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That would probably be an isolate (not belonging to any language family, i.e. they have developed on their own with little outside influence). A good example is Basque, which is the only surviving isolate in Europe. The most "different" languages from our perspective are probably the click languages spoken (well, clicked) in Africa. There are something like 30 surviving click languages.
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The mockball is one of my favorites too because it just looks so smooth, especially with a long preceding jump. I also love the short shinespark, it just opens up so many new cool opportunities.
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The example is from a book called Yleinen kielitede (Karlsson 2004) (Yleinen kielitiede = General linguistics). I have it as an exam book right now. I'm studying English linguistics at the moment and we are required to study some general linguistics as well. The book contains some interesting information about language universals as it talks about Maddieson's UPSID (UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database)-study, which took 317 languages (each one from a different language family) and studied their qualities. The study revealed that there was at least one plosive in every single language, no fricatives in 7% of the languages, only 1 language studied didn't have the letter t or d in it, two didn't have k or g and 3 didn't have p or b. Universals like this are interesting as they can really help us understand the development of language better. I'm sure there are loads of information about UPSID in the web.
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Warp wrote:
One of the reasons why Finnish may be a bit hard to learn for an adult is that Finnish is a highly agglutinative language.
Yep. You should try Inuktitut, the eskimo language. It has for example the word "tusaanngitsuusaartuaannarsinnaanngivipputit" which consists of 9 different morphemes: tusaa(listen)+nngit(negative)+su(participle)+usaar(try to make me believe)+tuaannar(always)+sinnaa(modal verb can)+nngi(negative)+vip(absolutely)+putit(singular 2nd person indikative). The completeword would translate to something something like "You absolutely cannot try to make me believe that you never hear". The object comes after the word.
A point worth noticing is that for example the word "always" appears within the word. This is called incorporation, the combining of lexical morphemes. Yep, sure wouldn't want to try to learn that one.
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xebra wrote:
The movie ended before we sang Daisy Bell, Kyrsimys.
Okay, I thought about it overnight and I still don't understand what you mean. I know that Daisy Bell is the song sang by HAL but what does that have to do with anything?
EDIT: Do you mean the movie ended before you had time to realize anything?
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I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to say 1 or 2 because:
1) Your web design really puts me off (I hope it's not the final design)
2) You don't have a clear concept. Are you just gonna host ALL videos that are not on SDA or TASvideos?
3) I don't think you really understand the amount of work that Bisqwit has put into his site. Because you will accept videos with almost no requirements, you will have a crapload of videos on your site. This means, as Bisqwit said, that you absolutely NEED to have some sort of a dynamic database structure in your site. It can't be just separate pages linking to each other. I don't think this is as easy as it might sound. Maintaining the entire system takes a lot of time every day.
4) Who will encode the videos into .avi form? You? How about the console runs? AFAIK it takes a lot of time and effort to encode them. You need to have standards for avi quality. Encoding movies isn't a short & simple task.
5) Is anyone actually really interested in runs that aren't accepted here or at SDA? Why would anyone want to see them? If I think about the runs rejected here I honestly can't think of any single one worth watching.
I think the biggest problem is #5, followed by #3. How will you have time to manage many sites with any efficiency? Honestly I think you are going way over your head.
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xebra wrote:
Zurreco wrote:
Therein lies the problem: glorifying man's ability to conquer outerspace is part of the overall message of the film. Showing, at great lenghts mind you, the comfort at which man is when in outer space, a setting very foreign to us, depicts the advancement that Kubrick thought man would have achieved come 2001.
I saw it as quite the opposite. I believe the film tells us we have no hope of conquering the unknown, and that we are little more than apes with slightly fancier bones. Of course this is subjective, but I don't care how you interpret the film, really. I don't see how one interpretation or the other makes the movie any less boring.
Did you understand what happened in the end? The point is exactly that humans were finally able to follow the signal that more highly developed beings had left them ages ago. In the end, the entire human race ascends to a whole new plane of existence. This isn't very apparent in the movie, which is why I prefer the book.
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I'm with you man, it's boring as hell. It's not even anything groundbreaking like Citizen Kane, which is boring too but at least it was good and inventive in its own time I guess.
I liked 2001 as a book, though.
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My girlfriend does know about TASing (well, we live together so how could she not) and I've made her watch a few TASes of games she's familiar with. Mostly she just says it's weird and that she can't understand how anyone can be entertained by TASes, especially long ones. She's happy that I'm happy though and doesn't mind me TASing or watching TASes.
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OgreSlayeR wrote:
I'm a Rum and Coke guy myself. Arr!
Word. Although dark rum is something I don't like, Bacardi superior is my choice. I can't stand the taste of beer and I'm certain I'll never drink it again.
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Tiger- wrote:
The original 1P run beats me by 100 frames, oh well.
Live and learn.
Note that the existing run is played on EASY difficulty! It was a mistake to accept that movie in the first place, so just play on the hardest difficulty and don't mind if you're losing to the existing run by a few seconds.
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I didn't like it when I first looked at it. However now, after I've used it a bit, I see that it is a lot easier to use because everything is there right away and I don't have to scroll down. In conclusion: I like it.
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Most horrible games are horrible because of their crappy controls and playability. It's really hard to believe that anyone could make an entertaining TAS of a game like that. Of course I could be wrong but I just don't see it happening.
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I find Bag's posts annoying. So many of his posts are just stupid jokes that when he actually has something to say I can't be sure whether he is being serious or not. The quadruple sarcasm he always wraps his posts in doesn't help either.
