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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:35 pm

Soviet Haaregrad wrote:
Lucent Dawn wrote:How is it "updated"?


When Englisk words don't exist I try to create cognates based on their equivalents in Norwegian, Danish, Scots, Dutch, Frisian or German.


Wasn't modern English coined the same way? I think I read somewhere that many of the words we know today had to be made up in the English language. It was especially hard to do when translating the Bible to English.
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Nightkill the Emperor
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Postby Nightkill the Emperor » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:36 pm

Norstal wrote:I learned that there's a lot of sexual tension in this forum.

I don't post here because I like you people or anything. :blush:
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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:36 pm

Grainne Ni Malley wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Go to sleep, but before that, take a cool shower.


:rofl:

Nothing rocks you to sleep like rejection.


It's not working. :p

I think he likes being emasculated.
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Mushet
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Postby Mushet » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:37 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Grainne Ni Malley wrote:
:rofl:

Nothing rocks you to sleep like rejection.


It's not working. :p

I think he likes being emasculated.

Nah just immune

c/s
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Gun control is, and always has been, a tool of white supremacy.

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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:38 pm

Mushet wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
It's not working. :p

I think he likes being emasculated.

Nah just immune

c/s


Then why insist? It's not like I will change my mind about you any time soon. :)
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Postby Coffee Cakes » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:40 pm

that I'm worried I may have hurt a friend's feelings while talking over TG Due to a question I'm second guessing myself for asking...
Dangit. :palm:
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Postby Wazkyraque » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:40 pm

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:
Norstal wrote:I learned that there's a lot of sexual tension in this forum.

I don't post here because I like you people or anything. :blush:

I do.
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Postby Mushet » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:40 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Mushet wrote:Nah just immune

c/s


Then why insist? It's not like I will change my mind about you any time soon. :)

4 teh lulz, because it's fun and I know you you get a laugh out of it, perhaps a few cringes :p

c/s
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Gun control is, and always has been, a tool of white supremacy.

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Postby Nightkill the Emperor » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:40 pm

I have decided to troll my way through life.

It has backfired, since three minutes I made this declaration, my motorcycle broke down.
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# went there....

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Postby Soviet Haaregrad » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:41 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Soviet Haaregrad wrote:
When Englisk words don't exist I try to create cognates based on their equivalents in Norwegian, Danish, Scots, Dutch, Frisian or German.


Wasn't modern English coined the same way? I think I read somewhere that many of the words we know today had to be made up in the English language. It was especially hard to do when translating the Bible to English.


Modern English tends to borrow a lot of phrases from Latin and Greek, and my goal is to avoid Romance and Greek derived words where possible. Luckily the other Germanic languages tend to have lots of useful equivalents that are Germanic based.
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Postby Grainne Ni Malley » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:41 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
It's not working. :p

I think he likes being emasculated.


Who doesn't?

Why, it's even more fun than making out in the closet with the Birthday Party Clown before you realize he's your daddy.
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:41 pm

Coffee Cakes wrote:that I'm worried I may have hurt a friend's feelings while talking over TG. due to a question I'm secon guessing myself for asking...
Dangit. :palm:


Ask that friend if what you asked hurt his/her feelings. Don't second guess yourself. If you're friends, ask right away so as not to leave the air charged between you two.
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Lucent Dawn
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Postby Lucent Dawn » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:41 pm

Soviet Haaregrad wrote:
Lucent Dawn wrote:How is it "updated"?


When Englisk words don't exist I try to create cognates based on their equivalents in Norwegian, Danish, Scots, Dutch, Frisian or German.

This might help you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English
Some charts further down in the article show rules for vowel changes from Proto-Germanic to Old English to Middle English to Modern English.
You'd need to know the etymological origins (Proto-Germanic) of the Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, etc. words in order to understand how they would hypothetically have become English words via Old English. Etymylogical sources are fairly easy to find, though.
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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:42 pm

Mushet wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Then why insist? It's not like I will change my mind about you any time soon. :)

4 teh lulz, because it's fun and I know you you get a laugh out of it, perhaps a few cringes :p

c/s


I cringe, more than anything. :p
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Postby Coffee Cakes » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:42 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Coffee Cakes wrote:that I'm worried I may have hurt a friend's feelings while talking over TG. due to a question I'm secon guessing myself for asking...
Dangit. :palm:


Ask that friend if what you asked hurt his/her feelings. Don't second guess yourself. If you're friends, ask right away so as not to leave the air charged between you two.


Actually, just got a response and it doesn't seem to have hurt, but still, I'm not a fan of accidentally hurting my friends.
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Postby The Corparation » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:42 pm

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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:43 pm

Grainne Ni Malley wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
It's not working. :p

I think he likes being emasculated.


