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  1. Re: the tendency :) on Using The Web For Linguistic Research · · Score: 1

    ok gorgayse came from gorget & turned into gorgeous, which is being pronounced differently then spelled. (base -gorge ; same as fame-famous) So this base got simplified as the time went by & got the modernized ending - ous. P.S. : synthetic languages are for sure more complicated. I'd rather die then learn one.

  2. Re: the tendency :) on Using The Web For Linguistic Research · · Score: 1

    In my linguistic school I was told many times that this tendency does take place. And that's why often we pronounce one way & write the other. The written form is more fixed. Oral speech changes constantly & mirrors all the factors which influence it's development. Next the written form gets transformed, catching up after the oral. Say gorgeous. // splendidly or showily brilliant or magnificent// From gorge, gorget. Etymology: Middle English gorgayse, from Middle French gorgias elegant, from gorgias wimple. Now let's see... middle english gorgayse & modern gorge. What looks simpler ?

  3. Re: Who should probably avoid Slashdot ??? on Using The Web For Linguistic Research · · Score: 1

    Very interesting conversation! Really don't want to criticize anybody's comment...Well say if xxv century person would read our messages now, what do you think he could say about the language we use?! He would say we speak like morons & have no respect to the proper form of word, hahaha. Now ask a modern british man what he thinks about the way americans speak, hahaha, ask american what he thinks about the way irish speak...Geographical, political/economical & time factor play the key role. Besides, the main tendency of any language is the tendecy of simplifying itself in it's development. Internet does the greatest job in this sence , cause it globalizes every new thing we get. It mirrors everything. So makes sence to use it for linguistic analisys. Also I think it's a little bit too late to be worried about preserving "the pure inglish language". Things got way too far. There's millions of people who learnED english & in english speaking society has much stronger position than many "native english speakers". They also speak chinese, japanese, hawaiian, russian, german, french, spanish italian... They grow up & "launch a Google" . And their children'll grow up bilingual as well.& No matter what you are saying about the pure great english...they'll keep chatting during the expensive american school classes & use all them : "U, cuz, gotta, thanx, ru, lol, etc..." & form the modern language. But this is not like writing, by a native speaker :" GESS HOW I SORE" (from one of the comments here, ahaha) Do you feel it?! They are the future of the world. & Many of them start their english with slashdot. Good for them. Good for slashdot. Sooner or later English will be strongly influenced by other languages, as well as will get simplified in use.

  4. Re:It would be better for consumers if on Biggest Identity Thief Ever Gets Put Away · · Score: 1

    "I will be looking at which credit card issuers, banks, etc use Teledata Communications services and seeing if I can avoid doing business there.
    but who says their competition is any safer?"

    Nope it's not any safer. Most of the companies who claimes that their database is encripted just bullshit. Some time ago my husband used to do programming jobs for .coms & told me that often when he completed his main database programming task , he would naturally start working on the encripting protocol but in most cases was told not to worry about it, even though their web site was clearly stating that the data was encripted & most secure ever. So I would say what causes cases like Cummimgs'to happen is the greed of the owners to actually spend another couple of thousands on the encription job, or other precautions. This tipe of companies is always in between you & some bigger institution & always pretends to be bigger then they are.

  5. Re:Turbo Tax & other filings on Tax Time Again: Any Linux Solutions? · · Score: 1

    I am one of the P's of an LLC, which does some filing (other then taxes) for people. I'd say experience is the main factor here. If you are able spend some time learning about specific filing , you might have a good chance of getting it done by yourself & saving some money. The solution is very often much easier then it looks like. But be ready to make quite a few phone calls & to read a bunch of articles on the subject. How ever the professional filers often know the "shortcuts" & using this knowledge they often can save you considerable amounts of your money or/end time. This is how the economy works, we turn our specific knowledge into our profit. Same as pizza guy charges me for a good pizza. I personally believe that it feels better to pay somebody for a good service & then to be realizing what the tax-paid-wellfare is used for, then looking at it's consumers doing drugs & generating a kid each year, hahhaha while you "cann't afford another kid".

  6. WONDERS OF PERCEPTION on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    DUMB ASS,LOL ++

  7. wonders of perception on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    "The first factor is the way the ideas were expressed. redFort wrote in complete sentences without any of the abbreviations and fragments you used. It was easy to understand what he had written, while there was an element of decoding to reading many of your posts." It's not two people who expressed themselves differently & it's two different judjements u used to interpret what ever they said. In shwarts' comments there was something what triggered u'r interpretation to be offended, in redFort's case u liked his approach & showed desire to team up with him even though he called u a clown. EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE THE SAME PERSON, DUDE. & RETFORT WAS MOCKING YA, WHILE SHWARTS TALKED TO U FROM HER HEART. THEY ARE BOTH ME, U DUMB ASS, THANX FOR THE CONVERSATION

  8. Re: Amused++ on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    A rain of words, or a rain of reason? Answer is :"Just a rain. Because RAIN has the same level of relation to the last comment as THE FACT that somebody wrote something about orator at the bottom of a page . I find it so cause it wasn't a RESPOND on u'r message. But something made u interpret that comment as something which discribed u'r unicness.

