Official Summer Siesta 2007/8 Thread (2 Viewers)

[townie]

is anybody else having trouble accessing databases at the moment?

edit: i mean the library ones

 

[jb_nc]

I've heard of it, and did again in my linguistics lectures. I can't do the uvular trill that the French people use. That makes me very sad, cos my French doesn't really sound like French.

It comes from the very back of your throat and sounds like you're spitting.

It's sexy (and by sexy and I mean not sexy). Even better when you're angry because it happens to be in the French word for "shit"

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

its the noise arab people make when they say kebab (kchebab)

 

[A High Way Man]

lol. You perverted girl.

smash u

 

[stazi]

fuck. my timetable changed from:

Shithouse > Perfect > Shithouse

looks like these are the final changes. gay. only 3 subs in semester 1, but 4 days/week. It was going to be a 2-day week. lame.

 

[townie]

yeah, THANKS FOR ANSWERING GUYS

 

[jb_nc]

Um the catalogue works fine for me

Unless you mean the journals...?

 

[withoutaface]

Picking subjects based on their timetabling is ace.

 

[townie]

Um the catalogue works fine for me

Unless you mean the journals...?

dang nabbit, my computer sucks

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

yeah, THANKS FOR ANSWERING GUYS

Sorry sir.

catalogue does not work fine on firefox (didn't load), and loaded slowly on IE.
database home page works fine on firefox
specific education databases page works fine on firefox
specific database (JSTOR) works fine on firefox

 

[ujuphleg]

dang nabbit, my computer sucks

Maybe it does because

Catalogue working fine for me on Firefox
Journals fine on FF
ProQuest loading fine on FF.

 

[stazi]

im eating food.

sing food > union food.

 

[Iheartpaulfrank]

It comes from the very back of your throat and sounds like you're spitting.

It's sexy (and by sexy and I mean not sexy). Even better when you're angry because it happens to be in the French word for "shit"

Please refresh my memory. J'ai oublié.

 

[jb_nc]

Please refresh my memory. J'ai oublié.

MERDE!

You need to watch French Cinema to learn it; listen to Edith Piaf. Accent is very important unless you want to sound silly.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

MERDE!

morsmerde?

yes i'm aware that it's meant to be morsmordre, so don't bother pointing that out </bob>

 

[Iheartpaulfrank]

MERDE!

You need to watch French Cinema to learn it; listen to Edith Piaf. Accent is very important unless you want to sound silly.

That's the only French swear word I know, but my dictionary says it means 'bloody hell!'

 

[jb_nc]

That's the only French swear word I know, but my dictionary says it means 'bloody hell!'

Hmm, some words don't really have a translation, depends on the contexttttt

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

What does it really mean?

 

[ujuphleg]

Merde means shit.

 

[Iheartpaulfrank]

...my dictionary may be wrong?! *shock horror*