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[Mouse]

You're 3/4 dead [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Kakero]

Let me see, 1/2 x 2 = 1/1 = 1.

You're dead man. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Luvian]

99066 is an unique number. If you enter it on a calculator, and turn it around, it will give you the same number. And if you multiply it by itself, it will give you all the numerals one time each.

[Zero Alpha]

Originally posted by Mouse: You're 3/4 dead [img]tongue.gif[/img]

i think this is technicaly accurate

you are alive ie 1
you die half you are now 1/2
you die half again you are now 1/4
so you are 3/4 dead

this is all because you only die half each time. you can never die by being scared half to death

[Mr. Mopery]

Originally posted by spydar: There is no word that rhymes with orange.

Whorange. The colour your schmeckle turns after spending too much time in the company of prostitutes.

[Mr. Mopery]

Some linguistic quirks:

1. "No" in Polish means "yeah". So, technically, no means yes. Could lead to problems on a date.

2. Swedes, I believe, can indicate a kind of informal "yes" in conversation with a quick intake of breath. It sounds like "Hyoh!" and can catch a learner off guard. Correct me if I'm wrong here, or slightly off mark.

3. Thai has no tenses other than present. No future, no past, no participles(?). Instead, Thai can be roughly translated like these examples: "I go to store tomorrow", "He watch movie yesterday" or "They go to Cambodia 3 times before."

4. Chinese writing is pictographical rather than phonetic. Thus, an average, literate Chinese person who found a 5000 year old scroll would probably be able to read it, but would almost certainly be unable to verbally communicate with the scroll's author even if they were talking about the same symbols.

5. Not sure about this (maybe somebody can verify) but a friend told me that Japanese has different counting systems depending on what is being counted. Thus objects like books, rectangular and openable, might be counted "one (ichi?), two (nee?), three (san?) where long and slender objects, like pencils, would be counted using different numbers like sasld, lasejfea, aflkfdajl and oijoig (just an example).

[Spelca]

Originally posted by Mr. Mopery: 2. Swedes, I believe, can indicate a kind of informal "yes" in conversation with a quick intake of breath. It sounds like "Hyoh!" and can catch a learner off guard. Correct me if I'm wrong here, or slightly off mark.

Haha. Yea, that's right! They say "jo" but they breathe in when they say it. But the quick intake of air is mostly a northern thing. It's really funny!!!

[Melusine]

LOL, I think some Germans do it too. At least when I try to reproduce the "intake of breath + jo" sound, I get exactly the sound my (German) grandmother sometimes makes when she wants to affirm something.
Come to think of it, most of the people in the area where she used to live did it.

[spydar]

here are some more I remembered:


1) There are over one million bug parts in one jar of peanut butter.
2) In your lifetime you will swallow an average of 5 spiders in your sleep.
3) Mankind has not been responsible for the extinction of a single insect species.
4) The total estimated weight of insects in the world is greater than the combinded estimated weight of every other living thing.
5) Each year about 30 000 plant and/or animal species become extinct.
6) In the US you are more likely to be killed and eaten by a pig than attacked by a shark.

[Luvian]

Originally posted by spydar: here are some more I remembered: 1) There are over one million bug parts in one jar of peanut butter. 2) In your lifetime you will swallow an average of 5 spiders in your sleep. 3) Mankind has not been responsible for the extinction of a single insect species. 4) The total estimated weight of insects in the world is greater than the combinded estimated weight of every other living thing. 5) Each year about 30 000 plant and/or animal species become extinct. 6) In the US you are more likely to be killed and eaten by a pig than attacked by a shark.

That's gross...