  9. Re: last question on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    the only thing which makes u feel annoyed with somebody is u'r self importance. For example u got pissed with hel shwarts & agreed with redFort. Tell me what is the difference bewtween us? Why redFort is better then me for example?! P.S. No offence redFort.

  10. Re: Amused++ on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    That's correct:) Actually I loved your comment about the first post. One of the deepest. Simplicity is often genius. & Trust me I am as self important as anybody, otherwise I wouldn't be getting involved at all :) U should've seen my face when I made you my foe. LOL & I still believe that it would be a very interesting piece for a book, which surely I would get an editor for cause English is not my native language, I speak two other languages as well & my head is a linguistic mess. See in the book I want try to track THIS something, which bothers all of us, through just casual conversations & situations. But I wouldn't call it any scientific research. The best we can do is smile, laugh it up. I think that this leades us to the freedom of understanding/knowing things & will make our hearts kinder. Of cause I am an ass, & a very pretty one ,ahahahha

  11. Re: Amused++ on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    Hey redFort, don't worry about the imporant mister, he is gonna take what ever u say & flip it the way so he feels good about himself & sorry for the others. So.. P.S. I am "she" not "he" ;)

  12. Slash dotted on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    I am gonna publish ur comments in my book, u gonna be one of most unforgettable parts. Now reply, gimme one more. Ur word will be the last one, ur self importance will chill down & u will actually feel better.

  13. Re:OPPORTUNITY ? on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    U will not take it seriously, U will not take it seriously.....opss ....it not U, it's not U, lol

  14. Re:OPPORTUNITY ? on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    cutting off the same branch lol lol lol

  15. Re:OPPORTUNITY ? on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    oppps I misspeled again, sorry sorry sorry important mister doublem (118724).

  16. Re:OPPORTUNITY ? on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    THANK U THANK U THANK U MISTER doublem (118724) SORRY FOR MAKING U FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE BY MENTIONING INTELLEGENT SELF IMPORTANT APES & SORRY FOR ANNOYING U WITH MY CHILDISH MANNER & MISSPELS. I HOPE THAT IT DIDN'T DO A LOTE OF DAMAGE TO UR COHERENT IMPORTANT IDEAS ABOUT WORLD . REPLIES LIKE YOUR'S ARE THE PROOF.

  17. Re:Someday on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    I never red Timecube guy's website, lol, gonna look it up now...lol++

  18. Re:Someday on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    The universe is like a web....our bodies are computers, our interpretations - operating sistem, what we believe we see is interface, raw data interpreted by the compuer ... what ever is in front of our eyes is just an agreement between us & the operating sistem we use to interprete data. Picture is just a bunch of vectorial parameters. SINCE THE CHILDHOOD WE ARE TRAINED TO BELIVE IN THE POWER OF ONLY ONE INTERFACE, ONE SINTAX. Now as everybody agrees Microsoft sucks...sure it does & WHY? cause it wants to keep us prisoners of it's onw interpretation standards, denying our freedom to manipulate data SO WE KEEP BUYING IT'S PRODUCT... BSD is called FREE. How ever many of us started analizing the way computer works using Windows. Same way rationalistic science was digging it till one day quantum phisics started braking the TABUs of our logic. We just shouldn't try to explain everything.This is the way of looking at the world through the WINDOWS. U CANN'T BE USING WINDOWS & BE A FREE BSD PROFESSOR. How about free flight. Only fool can think that he can explain everything he can experience. Only idiot needs explanation. LOOK THROUGH THE POSTS ALL AROUND...JUST ME, ME, ME, I, I, I... Evolution happens by realizing the possibilities & INTENDING to change.

  19. Re:OPPORTUNITY ? on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    Check this out , the dude got the 1st post !!! Opportunity knocks ... But we are not aware. We are just pretending to be immortal, hiding behind our importance & self pity. We live in the world where everything spins around the SELF & there's so many IMPORTANT things we worry about: bills, insurance, discounts, global warning, oil change, public opininon, discrimination, slim fast, profit, God's punishment ... & then a wave comes & f.. everything up. Everything exept of anymals, who senced the disaster & ran away. Cause they new they were not immortal & their time was limited & didn't have ridiculous concerns. But nobody even thinks about it, cause who are they, those anymals...they don't even have names!!! they are not as important as us..those green peice pets. & Of cause we didn't descend from a monkey, ape exuse me ! LOL LOL LOL ! WE STILL ARE APES ! Self important, "socialized", intellectual APES, who thinks of the universe they way it comforts them, they will never end or will go to heaven by a default... A rabbit-buddist is meditating : "I will not f.rt , I will not f.rt....upsss.... this was not me, this was not me"... A dude is sitting on a tree branch & cutting it off , an old man is passing by the trees, sees him & sais: don't u c that u are cutting off the same branch u are sitting on ??? u gonna fall down this way u fool !!!! but the dude keeps cutting it off, so the branch breaks, he falls down & says : it's all u'r f.. whitchcraft, d..n u !!!! ...BAD NEWS : THERE'S NO HEAVEN let's blame somebody.

