tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post4242525815595500014..comments2023-03-10T01:20:28.269+13:00Comments on Long Ago and Not True Anyway: With These Bombs DemocracyTerencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17321549651265388367noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-42958554465938532382007-04-18T08:27:00.000+12:002007-04-18T08:27:00.000+12:00doh! "treads" reads "threads". I hope there's a Pr...doh! "treads" reads "threads". I hope there's a Proto-nabatean spell checker somewhere....Terencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17321549651265388367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-66894173912957921682007-04-18T08:26:00.000+12:002007-04-18T08:26:00.000+12:00Sounds like a sensible language to me. Perhaps we ...Sounds like a sensible language to me. Perhaps we could suggest it as the common means of discourse for the treads at Harry's Place. (How, by the way, would one say "Pinochista" in proto-nabatean?)<BR/><BR/>More seriously, I shouldn't tease you about Portuguese. Not as a native speaker of the language of so few rules and soo many exceptions...Terencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17321549651265388367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-29315833132951423042007-04-17T08:27:00.000+12:002007-04-17T08:27:00.000+12:00Well, I suppose any language in which the regular ...Well, I suppose any language in which the regular verbs outnumber the irregular ones, and has anything less than a dozen verb tenses modified by every grammatical element under the sun would be an improvement over Portuguese ;-). This whole 'cafeteira' fracas will probably prompt us to come up with a couple of new tenses just for fun.<BR/><BR/>As for Proto-nabatean, there is the infinitive, imperfect, perfect and continuous presents, pasts, and futures; the implicit subjunctive and the quasi-dislocated unformed ablative, colloscotomitive and geminative.<BR/><BR/>Of course, since the proto-nabateans had a firm belief in time travel and predetermination, you have about a dozen forms each for the past-that-is-yet-to-happen and the-future-that-is-already-determined.|3run0https://www.blogger.com/profile/08186299040188317066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-62305620190484565972007-04-15T17:57:00.000+12:002007-04-15T17:57:00.000+12:00just out of interest, how many forms of each verb ...just out of interest, how many forms of each verb would I have to learn in Proto-Nabatean? I'm sensing it could be an improvement...Terencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17321549651265388367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-12058836485247989402007-04-14T20:24:00.000+12:002007-04-14T20:24:00.000+12:00Damn it! Now that you found a logical flaw in our ...Damn it! Now that you found a logical flaw in our language we'll have to go back to the drawing boards to fix it. Those responsible will be sacked, of course. <BR/><BR/>In the meantime, we'll be provisionally be speaking Proto-Nabatean. Portuguese service will resume shortly.|3run0https://www.blogger.com/profile/08186299040188317066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-66887950760167388272007-04-14T14:26:00.000+12:002007-04-14T14:26:00.000+12:00so does that make a cafeteira a coffee tree? ;)so does that make a cafeteira a coffee tree? ;)Terencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17321549651265388367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-12446842853808544332007-04-14T06:18:00.000+12:002007-04-14T06:18:00.000+12:00Yeah, bananeira is banana tree. Usually you add a ...Yeah, bananeira is banana tree. Usually you add a -eira to fruit name to generate the tree name. Thus:<BR/><BR/>Maçã (apple) -> Macieira<BR/>Pera (pear) -> Pereira<BR/>Manga (mango) -> Mangueira<BR/>Jaca (dunno) -> Jaqueira<BR/>Goiaba (gueva) -> Goiabeira|3run0https://www.blogger.com/profile/08186299040188317066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-79521663851265690722007-04-13T21:22:00.000+12:002007-04-13T21:22:00.000+12:00hi there Bruno - busy weekend for me (organising a...hi there Bruno - busy weekend for me (organising a surf contest). Thanks for the link though - does bananeira mean banana tree? I'll have a read of your post on Sunday.Terencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17321549651265388367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-11143174674239120472007-04-12T13:24:00.000+12:002007-04-12T13:24:00.000+12:00Terence, you can say 'folha de banana', although '...Terence, you can say 'folha de banana', although 'folha de bananeira' is more common.