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If that shrine had had surveillance video, I would have loved to watch the shrieking fisticuffs........er, religious

debate.

Dear Krabo,

Between 1992 and 1994, Norwegian black metal musician Varg Vikerness burnt down 5 Stavekirks.

As a practicing pagan, he was offended that Christian churches were on Norse holy ground.

So this gave him the right to destroy unique architecture and beauty, that only exist in Scandinavia.

One, Fantoft, was rebuilt.

^ Apparently they called themselves The Inner Circle. I learned that from a Greek pen-pal I once had lol.

The last thing I heard about Vikernes was that he was living in France and was accused of illegal firearms and planning terrorism.

Actually, Scandinavian Norse Pagan Black Metal.....whatever.


Vikernes also stabbed a friend of his to death.

Spanish and Portuguese caramba aren't dirty words at all. They are perfectly acceptable in polite conversation. They can be used as euphemisms for carajo and caralho, respectively, which are dirty words referring to a penis, and also used as swearing interjections.

How is caralho pronounced?
cah-rah-lew
or
ca-rah-ew
?

More like the former, though the digraph lh represents a consonant that doesn't exist in English. It isn't exactly an l followed by a glide, but a single sound. Note julho ('July', the month) and Júlio ('Julius', male given name) sound different.

Spanish ll is historically the same consonant as Portuguese lh, but these days the phenomenon called yeísmo, whereby it's pronounced the same as y (before a vowel), has become nearly universal, making, for example, callado ('silent') and cayado ('staff, crook') homophones. I'm not sure, but I think something similar happened centuries ago to French ll and Occitan lh (guess where the Portuguese digraph comes from?), which became simply a glide or ceased to be pronounced altogether.

Spanis is more phonetic than Portuguese. Spanish is a nice language with regular pronunciation, Portuguese is tricky.

I'm not sure what you mean. Portuguese pronunciation is almost entirely predictable from spelling, the main exceptions being those due to the elimination of the diaeresis, which I certainly don't like. Linguísitco used to be spelled lingüístico, just like in Spanish, so you could tell the u was pronounced. Portuguese has a few more phonemes than Spanish, but not as many as English.

Se vi volas lingvon kun tute fonetika ortografio, vi havas Esperanton

By the way, this is Occitan. There was a video with actual footage, and subtitles in Occitan, French and English, but I can't find it now.

Occitan seems to be a mixture of French and Portuguese.
By the way, French is the messiest and least phonetic Romance language. People call it the language of love, because love is messy.

Better yet, where are you, syzygyish?

Are you really on the Gold Coast?

Looking for Wildflowers on the Gold Coast, Australia

Can't You read?

That's cool.

Hope you find some nice ones.

It's not easy to go into Hell. In fact, it's not possible at all, because it doesn't exist.