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Hello peeps, I hope you can help me with a little thing... it's for a fantasy thriller I'm currently working on, set in modern day (post-2010), where a woman 'sins' enough to unleash the verbal wrath of a certain type of spirits (not ghosts in traditional sense) that knows the truth of humans' personalities and their life stories. Their purpose is ( Read more... )

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Hello, friends.

I would like to know how to say the words "whisper" (both noun and verb, if the two aren't the same word) and "shadow" (the noun, as in 'an [object] made of shadow') in as many languages as possible (phonetically, please). Can you help me?

Thank you so much :)

how do you pronounce Bayerische? (AKA first word in BMW, AKA German word for Bavaria, AKA the name of this sock pattern which I just finished knitting)

My google fu is super weak -  I tried searching and found several seemingly contradictory pronunciations and none of them in IPA.

help?

Hi, all. I've got a character in a story I'm writing (medievalish fantasy setting) who's writing a thesis/dissertation in his academy, but I feel like those both sound too modern for the setting. I'd like to know both what they're called in any other languages you speak, just to help me generate some ideas for what to call what he's working on. If ( Read more... )

Hello! I need help inserting some common Arabic phrases into a story I'm writing. There are lots of websites with suggestions, but I'm having a hard time figuring out the right uses related to gender. Any assistance would be helpful ( Read more... )

Many mass transit systems have some sort of conventional announcement (either pre-recorded or recited by the conductor) that is heard when the doors to a train are closing. What ones have you heard? Here in Chicago, the message used to be, "Watch the doors, doors are closing" but when they switched to pre-recorded announcements it was shortened to ( Read more... )

Hi, 'philes.

Can anyone tell me if there's a Polish euphemism for an unplanned pregnancy -- a word that conveys the meaning with minimal negative connotations? (For example, a lot of English speakers would say "a surprise.")

Thanks.

Hi,
is there a Spanish equivalent for the term "double dipping" (when people put a food item or a spoon into a dip (food), take a bite and put it back in)?
if not, what is the best way to formulate "No double dipping!" in Spanish?
Thank you.