Where are we from ?

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Originally posted by Marina Vaillant
By the way I discovered a great website about languages called freelang. The .com is the french part, but if you click on your flag you'll get the appropriate one. It's mainly french so far, but all passionnate about languages, so in the forum or the chat you'll find english-speaking people. Even your native language (depends where you are from).
I'm gonna ask them about charisma and charme.

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Before I'm visiting, I'm betting that no-one there speaks luxembourgish :D

[edit: arf I lost, there are two people doing that:/]

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Originally posted by Gabriel Fleseriu
I also think that charisma and charme have somewhere a common root. Both refer to an elusive property of some person, a property that we cannot pin down exactly, but we that recognize immediately when we see it.

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Both share the root "char", implying that they can be spelled with letters.

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Originally posted by Yves M
Before I'm visiting, I'm betting that no-one there speaks luxembourgish :D

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Huh? I thought they spoke French there...

Although it turns out I have been wrong before, they don't speak Latin in Latvia.

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Originally posted by SolarFlare Huh? I thought they spoke French there...

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Hum, solarflare, I see you have not read the whole thread, since I explained that already before in here ;) So, get a week off work and get reading :D

why are we talking about surrender monkeys??? burp...ohh the french...my bad..

It's easier to just say I'm stupid... ;)

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Originally posted by SolarFlare
It's easier to just say I'm stupid... ;)

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we figured that out about you long ago solar...long ago...

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Originally posted by SolarFlare
It's easier to just say I'm stupid... ;)

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Yeh... it's sometimes better to look to the truth in eyes than to lie to itself all the time... :p

Hi I'm back.
I don't remember either the discussion about the luxembourgish... I'll have a look at this.
Marina

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Originally posted by ovidiucucu
I promise to take a little vacation for reading all the 163 previous pages.
By mistake, I removed Antarctica from the list and hope the men living there will forgive me. :)

I know, not all from the list are countries, as well defined in the dictionary,
but I think it's not fair for sobebody located for example in Martinique to vote here for France. Maybe better is to list France twice. :D

As a remark, the little town where I live has got more people than Luxembourg, listed in this poll.

Anyhow, I'm proud to be an Otherian, just have voted for my country.
:D :D :D

Just joking, no politics...

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I discovered this post today ...
But Martinique is part of France, I see nothing wrong voting for France when you are in Martinique.
Otherwise if it's not countries but geographical areas, I suggest (it's time!!) to change all items to Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Oceania, Pacific, Caribean islands, Arctic, Antarctic, Africa. Did I forget some??
well, I keep looking for luxembourg in posts... ;)

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Originally posted by Marina Vaillant
Otherwise if it's not countries but geographical areas, I suggest (it's time!!) to change all items to Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Oceania, Pacific, Caribean islands, Arctic, Antarctic, Africa. Did I forget some??

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May be Scandinavian people want there own area instead of being part of Europe ;)

free scandinavia!!! h_e_l_l no we won't go..._h_e_l_l no we won't go...

/err wheres my tin foil hat?

I thought more about asia. Like middle east, far east... But from russia for example being part of Europe, middle east and far east would be difficult.
I don't know with new countries from URSS... is there still a part of Russia in Europe?? Aren't there all new countries until Oural??

As for scandinavia... I don't mind. Anyway Gabriel is alone judge of changing the items. Which he won't do, I'm sure, so late in the thread. :-)
France got 2 % that's not bad... :-)

Note that there have been at least three new votes since yesterday. It's not useless to bring this thread back to life, ... :p

We will probably reach the 1000 at one stage, may be in a year or two ... :D

I don't know how deep was this thread in the forum's list, but it was still in my control panel. :-)

A few posts about Luxembourgish in this thread:

Useless info, do not read

the name of the language

Ok, fair enough, I haven't read through all the other posts, there may be more ;)