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[saerleiya]

I personnally took a 13-hour rest, and my body still tells me it's not completely enough (I was awake during 37 hours). Hunch will need some time to recover too.

[Haruka]

Let Hunch rest for once!

[rolesfamily]

It will be quite a long job getting all the stats together and then dishing out all the reward tings.

[Dart]

So Off Topic: The 27th I will have been posting on RPC for a year!

[Earth Gwee]

Actually that is exactly on topic because it's in the Off Topic thread.

[Shrooblord]

I was just listening to this beautiful Frysian song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh0I5fag7eU

The language is nothing like what Dutch is today. Quite hard to comprehend at times (though the general message is understood). However, listening and looking at the words, it's a very cool language to still be alive today. Why?

It's similar to German, giving us some indication how German evolved into Dutch in Holland. But also: it looks a lot like the Olde English language that was used in Shakespearian times. I'll give you some examples:

Doe't ik dy seach, lang ferlyn
Wat docht it dochs sear, as ik d'r wer oan tink.

The phrase means (translational freedom taken to make it make any sort of sense in English) "The last time I saw you is long ago / [Oh,] how it hurts, when I think back to it."'
'docht' means 'doet' in Dutch, which is 'does' in English - "it does hurt me" is the literal translation of how we in Dutch say that something hurts us. The root of the word do is now used in English!
'tink' means 'denk' in Dutch, which is 'think' in English. It's quite clear how this one entered the English language.
Furthermore, 'dy' is 'jou' in Dutch, 'you' in English. Shakespeare wrote, in many of his works: 'thy'. The pronunciation of the d and th isn't that far apart, and it is Frysian that makes me believe it used to be pronounced the same, until it slowly evolved into what th is today (sadly, many Dutch people haven't caught onto that yet ).

I like being able to see one language's roots in another. It's cool to be able to observe these things in a language that hasn't by now become extinct.

Just something I wanted to share.

PS
Something I pieced together from different facts about the old English language:
y was the old character for spelling 'th' (that's right; 'ye Olde Shoppe' isn't actually [ye], it's [the]). 'thou' was a word used for 'you' in certain conjugations ("Thou hath betrayed me!"). Writing thou as you was customary, but then, somewhere along the line, the y stopped being pronounced as th and turned into the 'soft j-like' it is now. Weird, huh?

[saerleiya]

sear

And this is where it comes from! You'are actually making no mistakes by mispelling the short part of my nick.

Joke aside, nice post here. Personnally I don't know where Dutch comes from: In my mind, it sounds a bit like German, but a bit like English too. Huuuuuuummmm...

y was the old character for spelling 'th' (that's right; 'ye Olde Shoppe' isn't actually [ye], it's [the]). 'thou' was a word used for 'you' in certain conjugations ("Thou hath betrayed me!"). Writing thou as you was customary, but then, somewhere along the line, the y stopped being pronounced as th and turned into the 'soft j-like' it is now. Weird, huh?

This is the same for a lot of languages which has been evolving over time. I remember reading some books like 'Pantagruel' from Rabelais, a French writer, who was living as the beginning of the 16th century. Some words have the same meaning, but there are a lot of variation in their writing. Crazy as hell. Don't read that when you are a 10 year-old kid, as you still have trouble with orthograph and grammar and vocabulary. This book could have scared the shit out of me because of that.

[Shrooblord]

Funny thing about 16th Century English is that it's far less confusing than current-day English. If you needed to pronounce something a certain way, you could tell by the way it was written. If a vowel was to be pronounced long, there would be two of 'em. The same priniciple still applies in (most) Dutch words.

[PluMGMK]

You are right about the 'th' becoming 'y' thing, it's because 'th' used to be written as 'þ' (thorn) which came to be written the same as 'y' ( ). But at the same time I think I checked it out before, and that's not actually how "thou" came to be replaced by "you", funnily enough. It was more of a thing that upper-class people preferred "thou" for some reason…

[Shrooblord]

It is not? Now there's something that surprises me.

Maybe the cool kids were like "fuck your thorn and your thou we will do something totally original." And they 'did'.

[Maz]

Hi there! Could someone please tell me on which topic I have to post if I have problems uploading videos on YouTube and want to ask others for an explaination?

[Dart]

the "Your Youtube Channel" thread should do nicely for that:
viewtopic.php?p=842263#p842263

[Maz]

Figures.

Thanks!

[saerleiya]

Updated information about RECORD-ED DAY. Take a look, we need you!

Trying to make a small video for tonight so you will have a quick preview of it (plus my happy face on the screen trying to speak English)

[Hunchman801]

I think Humch, along with anyone else who might've been able to remove the counter are taking a well earned rest. Besides, I'm fine with it being up there for now. It's representing the milestone we've reached!

Thanks for your understanding.

[DesLife]

Hey hUMCH where's mah tings

[saerleiya]

Yup, where are they? We want them things

[rolesfamily]

Everyone's been rewarded now

[MLII]

in other news i just showed a friend a video from the cave of bad dreams to illustrate my fear of caterpillars

her reply was "but where are the bunnies"

this isn't something i was expecting to experience again :')

[OCG]

Ow sheet, more lawsuits incoming:
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/08/06/sn ... ringement/
Is it just me, or in future there are more and more of copyright problems?

Here it is:
http://www.snkplaymore.co.jp/pdf/140806_1.pdf