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2 posted on
03/04/2009 4:08:58 PM PST by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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3 posted on
03/04/2009 4:11:22 PM PST by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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Reminds me of a line from Dr. Who years ago ... he was trying to teach a primitive tribe how to play Scrabble. “The only word they know is ‘uh’ and they don't even know how to spell it.”
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But what about words like furshlugginer, poiuyt, potrzebie, veeblefeltzer and axolotol?
Bill Gaines, call your office. . .
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So that pretty much rules out any discussion of Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorems.
9 posted on
03/04/2009 4:23:42 PM PST by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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At the rate we’re going we oughta be back in the Stone Age any day now, so it’s good to know the lingo.
10 posted on
03/04/2009 4:26:09 PM PST by
Argus
(We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
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I had read a similar article before.
These words listed here will only work with the people of the Indo-European (Europe, Persia, India) family / ancestry, and not those relating to Semitic/ Afro-Asian/ Sino-Tibetan, etc., families.
11 posted on
03/04/2009 4:34:36 PM PST by
MyTwoCopperCoins
(I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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Native African to Richard Pryor: "What language you speak?"
"English."
"Everybody speak English. What language you speak at home?"
"Uh, Jive?"
15 posted on
03/04/2009 4:47:51 PM PST by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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“If a time traveller wanted to go back in time to a specific date, we could probably draw up a little phrasebook of the modern words that are likely to have sounded similar back then,” he told The Times. “You wouldn’t be able to discuss anything very complicated, but it might be enough to get you out of a tight spot.”When I travel back in time, I'm bringing one of these. It'll get me out of a tight spot if the phrasebook doesn't work.
17 posted on
03/04/2009 5:07:16 PM PST by
Drew68
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18 posted on
03/04/2009 7:05:34 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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19 posted on
03/04/2009 7:06:06 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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Anyone who watched Ringo Star’s “Cave Man” already has the stone age lexicon!
20 posted on
03/04/2009 7:12:08 PM PST by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
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