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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:34 am
by dagcrack
Well I'm not an english freak but I can tell you some examples of some of those words I know:
For Abeyance:
"The Abeyance of the player -name- Has ended, He'll be able to keep on playing in his team by tomorrow" ( ya know when they kick a player of the other team on his nuts - they take out the red card and they get suspended.. well abeyance is like "suspend"
For Abridge:
"I Abridged the word 'X'' to 'X' Now I like to abbreviate!"
( also accronyms can be taken as abridged words )
For Abrade:
"The Friction Abraded piece number I3842 On the 777 jumbo, caused the airplane to malfunction during landing, blablabla" (I dont need to mention that something gets abraded by friction only)
Isnt Acquiescence the inverse of Consent ? - Else I don't know!
For Acrimonious:
"The Acrimonious Fight ended up pretty bad, at least I got a knife in my BUTTHOLE" (Not for reals hehe else he'll end up with 2 in his ... )

Sorry I don't even know what the others means I never heard of those. And if my examples wont cut it- then I don't know how to help you
By the way: I think I still have that problem with present-future while writting in english (but not when speaking) weird, I think I was sleeping when the teacher talked about that some years ago:D
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:38 am
by dagcrack
Now that I think about it - I don't remember many of the non-normally used words... And we had to study them and all.. If I ever see those teachers and professors again, I'll blame them!.
Mainly fault of the private school and college... There if you dont go you even pass the exams

Pay - Pass ! (But they are so corrupt I hate them so much..!)
Re: Oi!
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:19 am
by Num3
Fou-Lu wrote: I started reading a dictionary (I know, it's very weird)
OMG !!!
It's a RTFM thing !

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 12:15 pm
by dagcrack
I hope he started to read it on the toilet.. ya know, some people cant work if they dont get something to read - I can work too on the toilet but I like to read something too even the toilet paper cover if any! "lets see where its made at"
I have shit (hehe..) loads of cabela's master catalogs - some books - some cable magazines and till last month redhat 9 the bible.. (pretty big book) those are my bibles I think.. but I rotate them from time to time (I even have a VB one.. jeez, in fact 2 of them).
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:36 pm
by GeoTrail
dagcrack wrote:I can work too on the toilet but I like to read something too even the toilet paper cover if any! "lets see where its made at"
I have shit (hehe..) loads of cabela's master catalogs - some books - some cable magazines and till last month redhat 9 the bible.. (pretty big book) those are my bibles I think.. but I rotate them from time to time (I even have a VB one.. jeez, in fact 2 of them).
Well, that's ABIT more information then I really needed hehehehehehe
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:37 pm
by dagcrack

Heading to there - need a programming bible?
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:41 pm
by GeoTrail
In our country place we have a book called "Dassboken" which hangs next to the toilet. Translated from Norwegian to english it should be something like Toiletbook hehehe. Great reading, lots of jokes and stuff, but the weird part is that it has sections with questions "you can share with friends"

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:52 pm
by dagcrack

I want it!

is there any e-book version of it in english?

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:02 pm
by GeoTrail
He he he I doubt it.
If you took your laptop to the toilet it might catch a bug

Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:12 pm
by Num3
GeoTrail wrote:He he he I doubt it.
If you took your laptop to the toilet it might catch a bug

Or a hole bunch of them (craps)
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:34 am
by Fou-Lu
Alright, does anybody know the name of these things:
"!", "?", ":", ";", "[ ]", "{ }", "^" and "*"

Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:57 am
by dagcrack
"!" - Exclamation sign..
usage: "HEY YOU BASTARD!!! GIMME DA ROCK BACK!!! YOU WILL DIE!! DIE!!!"
see?
Now,
"?" - Interrogation sign/mark..
usage: "ARE YOU GAY?" or "HOW MANY PRESIDENTS DID YOU SHOOT AT ONCE?"
see?
Now,
an extra!
"," - Comma!
The comma is used to make small pauses on a paragraph. When reading a text, if you see a comma, you must do a very small pause and keep on. With a period (dot) the pause should be a little longer than with a comma.
When you have asma, you talk all like: When, are, we, going, to.., end, this, type, of, questions, please, I, Need, AIR! -flushes medicine-, ah, thats, better - sigh - (Notice im not making fun of asmatics, in fact my brother was asmatic so you have no rights of saying im making fun OK! hehe).
I'll go on with the dot comma (thats how we call them in spanish..) brakets, etc. and by the way the *** are asterisks.
"Call *6969 For quick sex! And if you call RIGHT NOW! We'll send you a -used- playboy magazine! NO CHARGE! just 69 dollars the minute! - Presented: TOP (The Orgasmic Phone) Company."
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:08 am
by Froggerprogger
Here's another adress for translation between Englisch, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean, Portugese (not all combinations are supported):
http://www.linguatec.net/online/ptwebte ... x_en.shtml
For Englisch<>German or French<>German the best site I know is:
http://dict.leo.org/
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:48 am
by dagcrack
What about this babel-fish implementation?
http://world.altavista.com/tr no one uses it? I thought it was very popular..
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:06 am
by Froggerprogger
google and altavista do translate the sentence:
"Hello. I am pleased that today so bad weather is, since I am ill and lie in bed."
incorrect to German, because they translate lie with "the lie" and not "lay", so in German the sentance becomes nonsense.
linguadict instead recognizes that "I am lying" in bed.
But perhaps there are other examples where google/altavista beats linguadict. Further their website-translation is a cool feature.