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  1. Re: I fear for the future
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, May 18, 2013

    befuddled the clerk by alluding to a "Zed" instead of a "Zee."

    This seems a plausible expla...

  2. Re: recommended books..
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Apr 24, 2013
    Well done, piaczka!

  3. Re: Report bugs here
    in Check in with Lonely Planet » Report a Bug, Apr 18, 2013
    Alternatively, diacritics can be defined as those things that disappear whenever Lonely Planet 'u...

  4. Re: Sixteen year old speaks twenty languages
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Apr 13, 2013
    Nice video. Quite impressive.

    His Hebrew pronunciation is very good. A couple of slip-ups, b...

  5. Re: recommended books..
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Apr 12, 2013

    I shall have to get my husband to download that then...

    tsk, tsk . . . learn to do it!!

    ...

  6. Re: Private Message archive now open
    in Check in with Lonely Planet » Community FAQs, Apr 9, 2013

    it's equally frustrating for us, trust me.

    We don't. Sorry.

  7. Re: Artür Harfaux
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Apr 7, 2013
    This isn't really related, but where else am I going to talk about this?

    A few days ago, a ser...

  8. RE: Report bugs here
    in Check in with Lonely Planet » Report a Bug, Apr 4, 2013
    Do you really need to ask, Mark? It's pretty obvious, isn't it?

  9. RE: Daré alla lucé and the Italian Language
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Apr 3, 2013
    That means you'll have to come to talk to us on PS, furs!

  10. RE: Healthing your home: Do you do it?
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Mar 31, 2013

    "With this Rocher you are really spoiling us".

    What was the original language of that commer...

  11. RE: impolite or not?
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Mar 28, 2013
    I don't know that it would be particularly nice (or polite) to receive a letter addressed "Dear S...

  12. RE: the plural of the noun 'do'?
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Mar 26, 2013
    Vinny: "Short-lifed" sounds like the past tense of the verb "to short-life" or "short-lifing": th...

  13. RE: Converting language ability into a degree
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Mar 25, 2013
    The thing to do would be to talk to a student counselor at a university you are interested in att...

  14. RE: Two more conquests for British stress creep
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Mar 25, 2013

    adverTIZEment

    Really? I hear ADvertizement, mostly.

    Edited to add: which is also why it m...

  15. RE: Two more conquests for British stress creep
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Mar 24, 2013

    Two more conquests for British stress creep

    The title of this OP makes a great mental image....

  16. RE: Two more conquests for British stress creep
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Mar 24, 2013

    but I have been hearing the former a lot from USAnians.

    Me, too. Which is why I'm asking.

  17. RE: the plural of the noun 'do'?
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Mar 24, 2013

    Couldn't they just write "pianoos" ?

    We could, but we don't. That kind of thing does happen...

  18. RE: Two more conquests for British stress creep
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Mar 24, 2013
    Though this may not precisely fit in here, it's not worth a separate thread: imPRImatur or impriM...

  19. RE: yum-yum in other languages
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Mar 24, 2013
    A "hap" is a bite, so that's where that comes from. I wouldn't say that "happie happie" is a par...

  20. RE: Urdu words
    in The Lobby » Speaking in Tongues, Mar 24, 2013
    Desi is used as an adjective to describe people/things from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan. It is a...