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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5337 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 13 06 August 2012 at 8:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Since I am not a very religious person I do not often indulge in prayers, but since I feel this has been a near
death experience, I will make an exception. Like most atheists, I tend to fold my hands in prayer, when I am scared enough, and so many people have described the sense of shock and loss they felt when this site was down, that it is appropriate. Thank you Lord, for returning this site to us. Thank you for having given your servant the Admin the knowledge to fix it. Thank you for giving Julie and emk both the knowledge and the presence of mind to create a shelter for all Your lost language sheep. Thank you that you have given us a strong sense of community spirit, so that we in the hour of need could come together, help and support each other and be there for each other. Please Lord, let this not happen again. Give the Admin the will to be close to all your children of the languages on Earth, and save and keep him and let him mingle with all us lost sheep, and listen to our prayers. Keep all our dear moderators safe and in good health and all our members in good spirit and let them speak with joy, and madness and frivolity and sageness - all mixed together. Keep all our language logs and TAC teams safe and together, and let us not be scared like this again. Amen. 27 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4847 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 2 of 13 06 August 2012 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Amen to that!
I'm also so happy and thankful to have the good ol' forum back! Let's hope an attack like this won't happen again. But it was good to see that the community spirit couldn't be intimidated. I wonder if another internet community has ever created a temporary forum, because the original forum didn't work. I guess we're all a bunch of addicts and lunatics, but I'm happy to be back with all the other language nerds! Let us never be seperated again! ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5927 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 3 of 13 06 August 2012 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Another amen from me!
I am glad the forum is back and I pray it stays around, but for the first time I am considering being more active in other forums like Unilang and Fluentin3months and also staring a blog as a backup. I hope the previous sentence is not evidence of a lack of faith on my part but I really, really don't want to lose my logs and have no place to discuss languages. Edited by mick33 on 06 August 2012 at 11:14pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4681 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 4 of 13 06 August 2012 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you're an atheist, who's this "Lord" you're refering to? Norway is of course a kingdom, but still, I'm not sure Harald V is to be thanked for HTLAL being back!
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6912 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 13 06 August 2012 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Now we only have to translate this prayer into our target languages. That's what I call a challenge! :)
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5337 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 6 of 13 06 August 2012 at 10:51pm | IP Logged | ||
Did you get the "exception" part?:-) We have among others: - The Lord of the Rings - The Lord of the Flies - The Dark Lord - The Good Lord Above - among gardeners known as "The Head Gardener" Give it your best shot. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4710 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 7 of 13 06 August 2012 at 10:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Given that I'm the most irreligious person on this planet, I won't be taking on that
challenge - but I'm glad we're back to having this place work 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4831 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 8 of 13 07 August 2012 at 1:43am | IP Logged | ||
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...The Lord of the Dance...
....Lawdy Miss Clawdy... (old time rock number, covered by just about everybody....) ....The Lord of Misrule ... .....Cyril Lord Carpets ("This is luxury you can afford by Cyril Lord...") [ That's enough Lords. - Ed. ] 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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