Grid-Iron american football game language selector
Language
ČeštinaDanskDeutsch
EnglishEspañolEspañol (Latinoamérica)
FrançaisItalianoMagyar
NederlandsPolskiPortuguês (Brasil)
RomânăSlovenčinaSlovenščina
SrpskiSuomiБългарски
РусскийУкраїнська 
Register
Login
Random facts
Forum index >> Off topic >> Random facts Goto page : 1, 2, 3 ... 26, 27, 28 ... 31, 32, 33
 
hosh13
Posts: 2985
Posted on 2015-09-18 21:21:33
icthalian wrote:

WTF have wheels got to do with splitting the atom?! It's called progress...



ummmmmm, they're both inventions of science?

So you say that there's nothing out of the ordinary about the bomb precipitating out right on the tale end of WW2?
  
Gatr22GI Supporter
Posts: 14541
Joined: 2009-09-29
I.1
Offline
Posted on 2015-09-18 21:27:33
hosh13 wrote:

icthalian wrote:

WTF have wheels got to do with splitting the atom?! It's called progress...



ummmmmm, they're both inventions of science?

So you say that there's nothing out of the ordinary about the bomb precipitating out right on the tale end of WW2?



Let's get this back on track and on topic with random facts please. Political and religious discussions are supposed to be left alone.

I had pizza last night
  
Owner of the Orlando Gators FC
Member GIAC
League 383-173 (TD Champs S17,S21,S22)
Regional Cup 223-25 (Cup Champs S14,S15,S17,S19,S20,S21)
AFLC 45-14 (Iron Bowl Champs S18,S22,S23)

It's Great To Be A Florida Gator
Menoto
Posts: 0
Posted on 2015-09-18 22:41:13
there are about 1 million people living in Stockholm yet it's the city with the third most unicorns (fast growing start-up companies) in the world
  
Menoto
Posts: 0
Posted on 2015-09-21 13:42:15
6% of all words spoken in the english language is "the"
  
Gatr22GI Supporter
Posts: 14541
Joined: 2009-09-29
I.1
Offline
Posted on 2015-09-21 13:46:12
Menoto wrote:

6% of all words spoken in the english language is "the"



In speeches, I would guess "uh" and "um" have "the" beat
  
Owner of the Orlando Gators FC
Member GIAC
League 383-173 (TD Champs S17,S21,S22)
Regional Cup 223-25 (Cup Champs S14,S15,S17,S19,S20,S21)
AFLC 45-14 (Iron Bowl Champs S18,S22,S23)

It's Great To Be A Florida Gator
Phiba
Posts: 4441
Posted on 2015-09-21 13:57:18
Gatr22 wrote:

Menoto wrote:

6% of all words spoken in the english language is "the"



In speeches, I would guess "uh" and "um" have "the" beat



One of the 2015 winners of the Ig Nobel prize in the category of Literature was a team who discovering that the word "huh" seems to exist in every human language.

http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/
  
Menoto
Posts: 0
Posted on 2015-09-21 14:16:18
Gatr22 wrote:

Menoto wrote:

6% of all words spoken in the english language is "the"



In speeches, I would guess "uh" and "um" have "the" beat



there's actually a "law" that tries to explain this called Zipf's law, basically any language has the same percent-distribution among the words and their occurrences, this is even true for ancient languages that we have not even translated yet, and we know not why this is
  
Menoto
Posts: 0
Posted on 2015-09-21 14:17:40
Phiba wrote:

Gatr22 wrote:

Menoto wrote:

6% of all words spoken in the english language is "the"



In speeches, I would guess "uh" and "um" have "the" beat



One of the 2015 winners of the Ig Nobel prize in the category of Literature was a team who discovering that the word "huh" seems to exist in every human language.

http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/


this brings into question, is huh a word or just a sound? =P
  
Gatr22GI Supporter
Posts: 14541
Joined: 2009-09-29
I.1
Offline
Posted on 2015-09-21 14:21:15
Well, in speeches you can line up 2 or 3 "uhs" or "ums" and it doesn't seem to be a problem. If you start doubling and tripling "thes", then all of a sudden you have a stuttering problem
  
Owner of the Orlando Gators FC
Member GIAC
League 383-173 (TD Champs S17,S21,S22)
Regional Cup 223-25 (Cup Champs S14,S15,S17,S19,S20,S21)
AFLC 45-14 (Iron Bowl Champs S18,S22,S23)

It's Great To Be A Florida Gator
Phiba
Posts: 4441
Posted on 2015-09-21 14:22:14
Menoto wrote:

Phiba wrote:

Gatr22 wrote:

Menoto wrote:

6% of all words spoken in the english language is "the"



In speeches, I would guess "uh" and "um" have "the" beat



One of the 2015 winners of the Ig Nobel prize in the category of Literature was a team who discovering that the word "huh" seems to exist in every human language.

http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/


this brings into question, is huh a word or just a sound? =P



This is the published paper about it:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0078273

It talks about that in the intro as the paper's purpose is to demonstrate that "huh" is universal and also that it is actually a word
  
 
Forum index >> Off topic >> Random facts Goto page : 1, 2, 3 ... 26, 27, 28 ... 31, 32, 33
Last posts
2024-06-01 22:51
Ligathread
Author:Donar
2024-06-01 22:36
Nová sezóna
Author:Hadar
2024-06-01 21:07
Ligue Grid Iron Francophone - Officiel (saison 19)
Author:Zorklar
2024-06-01 20:24
Ligathread
Author:simpathia
2024-06-01 16:12
Ligathread
Author:liberalmente
2024-06-01 15:55
Ligue Grid Iron Francophone - Officiel (saison 19)
Author:39Nicolas
2024-06-01 15:54
[Recensement] Clubs Français
Author:39Nicolas
2024-06-01 14:15
[Recensement] Clubs Français
Author:ElPolloLoco