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://ml42.blogspot.com/2007/04/casa-rio-elemento-suspeito-portando-uma.html" REL="nofollow">The post in question</A><BR/><BR/>And thank you!|3run0https://www.blogger.com/profile/08186299040188317066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-70521287368828312412007-04-12T09:03:00.000+12:002007-04-12T09:03:00.000+12:00Hi there Bruno,Had a quick look at your blog the o...Hi there Bruno,<BR/><BR/>Had a quick look at your blog the other day actually. It was late though and I was tired and reading in Portuguese started to make my head swim. Which is depressing: I've spent time in Portugal, Cabo Verde and Brazil, and even got to a point where I was interviewing people in, very bad, Portuguese for my masters thesis. Do you have a link to the actual post on folhas da banana (if I've got that correct).<BR/><BR/>cheers<BR/><BR/>Terence (ps although I gave up long ago, I'm sure your commenting favourably tilts the sanity to lunacy ratio at HP)Terencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17321549651265388367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-70445965664909645442007-04-11T16:49:00.000+12:002007-04-11T16:49:00.000+12:00Hi Terence! Sim, continuo escrevendo no 'Lugar do ...Hi Terence! Sim, continuo escrevendo no 'Lugar do Harry' (there are some good people posting there, in spite of the more than occasional displays of sheer lunacy). Eu não sabia que você falava português, rusty or otherwise. If you want to practice it a bit, you might want to check out my own blog. You would find out how I was almost arrested over a couple of banana leaves...|3run0https://www.blogger.com/profile/08186299040188317066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-37245139768796667622007-04-10T21:38:00.000+12:002007-04-10T21:38:00.000+12:00Obrigado Bruno,I think you make an interesting poi...Obrigado Bruno,<BR/><BR/>I think you make an interesting point.<BR/><BR/>Ainda escrivando nos 'comments boxes' do Lugar do Harry? (forgive my Portuguese it is very very rusty)Terencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17321549651265388367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-50003156986598092742007-04-09T17:30:00.000+12:002007-04-09T17:30:00.000+12:00Terence, this is what I think:In Japan and Germany...Terence, this is what I think:<BR/><BR/>In Japan and Germany the only viable (as far as mobilizing a sizeble insurgency went) ideologies had been thoroughly defeated by the end of the war. Germans and Japanese only needed to look out through the gaps where windows once stood to understand that neither 'Aryan' supposed racial supremacy nor the bushido spirit could win a rematch. The Allies had demonstrated the ability and willingness to obliterate entire cities, and to permanently displace millions of civilians. Under such circumstances, further resistance was seen as national suicide.<BR/><BR/>In contrast, in Iraq there were two fresh competing ideologies ready to take over after long-rotten baathism collapsed: Al Qaedas psycho brand of wahabism and shiia mahdi milenarism. After the fall of Baghdad Iraqi society effectively unraveled, and the government ceased to exist altogether. In the vacuum created by pre-war baathist rot and post-war American ineptitude and cravenness, these two ideologies took root. Now, with the genie out of the bottle, I'm afraid it will take a long time and much blood before they are discarded as the noxious crap they really are.|3run0https://www.blogger.com/profile/08186299040188317066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-54577944799333665032007-03-07T08:44:00.000+13:002007-03-07T08:44:00.000+13:00Thanks Jason. I did try that one, and to no avail....Thanks Jason. I did try that one, and to no avail. I think the thread in question may have been to recent for google to have 'grabbed' yet.<BR/><BR/>cheers<BR/><BR/>terenceTerencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17321549651265388367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16603042.post-62421008130773573572007-03-06T21:48:00.000+13:002007-03-06T21:48:00.000+13:00RE: Search PA siteDid you try a a search like this...RE: Search PA site<BR/><BR/>Did you try a a search like this <BR/><BR/>http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&as_qdr=m3&q=Japan%2Bdemocracy%2BGermany+site%3Awww.publicaddress.net&as_qdr=m3&btnG=Search&lr=lang_en<BR/><BR/>Might helpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com