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    Thread: Words you wish existed
Post: RE: Words you wish existed

(July 20, 2013 at 5:18 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Make up words here. I wish "funner" was a word to describe something that is more fun some other thing. You would be perfectly fine in using "funner....
Hovik Off Topic 36 8330 July 26, 2013 at 4:49 pm
    Thread: Time For Whites To Wake Up
Post: RE: Time For Whites To Wake Up

(July 26, 2013 at 3:46 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: (July 26, 2013 at 3:38 pm)Hovik Wrote: Germans, you've never even been to the southern United States (and presumably have never even been to...
Hovik Politics 309 85557 July 26, 2013 at 3:49 pm
    Thread: Time For Whites To Wake Up
Post: RE: Time For Whites To Wake Up

Germans, you've never even been to the southern United States (and presumably have never even been to the US at all). Literally the only information you could have is from hearsay. Just shut the fuck...
Hovik Politics 309 85557 July 26, 2013 at 3:38 pm
    Thread: Rome 2 Total War
Post: RE: Rome 2 Total War

This looks amazing. I needs me some Armenian horse archers, though.
Hovik Gaming 30 10656 February 19, 2013 at 3:59 pm
    Thread: Should Latin Be Offered as a Secondary School Elective?
Post: RE: Should Latin Be Offered as a Secondary School ...

(February 18, 2013 at 1:49 am)C3P0 Wrote: Well, the future of the English language is somewhat pitiful. From experience through the means of observation, it seems that the average student's vocabula...
Hovik Off Topic 27 5263 February 18, 2013 at 1:15 pm
    Thread: Man quits job over bad woo
Post: RE: Man quits job over bad woo

(February 8, 2013 at 8:29 am)John V Wrote: I agree that the man is overboard on the 666 thing. However, I find it ironic that it was posted by a guy who has difficulty getting a job because he like...
Hovik Christianity 97 32988 February 8, 2013 at 3:12 pm
    Thread: Who are you crushing on/were you last crushing on?
Post: RE: Who are you crushing on/were you last crushing...

(January 20, 2013 at 10:27 am)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: Anyone with red hair. *eyebrow wiggle*
Hovik Off Topic 35 8846 January 20, 2013 at 2:07 pm
    Thread: What do you do, and do you like it?
Post: RE: What do you do, and do you like it?

(December 12, 2012 at 10:54 am)Stue Denim Wrote: I study speech pathology at uni Yeah it's cool, I enjoy languages and linguistics. I study syntax! I've finished my linguistics program already, so ...
Hovik Off Topic 29 5190 December 12, 2012 at 2:45 pm
    Thread: Confronting Friends and Family
Post: RE: Confronting Friends and Family

(November 14, 2012 at 3:48 pm)Shell B Wrote: Viable is the wrong word. It is not less anything, Hovik. It is meant to be used within the scope of your science. You realize that other scientists us...
Hovik Skepticism & Pseudoscience 122 35853 November 15, 2012 at 12:54 am
    Thread: Confronting Friends and Family
Post: RE: Confronting Friends and Family

(November 13, 2012 at 10:49 am)Kirbmarc Wrote: Quote:The Ararat range spans a massive area complete with the basins required for the flood of Biblical proportions (you only need ONE basin by the way...
Hovik Skepticism & Pseudoscience 122 35853 November 14, 2012 at 3:32 pm
    Thread: Confronting Friends and Family
Post: RE: Confronting Friends and Family

(November 13, 2012 at 1:43 am)Rayaan Wrote: (November 12, 2012 at 10:49 pm)Hovik Wrote: I believe we'd be arguing semantics if anything at all. I don't agree that animals use what we would describ...
Hovik Skepticism & Pseudoscience 122 35853 November 13, 2012 at 9:49 am
    Thread: Confronting Friends and Family
Post: RE: Confronting Friends and Family

(November 12, 2012 at 10:06 pm)Rayaan Wrote: (November 12, 2012 at 6:13 pm)Hovik Wrote: Animals don't use language, at least so far as we know up to this point. Many different studies have been do...
Hovik Skepticism & Pseudoscience 122 35853 November 12, 2012 at 10:49 pm
    Thread: Confronting Friends and Family
Post: RE: Confronting Friends and Family

(November 12, 2012 at 8:40 pm)Shell B Wrote: When you are a professional linguist, I would say. I'm trying to determine how other people define this shit. It confounds me. At what point does someone...
Hovik Skepticism & Pseudoscience 122 35853 November 12, 2012 at 8:42 pm
    Thread: Confronting Friends and Family
Post: RE: Confronting Friends and Family

(November 12, 2012 at 8:28 pm)Shell B Wrote: As Tiberius put it, you cannot produce an infinite number from a finite set. I'll leave it to him to do the math defeating, but even a layman can see tha...
Hovik Skepticism & Pseudoscience 122 35853 November 12, 2012 at 8:34 pm
    Thread: Confronting Friends and Family
Post: RE: Confronting Friends and Family

(November 12, 2012 at 8:03 pm)Shell B Wrote: http://www.pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/psych26/language.htm Dolphins use complex sounds to communicate, as do whales. It really depends on how you want to defi...
Hovik Skepticism & Pseudoscience 122 35853 November 12, 2012 at 8:16 pm
    Thread: Confronting Friends and Family
Post: RE: Confronting Friends and Family

(November 12, 2012 at 6:58 pm)Tiberius Wrote: (November 12, 2012 at 6:13 pm)Hovik Wrote: Animals don't use language, at least so far as we know up to this point.Given that humans are animals, and ...
Hovik Skepticism & Pseudoscience 122 35853 November 12, 2012 at 7:56 pm
    Thread: Confronting Friends and Family
Post: RE: Confronting Friends and Family

(November 12, 2012 at 5:08 pm)Shell B Wrote: I'm a nitpicker on that front. Had the same conversation with Summer recently. Studying an area does not make you a linguist, a scientist, a cook, an ast...
Hovik Skepticism & Pseudoscience 122 35853 November 12, 2012 at 6:13 pm
    Thread: Confronting Friends and Family
Post: RE: Confronting Friends and Family

(November 9, 2012 at 8:34 am)Daniel Wrote: (November 8, 2012 at 3:09 pm)Hovik Wrote: It wouldn't be identifiable as language in the same way we think of language because our language is specific t...
Hovik Skepticism & Pseudoscience 122 35853 November 9, 2012 at 6:00 pm
    Thread: Confronting Friends and Family
Post: RE: Confronting Friends and Family

Daniel Wrote:I'll address this point first. If you didn't have humans at all as a species - but you had some other species as intelligent as we are with the same 5 senses we have, language would still...
Hovik Skepticism & Pseudoscience 122 35853 November 8, 2012 at 3:09 pm
    Thread: Confronting Friends and Family
Post: RE: Confronting Friends and Family

Daniel Wrote:I'm sorry Hovik I didn't realize you wanted a response to this. Language is not a part of an individual, in fact it is pretty much useless within the context of individuality. There are m...
Hovik Skepticism & Pseudoscience 122 35853 November 7, 2012 at 12:35 pm