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AdamStanislav

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  1. Sort of. According to wikipedia the pronunciation is ˈlɪməsɒn. That is the common English pronunciation. The French pronounce im as a nasal sound, which I know how to pronounce, but do not know how to transcribe phonetically. They also tend to stress the last syllable of every word (which is the exact opposite of what we do in Slovak, where we stress the first syllable, except when the word is immediately preceded by a preposition, in which case we pronounce both as if they were one word, so we stress the first syllable of the preposition).
  2. This is what, in my humble view, the US Congress (and the rest of Washigton) has devolved to by now (January 2022). Reminds me of the ancient Chinese curse, May you live in interesting times! Anyway, created in Affinity Designer.
  3. And this one makes it look like a piece of cake, as long as you can forgive him for the way he pronounces limaçon.
  4. If you’re willing to do some math to find a number of points on your limaçon, then you could just draw a series of smoothly connected curve segments that would look like a limaçon to us. Perhaps this video can get you started:
  5. I just drew a rectangle, then a smaller rectangle in the top left corner. Then I duplicated the smaller one and shift-dragged it down, changed its color and repeated until I had a column of six rectangles. Then I selected them, grouped them, duplicated the group, shift-dragged it to the right, flipped it vertically, grouped the two groups into one, duplicated, shift-dragged to the right, duplicated the same group again, shift-dragged to the right, then one more time. Then I drew a circle, centered it, filled with white and made it transparent. That’s all I did. I guess I lucked out that the smaller rectangle width and height just happened to be one sixth of the width and height of the big rectangle. Sorry, nothing more than that. I have enclosed the abstract.afdesign file if you want play with it.
  6. Well, since you insist, here is something totally pointless I have just made in AD:
  7. Just FYI, that is what various European languages call it (in their own language, of course). In the US the same concept is called Daylight-Saving Time. So, when the average American sees you talking about summer time, he/she will think you are talking about the Summer (the season), just as in the song.
  8. I’d say be my guest. That said, I upload most of my stuff to Open Clipart which effectively releases it to Public Domain, chances are that if any of my work were mass produced I would not even know about it.
  9. I only know / as a slash. Anyway, yes, solidus was a Roman coin. The Italian word for money is soldi. Even the word soldier comes from it.
  10. I create mostly clipart, so there is no point of printing it out (and I have no idea what anyone who uses my clipart does with it). As for my fonts, I use them in some of my videos, but have never used them for anything to print.
  11. I did not say they were rubbish (nor was I implying that), I said the price was a ripoff. Big difference. Just compare those prices with those at zazzle.com (which also has a much wider choice of art).
  12. You got it now. Pondelok is Monday. Nedeľa is Sunday. Nedeľu is the locative case of nedeľa, as in v nedeľu means on Sunday. Mesiac is a month (as well as the Moon). Rok is a year, a is and (so mesiac a rok means the month and the year). Týždeň is a week. We don’t use any articles, so just skip any the, a, an without translating them. There is no such thing as pondelog in Slovak, perhaps someone misunderstood a pronunciation guide, as if a word that ends with a k is followed by another word, we pronounce the k as a g, and other unsounded consonants as their sounded counterparts. In fact a pet peeve of one of my English teachers was his students pronouncing but as bud.
  13. Because they are something any one of us here could create in two minutes. Indeed, some of them seem to be just public domain clip art. And to charge fifty pounds for them is undeserved.
  14. Hmm, why are September, October and November in the genitive case, but December in the nominative case? (They should all be in the nominative in the header, and in the genitive case only for a specific date, as in 1. októbra, which is how we say it, meaning "of the first of October". The months (in the correct nominative case) are január, február, marec, apríl, máj, jún, júl, august, september, október, november, december. The first day of the week is Monday, so the days starting with Monday are pondelok, utorok, streda, štvrtok, piatok, sobota, nedeľa. And yes, we start all those with lower-case letters, except if they are starting a new sentence (though in a calendar they generally are in all caps, just as you did).
  15. If you click on the tiny picture, it gets much bigger.
  16. Presumably comes from the Latin felix, which means lucky. But it probably also means happy. At least in Slovak, šťastný means both, lucky and happy. And we say Šťastný nový rok, meaning Happy New Year as well as Lucky New Year. So, perhaps feliz means more than one thing, too.
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