Skip to main content
Close Button
Donate
  • Replies 37 replies
  • Subscribers 105 subscribers
  • Views 763 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

Interesting facts

Sphynx
8 days ago

I thought we could start a thread for sharing facts we love or find interesting/fun. Next time we're due to be in a social situation where it might be expected to share a fact as part of introducing ourselves, we can have this thread as a resource to look through so we have something ready. And at least as importantly I think, this can also be a space for info-dumping favourite facts about special interests. I'll start:

Parents
  • 8 days ago

    In Potawatomi, an Indigenous language spoken in parts of what we now know as Central America and Canada, only around 30% of the words are nouns. And then, instead of conjugating things according to gender like most European languages, Potawatomi conjugates according to animacy or inanimacy. For example, animals, plants, and natural elements are animate, while planes and phones are inanimate. 

Reply
  • 8 days ago

    In Potawatomi, an Indigenous language spoken in parts of what we now know as Central America and Canada, only around 30% of the words are nouns. And then, instead of conjugating things according to gender like most European languages, Potawatomi conjugates according to animacy or inanimacy. For example, animals, plants, and natural elements are animate, while planes and phones are inanimate. 

Children