Rilha

xD Look what it says at the bottom of that webpage.

Usually if somebody's dead for a few moments and then comes back to life they sometimes talk about a dark tunnel with light at the end ( It's called a Bijna dood ervaring in Dutch, I can't find the English word for it. The word you want is 'near death experience'. xD

My brain IS admittedly on overdrive. xD However, what are the chances that after that thoroughly creepy encounter, my dad would get cancer?

Er, I would have seen him and heard him walking. I have freakishly good night vision. Plus, he sleeps like a log.:?

I've had my fair share of creepy experiences. Once, it was the middle of the night and I got out of bed to go to the bathroom. I opened my door, and was surprised to see that there was a little bit of light in the hallway, cast by a new light that Mom had plugged into a nearby outlet. I was about to step out when I got the chills; I felt like I was being watched by a something that was powerful and extremely malevolent. I backed up, and a shadow, blacker than the blackest night, proceeded down the hallway, towards my dad's room. It was so dark, it hurt to look at it. Dx I closed my door until the highly creepy feeling went away, forced myself to attempt to forget it, and went to the bathroom as I had intended to. The next morning when Dad woke up, he complained of a sore throat. This persisted for several months until Mom finally made him have his blood drawn. It turned out that he had leukemia. I don't believe in ghosts, but sometimes I do find it hard to not do so. Have any of you had any 'paranormal encounters', if you will? Would you be willing to share them with me? =D

:shock: Oh no. Poor Steve.:cry: I hope that he gets better.

My photo ID. Money. A rant in French about my grandparents. Some old faded movie ticket stubs.

I like the names 'Ronan' for a boy and 'Maya' for a girl. xD Not weird, but definitely not common!

I'm not spamming. Dx As I said, I'm considering buying one, and would be interested to get your opinions on which one I want.

how logical of you! usually instead of crying, we beat the crap out of each other and call it problem solved. :) Try to make the other person cry! How interesting.

If you dont, you shouldnt be posting here :) Why not?:( I want one and would buy one if I didn't spend all of my money on grammar books.

You mean I'm supposed to have one?:shock:

According to me, tear ducts exist for a reason. Might as well use them!:wink:

Dx You must be untalented at chewing your nails. I chew mine off with the utmost precision.8-)

Actually, it wasn't invented out of the blue. It went through a LOT of evolution, starting off as a Germanic language in the Indo-European family, then adding a lot of vocabulary and ideas from Romance languages, particularly French. xD Its mixed origins are the cause of its goofiness.

Learn languages!O:) Oh, and if you're into science fiction and fantasy, I'd highly highly HIGHLY recommend the Young Wizards series by Diane Duane. I'm reading the books again. I love them so! The first book is called 'So You Want to Be a Wizard'.

Oh? And would you care to explain why the words 'cough', 'bough', 'through' and 'though' don't rhyme, using this so called 'logic'? Mentionning 'facts' doesn't mean that you're actually using them.

I don't think that the universal language should be English, at least not until it's severely simplified. Dx Once we switch to phonetic spelling and we make our verbs far less irregular, I'd consider it.

The linguaphile strikes again! xD Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England nor French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. So many of us take the English language for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? One house, two hice? After all, the plural of 'mouse' is 'mice', and the plural of 'louse' is 'lice'. Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue? Sometimes I think all the Anglophones in the world should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. TELL ME: In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another. Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage (as compared to a horseless one) or a strapful gown (as opposed to a strapless)? Met a sung hero ("unsung") or experienced requited ("unrequited) love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). It may be a nightmare for some linguists (though not I), but thoroughly amusing for the rest of us who have opened our eyes to the sheer insanity inherent in our tongue. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this thread, I end it.

Aye, it is known that the Earth does occasionally go through such a cycle, however, we DEFINITELY aren't helping anything. Hav you actually researched the topic of global warming? Do you know how one determines global warming and just how much we are prophesied to grow? Do you know of the Kyoto Treaty and everything we have done to slow it down? Do you know what it would take to do all that the environmentalists tell us to do? Giving us some of your "scary" information on the background might be nice. xD I never actually said anything about it being scary. I was simply noting the interesting similarities. Yes, I have done plenty of research on global warming. I came up with this idea about a year ago, and have spent a lot of time between then and now studying it. I actually know very much about the Kyoto treaty.:wink: Many people believe global warming to be a myth. I must agree that I have some doubts on it. But are the similarities between the myth of Atlantis and the (myth, as it were) of global warming not intriguing? That's what this topic's about.

Aye, it is known that the Earth does occasionally go through such a cycle, however, we DEFINITELY aren't helping anything.

Most of us know the Atlantis myth; a great civilisation that got so advanced that it was 'swallowed up by the sea' because of its arrogance. There are a fair number of theories about where it was, the predominant one being an island in Crete. There is really only one account of it, spread by the Greek philosopher Plato. Is it not strange that a whole island vanished, yet there is only one account of it? Maybe it was a premonition of modern times; I know, most of you don't believe in 'visions' and whatnot. I know I don't; yet, lets think about if you did. Global warming; it is said to be melting our icecaps. If the icecaps at the polls melt, much of our reality will, indeed, sink. There are some of you that do not believe in global warming, but I do. So stick with me. Our technology is causing our icecaps to melt, by releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and heating up our planet. We are indeed arrogant; humans are so full of themselves, of ourselves, that we don't care what happens to the other species. They are worthless, we say. Substandard. If this is not arrogance, what is? "Their arrogance caused them to sink beneath the seas..." So, I've been pondering this for a while, and would be interested to get your opinions on it. Could Atlantis really be naught but a metaphor for the modern world?

I do so much sudoku it's not even funny anymore. I'll happily do over twenty puzzles in a day.

ALSO, can I change Rilha from being half Sun elf to half Night elf? Night elf seems to fit her better.

I'll get to writing my intro.