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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9705031 times)

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20055 on: January 13, 2011, 07:55:16 pm »

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He had a blood pressure around 160 when he was relaxed and hadn't done anything to raise his short-term pressure. My mom is really motioning him to go to a hospital or something.
He should do something about that for sure. Is he being treated for HT at the moment?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20056 on: January 13, 2011, 07:58:53 pm »

Yeah Duke, get him checked out by a Doc. 160 when relaxed is seriously bad.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20057 on: January 13, 2011, 08:11:22 pm »

 He's at the hospital and my mother is militant about him staying there until they do something about it. Before the extent of his health focus was on lowering cholesterol, which is at an amazingly healthy level now. This is the first time we found out about this.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20058 on: January 13, 2011, 08:20:57 pm »

Good, good. Well, I'm sure he'll be okay - after all, if something really bad occurs, he's in hospital. You say his cholesterol's at an amazingly healthy level, and he isn't stressed? This is seriously strange.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20059 on: January 13, 2011, 08:22:04 pm »

Hypertension can really sneak up on you. My uncle went from chronic hypotension to mild hypertension in ten years.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20060 on: January 13, 2011, 08:22:23 pm »

 He's always stressed, he's a dad. He just hasn't been treated for hypertension.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20061 on: January 13, 2011, 08:28:20 pm »

He's always stressed, he's a dad.

Fair do's, Duke. Just hope he'll be ok.  :)
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20062 on: January 13, 2011, 09:04:15 pm »

EDIT: Also, 10 vowels?  What the HELL, Russian?
Hmm... aren't half like hard versions of the others or something?

Yeah, probably.  I miss Arabic, though ;_;  Only three vowels, and all of them were easy to pronounce.

Russkiy is easy, though. :I
Ten vowels?
A, E, I, O, U.
The other five: Ya, Ye, Ы (the only one that's hard, and even then, it's not really), Yo, Yu.
Also, Russian swear words are the best.

I always feel like a minority in thinking that English is beautiful. It has an amazing rhythmic quality that isn't really exploited in most poetry. Since most English poetry is written as if it were in French.

I'll agree that its richness and clarity are absolutely phenomenal.  I guess what I'm saying is that it can be used in beautiful or ugly ways, but it's so very big that it doesn't have a uniform quality to it.

It's kind of like owning a really, really good violin.  For a beginning student, it's almost impossible to play beautifully, because it's too flexible.  It's better to own a lower-quality violin, on which you can learn the basics of playing, because the resonance will be easier to exploit.  Then you can learn to play violin in English.

I'm also with this crowd.
English is amazing, in part because it has the potential to express anything.
Loose grammar and loose pronunciation make it hard to pick up, but the end result is truly unique.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20063 on: January 13, 2011, 09:40:02 pm »

Russkiy is easy, though. :I
Ten vowels?
A, E, I, O, U.
The other five: Ya, Ye, Ы (the only one that's hard, and even then, it's not really), Yo, Yu.
Also, Russian swear words are the best.

And English technically has about 16 vowel sounds. We just chose the much more confusing way of representing them with only five letters. And we're not even consistent in which letter represents which sound.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20064 on: January 13, 2011, 09:42:58 pm »

Don't forget the lithographic vowels.
They're rare and most people can't type them, but they do occur.
And sometimes y.
Poor little y.
He gets elevated to a real vowel in Russian as the u sound.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20065 on: January 13, 2011, 09:59:30 pm »

lithographic vowels
My google-fu has failed me, at least on the first page.  What're they?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20066 on: January 13, 2011, 10:02:27 pm »

Yeah, like the ash. It's easy just to render them as ae and oe though.

And man, y. Y has got to be the most confusing letter in the language. It's like three different vowels, a consonant, and a marker that makes "a say his name." Most often when that a is an e.

lithographic vowels
My google-fu has failed me, at least on the first page.  What're they?

Er, I think he meant ligature, and got it mixed up with digraph.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20067 on: January 13, 2011, 10:04:05 pm »

Yeah, I meant ligature.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20068 on: January 13, 2011, 10:14:00 pm »

Ligature? Like, as in, strangulation marks? Man, I eavesdrop on too many crime shows.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #20069 on: January 13, 2011, 10:17:28 pm »

A ligature is two letters combined.
The aforementioned ae, oe, ampersand, eszett, double t or f, fi, etcetera.
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