The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread Question Thread!

[pau17]

Why is it that I need to cough whenever I eat something covered in powdered sugar? I spray that stuff everywhere when I do.

Any intake of air by your lungs, even very small, will suck the sugar into your breathing cavities because the particles are so tiny and light.

 

[Narz]

Why is it that I need to cough whenever I eat something covered in powdered sugar? I spray that stuff everywhere when I do.

Your body is trying to protect you from the evil that is processed sugar.

 

[LucyDuke]

Processed sugar isn't evil, HFCS is.

 

[mangxema]

its not a the letter but the sound 'uh', which I believe is prevalent in Sanskrit and Dravidian languages, which provide massive amounts of names.

Also, 'uh-' as a prefix sound that is also its own syllable in Sanskrit is considered to make the following word negative. So the word for 'weak', with uh- in front of it would make it 'strong'. Not meaning there is no true word for strong, but that's one way of putting it.

Was Sanskrit ever vowel-less, at least partly? Like... you'd have a string of consonants and everyone understood that you filled in the gaps with '-uh' unless otherwise noted? And then someone decided to be more explicit about it and threw in a whole bunch of a's.

 

[Narz]

Processed sugar isn't evil, HFCS is.

Same schnit pretty much. "Organic cane juice" also pretty much the same. I use honey personally.

 

[holy king]

phillipe, why do you spell "coördinate" this way?

 

[philippe]

phillipe, why do you spell "coördinate" this way?

Why do you write philippe with two l's and one P?

Our own native languages mangling our words up. (in my case Dutch with a West-Flemish accent)

I don't even know how to properly write coördination

 

[Arwon]

Minus the umlaut/diatric marks. We only use them in loan words and even then not often.

 

[Arwon]

Was Sanskrit ever vowel-less, at least partly? Like... you'd have a string of consonants and everyone understood that you filled in the gaps with '-uh' unless otherwise noted? And then someone decided to be more explicit about it and threw in a whole bunch of a's.

My guess: no. It seems to be a universal facet of human languages that the minimum number of vowels is three, and if there's only three vowels it's /a/ /i/ and /u/ like in Arabic.or Tagalog.

 

[raketooy]

Minus the umlaut/diatric marks. We only use them in loan words and even then not often.

I saw "Coördinator" in the credits of a Pink Panther episode. And that's the ultimate reference.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Is there a chance of McCain/Rice?

 

[GinandTonic]

Is there a chance of McCain/Rice?

For sure McCain does a range of processed oven-ready potato products, doesnt seem to go for rice though... Guess rice just doesnt need the processing.

EDIT -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCain_Foods_Limited

Yup, the Canuck's are really potato fellas it seems.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Never saw that comming

You bastard!

Myself to blame. Shouldn't be so lazy. Still want to know if John McCain with Condoleesa (sp!?) Rice as running mate is a possibility. And I'm not going to make a new thread or shoehorn this into one of the many eloquent election threads.

 

[aronnax]

How do is say "take me to this location on the paper" in Czech

Also how do you pronouce Czech and Prague?

Is it "Check" or "Craz" or "Cqrek" and "Pa-raq" or "Pe-rade"

 

[RedRalph]

Can we please put a one month moratorium on the use of the word "equatist"?

 

[D0NIMATRIX]

Also how do you pronouce Czech and Prague?

Is it "Check" or "Craz" or "Cqrek" and "Pa-raq" or "Pe-rade"

Czech = Check

Prague = Prah - guh without accentuating the "guh."

 

[Brighteye]

Possibly better explained as 'Prarg' or 'Prahg'.

 

[D0NIMATRIX]

'Prarg'?

 

[Bill3000]

Why do Indian names have so many A's in them?

Because Sanskrit merged Proto-Indo-European o with a. As a result, the vocab list with a's in its descendant Indo-Aryan languages are huge.

short a then became schwa in Sanskrit; it's transcripted as a in the latin alphabet.

 

[Slaughter]

If the world had a "End of All Reality Button", why I should't touch it?