Are you guys working on the database?

[Martin Gühmann]

Token is not.

Correction: Token is an English word.

-Martin

[Robert]

ah... learning/ teaching.... in dutch it's the same word
I learn it to you
I learn it from you

that's why I always mix it up.
As with loaning/borrowing, we just have 'lenen' (loaning) for both actions. Why make things complicated if it can also be easy.

[Martin Gühmann]

In the process of fixing things he also taught me how to do it.

You could also have said:

In the process of fixing things he also showed me how to do it.

And better:

While fixing things he also showed me how to do it.

ah... learning/ teaching.... in dutch it's the same word
I learn it to you
I learn it from you

that's why I always mix it up.
As with loaning/borrowing, we just have 'lenen' (loaning) for both actions. Why make things complicated if it can also be easy.

It is more difficult if you have to understand the context to understand the real meaning of a word, therefore you need more words.

By the way you can learn something about a word if you know its history. For instance: to teach

I just wished there were a German version with German words of this site.

-Martin

[Asher]

Solver

[Robert]

It is more difficult if you have to understand the context to understand the real meaning of a word, therefore you need more words.

That's what words like "to" and "from" are for.
Those words are mostly used in these phrases anyway. "I loaned it to you" or "I borrowed it from you"

It only fails in lines like: "I loaned it" or "I borrowed it"
But in dutch we then put he word 'uit' to it: "I leende het uit" ("I loaned it 'out'")

but you're right, when fewer words are available you lose something.

[OzzyKP]

English is a confusing language (or so I've heard). Lots of rules and lots of exceptions to the rules. Plus (from what I understand) the largest vocabulary of any language on earth.

[Asher]

That's 'cause English is the Borg of languages...we assimilate.

[Robert]

On Topic: things went ugly again, but then also Gramphos jumped aboard and fixed some stuff. I think that everything is now up and running again.

Thanks to Solver and Gramphos.

[Asher]

Are they documenting this kind of stuff? It seems to happen regularly.

Also, is Gramphos still staff?

[Martin Gühmann]

Plus (from what I understand) the largest vocabulary of any language on earth.

That's 'cause English is the Borg of languages...we assimilate.

Yup, English is the language that came in contact with most other languages. But don't think that you use all those words. There are a few words that are really common and others are used seldom. One sign that a word is used very often is that it is short, for instance:

I, you, he, she, it, we, they

Just one syllable or that a verb has irregular forms like:

be, am are, is, was, were

drink, drank, drunk

And here is my favorite, of course no one says it:

****, inflected forms: **** or shat

Yeah but everybody heard it often enough to memorize.

-Martin

PS: The autocensor even censored the link.

[Solver]

Are they documenting this kind of stuff? It seems to happen regularly.

Also, is Gramphos still staff?

This time it started with the lighttpd process dying and then some disk space issues. Should continue to get better, though, as Gramphos progresses in removing the chroots - he's still staff here.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Thanks Solver

You were always the only WPC admin that I actually liked

[Grandpa Troll]

This time it started with the lighttpd process dying and then some disk space issues. Should continue to get better, though, as Gramphos progresses in removing the chroots - he's still staff here.

Solver, thank you

WPC=Working on Poly's Connectivity


You are da manz Solver, wat to step to the plate for a fellow up and coming Civilization website.

Thats what leaders do, help those who need it.

Again

Thanks for all you do here


GT

[-Jrabbit]

Thank you Solver.
Thank you Gramphos.

[CivRules07]

thanks solver and gramphos! everything seems fine now, so thanks a bunch!!!!!