernen und dann wieder anklopfen...

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Re: The Answers to Discussion Topics

Postby eido » Fri Dec 21, 2018 4:18 am

Iversen wrote:Q: Eido's Literary Liturgy - Pray to The God of The Pen
A: Oh pennates....

Q: I want to build an app. What do you think?
A: I think you need to discover that you really need something first and then find out whether somebody already made a suitable app to satisfy that need.

Hmm?

And ah...
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Re: The Answers to Discussion Topics

Postby Querneus » Fri Dec 21, 2018 5:23 am

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Re: The Answers to Discussion Topics

Postby Doitsujin » Fri Dec 21, 2018 8:38 am

Deinonysus wrote:I prefer Werdi und Putschinie in the original German. ;)
German is for wimps. :D Nothing beats the original Klingon:


Fun fact: Marc Okrand originally created Klingon without infinitives and had to add them for the movie "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country." (There actually is a Klingon version of Hamlet.) He also must have a sense of humor, because he chose ghotI' as the Kllingon word for fish.
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Re: The Answers to Discussion Topics

Postby eido » Fri Dec 21, 2018 3:14 pm


I see. Is it because I said I was a God, jokingly? Or...? Sorry I’m dense.
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Re: The Answers to Discussion Topics

Postby Querneus » Fri Dec 21, 2018 3:55 pm

eido wrote:

I see. Is it because I said I was a God, jokingly? Or...? Sorry I’m dense.

I think your title is more easily understood as you talking about praying to a certain god of the pen (just like how, in Chinese religion, there's a god of the bed, a god of doors and gates, gods for cities, and even a god of the toilet).

Therefore, you could say that your god of the pen is one of your penates, Latin for the minor gods worshipped at your house, which works wonderfully as a pun because they both begin with pen-. Iversen then pictures you as praying to the pen god with a liturgy chanting Ō Penātēs...
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Re: The Answers to Discussion Topics

Postby Ogrim » Mon Jan 14, 2019 3:38 pm

Q: How do I make my own anki decks for Hebrew?
A: 1. Open Anki. 2. Create deck.

Q: Do you like Duolingo?
A: I don’t know, we haven’t met yet.

Q: No Skype, no Messenger what to use?
A: A telephone?

Q: Because why not?
A: Yes, but why?

Q: Learning a language with sounds you can not (yet) pronounce?
A: Computer language.
A2: Sign language.

Q: Mixing up languages is natural - Separating them is not?
A: Mais bien sûr que es muy normal to mix Sprachen, jeg do it tout le temps, мой друг.
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Re: The Answers to Discussion Topics

Postby Chupito » Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:27 pm

Q: Keeping up with grammar reviews
A: Still more entertaining than Keeping up with the Kardashians
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listening: 3 / 100 reading: 1 / 100

podcasts: 3 / 100

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Re: The Answers to Discussion Topics

Postby Cainntear » Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:38 pm

Iversen wrote:Q: Cellar Door - Afrikaans in 1 year
A: You could also try to learn Afrikaans without going to prison

...wouldn't that be a bathroom door...?
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