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Re: The Interesting Facts Thread™
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 3:19 pm
by Tafdolphin
Karl_ wrote:Mm! Romance languages are a nightmare for conjugation. Especially when it all changes according to grammatical gender too. I'm learning a little bit of Italian and I don't think I'll ever remember all the verb forms, I'm a lost cause really. I'll stick to pointing at things and mumbling "per favore... grazie..." I think.
It was noted in the comments that (at least according to what these people were saying!)
Mandarin doesn't have tenses at all, it's all context cues: something like *I play now, *I play yesterday, *I play tomorrow.
I'm working together with a guy editing a book on emerging tech in China and had some fascinating conversations with him about Mandarin (he's fluent). It just sounds so utterly different, even to other Asiatic languages like Japanese.
Re: The Interesting Facts Thread™
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:57 pm
by Cumberdanes
Morse is French for walrus, so you have Inspector Walrus and Walrus Code.
Re: The Interesting Facts Thread™
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:16 pm
by Preezy
I recently learned that Homo Erectus lived for over 2 MILLION years. So far Homo Sapiens have only managed 200,000 years.
Homo Erectus really must have been idiots to not become the dominant lifeform on the planet, LOSERS!
Re: The Interesting Facts Thread™
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:33 pm
by Oblomov Boblomov
Preezy wrote:I recently learned that Homo Erectus lived for over 2 MILLION years. So far Homo Sapiens have only managed 200,000 years.
Homo Erectus really must have been idiots to not become the dominant lifeform on the planet, LOSERS!
You're so smart Preezy, you're giving me a homo erectus
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Re: The Interesting Facts Thread™
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2020 6:52 pm
by Ironhide
Re: The Interesting Facts Thread™
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 6:14 pm
by Lime
A single bee produces half a teaspoon of honey over it's entire lifetime.
So don't waste it.