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Bao
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 Message 105 of 131
10 August 2012 at 1:53am | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
Why? It's very useful. And the switching between languages is part of the usefulness.

I just said that I don't count it, as in counting when I tally the time I spend on my languages. I also don't count things like the five minute loo breaks with my Dante's Monarchia in Latin because it's just too much of a hassle to think about how useful that actually is, and to measure the time.
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kanewai
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 Message 106 of 131
10 August 2012 at 2:01am | IP Logged 
Midnight is the zero point, and so does not belong to either the day before or the day
after. It's relative - it's usually apparent from the context.

If not, it's usually better to say 11:59 pm (or 23:59) or 00:01 am.

Also, I have no idea when the Challenge ends, or if it ends at GMT or our own local
time. I'm hoping our own local time ... I'll have a couple hours to play catch up! I'm
not sure what time zone the twitter-bot is in.

It isn't mine!
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Swift
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 Message 107 of 131
10 August 2012 at 2:05am | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
As a huge football fan I'm looking forward to Euro 2012 in June so I'll
do Polish in May for some pre-tournament joy and then the language of the country that
wins it in August (runner-up if it's France because I. don't. wanna. learn. French :P
and I'm thinking of doing Old English or Old Church Slavonic if Russia or England
wins...not that it's likely haha)

On not much of a language-related note, this post makes me so sad. Russia were just
amazing in their first game against the Czech Republic, I don't know what happened to
them! They just didn't seem to want it in those last few games.

Edited by Swift on 10 August 2012 at 2:05am

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Serpent
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 Message 108 of 131
10 August 2012 at 2:27am | IP Logged 
Ah I don't know either. Most people blame Advocaat here, reaching the top form too early and not having a plan B. The Euro was amazing anyway though, even with another big heartbreak for me when Croatia was out on my birthday. I had a fantastic time in Poland and probably brought good luck to the stadium in Wrocław.
Well I'd totally prefer Italian or German but I'm doing a 6WC in Spanish now and I'm enjoying it:)
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Sprachprofi
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 Message 109 of 131
10 August 2012 at 10:24am | IP Logged 
kanewai wrote:
If not, it's usually better to say 11:59 pm (or 23:59) or 00:01 am.

Also, I have no idea when the Challenge ends, or if it ends at GMT or our own local
time. I'm hoping our own local time ... I'll have a couple hours to play catch up! I'm
not sure what time zone the twitter-bot is in.

It isn't mine!


The challenge ends on Tuesday September 11th at 11:59pm in whatever time zone you're
in.
The bot will run a few hours longer in order to ensure that people in all time
zones have a chance to log their hours.

Edited by Sprachprofi on 10 August 2012 at 10:30am

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Serpent
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 Message 110 of 131
10 August 2012 at 5:43pm | IP Logged 
Can you please delete the empty #10 tag from my list? It got created automatically when I posted an untagged entry and #rest was created.
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Takato
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 Message 111 of 131
10 August 2012 at 6:48pm | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUU.

Ahem. I know [...] English native speakers mess [...] up all the f**king time, [...] midnight [...] :)


You didn't seem to know it, that's why I elaborated, so, keep your voice down, please. Don't think you should be like the English native speakers. At least I like to try my best. I don't set such limits like it's O.K. to be just as good as them.

Notice I didn't write "midnight" but 0:00, precisely too make it clear.

I hadn't known there was a confusion about what 0:00 means. I considered it trivial, for the order of the natural numbers. May I direct your attention to this link: link
I hope you can eliminate your confusion there.
Lastly, you can acquire new knowledge by using Google. I know it's a bit difficult to use, but I don't have so much time to help you get hold of every information, so I'm off, if I don't excuse myself. I have a way to go for learning Mandarin Chinese...

Edited by Takato on 10 August 2012 at 6:49pm

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Sprachprofi
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 Message 112 of 131
10 August 2012 at 7:11pm | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
Can you please delete the empty #10 tag from my list? It got created
automatically when I posted an untagged entry and #rest was created.

Sorry, I cannot find it in the database - it's not a regular tag, rather some weird buggy
output. I don't have the time to trace and fix it at the moment; working a regular job
while graduating from university and doing Japanese 6WC.


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