hehe, Aimus, never mind :)
hm, bacon and beens.. I've got an inkling but I'm not gonna spoil it either right now...
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hehe, Aimus, never mind :)
hm, bacon and beens.. I've got an inkling but I'm not gonna spoil it either right now...
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Originally Posted by RJbibliophil
This is probably really tough, but any guesses yet?
Oh, Bianca, I'm doing it to survive?
can you give it in dutch?
Bianca, maybe something like when you do work or something that should earn you a lot of money or respect but you do it for very little in return because you just do it for fun or you do it as a favour?
RJ what kind of 'thing'? something that's man-made or something organic?
RJ - Death?
Vägivald doesn't mean oppression, but it is close. Oppression is a form of it.
Giving out some easier puzzles:
Long-eye
Lightnings' Mihkel (a male name)
Alas, this is incorrect! It is a tricky one. Do try again!Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
Sleepy, Tal- I would have to say it is organic, it is a name for a thing in nature. I define thing as a noun that is not a person(or animal) or place. It can be physically felt. It would also be safe to say it belongs in the mountains of Norway.
Bianca- bacon and beans would be considered a higher standard of living than, say, bread and porridge. So, is doing something for bacon and beans saying you are doing it to advance in life or better your condition, sort of?
Tal- is it dictatorship? (to be quite frank)
or could it be a country that is so powerful it is a major and cruel world power, like germany in the last century?
Again, this is incorrect, like I said, it's a tricky one. Sleepywitch was close though. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by RJbibliophil
I case you didn't notice, I'm just filling in, since Bianca doesn't seem to be around so much.
Is it doing it for someone else's bacon and beans?
aaargh... RJ your riddle is so difficult... mountains and it doesn't have any bones? a glacier? a kind of tree? a kind of worm? but that's not a thing... grrrrrrrrrrr
what colour is it?
i have another German one
"to make dachshund eyes"
:)
I know, I know, Eivind beinlaus is tough...
It only happens once in a while. It is not like a plant in that it can always be found. It is not exactly something that can be seen. It involves the winter. If it has any color, it might be whitish.
I am guessing dachshund eyes would be making an expression like that of a dachshund. Unfortunately, I don't know what that is. :lol:
There's an English expression "to make eyes at someone" too, which means staring at somebody to attract their attention. Is this akin to that?Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
Or maybe, something like fluttering your eyelashes to ingratiate yourself with someone? :confused: :confused:
A bit late to be posting this but I just went through the old posts in this thread, so I thought I'd post this in case anyone's interested.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pensive
I did a project on origin & evolution of languages in the subcontinent, when I was in school.
*Sorry this ran on a bit too long!Quote:
'Urdu' is a word of Turkish origin which means 'army' or 'camp'. In fact, the English word 'horde' has the same roots and hence, sounds similar, and has the same meaning. The word 'Urdu' symbolizes its origin: it developed by the interaction of foreign army, merchants and immigrants with the local population of India. So, Urdu is quite simply the language of the camp. Scholars say it developed in the Punjab & neighbouring territories about 1000 years ago out of a mixture of local languages known & unknown, and of the Persian language spoken by invading armies from northern Persia, that incidentally, included many words borrowed from Arabic & Turkish. It also derives some matter from Sanskrit. Today, it is the national language of Pakistan and is quite similar to India's national language Hindi. In fact, the grammar of Urdu is quite similar to Hindi.
When Urdu gained patronage at Muslim courts in India and developed into a literary language, the variety used by the general population gradually replaced Sanskrit, literary Prakrits and Apabhramshas as the literary language of the midlands. It is this variety that became known as Hindi. Thus, both Hindi and Urdu have their origins in the 'khari boli' speech of Delhi & its environs, although they are written in different scripts (Urdu in Perso-Arabic & Hindi in Devanagri). The two languages differ in minor ways in their sound system, morphology & syntax. Hindi & Urdu have a common form known as Hindustani, essentially a colloquial language.
how interesting
Piglet, are you speaking of icicles? :confused:
Do you know what the expresion "Do a Barney Oldfield!" means? ;)
And do any of you by chance wear "cheaters"? ;)
"Cheaters" refers to windcheaters or jackets, right?
No idea who Barney Oldfield is though! :confused: