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"imagine some roman in 50 AD going on an alcoholic parrot rampage" < Yes, so unfair on the teetotaller parrots. Alcoholic rampages are always bad, whether perpretated against Roman parrots, Swedish elk, or Welsh parsnip fanciers.
"An alcoholic parrot rampage" is grammatically ambiguous. Alcoholic could refer to the parrots, or to the rampager. I guess one would have to figure this out from context.
Luckily there aren't very many alcoholic parrots. But seriously, there used to be a pet shop in downtown Palo Alto and they had a big Macaw. Every once in awhile they would give it some rum in a thimble. I guess they thought it was funny.
Very cruel, not funny. Like the people who give tobacco or marijuana to animals.
So I got this far and feel like I've been duped into participating in an incredibly tedious meme.
And there it is. What Duo is REALLY thinking about those Psittacos ebrios
I'm 99.9% certain that the nature section is just an excuse to have a bunch of phrases about drunk parrots
Yes, very ripe fruit. It also happen with drosophiles (and human beings don't eat very ripe fruit is you don't want alcohol), and it has been studied by scientists:
i feel like this whole course is just a massive inside joke we are somehow involved in but don't understand
I am getting very sick of all the violence towards (drunken) parrots. Could we please not talk about killing them? How about the actual animals the Roman's sacrificed. This is worse than the obsession with blue turtles in the "Learn Catalan from Spanish section," and the crabs...
oooh. I haven't met the blue turtles yet. Must get back to Catalan :o)...and Spanish, since I dont speak it...yep...learning a language from another I don't speak. Not sure if it's brave, clever, or bonkers.
"What can we do with a drunken ... parrot?"
Quid cum psittacō ēbriō facere possumus ?
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I guess you also could translate it to "the parrots" but "those parrots" would rather be "illos/istos psittacos"
There is no demonstrative (illos, illa, etc...) which would be translated as "those," so it is absent from this sentence.
No! Stop, please don't they are really very drunk. They can harm u... By the way these drunkard parrots really made this language course an awesome journey. Thanks for not destroying humans... You drunkards...
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I think Duo has been drinking too much and now has these self-destructive thoughts...
Duo is a parrot, right?
I wonder if they want to destroy the drunk parrots by like crushing them or something.