Who doesn't?

Why, it's even more fun than making out in the closet with the Birthday Party Clown before you realize he's your daddy.


But he told me I was beautiful!! -cries-

:p
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Also: THERNSY!!
Your story isn't over;֍Help save transgender people's lives֍Help for feral cats
Cat with internet access||Supposedly heartless, & a d*ck.||Is maith an t-earra an tsíocháin.||No TGs
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Postby Nightkill the Emperor » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:44 pm

Coffee Cakes wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Ask that friend if what you asked hurt his/her feelings. Don't second guess yourself. If you're friends, ask right away so as not to leave the air charged between you two.


Actually, just got a response and it doesn't seem to have hurt, but still, I'm not a fan of accidentally hurting my friends.

You totally hurt my feelings by not bowing before me three times a day.
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Nat: Night's always in some bizarre state somewhere between "intoxicated enough to kill a hair metal lead singer" and "annoying Mormon missionary sober".

Swith: It's because you're so awesome. God himself refreshes the screen before he types just to see if Nightkill has written anything while he was off somewhere else.

Monfrox wrote:
The balkens wrote:
# went there....

It's Nightkill. He's been there so long he rents out rooms to other people at a flat rate, but demands cash up front.

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Mushet
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Postby Mushet » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:44 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Mushet wrote:4 teh lulz, because it's fun and I know you you get a laugh out of it, perhaps a few cringes :p

c/s


I cringe, more than anything. :p

Those aren't cringes they're sexual convulsions :p

c/s
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Gun control is, and always has been, a tool of white supremacy.

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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:44 pm

Coffee Cakes wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Ask that friend if what you asked hurt his/her feelings. Don't second guess yourself. If you're friends, ask right away so as not to leave the air charged between you two.


Actually, just got a response and it doesn't seem to have hurt, but still, I'm not a fan of accidentally hurting my friends.


No one is. But, as we say in Spanish, 'ante la duda, saluda'. (if in doubt, say hi- meaning, if you're not sure you hurt someone's feelings with something you said, ask them). :)
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Postby Wazkyraque » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:44 pm

Nightkill the Emperor wrote:I have decided to troll my way through life.

It has backfired, since three minutes I made this declaration, my motorcycle broke down.

That's no fair.
It always worked for Mel Gibson, he trolled his way through life...
He's rich.
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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:45 pm

Mushet wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
I cringe, more than anything. :p

Those aren't cringes they're sexual convulsions :p

c/s


No, they are cringes. -nods-
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Your story isn't over;֍Help save transgender people's lives֍Help for feral cats
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Mushet
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Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Mushet » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:45 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Grainne Ni Malley wrote:
Who doesn't?

Why, it's even more fun than making out in the closet with the Birthday Party Clown before you realize he's your daddy.


But he told me I was beautiful!! -cries-

:p

That was one lucky clown :p

c/s
"what I believe is like a box, and we’re taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we’re thinking...I’ve gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don’t know, or I think." - John Trudell

Gun control is, and always has been, a tool of white supremacy.

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Grainne Ni Malley
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Postby Grainne Ni Malley » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:45 pm

Coffee Cakes wrote:that I'm worried I may have hurt a friend's feelings while talking over TG Due to a question I'm second guessing myself for asking...
Dangit. :palm:


I feel like I do that all the time, think I said the wrong thing, second guess myself, worry over possible offense.

I'm learning that it's more likely our own insecurities than anything causing us to feel that way.

Ooh, hey! I was OT by accident!
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Nightkill the Emperor
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Postby Nightkill the Emperor » Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:46 pm

Wazkyraque wrote:
Nightkill the Emperor wrote:I have decided to troll my way through life.

It has backfired, since three minutes I made this declaration, my motorcycle broke down.

That's no fair.
It always worked for Mel Gibson, he trolled his way through life...
He's rich.

When I try trolling my way through life, life trolls me back.
Hi! I'm Khan, your local misanthropic Indian.
I wear teal, blue & pink for Swith.
P2TM RP Discussion Thread
If you want a good rp, read this shit.
Tiami is cool.
Nat: Night's always in some bizarre state somewhere between "intoxicated enough to kill a hair metal lead singer" and "annoying Mormon missionary sober".

Swith: It's because you're so awesome. God himself refreshes the screen before he types just to see if Nightkill has written anything while he was off somewhere else.

Monfrox wrote:
The balkens wrote:
# went there....

It's Nightkill. He's been there so long he rents out rooms to other people at a flat rate, but demands cash up front.

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