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Boccherini wrote some pretty interesting stuff too, although the particular pieces I mean are not well-known by any definition of the word. :) I'm not comparing him to Bach or Beethoven, I'm just saying.

Ah, that happens to be the only large city in Germany I've never been to. :/ I'm afraid I can't give any first hand advice, but everyone I know tells me it's swarming with culture, (including lots of artistic stuff and fun stuff). In Germany in general I would recommend getting to know the...

Which part of it?

1) Teach him power chords, and how to play them on two strings (5th & 6th, 4th & 5th), as well as on three strings (4th & 5th & 6th, and 3rd & 4th & 5th) 2) Teach him basic, easy, barre-less chords 3) Teach him the basic Major Blues scheme, have him play the chords while you improvise over it...

Among other examples mentioned in the article, the author seems to be focusing on Vlashki, aka Istro-Romanian. I've had the chance to meet 1 (one) Istro-Romanian speaker in my life. I believe my first language is 100% mutually intelligible with the one mentioned in the article. I don't really...

Well, it's certainly not the player's fault - but observing those things is the only job of the referee. A referee that lets something as obvious as that slide in a game of such importance is simply a terribly bad referee! :) Actually, I'm not sure I've ever seen such an obvious mess-up of the...

For the first one, read the post right after the one you quoted before asking. :p :D The second one is from the Argentina-Mexico game. Argentina was attacking, and the guy with the ball passed it to the one you see in the dark green area. The receiver is obviously off-side, as there's no...

I think that might only be a popular misconception in the UK, I mean I've certainly heard about that, but it seemed to have always been somehow from that general geographical direction... ;) Right on! Another one to add to my collection! :D Never heard that one, but I'm personally flattered...

Most widespread misconceptions about Romania: that count Dracula existed, that he had anything to do with Vlad Tepes, that Vlad Tepes lived in the Bran castle (or built it, for that matter, the myths have many different variants), that Transylvania occupies more or less the whole of the country...

The right way to answer the phone Happy Birthday Nonconformist!

Hello Underpaid! :) Just copying and pasting the answer I gave to Abaddon (hey, years later and I'm still doing the same thing! :p): Yeah, I do still have them, but they are on my Romanian computer, some ~1900 km away from me right now... I'll see if I can get them anytime soon, but I'm not...

Just like in English. The discussion was only about the letter C before I and E. Okay then, sorry, I must've got you wrong. And I know it's not your sentence, I can recognize the first phrase in the Bible! :D

It's obvious that Germanic languages have more consonants than Romance languages, it's common knowledge. :p But I really really don't believe your claim that English would be longer than German, or than most Romance languages for that matter. I have translated a lot of texts between English...

My bad! I had no idea! :) Thanks for the information. Yes, the fact that it's a Vulgar Latin development is quite easy to see for anybody whose native language is Romance - since it happened in all of them except for Sardinian. Actually I'm curious - is the English pronunciation of ce/ci/ge/gi...

Maybe it's just the fact that English is not my native language, but I always assumed "robbing" implies violence... doesn't it? The thread title was more than a bit misleading for me. Actually, now I'm curious to know if I've been living with a misconception about this word all along! :scared: