Meh, I'll never understand why it'd be essential. But I go along to get along. I surrender!
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Can't you hear it?
It makes you look classy. And in an interview, that's all that counts.
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Where do I go to find out which budgets each President influenced? I know that Bush set the 2002-2009 budgets, and had a hand in the 2001 budget, and the data is pretty good back to Reagan, but before that it gets kinda muddled.
So far, I have:
Reagan: FY 1982-1989
Bush I: FY 1990-1993
Clinton: FY 1994-2001
Bush II: FY 2002-2009
I'm looking particularly at the years since 1960.
The recent history of the deficit is even worse in historical persepctive...
Mirc
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Is the word "our" usually pronounced as having 1 syllable or 2?
Is the word "fir" pronounced the same as "fur"?
Is the word "fir" pronounced the same as "fur"?
Rossiya
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Depends on the dialect. It can have one or two syllables.
In my experience, yes.
Mirc
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Thanks. I always found it hard to pronounce in only 1 syllable, but I met many (native) people doing it so I thought maybe if that's more correct I should start saying it that way. So I can stick to my old way of saying it.
Good, I was struggling to make a difference between them and I couldn't really do it.
D0NIMATRIX
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Is the word "fir" pronounced the same as "fur"?
Actually, I've heard "fir" said with a higher note on the vowel than "fur".
West 36
Can count up to 4
Can someone please describe what a chav is, for an American bloke
A chav is a poor person, often living off the dole (welfare money) who likes binge drinking, fashion labels such as Adidas, Nike and Burberry, wears baseball caps, tracksuits, tucks his trousers into his white socks, wears trainers, loves heavy gold jewellery, dance music and subwoofers in small cars, greases his hair either into spikes or curls slicked onto his forehead and gets his girl pregnant before she is 16.
He likes fighting and if he isn't dressed up he'll be in a hooded sweatshirt, loitering on the streets in order to intimidate better citizens.
He wastes his money on worthless rubbish and then gets jealous of harder-working, more sensible people.
He likes fighting and if he isn't dressed up he'll be in a hooded sweatshirt, loitering on the streets in order to intimidate better citizens.
He wastes his money on worthless rubbish and then gets jealous of harder-working, more sensible people.
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I think the American version would be white trash.
Hungarians migrated into the area from the east (I take it, from the steppes) and I suppose the old Roman language managed to stay afloat in all that time. Really basic answer, but I'm sure someone could fill in the details.
Edit: The lazy Wikipedia way out, some basic info on Hungarians. Hopefully most of it is accurate.
Edit: The lazy Wikipedia way out, some basic info on Hungarians. Hopefully most of it is accurate.
Mirc
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Hungarians arrived in Europe later than everyone else there, thus when they came, and they were powerful, they assimilated the other cultures, and since they came latest, there was no other people to assimilate them: again, in the middle ages they were powerful.
It's kind of complicated with Romania. When the Romans retreated from Dacia (the province that coincides with most of Romania today) in 271, under Emperor Aurelianus, it became the first abandoned province of Rome, since the continuous attacks of the migrators north and northeast were a lot harder to defend if you had the Carpathians as a border than if you had the huge Danube river as a border.
Then, the population suffered a complete ruralization (de-urbanization) as all of the administration left. So over the years, they moved deeper and deeper into the mountains, as all the lower lands of Romania were completely messed up in the age of migrations (Goths, Pechenegs, Cumans, Bulgars, white Slavs, etc), as it was the easiest way in from Asia to southern Europe.
After the situation calmed down, they could afford to go back into the plains, and they became the only population living there, after overthrowing the foreign power that was dominating the area (which in Transylvania did not happen until 1600, until then being either inside the Kingdom of Hungary or an independent principality, but one that was ruled by the Hungarian and German princes, not by the Romanian majority of the population).
Thus, you could say that the Romanians today are just descendants of colonists from the Roman Empire that managed to survive the Dark Ages by retreating into the tall Carpathian mountains, mixed with the Hungarian, German, Slavic and Roma minorities.
Being the first province to be abandoned by Rome, the Romanian language broke up first from Latin, thus being the most archaic and one of the closest to Latin, which is why Romanians can understand Italians without any training in doing it.
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How can you write root 3 in C++?
LucyDuke
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That is a lot of information. I just spent about an hour between my bookshelf and the internets and couldn't find a damn thing.
What specifically are you trying to figure out?
Godwynn
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How many major language rely on Word-Order grammar and how many rely on Cases.
You spent an hour looking that up for me?
LucyDuke
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How many major language rely on Word-Order grammar and how many rely on Cases.
You spent an hour looking that up for me?
But why do you want to know? Just curiosity?
It wasn't just to win your heart, anyway, I got curious myself. This is just my hobby until I get back to school.
The reason I say it is a lot of information is because those aren't clear-cut categories at all. I think you know that, 'cause you did say "mainly", but my uneducated guess is that nobody's made such a list because it would be rather simplistic and not very useful.
I think if you can find a copy of this book, you might be able to pull together the information you're looking for. Or maybe not, but I want that book.
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But why do you want to know? Just curiosity?
It wasn't just to win your heart, anyway, I got curious myself. This is just my hobby until I get back to school.
The reason I say it is a lot of information is because those aren't clear-cut categories at all. I think you know that, 'cause you did say "mainly", but my uneducated guess is that nobody's made such a list because it would be rather simplistic and not very useful.
I think if you can find a copy of this book, you might be able to pull together the information you're looking for. Or maybe not, but I want that book.
Yeah, curiosity. Other college students watch TV, I prefer to learn a foreign language.
I've always heard that English is one of the most hardest languages to learn. I am wondering if it is because it is Word-Order based. I know Polish has some 26 (sechsundzwanzig) cases, and German has 4 (vier). English has a few remnants from its history of case, for example: I and me. While native German speakers can move words around based on the case, for example: "Der Hund beißt den Mann." und "Den Mann beißt der Hund." They both mean the exact same thing. In English they would be totally opposite of one another.
German also has word order, in statements the verb always has to come second (see beißt in the sentences above, it is always second. The subject and the direct object change depending on the sentence.) I think it would be nice to see which languages are Word-Order based and which ones are Case based.
English and German are both Germanic Languages. Before I started learning the latter I though they were very similiar.
Boy was I wrong.
Oh, that book is damn $600. Google Books had a preview, but had nothing that was of use that I found while skimming it.
THANKS LUCY!
English has had a heavier influence from Romance languages than German, it seems.
But the issue with how they're structured from the start is something I didn't know.
Learning every day.
But the issue with how they're structured from the start is something I didn't know.
Learning every day.
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