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[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

I think you are playing fast a loose with wiki statistics sir...

what does "to play fast a loose" mean?

Actually the phrase is "fast AND loose". [:D]

[Historiker]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: bobogoboom

ORIGINAL: Mynok


Ooops...see? I forgot sprechen was an irregular verb. [8|]

Certainly I will help. Your grammar is fine. Most of your "mistakes" are idiomatic, not grammatical.

unlike mine[:'(]

No Bobo, your mistakes are not idiomatic. They are idiotic. There isa a difference! [:D][:D][:D]

rofl

[USSAmerica]

Parole - Tithe. [&o][8D]

[Mynok]

This page in history: 961 AD

Events

Asia

* Ani (present-day Turkey) becomes the capital of Armenia under the Bagratuni Dynasty.
* The Huqiu Tower is built in China (often called the Chinese Leaning Tower of Pisa).

Europe

* The Byzantine Empire recaptures Crete from Muslim control.
* Battle of Fitje: Haakon I of Norway squashes the rebelling forces of Eric Bloodaxe's sons, but is killed.
* Harald II of Norway becomes ruler of the western part of Norway.
* St Paul's Cathedral in London is destroyed by fire.
* Al-Hakam II starts to rule.

Art

* Before 961 - Textile with elephants and camels, known today as the Suaire de St-Josse, from Khurasan or Central Asia, is made. It was preserved in the Church of Saint-Josse-sur-Mer, near Caen in Normandy. It is now kept at Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Births

* Edith of Wilton
* Sigmundur Brestisson, chieftain in the Faroe Islands

Deaths

* King Haakon I of Norway
* Abd-ar-rahman III, Caliph of Córdoba
* Emperor Yuanzong of Southern Tang (China)

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good evenin!

Oh my... it is still hot... [:(]


Leo "Apollo11"

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Historiker

Our old hunting dog has been euthanized today. She was with us for 13 years. A really sad moment..

[:(]


Leo "Apollo11"

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Zsssssss time... [>:][>:][>:]


Leo "Apollo11"

[BrucePowers]

Tithe

[stuman]

ORIGINAL: Historiker

Our old hunting dog has been euthanized today. She was with us for 13 years. A really sad moment..

I am sorry to hear that.

[Wirraway_Ace]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Historiker

I think you are playing fast a loose with wiki statistics sir...

what does "to play fast a loose" mean?

Actually the phrase is "fast AND loose". [:D]

Sorry Historiker,

I indeed meant to write "fast and loose". I was implying that you hadn't looked closely at the wiki data. The 9 million figure for German represented not unique words of the vocabulary, but words and word groups[!] including technical and scientific terms. McCrum et al. cites 500,000 words for English, 185,000 for German and 100,000 for French.

However, scholars certainly debate this subject due to differing definitions of a word. Some argue that Finnish, due to its structure, has an infinite vocabulary for example.

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Wirraway_Ace

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Historiker


what does "to play fast a loose" mean?

Actually the phrase is "fast AND loose". [:D]

Sorry Historiker,

I indeed meant to write "fast and loose". I was implying that you hadn't looked closely at the wiki data. The 9 million figure for German represented not unique words of the vocabulary, but words and word groups[!] including technical and scientific terms. McCrum et al. cites 500,000 words for English, 185,000 for German and 100,000 for French.

However, scholars certainly debate this subject due to differing definitions of a word. Some argue that Finnish, due to its structure, has an infinite vocabulary for example.

Hmmm... the BBC just had a celebration of adding the 1,000,000th word to the English language a couple of weeks ago. [&:]

[BrucePowers]

How many do you know?[:D]

[AW1Steve]

No where near enough! (I'm speaking for me , of course, I'm sure that Robert knows a great many more than I do). [:D]

[BrucePowers]

More than me also[:D]

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

How many do you know?[:D]

George Carlin taught me 7 of them. [;)][:D]

[USSAmerica]

I'm really tired.  Must be all the excitement of the Gold announcement.  [:D]
 
Good night, all.  [>:]

[Mynok]

Gah...that means I'll be up late tomorrow waiting for a turn. [8|] [:'(]

[USSAmerica]

Nope, I'll likely have it finished up and winging it's way to Mars from work.  [;)]

[USSAmerica]

Got caught up reading the AE Team thread on the way to bed.  [:D]

[stuman]

39 pages to go.

And I just noticed I went over 1000 posts. Of course I am a mere punk in this thread [:)]