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dragonworthy · 2012-05-25T16:44:40.219206+00:00

dummystupid · 2012-05-25T16:31:59.766954+00:00

So this shot of Lahore has 0 out of 6 adults with hijab, and Dewsbury has 4/9. I'm thinking I need a bigger sample size before my brain truly escapes from my head.

jhsieh12 · 2012-05-25T16:25:57.725813+00:00

I grew up in southern NH, and although I'm familiar with the Boston accent I don't know what the New England accent is. I wonder if that has to do with your un/voiced <th>. I know ayuh is mostly Maine.

My froth is unvoiced, btw.

chugachugachoochoooo · 2012-05-25T07:11:57.566226+00:00

I call shenanigans on this All American Bot. If it were truly all American, it wouldn't give a shit if people outside the US understood, or existed.

BreathlessFlame · 2012-05-25T01:19:05.002898+00:00

Sort of reminds me of how when a Japanese rail company promoted a cat to stationmaster, she was the only female in a managerial position.

Gays can't adopt... unless they're penguins.

Jebus812 · 1 day

The Honor Harrington series gets tiresome, but he has some good ideas as well of how large-scale space-naval battles might work.

KenYN · 1 day

Maybe you could've acted shocked and looked all around you saying "Doko, doko?!"

Or pointed at him and called him nihonjin.

GuadalupeSalcido · 1 day

One of the most popular modern Japanese authors, Haruki Murakami, wrote a short story called The Silence about a boy who has recently taken up boxing getting bullied in school. You might be interested in it.

yozgatsi · 14 days

The verb is "used to fight." Then it's what's called an intransitive verb because it does not take an object.

I agree with everything you've got here except this. Used to fight can take an object. I fight bears. I used to fight lions.

yozgatsi · 14 days

I'm not disagreeing with your assessment that dog is the IO in that sentence, but if I'm reading

only verbs take objects, not prepositions

correctly, it sounds like you're saying that objects of prepositions don't exist. Could you clarify?

Qarlito · 14 days

I prefer Oberto, but one of my friends swears by Jack.

Heyer · 15 days

Here you go.

ThalassAl · 15 days

Nezumi is both rat and mouse, just like hato is both pigeon and dove. There are several common animal terms in Japanese that don't differentiate between similar species the way we do in English.

superiorolive · 15 days

Huh, I didn't know ni narimasu was wrong. Maybe it's one of those grammar points that's changed due to popularity, because I'm pretty sure it's fairly country-wide at this point. My gf just told me that if you ask "Ikura?" the response might be "...de gozaimasu," but that when you're paying, no one really says de gozaimasu anymore.

Thanks for the grammar lesson! BTW, you wouldn't happen to know the history behind gozaru and kudasaru becoming gozai- and kudasai- as opposed to gozari- and kudasari-, would you? Did they used to conjugate verbs differently for keigo or something, or are these just irregular for whatever reason?

SickLaughter · 15 days

Guess you probably wouldn't like the rest of the insides that go with it, either. Even the first world Asian countries still eat innards.

I like the eggs, but I can't say I'm too much of a fan of the rest of the stuff. I dunno what it is about bird offal, but it just doesn't do it for me. Pig liver or cow ass on the other hand? Bring it on!

gloobidy · 15 days

Relevant old-skool Something Awful.

jackblankenshipAMA · 15 days

Welsh?

yozgatsi · 15 days

The direct object receives the action of the verb. Identify the verb first, then figure out what's taking the action of the verb.

The servant filled a cup with costly wine.

The action is fill, a cup is being filled. Wine is the object of the preposition with. Have you studied prepositions? They usually show location, such as under, over, above, next to, etc. Other common prepositions are of and with. Objects of prepositions can never be a direct object in a sentence.

There is no indirect object in this sentence. The IO receives the DO. There can be no IO without a DO in a sentence.

The king gives reply to the messenger and allows HIM to go out of the city to take news to the army.

What verbs are in this sentence, and who is doing them? I see reply, allows, to go, and to take. The king is doing the first two, and "him" (or her), which is missing from the sentence-- it should be right after allows, is doing the last two. So the subject (king) is giving a reply (and therefore the direct object of the first clause) to the messenger. The messenger receives the DO, so he/she is the IO.

In the second part (...and allows him/her to go out of the city...), the subject (still the king) is allowing something (him or her, the direct object). I'm not actually sure of how to identify the IO here, but maybe someone else can help. I'm thinking it might be news, but I can't say for certain.

The last sentence seems pretty straightforward, so I'll leave it to you. There's only one DO, and no IO.

xlThalionlx · 15 days

Doubt many people'll see this at this point, but Mark Twain wrote a relevant short story.

Fealiks · 15 days

I thought Brits in general still liked things milky. Or maybe because of the abundance of tea choices, it's tough to generalize these days.

Though I'd definitely lament the waste of tea if someone poured milk into a smoked tea I was about to drink.

dcebulsk · 15 days

I asked the same question here a few months ago.

eforney · 15 days

Now that your title page is on imgur, will you be including it in the language of the internet? :D

meltee · 15 days

I happened to know what reedit means (because it's pretty straightforward once you're not reading it as reed-it), but you wouldn't believe the number of words that I know are words but have no idea what they mean due to many hours playing boggle.

shiskebob · 16 days

Did anyone even know he was sick? Shit.

edit: Nevermind, I didn't see the post on the front page of books. Just ignore me. I'm still depressed, though.

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