Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/65758/

Loved CPM's answer. (Of course, I could say that about most of his answers.)

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/65767/

Great answers. (I especially like Phaedrus' idea of role reversals as an important thought exercise.)

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/65786/

Ahh, physics jokes.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/65783/

"It's actually fairly sophisticated logic for a child . . ."

Why, thank you.

http://www.theboard.byu.edu/questions/65904/

J'aimerais bien cette réponse. J'ai lu tout sans utiliser une dictionnaire. Très bien l'article d'origine!
(Je suis désolée, ma grammaire n'est pas très bien. Il fait deux ans depuis ma dernière classe de français.)

Aussi, c'était très amusante, la réponse. Maintenant je veux manger un tigre.

Indefinite Integral wrote:Aussi, c'était très amusante, la réponse. Maintenant je veux manger un tigre.

Moi, aussi!

Yeah, I don't speak French but I do speak Google. I found it quite amusing once I had an idea what you French people were talking about.

Dead Cat wrote:Yeah, I don't speak French but I do speak Google. I found it quite amusing once I had an idea what you French people were talking about.

When I hovered over GA's answer it translated for me. Is that just because I'm special? (It's done it on multiple computers.)

Two years of French in high school would've been enough...if they hadn't been like 10 years ago.

C is for wrote:

Dead Cat wrote:Yeah, I don't speak French but I do speak Google. I found it quite amusing once I had an idea what you French people were talking about.

When I hovered over GA's answer it translated for me. Is that just because I'm special? (It's done it on multiple computers.)

Two years of French in high school would've been enough...if they hadn't been like 10 years ago.

I discovered the alt text after I'd struggled through the French (and was pleased to confirm that I'd understood the gist of it). So no, C4, it's not just because you're special. (Although undoubtedly other measures would confirm that you're special.)

C is for wrote: When I hovered over GA's answer it translated for me. Is that just because I'm special? (It's done it on multiple computers.)

The embedded text is viewable by anyone who accesses the Board using a computer with a mouse by hovering over the text in the answer. This is possible thanks to the "insert link" function. A writer can highlight some text to insert a link without entering a URL for the link, but still enters in hover-over text to appear. I have noticed that D.A.R.E. has started adding in these hidden messages pretty regularly at the end of his responses and a few of us other writers have done it a few times recently too.

But none of that means you aren't special.

I don't speak any usable French, so my sister agreed to translate my response once I'd written it. Then I put my original English version as alt text so everyone would be able to understand it. All I had to do was edit a little bit of HTML.

Genuine Article wrote:I don't speak any usable French, so my sister agreed to translate my response once I'd written it. Then I put my original English version as alt text so everyone would be able to understand it. All I had to do was edit a little bit of HTML.

I'm amused that you didn't use the sentence about tigers mentioned in Board Question #65835.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/65933/

I like how Art Vandelay spelled "borsh." (If pressed, I could go into detail about the linguistics behind the alternate spelling.)

*Pressing Katya*

OK, the Russian/Ukrainian spelling is борщ. The final consonant is pronounced "shch" in Ukrainian and it used to be pronounced that way in Russian, but in modern Russian it's pronounced "sh" (but more palatized). So I take the fact that Art spells it "borsh" as evidence that he learned the word in Russia (or in a Russian-speaking environment). And it makes me happy to be able to look at something and see a story behind it.

Right you are Катя. I learned the word in Russia. And in my opinion anyone who tries to spell борщ in English with a T at the end is a n00b.

This discussion about borsch is really funny to me! My husband is from Russia and so occasionally my parents like to talk about borsch (it is the main Russian food they know of), and they always say the "t" really loudly then ask why he doesn't say it. So funny.

Art Vandelay wrote:Right you are Катя. I learned the word in Russia. And in my opinion anyone who tries to spell борщ in English with a T at the end is a n00b.

What if they're a Ukrainian speaker?

mic0 wrote:This discussion about borsch is really funny to me! My husband is from Russia and so occasionally my parents like to talk about borsch (it is the main Russian food they know of), and they always say the "t" really loudly then ask why he doesn't say it. So funny.

Along those lines, it was a grand revelation to me when I learned that Nikita Khrushchev's name was more accurately pronounced "Khrushoff."