swee'pea99
Squire
Weren't they an indie band from Cornwall?degrees of toastiness
Weren't they an indie band from Cornwall?degrees of toastiness
If i point my finger at one of my chickens it will just stare at it . Having said that if you pointed your finger at me i would just stare at it and wonder what the fark you where doing .
They may look upwards but not up . To look up they turn their heads to the side . NEVER doubt my chicken looking up FACTS !Mine peck at it momentarily until they realise there's no food attached and then they lose interest and scrat about again.
They look directly up at me too when the mealworm bucket is a'rattlin in my hand.
Middle son is convinced one can hypnotise chickens by placing your finger on their beak and drawing it away from them in a straight line, the theory is that they will visually keep following the line into infinity and zone out, never tried it and I smell BS.
I'm always intrigued by the Iggy Pop line on hypnotising chickens in lust for life.
But there is a word for seventy in the French language.The French have no word for 70,
No the words for seventy is soixante dix (60+10) and it gets worse for example 99 is quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ( 4 * 20 +10 + 9)But there is a word for seventy in the French language.![]()
That's a bit like claiming there's no English word for 63... what we have is sixty-three (60+3).No the words for seventy is soixante dix (60+10) and it gets worse for example 99 is quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ( 4 * 20 +10 + 9)
Do I resemble that remark?Widely used. There was even a poster on here once that used to do them for their day job and was talking about something else and then didn't realise that monte carlo methods were very famously used for what he was trying to talk about!
Years ago i was on one of those Extra Tenner courses that doleys do... the bloke running it told us that the Japanese have no word for 'problem', instead they call it a 'learning opportunity'. It sounded like bull then and it still does. He also told us that Asians eat dog food to save moneyThe French have no word for entrepreneur.
It sounds like he's full of merde. (I wish there was an English word for itYears ago i was on one of those Extra Tenner courses that doleys do... the bloke running it told us that the Japanese have no word for 'problem', instead they call it a 'learning opportunity'. It sounded like bull then and it still does. He also told us that Asians eat dog food to save money![]()
Thought Foynes got the distinction of being the first Duty Free Airport.a few facts on Ireland, that some might not know....
Ireland is the only country in the world which has a musical instrument – the harp – as their national symbol.
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Dublin or Dubh Linn translates to Black Pool.
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the term Nosey Parker and the word Boycott originate from Ireland.
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Newgrange is older than the pyrimads and stonehenge.
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Shannon airport was the first duty free airport in the world.
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Ireland has never had snakes.
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windmills in Ireland turn clockwise.
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John Butler Yeats won the first Olympic medal for Ireland for painting. His painting The Liffey Swim won a silver medal in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.
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there are no female leprechauns.
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last one O'Connell street in Dublin is the widest in europe,champs elysees is an anvenueand the O'Connell bridge is the only bridge in europe that is wider than it is long.
Take it from someone who lived in France for some years, and has a diploma in French from Bordeaux University, that there is a word for seventy in the French language, also for eighty and ninety.No the words for seventy is soixante dix (60+10) and it gets worse for example 99 is quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ( 4 * 20 +10 + 9)
Septante, octante, nonante (sommaire)
Vous vous interrogez sur une des bizarreries les plus célèbres de la langue française. Pourquoi en effet dire soixante-dix, quatre-vingts, quatre-vingt-dix, alors que les formes septante, octante, nonante, en accord tout à la fois avec le latin et le système décimal, sont plus ou moins largement usitées dans divers pays francophones ?
Notre vocabulaire porte ici la trace d’un usage très ancien et aujourd’hui disparu : au Moyen Âge, on avait coutume en France de compter de vingt en vingt. Aussi trouvait-on les formes vint et dis (30),deux vins (40), trois vins (60), etc. Saint Louis fonda, par exemple, l’hospice des Quinze-vingts (des 300 aveugles). Ce système, dit « vicésimal », était utilisé par les Celtes et par les Normands, et il est possible que l’un ou l’autre de ces peuples l’ait introduit en Gaule.
Dès la fin du Moyen Âge, les formes concurrentes trente, quarante, cinquante, soixante se répandent victorieusement. Pourquoi l’usage s’arrête-t-il en si bon chemin ? Aucune explication n’est vraiment convaincante. Peut-être a-t-on éprouvé le besoin de conserver la marque d’un « calcul mental » mieux adapté aux grands nombres (70=60+10, 80=4x20, 90=80+10). Reste la part du hasard et de l’arbitraire, avec laquelle tout historien de la langue sait bien qu’il lui faut composer...
C’est au XVIIe siècle, sous l’influence de Vaugelas et de Ménage, que l’Académie et les autres auteurs de dictionnaires ont adopté définitivement les formes soixante-dix, quatre-vingts, quatre-vingt-dixau lieu de septante, octante, nonante. Il est à noter pourtant que les mots septante, octante, nonante figurent dans toutes les éditions du Dictionnaire de l’Académie française. Encore conseillés par les Instructions officielles de 1945 pour faciliter l’apprentissage du calcul, ils restent connus dans l’usage parlé de nombreuses régions de l’Est et du Midi de la France, ainsi qu’en Acadie. Ils sont officiels en Belgique et en Suisse (sauf, cependant, octante, qui a été supplanté par quatre-vingts et huitante – en Suisse – tant dans l’usage courant que dans l’enseignement ou les textes administratifs). Rien n’interdit de les employer, mais par rapport à l’usage courant en France, ils sont perçus comme régionaux ou vieillis.