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@biomedmax Granada is a nice place. It really reminded me of my own town, probably because it's an university city too. It's got that nice vibe.

@arteteco Maybe he's secretly a mind-reader! Time for tinfoil hats when you're thinking of new designs!

@Paradox Well, verbal sound changes is a bit tricky for me, lol. But what I do understand after chatting with a linguistics teacher about 2 decades ago is that before Shakespeare, Old English pronouncation was eerily similar to Dutch. In particular Frysian. Then Shakespeare came and ruined it all with his newfangled Modern English. ;)

I still think English people (and Frenchies) can't spell... They write so very differently from what they actually pronounce! :P
Dutch is -largely- phonetic. ;) Not always consistent, but at least I can speak it, heh.

Spanish is the best sofar I've seen. I've seen 2 Spanish-speaking deaf people talking to each other. They could lipread each other bloody fast. Guess it's so very consistent with pronouncation that they can easily do that. Just an interesting bit of trivia there.

@Paradox Aha, ð is eth? I must've misread it initially in that wiki page a little bit ago, thought it was looking like an o with an umlaut style. I need to increase my font size. >.<

Same fun stuff as when reading 'ye olde shoppe', it is actually the capital thorn, innit? So it's actually just pronounced like 'The' there. I like little weird details like that.

I suppose Dutch also has a few interesting letters like that. I don't recall the deprecated ones offhand, but in modern language we have the 'v' versus 'f', and 'ij' versus 'ei'. Except they're both very much in use despite sounding the same. I don't foresee one of those disappearing anytime soon, hehe.

@Paradox Ah an automatic feature of your instance? Hehe cool. What is eð mean though? And what are 'the voiced ones'? I'm deaf, I've never ever once heard English pronouncation. :D

@Paradox Huh, I notice you're using the thorn-letter instead of th. Cool. I'm just wondering if it's really used there in 'without', I'd have thought it'd be used in 'that' 'there' the' etc, but not in the middle of the word? Isn't that pronounced differently?
Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm just curious!

@arteteco Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. You're going to compliment them this way! :D

@mur2501 To be honest, I think most cats in hot countries have less dense fur. My bro took a cat from Spain and she's also very fine haired. She's called Negrita and is black too. Not sure if she's completely black, I don't visit bro altogether that often if ever, heh.

@kranfahrer

@mur2501
I wonder if it is completely black? In Europe you'd be hard-pressed to find a totally black cat because of the medieval age and its dumb witch hunts. Pure black cats were deemed to be the witches' familiars and would be killed. If it has some white in it, it showed that it still had some good in it and would live. Silly, I know.

@kranfahrer

@mur2501 Awww... with a white chin? Oh gods, too cute. Or is that the milk? ;)

@kranfahrer

@mur2501 Here, every supermarket (which villages also have) has at least a pet section for the common pets. Dogs, cats, rabbits/rodents, birds.

Dogs eating almost the same food as human isn't bad practice. Cats can do that too, though need more meat-oriented food than dogs. And both shouldn't have as many spices as humans usually eat.

But this is a tiny kitten.. and you don't even have basic meat in the house which I find kinda weird. Is your family largely vegetarian or something? Just curious.

@kranfahrer

@mur2501
The kitty has to come from somewhere. So chances are momma cat is hiding somewhere.
Have a bowl of diluted buffalo milk outside for momma cat?

@kranfahrer

@mur2501
Really can't have a kitten all alone outside on its own. Try looking for momma cat when it's light again?

@kranfahrer

@mur2501 Yeah, in that case, have some cool spot for the poor thing. :D Somewhere on a cold floor? Stone floor?

@mur2501 I think he was about 6-7 weeks here. They nap a lot if they're not causing mischief.

I wonder if your kitten looks about the same as Suske at that age.

@mur2501 When Suske was a tiny kitten, he loved to nap on my leg. My leg gave him the nice warmth while sleeping. As an example of how kitties like warm temperatures. He was around 7-9 weeks old at that time.

He's now a 12-year old boy and he still loves to nap at my legs at night.

@mur2501 Well, a tiny young kitten barely a week old would need an environmental temperature of 30C. Warm nest. But this one is more than likely older.. my guess is anywhere between 4-7 weeks from that one picture if it can wander around alone. So, 21C-ish is fine, though having a warm and safe spot somewhere that it can go wouldn't hurt. Some folded blankets that it can hide in, for example.
Though your country is already hot. 😅

@mur2501 Oh and I'd advise against raw chicken. Boil it first. Don't give it bones. Give it small strips of boiled chicken flesh.

@mur2501 Okay, diluted buffalo milk it is. Then you can go shop when it's light. Keep the poor thing comfortable temperature-wise. And they need to nap a lot.

@mur2501 Okay, arrange some lactose-free milk somewhere, stuff that even humans take? That's important. Diluted coffee milk would be an easy one, unless you don't have coffee milk in India?

And don't you have any meat at all in the house? Can't you buy any? Though at this point the milk seems more important if it's indeed such a young kitten.

If you can't get anything at all, dilute the buffalo milk bigtime with some (lukewarm) water.