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Valrifell
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Postby Valrifell » Sat Jan 19, 2019 10:46 am

The "k" and the "w" in "know" are silent, meaning you don't pronounce half that word.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Sat Jan 19, 2019 10:46 am

Gallade wrote:
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I don't believe that you did that :o


You begging, that is.

Oh, when you've spent enough time in a college city you learn to get used to getting on your knees from time to time.


You are not very tall, do you even need to get on your knees?
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Postby Kannap » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:17 pm

Valrifell wrote:The "k" and the "w" in "know" are silent, meaning you don't pronounce half that word.


The French have infiltrated English.
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Postby Geneviev » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:18 pm

Valrifell wrote:The "k" and the "w" in "know" are silent, meaning you don't pronounce half that word.

It's a wasteful word. Or in queue, you only need the first letter.
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Postby Heloin » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:19 pm

Valrifell wrote:The "k" and the "w" in "know" are silent, meaning you don't pronounce half that word.

For a time in the early days of English the "k" was pronounced.

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Postby Valrifell » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:25 pm

Heloin wrote:
Valrifell wrote:The "k" and the "w" in "know" are silent, meaning you don't pronounce half that word.

For a time in the early days of English the "k" was pronounced.


This, I know. Which is also why "knight" has that "k" in front. Though if we tried to bring it back it'd just remind me of "m'lady" since it would essentially be "k'night"
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Postby Valrifell » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:26 pm

Kannap wrote:
Valrifell wrote:The "k" and the "w" in "know" are silent, meaning you don't pronounce half that word.


The French have infiltrated English.


The Norman Invasion was a mistake. If the vikings ruled Britannia everything would be a lot cooler and English would be a lot more self-consistent.

Truly this is the worst timeline.
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Postby Heloin » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:35 pm

Valrifell wrote:
Kannap wrote:
The French have infiltrated English.


The Norman Invasion was a mistake. If the vikings ruled Britannia everything would be a lot cooler and English would be a lot more self-consistent.

Truly this is the worst timeline.

The Anglo-Saxons go through all the trouble of killing the Danish Vikings just to be invaded by French Vikings.

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Postby Jetan » Sat Jan 19, 2019 12:43 pm

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Jetan wrote:To be honest the selection is much better here as well these days. If I actually wanted to drink beer there would be good options available. But I mostly drink cider and spirits.


Once when I was wayback upstream in college years ago I was crossing campus one Friday afternoon minding my own business. I happen to passing by one of the women's dorms. There was a bus there in front full of sorority girls.

All of a sudden, one of them jumps out. She yells over to me and two other guys walking nearby "HEY, you guys want to come with us to the National Brewing Company tour (makers of Natty Boh)? We're leaving now and we got a couple extra free seats."

Well, the next 12 hours were some of the wildest and drunkest hours of my life surrounded by 30 smashed women and two other trashed guys. Don't know what they paid the bus driver but whatever it was, it wasn't enough.
I didn't sobered up until the following Tuesday afternoon. :lol:

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Postby The South Falls » Sat Jan 19, 2019 1:10 pm

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Like I said, it does not work that way at all.

Sad. I thought it did.
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Postby Jolthig » Sat Jan 19, 2019 1:53 pm

It's always coffee day because where else can you get your energy, and motivation from? :p
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Postby Valrifell » Sat Jan 19, 2019 1:53 pm

Jolthig wrote:It's always coffee day because where else can you get your energy, and motivation from? :p


I don't know, I find the taste of coffee to be... distasteful.

And no amount of sugar or flavoring can change that for me, all coffee tastes the same and I don't know why.
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Postby Jolthig » Sat Jan 19, 2019 1:56 pm

Valrifell wrote:
Jolthig wrote:It's always coffee day because where else can you get your energy, and motivation from? :p


I don't know, I find the taste of coffee to be... distasteful.

And no amount of sugar or flavoring can change that for me, all coffee tastes the same and I don't know why.

You must have a boring taste in your tongue then.

Because black coffee is the best.
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Postby Geneviev » Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:09 pm

Jolthig wrote:It's always coffee day because where else can you get your energy, and motivation from? :p

Energy and motivation come from books. They're much better than coffee. :lol2:
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Postby Jolthig » Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:11 pm

Geneviev wrote:
Jolthig wrote:It's always coffee day because where else can you get your energy, and motivation from? :p

Energy and motivation come from books. They're much better than coffee. :lol2:

I agree, but coffee also helps motivate me to read haha
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Postby Geneviev » Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:13 pm

Jolthig wrote:
Geneviev wrote:Energy and motivation come from books. They're much better than coffee. :lol2:

I agree, but coffee also helps motivate me to read haha

Heresy. Coffee is not good. :p
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Postby Jolthig » Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:17 pm

Geneviev wrote:
Jolthig wrote:I agree, but coffee also helps motivate me to read haha

Heresy. Coffee is not good. :p

You're the real infidel for not enjoying black coffee. :p
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Postby Geneviev » Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:21 pm

Jolthig wrote:
Geneviev wrote:Heresy. Coffee is not good. :p

You're the real infidel for not enjoying black coffee. :p

Anything sweet is Christian, Proverbs 24:13. Coffee isn't sweet so it's for heathens. :p

And that makes another misinterpreted Bible verse for the day.
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Postby Heloin » Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:22 pm

Jolthig wrote:It's always coffee day because where else can you get your energy, and motivation from? :p

Rum! :p

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Postby Jolthig » Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:23 pm

Heloin wrote:
Jolthig wrote:It's always coffee day because where else can you get your energy, and motivation from? :p

Rum! :p

Haram! :p

(At least to me)
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Postby Heloin » Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:28 pm

Jolthig wrote:
Heloin wrote:Rum! :p

Haram! :p

(At least to me)

Oh yeah, shit.

Coca-Cola! I think it should be alright.

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Postby Ethel mermania » Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:31 pm

Jolthig wrote:
Geneviev wrote:Heresy. Coffee is not good. :p

You're the real infidel for not enjoying black coffee. :p

Indeed.
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Postby Jolthig » Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:33 pm

Oh boy, the caffeine from three cups of coffee just hit me like a bus. I'm shaking haha
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Postby Geneviev » Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:41 pm

Jolthig wrote:Oh boy, the caffeine from three cups of coffee just hit me like a bus. I'm shaking haha

That has to be somewhat unhealthy.
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:42 pm

Geneviev wrote:
Jolthig wrote:Oh boy, the caffeine from three cups of coffee just hit me like a bus. I'm shaking haha

That has to be somewhat unhealthy.


Depends on the speed of the bus.
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