Too darn quiet around here!

Should we do a roll call Bawanna? Been deader than a puffer fish at a Khukri convention!
 
Might be an idea. Gehazi is awol, everyone is in sleep mode, it's like conversations with my wife. I talk but it's like I'm home alone.
 
Yep i home talkin to my wife and she aint even home! Yeah where's Gehazi? Maybe Aunti will slip one of those late evening DOTD's in and it will be just you and I here to snag them up! :thumbup: Im out of corny jokes so what next? Khuk trivia?
Maybe the Cantina is out of beer?
 
Long German words?

United States Army Hospital
vs
Bundeswehrkrankenhaus
Which one is longer?
If you wouldn't cram spaces into each word you might have had a chance. Almost.

Just trying to be funny.
Basically you have the same kind of constructs in English except that they are separated by spaces.
Each "long" German word can be broken up into smaller ones.
Vacuum cleaner is two words in English even if its just one device.
In German they don't leave the space if the two words belong together.
Staubsauger is Staub (dust) and sauger (sucker) combined. Still two words just no space.

Bahnhofsvorsteherbueroschluessel
The word might look long but it's only 4 words combined and in English it's equal to a sentence of 12 words.
--> The key to the office of the manager of the train station.
Just skip all the useless tos ofs and thes and you might have a shot at being shorter and more efficient too.
Trainstationmanagerofficekey.
lol

Still I think English is more efficient and easier to learn. German Grammar is hard and then all nouns are randomly male or female. Without any rule you have to learn every single nouns gender and then change the rest of the sentence accordingly. Ridiculously hard if you haven't grown up there. If you ever want to force the whole planet to adopt English Ill be on your side.

Ps: Anybody up to discuss metric systems and dd/mm/yyyy?
:)
 
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Thats interesting Jens. Maybe thats why the spacebar on my keyboard is so dang long. Sounds like the same way Spanish is as far as changing sentence to match masculinity. Especially after a few Dunkel weissen! Lately ive been reading some on how to read Devanagari script which came from Negari script which is all based on Sancript (dont quote me on that tho). Thats pretty cool how they omit certain vowels just because your supposed to imply they are there from the rest of the word. The little tilde thing on top above the line ties consonants and vowels together and two of them means a different vowel tied to it. The lines on top all tie the word together but some people don't tie the lines together as evident on the Nepali Army Khuks. Anyway if nothing else it looks Khul on Khukris!
 
verpra said:
Whats Metric System? :p
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Was developed by too big of a government in Europe for the "greater good" and forced on its people instead of letting the market's demand and supply decide.
Brings Nasa probes down ones in a while.
Lets me conclude that its some dangerous socialist stuff. Maybe even commy in disguise?
What do you think?
 
ndoghouse said:
Thats interesting Jens. Maybe thats why the spacebar on my keyboard is so dang long. Sounds like the same way Spanish is as far as changing sentence to match masculinity. Especially after a few Dunkel weissen! Lately ive been reading some on how to read Devanagari script which came from Negari script which is all based on Sancript (dont quote me on that tho). Thats pretty cool how they omit certain vowels just because your supposed to imply they are there from the rest of the word. The little tilde thing on top above the line ties consonants and vowels together and two of them means a different vowel tied to it. The lines on top all tie the word together but some people don't tie the lines together as evident on the Nepali Army Khuks. Anyway if nothing else it looks Khul on Khukris!
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My Wife knows Sanskrit. Languages are fascinating. Sanskrit is related to Indo German languages. There are some similarities for sure but no question that our modern European languages are much closer to each other than Sanskrit but some experts might disagree.

Many times languages went not linear but in circles which makes developments hard to track.
When the Nepali language is based on Sanskrit and changed a lot afterwards and later there was an influx of Indian who spoke Hindi which was also based on Sanskrit then maybe some old words were used again and who knows, what else happened.

Khul on Kukris for sure. How the name Kukri developed is also interesting :)
 
ndoghouse said:
Thats interesting Jens. Maybe thats why the spacebar on my keyboard is so dang long. Sounds like the same way Spanish is as far as changing sentence to match masculinity. Especially after a few Dunkel weissen! Lately ive been reading some on how to read Devanagari script which came from Negari script which is all based on Sancript (dont quote me on that tho). Thats pretty cool how they omit certain vowels just because your supposed to imply they are there from the rest of the word. The little tilde thing on top above the line ties consonants and vowels together and two of them means a different vowel tied to it. The lines on top all tie the word together but some people don't tie the lines together as evident on the Nepali Army Khuks. Anyway if nothing else it looks Khul on Khukris!
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That is spot on except its not supposed to be a ~ but more like a straight line and it is not optional. The script is based on sounds and just like English a word is spelled on its sound (with comparable levels of idiosyncracies). Just like English, spaces separate words. Same concept of vowels (or sounds that can be combined as character fragments) and consonants (the full characters that you see on the scripts). It took me a very long time to memorize those symbols and learn how to read them. You are doing amazingly well!
 
Jens Schuetz said:
Was developed by too big of a government in Europe for the "greater good" and forced on its people instead of letting the market's demand and supply decide.
Brings Nasa probes down ones in a while.
Lets me conclude that its some dangerous socialist stuff. Maybe even commy in disguise?
What do you think?
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Naah, I think its about time we adopted SI... Def much easier to compute.
 
Jens Schuetz said:
My Wife knows Sanskrit. Languages are fascinating. Sanskrit is related to Indo German languages. There are some similarities for sure but no question that our modern European languages are much closer to each other than Sanskrit but some experts might disagree.

Many times languages went not linear but in circles which makes developments hard to track.
When the Nepali language is based on Sanskrit and changed a lot afterwards and later there was an influx of Indian who spoke Hindi which was also based on Sanskrit then maybe some old words were used again and who knows, what else happened.

Khul on Kukris for sure. How the name Kukri developed is also interesting :)
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I am def not an expert but I found this interesting... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_languages
 
verpra said:
That is spot on except its not supposed to be a ~ but more like a straight line and it is not optional. The script is based on sounds and just like English a word is spelled on its sound (with comparable levels of idiosyncracies). Just like English, spaces separate words. Same concept of vowels (or sounds that can be combined as character fragments) and consonants (the full characters that you see on the scripts). It took me a very long time to memorize those symbols and learn how to read them. You are doing amazingly well!
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Cool information Verpra.
Could it happen that back then two different people in Nepal would spell the same word with different letters?
That was common in Germany until this guy came along http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Duden and started something like the Webster dictionary which became the mandatory way of writing things.
 
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How the name Kukri developed is also interesting :)
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Here is the link to some good general info of this.
http://staefcraeft.blogspot.com/2009/10/thrice-honoured-moon-mystery-of.html
Verp. There is another link I found describing the structure of words with that little mark above etc. I know its not a tilde and somewhere i saw the real name for it but slips my 10 word vocabulary now:D. I think I can count to 10 now! Whoo hooo!
Hey Verp! in need a couple more letters translated:cool:
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http://ancientart.tumblr.com/post/28743098554/the-oldest-cookbook-in-the-world-clay
 
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ndoghouse said:
Hey Verp! in need a couple more letters translated:cool:
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A cookbook? I thought it was a funky cutting board, guess close enough... I don't know what the thing that connects the word is called either. Post a picture of the inscriptions and I will try!
 
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