Information Sharing!

I’d like to propose something to you all. It’s not exactly a game, but it can be as fun or as interesting as one.

First, let me give you a bit of background. I belive that everything we see, read, watch, hear, touch, dream, etc can teach us something, so I’m learning to make the most of each of those experiences, and write down any interesting bit of information I find.

Considering this habit, I’d like to stimulate everyone to write down interesting things as well, in your own notepad, notebooks, .doc file, whatever.

Regardless of using a book/pad/etc, I’d like you guys to write down interesting information on this topic to share with other forum members! It can be information about ANYTHING! Books, TV, music, dreams, biology, physics, math, history, news, how to make something, etc.

I just ask you to avoid book/movie spoilers for obvious reasons :happy:

What do you think? I’ll start with something I learned some days ago:

I learned what is Deus ex machina

Deus ex Machina in its most pure form is a god on a Machine(crane) which was used a lot to end classic plays in ancient Greek. The god on the machine (hanging on the crane) would usually tell the outro of the story…

edit: clicked the wikipedia link, damn, it said the same ;_;

Now I’ll share something I just learned.

Have you guys ever heard about the aphorism “Hobson’s choise”?

Geckos, when escaping a predator, or pretty much anything that scares them, can leave behind their tail, and it grows again after a while. So if they’re caught by the tail, they can remove it without harm.

English is SVO. Subject-Verb-Object. Ex. I ate fish.

Spanish is SVO. Ex. (Yo) comi pescado. (Freaking computer won’t let me type accents!! :’()

Japanese is SOV. Ex. (Boku wa) sakana o tabemashita. (I fish ate.)

Tagalog is VSO. Ex. Kumain ako ng isda. (Ate I fish.) (Don’t know if this is right, I just started a few days ago… :shy:)

That’s right, but in spoken/informal japanese it’s acceptable to use OVS (it’s used a lot in anime :smile: )

ex: sakana o tabemashita, boku wa (fish ate, I)
henna desune, Robin wa (weird, isn’t her? Robin is) → [size=75]Aaah I love to use anime chars in examples :smile:[/size]

It’s not perfect according to grammar rules, but as I said, it’s only used for informal situations and with spoken japanese.

Brazillian Portuguese is neither! :happy: (I love my language.)

The default and most normal–sounding is SVO, like Portuguese and Spanish:

A Terra é azul.

But you can pretty much use any order:

É azul, a Terra.

Azul é a Terra.

/me :hugs: Pragmatic Tolerance and giggles at the people who think Brazillian Portuguese is crazy. :razz:

I found out something interesting :smile: I found out that those pieces of bread that come with some salads are called Croutons :smile:

I found out some interesting things about carbon nanotubes. :mrgreen:

hmmmm… Well I found out Judges 19:22-30 is the most disgusting piece of writing I have ever seen.

I won’t post it here so innocent people won’t accidentaly see it but here’s a link https://skepticsannotatedbible.com/jg/19.html

Does this count as a plot spoiler :tongue:

Naaah :smile:

Hmm time for a random piece of info.

Did you know that there is a car on GTA3 (VC too? Not sure) called Kuruma? The thing is, Kuruma means “car” in japanese :happy:

Chaos is somewhat systematic, and not random like randomness =]

O_o systematic? Can you give us more info?

Also, does anyone know what a Tengu is? Here’s some cool info :smile:

Systematic is similar to the meaning of “organised”. However, randomness is not organised. :smile:

Eeeh… thanks for the info, but I know what systematic means :happy: I meant what he means by the chaos being systematic. I’d like him to elaborate.

Hmm. Yes, Fadem. Enlighten us. :tongue:

Wikipedia

Oh btw, If you’re interested in Tengu, check out Oni (Ogres) :razz:

i just learned that someone other than Cyrus (a person in my class at school) is psycotic…

Hmmm here’s something interesting:
How to Walk Silently

**imagines: What if he’d unleashed in the world a population of ninjas this way? :tongue: **

ashidakim.com/pdf/sotn.pdf for more info. :wink: