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The teddy seems to be okay again now.

Hmm. It's not my fault that poisonous and venomous are the same word in Finnish.

They are in Norwegian too. It's poisonous when it's dangerous to eat, and venomous when a creature injects it.
But anyway, back to the main thing here. Everything in Australia is venomous. Even the turtles.
A causerie-style article about Australia said that 9 of the 10 most venomous spiders live in Australia, but it's more correct to say that of the 9 most venomous spiders in the world, all 9 live in Australia

There's even a toxic turtle (although not particularly Aussie).

And the things that aren't poisonous are very likely prickly!

That's why they got cut off from Pangaea...

Then the Kiwis cut themselves adrift to avoid the poison...

^ We can't blame Pangea or the Kiwis for that. Oz could've taken all the venomous and poisonous species with them before they were cast out left though.

This reminds me of a Finnish oddity - there is no such verb in Finnish as to have. It just doesn't exist. When we say that we have something, like "I have a car," we express it with a sentence which is translated "At me there is a car" or even "On me there is a car." Foreigners learning Finnish find this amusing. And when we have to do something, we use our equivalent of "must." With participles and past participles we employ the verb to be.

Thank you for letting me know how to do the strikethrough effect.

Cockroach96
Skilpadde
Krabo
envirozentinel

^ I should do that on random threads – just list everyone on the page with their names struck through.
That'd be so randomly creepy.

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On another note, I just learned a new word today: causerie. From a non-native English speaker, no less. Wikipedia says they're mostly unknown in the English-speaking world, so that's my excuse.

And yeah, one could speculate that Australia was at one time a giant prison for Pangaea's outcasts, pariahs and dangers to society. Then they just set them adrift and left them to their own devices. All millions of years before the British endeavoured to do the same.

i knew there was a distinction, but in not that way, thanks!

i started my day looking up the word "sultry".



same in several languages. case study, heillese:

xen pavin oprivin - "there is on me cats" - I have cats.

ren petset eihin - "there is not on them sisters" - they don't have sisters

same with hebrew but i feel i've said enough about that - no??

Language is fun.

Do u have a large Heillese vocabulary? And quite fluent in Hebrew it would seem?

(hi!!)

i've actually started to focus way less on hebrew so i can grow heillese, i can't seem to find a balance.

i could send you all that i have of the lexicon (couple hundred words if that, thousands if you include all possible verb forms) but it's a bit long and badly formatted, i sent Boo a version, wished me good morning in heillese

yeah fun!

Ya you can do that! Will send you my email.

I hope I don't see my name crossed out. It sounds far too much like a hitlist to me.

I took a look at Portuguese today, just for fun. I won't be taking it up for at least several years, I'm already trying to study far too much. I've been really brave though, and started recording files again for my Italian friend. It's hard work, because you know, speaking.

Yeah, like Moomin said, it looks like a hit list. And I see that I'm already offed. Guess I'm haunting WP now. I bet I'm the first ghost mod here!





You're welcome, both of you! It's nice to know that I can actually teach native English speakers words in their own language.
Kip, thanks for mentioning sultry, that made me look it up, so (hopefully) now I know one more word. I've looked it up before, but didn't remember what it meant. Hopefully it'll stick this time.
Murihiku, it's good to have an excuse! Incidentally, causerie is called almost the same in Norwegian: kåseri.



Wow, I had no idea! It sure does sound amusing Same with the examples Kip gave.

By the way, Kip, I have tried unsuccessfully to find out which language "heillese" is. I've Googled it and Google translate tells me it's heillese in any language I try, and the only hits I get are in Dutch, but the Dutch word for Dutch is Nederlands, according to Google translate. So which language is it?

Ask the Empress. I forget her name now. She's of Heillese extract.

*spookmods from the hitlist*