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... )

So, uh, I have a favour to ask our Polish speakers ( Read more... )

Okay, apparently English is fail (don't mind me, I'm a hater-bitch ;D) and "sleep" not only refers to sueño but also to lagaña. As in, sleep can be the noun that refers to the act of sleeping or dreaming, and also the noun that refers to the yucky mucus-like stuff that turns crusty when dry and you have it in your eyes most mornings after you wake ( Read more... )

It's time for the next edition of "How do you say ____ in your language[s]?"!

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1. How do you say, idiomatically, that something is really easySome examples in [at least American] English: a breeze, a snap, a piece of cake ( Read more... )

Where might I find plain-text word-lists? Not necessarily swadesh, since I'd like something extensive, but say dictionaries? I've tried googling for a French word list (for example), but I can't find anything decent really. I figure someone here might know of a good archive of word lists somewhere. Thanks! Pretty much any language would be