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--- Christian Thalmann skrzypszy: > > Academic ball? Is that something with robes and smokings and the > > like? Did you have any success? > > www.polyball.ch > > It's a decorated ball with 10'000 participants, taking place > in the main building of my institute of technology. Impressive! > I did wear a dress jacket, but the matching trousers didn't fit me > anymore (shame on me...), so I had to go with my concert > jeans instead. Concert jeans?! O tempora o mores... > I hope nobody noticed the blacks were slightly different. =P Perhaps they shóuld have noticed! > What do you consider "success" at a ball? Well, I couldn't have put it more eloquently than Benct, so let's skip that part! > We had fun, got to dance a lot, and drove the dessert buffet into ruin. ;-) Ah, dancing is not especially my speciality; plundering buffets is, though! > _Domenicus_ oughta become |Doweingu| [dA'veNg] according to > my as of yet unwritten GMP, while _Mercúrii Dies_ might > rather end up as |Guerdsé|. On the other hand, "guerdsé" rather sound like "Beware!" to me... Is Wednesday accidentally the day when Jervan tax collectors make their round? > I've also contemplated getting rid of the e-class noun ending, > replacing it with indeclinable |-ei|, which wouldn't attract stress... > so it would become |Lundsei| ['lundze] rather than |Lundsé| [,lun'dze:]. Well, it *looks* better somehow. More Jovian, perhaps? > I find it more sensible to place the stress on the information- > bearing part of the word... but then, French officially has > the stress on the -di as well. Yeah, but French stress has nothing to do with context or meaning at all! Same with Polish stress, BTW. No, I would never even consider wondering whether a part of a word is information-bearing or not. In the word "Å?Ä?goskrzyw" (ballpoint) the second syllable is stressed, the only syllable out of three that has no meaning at all! Jan ===== "Sochez en savez ni belle" ________________________________________________________________________ Download Yahoo! Messenger now for a chance to win Live At Knebworth DVDs http://www.yahoo.co.uk/robbiewilliams