not inside of wordsˌ in between vowels.....

T and D are essentially the same phone. The only difference is that D has whats called voicing and T doesn't. Since all vowels are voiced, intervocalic T also has a tendency to become voiced as well— which is why you'll hear city pronounced as /sIdi/

wat?! Spanish r is a flap. I bet we use that in some circumstances as an allophone of our D, but that would be the exception and not the rule¹.
I still haven't even figured out what they're fighting about.

¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervo...eolar_flapping

*and speaking of allophony, can a Dutch speaker tell me how W is supposed to be pronounced? Is it a V or not? It seems like in some words it is and in others it isn't. (like weten/wachten for example)

Luckbox Inc selfbanned in ATF

but dusting was here

The fighting was because the police tried to evict the people and the people attacked the police. Then the police gave up and left so the neighbors started attacking the people. Then the military came in and a few ******ed neighbors tried to attack the military and then gave up.

I'm really sad that I'm leaving Buenos Aires but I was just looking over my apartment for Medellín again and I'm starting to get more excited about being there. I'm paying $1300/month for a furnished apartment with all utilities/internet included, 860 sq ft with a leather couch, huge balcony, on a quiet little dead-end street right behind an upscale mall and about 1/4 mile from the center of the primary nightlife district. All of the appliances and tv look very new.

I was actually just aiming to get something at the cheap end of the spectrum in a nice area but since everything I could find was a luxury rental and all in a very narrow price range I ended up just splurging to get the one I liked the most.

Got my grades for the semester.

7 As

1 B

3.75 GPA. Go me.

Awesome, Systo! Keep it up!

Chernobly ftw.

Wow, I realize now how much I relate people to their avatars here, I didnt notice Dustin was using a new account name, just assumed it was Luckbox.

riverfish: I read in the paper that 2-3 solar companies over here are likely going bancrupt. The main reason they gave is that they can't compete with Chinese providers anymore. Is your company worried about the Chinese at all/are they on your radar? Usually stuff like that swings to Germany faster because the US has some protective measures (they exist here as well i.e. but in different shapes that are easier to circumvent for foreigners imo) in place that favour local companies so maybe it's a good headsup to stay ahead of the curve.

I dunno if I'd run a renewable energy company my focus would be squarely on the end of the value-chain and from what I read it seems like said companies made some strategic errors i.e. one concentrated on solar too much and treated photovoltaics as an afterthought etc.

Oh yeah, I never did report back to River on my research. I thought he might find this interesting

I talked to a couple solar places, and a rooftop system is way out of our price range. I did discover something fascinating though - in order to promote green energy, the Ontario government is signing contracts with individuals and companies that build private wind or solar power sources to buy the produced energy - at 80c/kwh. You might recall that right now our peak rate is 9c/kwh, and since prices are centrally set (and preplanned), we know they won't be at 80c by the time the 20 year contracts are done

Too bad I don't have $40g to drop on solar panels

It's a glottal stop, I'll watch the video later today

US? From talking to people it's fairly easy to get As @US universities. A 1.x (our scale is [1,2,3,4,failed], lowest being best with steps of X.0, X.3 and X.7 for all of them execpt the 4 which only exists as 4.0, everything worse is F) is pretty tough to get over here and any average below 1.5 is fairly elite imo
Then again the way grades work is very different. We basically have one huge test at the end of the semester that determines the entire grade for the class (which is why that <1.5 avg is tough to get; lots of variance). In my field it was usually between 6-8 of these during a stretch of one or two weeks which made learning for them a nightmare. One semester I had 5 tests on the same day...that was pretty insane

is systo 17 or something?

borrow $39,500,
invest
profit?

my undergraduate degree was purely determined by iirc 39 hours of exams over 10 days. Previous 3 years counted for nothing (beyond not having been thrown out). I like exams. Bring it on, I say.

lolol

I'd be more likely to go to jail for murdering the bank manager through uncontrolled laughter than getting a loan for $40k

If I could get my degree like this, I'd be all over it

Getting a degree is a lot easier that way but getting good grades is a lot tougher. Tradeoff imo

I saw mentioned earlier that Seventh Day Adventists didn't celebrate christmas. My brothers are SDA so I know a little about it.

In Hebrew, numbers represent letters the same way that they do in latin— and part of what has been called the bible code involves determining the numerical value of words in the bible— this is biblical numerology.

Now, Satan is not called Satan until the 360th chapter of the bible (using the KJV which is what SDAers think is the true version), and that is also the numerical value for Satan in Hebrew.

Santa is of course anagrammatically Satan, and Christmas is the 360th day of the year.

Q: What's better than having only 1 final left?

A: Having a lock A in the class going into the final

Does not compute, unless you have a lot of 1-2 credit classes.

I always wondered how Santa could come down our chimney without getting burned.

OH MY GOD is there an opportunity here. 80¢/kwh is insane.

POG should get a pool going to but zurvan a solar system. Can't imagine that wouldn't be a good investment. (OK, I could imagine it, but someone else will run real numbers.)

What really defines SDA isn't their opposition to Christmas— but them upholding and keeping the sabbath.

Nowhere in the new testament will you find anything saying that Christians should worship on Sunday. Saturday is always considered the day that should be remembered and kept holy according to the bible. But sometime in the first few centuries a.d., the catholic church decided to make sunday the lord's day— and its remained that way both for the catholics and also for most protestants.

Also, through circumstances that would probably seem unfathomable to most, SDAers believe that the end times will be near when Sunday worship is mandatory.

dustin, I've said in the past that all the Portuguese I remember is one, tow, three, dog, cat, and swimming pool — but when I saw your new name, I could read it. Probably haven't heard "caixa" in thirty-five years — these memories fade, but not completely.