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*Gives Coloran a virtual air hug*
I'm sure next year will be better than this one, how could it get any worse?
*Dramatic music intensifies*
Gettenfeld, Coloran, and Harteath
I miss you guys. I can’t be on here much, so does anyone have a discord where we could maybe talk sometimes?
Happy new year, Agorans
I think most are in agreement that this has been a special year for the world, but it has also been a very unusual year for Agora in a lot of ways, personally I've never been so inactive on Nationstates in the five years I've been on this site. Hopefully in the future we might be able to recapture the magic of this place, in any event I have faith that no matter how long we stay off the site to pursue other activities we'll eventually find our way back home.
Here's to 2021!
- — Janis
Gettenfeld, Iescech, Coloran, Gates of horn and ivory, and 1 otherHarteath
Happy 2021, all.
Gettenfeld, Iescech, Janisport, and Saint Olav
Happy 2021!
Iescech and Janisport
First day of February and got more snow than on Christmas...AMAZING!
Gettenfeld and Harteath
A classmate from my linguistics class asked the teacher "native speakers of a language have an intuitive understanding of the grammar of their language and know when a sentence doesn't work but there are languages with drastically different grammar rules, is it possible to learn these rules and recognize errors?"
My (unfortunately only mental) response: Not from a Jedi
Gettenfeld, Iescech, Saint Olav, and Harteath
Sure, it's possible to learn. But languages also evolve through errors and misinterpretations of the rules, so how would you know whether you're learning the language or forcing its evolution?
Don't be so hasty. If 2020 taught us anything, it's to wait until July or August before we decide, okay?
So about seven thousand languages are spoken on Earth today. Yay! I thought I was good knowing one (English) "pretty well," and another (German) "so embarrassingly and perhaps insultingly poorly that I should probably claim that I don't know it at all." You'd think most people would be at least semi-impressed that I know more than one.
But nope! Maybe I could become the first to know them all?
Oh, sure, it's not like anyone else speaks all seven thousand languages either. But ... maybe I could become the first? Quick!--To the language school!
Wait--What I'd be trying to do is impossible. I'd bet money that any people claiming to speak just twenty languages are padding their numbers a bit. One might say I'd never speak all seven thousand licenses. But never say never.
Or, as they say in Basque ...
*Sigh* Never mind. This whole day has worked to establish that I have no idea how to finish that sentence.
Magloire, Gettenfeld, Iescech, and Janisport
As they say in Basque, do as I say, not as I do.
Bonjour et salut, etc., etc.
Good morning, all! I've woken up at 6am today to finish homework I gave up on at 10pm last night...sleep comes first!
Gettenfeld and Janisport
Agreed, I have a bit of a rule to always study as early as possible and to never study late in the evening
Oh good, you're just in time for the upcoming tax season, here in the States.
*drops a load of paperwork on the desk*
https://www.smh.com.au/world/penis-snatch-witchcraft-panic-hits-congo-20080426-gdsaw3.html
Looks like it's still going strong, in some places...
Best line: "'What was left was tiny,' said 29-year-old Alain Kalala." Well, that's certainly one excuse!
Yeah. It certainly seems like that's the underlying issue going on here. Us poor flawed humans behave in such strange ways, at times...
I just realized: In the Toy Story universe, inflatable sex dolls are alive.
Gettenfeld, Janisport, and Gates of horn and ivory
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