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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #135 on: September 30, 2012, 11:13:30 PM »
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #136 on: October 01, 2012, 02:01:38 AM »
I see that some people on Swedish boards in an attempt to seem "intellectual" use the conjunction emedan instead of medan. This is totally wrong, because medan means "while, whilst" while the obsolete emedan means "because".

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #137 on: October 04, 2012, 02:31:21 PM »
In Göteborg they speak with a "thick" d similar to that in some English dialects.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #138 on: October 11, 2012, 10:01:33 AM »
Although plus and minus are Latin words, the Romans didn't use them when adding or subtracting.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #139 on: October 11, 2012, 10:03:04 AM »
Although plus and minus are Latin words, the Romans didn't use them when adding or subtracting.

  Then what *did* they use?  :nerdy:
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #140 on: October 11, 2012, 10:06:38 AM »
Sex et quattuor sunt decem.

Six and four are ten.

Si a sex duo deducis, quattuor restant.

If two are taken away from six, four are left.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #141 on: October 11, 2012, 10:12:05 AM »
Sex et quattuor sunt decem.

Six and four are ten.

Si a sex duo deducis, quattuor restant.

If two are taken away from six, four are left.

 8)

  Then why did they go to the trouble of inventing "plus" and "minus" ?  :dunno:
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #142 on: October 11, 2012, 10:14:59 AM »
Well, minus is neuter of minor, which means "smaller". Plus means "more". They are comparatives of parvus and multus  8)

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #143 on: October 13, 2012, 03:06:14 PM »
Everyday there are (p/m) 175 burglaries taking place in this country this day and age (source: AD/newspaper I read/based on 2011's ciphers).
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #144 on: October 13, 2012, 03:12:33 PM »
There are 100 daily unprovoked assaults in Sweden. Yet people think that it's good with a gunlaw disarming law-abiding folk  :tard:

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #145 on: October 13, 2012, 06:02:02 PM »
Vinegar has many uses around the house from cleaning to rust removal which use it for mostly, it also has the added bonus of being cheep.
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #146 on: October 14, 2012, 11:39:49 PM »
Notice that "wine" is pretty similar to "vinum", since "vinum" is pronounced "weenum". In German they also spell it with w, which in really old German sounded like in English.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #147 on: October 15, 2012, 11:52:00 PM »
Reject me-if you need for having an anniversity of my birth date, but I turned fifty seven years of age today.

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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #148 on: October 16, 2012, 01:53:25 AM »
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Re: Random possibly useful fact
« Reply #149 on: October 16, 2012, 10:25:05 AM »
Reject me-if you need for having an anniversity of my birth date, but I turned fifty seven years of age today.

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