On May 21, 2004, at 1:00, Weronika Patena wrote In response to Steph
Peters' message):
That's very interesting. Even though it doesn't use spaces, Japanese
does
have a pretty clear concept of a word - or maybe they just made it up
to
teach to foreigners ;-)
Don't know about that... But I do re
> I learnt to speak then read and write a bit of Thai nearly 20 years ago.
> Thai has alphabetical characters - 70 odd of them - not the Japanese picture
> representations of ideas.
Actually, Japanese has two different syllabic alphabets with about 50
characters, plus thousands of "kanji" (the r
Thurlow wrote:
>Dear God in heaven!!! I've got two loaves in the kitchen right now!!
Should I incinerate them? Shoot them? Drown them in a bucket? How do we
protect ourselves?>
Omigosh--YES Preferably all three in reverse order. And don't ever turn
your back on a baguette.
>And how dange
Got this from DS, and am forwarding to the chat-at-large (rather than
through the "subterrenean" route), because, while "somewhat political",
it's unbiased, just reporting facts. And, I suspect, it's also
fascinating (if I could only learn how to navigate it properly and
"milk" it for all the i
Dear God in heaven!!! I've got two loaves in the kitchen right now!!
Should I incinerate them? Shoot them? Drown them in a bucket? How do we
protect ourselves?
And how dangerous is pita bread?
I was going to have a bedtime snack of some strawberry preserves on a slice
of bread, but I think I
Long live the Atkins diet, where half a loaf is better than a whole
one...
From: M. K.
1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread
users.
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in
bread-consuming households score below average on
standardized tests.
3. In the 18th century, when virt
David, that is wonderful I intend sending it to my brother, who has
step-children living interstate...you might just've saved him a lot of
money!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- David Collyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An elderly man in Adelaide
calls his son in Sydney and says, "
On Wed, 19 May 2004 18:13:50 -0700, Weronika wrote:
>As far as I know (currently taking the third term of a Japanese course,
>so I may well be missing things), these are the only punctuation marks
>in Japanese, and the periods normally look like little o's. Periods
>work pretty much like in Englis
John, where Jack had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a
better effect on the teacher.
Susan Webster
Canton, Ohio
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An elderly man in Adelaide calls his son in Sydney and says, "I hate to
ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing;
forty-five years of misery is enough."
"Pop, what are you talking about?" the son screams.
"We can't stand the sight of each other any longer," the
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