  20. Re:That's life?? on Ham Radio Served as Main Link to Disaster Area · · Score: 1

    Opportunity knocks that's right. But we are not aware. We are just pretending to be immortal, hiding behind our importance & self pity. We live in the world where everything spins around the SELF & there's so many IMPORTANT things we worry about: bills, insurance, discounts, global warning, oil change, public opininon, discrimination, slim fast, profit, God's punishment ... & then a wave comes & f.. everything up. Everything exept of anymals, who senced the disaster & ran away. Cause they new they were not immortal & their time was limited & didn't have ridiculous concerns. But nobody even thinks about it, cause who are they, those anymals...they don't even have names!!! they are not as important as us..those green peice pets. & Of cause we didn't descend from a monkey, ape exuse me ! LOL LOL LOL ! WE STILL ARE APES ! Self important, "socialized", intellectual APES, who thinks of the universe they way it comforts them, they will never end or will go to heaven by a default... A rabbit-buddist is meditating : "I will not f.rt , I will not f.rt....upsss.... this was not me, this was not me"... A dude is sitting on a tree branch & cutting it off , an old man is passing by the trees, sees him & sais: don't u c that u are cutting off the same branch u are sitting on ??? u gonna fall down this way u fool !!!! but the dude keeps cutting it off, so the branch breaks, he falls down & says : it's all u'r f.. whitchcraft, d..n u !!!! ...BAD NEWS : THERE'S NO HEAVEN let's blame somebody.

  21. Re:Quick Question on Defining Google · · Score: 1

    I don't log into /. to see f..ing fagots promoting their f..ing fagotship. DON'T LET HIM TOUCH THE PINGUIN !!!

  22. Re:Quick Question on Defining Google · · Score: 1

    Yo SharpFang what kind of Gimp are u talking about here if u are unable to make at least kinda-good-looking website??? So i don't see it any "handy" in u'r case. LOL P.S. That pinguin must be sexy !

  23. Re:Quick Question on Defining Google · · Score: 1

    FINALY!!! call him & his voicemail !!!! don't u see he has balls to post his voip number on. & tell him what u think about islamic fundamentalism IDs...

  24. Re:Quick Question on Defining Google · · Score: 2, Interesting

    TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING is Phraseologism /A term together with a word or words with which the term commonly occurs in specialized discourse/ means that these words together form a fixed combination commonly used in the language & such combination has a specific meaning often different from the meaning of each of the words separately. cheers to linguistics !!!!

  25. Re: BS & propaganda. on US to Pay to go to ISS · · Score: 1

    Who ever said here : "You may not remember but Russia was a complete basket case before 1917, it couldn't fight a war, was humiliated by the Japanese Navy in 1905 and lost every campaign in World War I. Its economy was a basket case, most of its people illiterate and dirt poor, health care nonexistent."
    WEll guess what I'm happy u can remember - demachina (71715) to help u remember even better here's a noncommercial link for u http://som.yale.edu/~drey/rusbonds/rus_ms.htm where u can read some about russian history smart guy. I suggest u start from the Peter the Great & his educational reforms...
    Well I guess Rachmaninoff was writing his music not for those illiterate and dirt poor people & of cause he wasn't one of them ! Neither was Lomonosov or Mendeleev.
    Ivan Pavlov ,Ilya Mechnikov ,Nikolai Semyonov, Pavel Cherenkov, Lev Landau, Nikolai Basov and Alexander Prokhorov (who by the way created lasor), Petr Kapitsa, Zhores Alfyorov....all of these dudes are "dirt poor people" with Nobel prize!
    And to continue with the "Soviet Union didn't work" line ... to all what was said by others I just wanna add one thing. Do u know what bad area means? Bad ghetto place? Where everything is scary : buildings & faces & thoughts....where people don't know what a doctor or colledge means. Crack addicts & prostitutes are walking by stinky streets. Any body who lived in states knows what it is. Almost every body in South America lives in it...Well let me tell u something there was NO PLACES LIKE THIS in Soviet Union & there's still NO in Russia nowadays. So take u'r "illiterate and dirt poor" & stick it in to u'r A.