f_alk
Joined: Sep 30, 2005
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Mar 15, 2006 - 17:53 |
 
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GHOTI :
aka "fish": "gh" as in "cough", "o" as in "women", "ti" as in "nation". |
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the_bug
Joined: May 04, 2005
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Mar 15, 2006 - 18:02 |
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Why cant yall just liek talk teh nerd language cuz I think its liek kewl.
/sarcasm |
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macike
Joined: Jun 25, 2005
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Mar 15, 2006 - 18:11 |
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| Fama wrote: | | English is spoken very differently compared to how it is written (or at least that's what I've been told), while Finnish is spoken pretty much like it's spelt (although there are some differences). |
My first English teacher was able to articulate words with such a good accent and pronunciation that I had no problems in writing in down.
When she spoke it was very easy to differentiante between "i", "ee" or "ea" for example. It just sounds different.
However from that point of view IMO Italian is great. It takes 10 minutes to learn to read in that language. |
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pac
Joined: Oct 03, 2005
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Mar 15, 2006 - 19:47 |
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| Gitzbang wrote: | Nice joke, until now every official language of every EU-country has been official language for EU, doubt that'll change  |
Certainly every linguist looking for a sinecure position hopes not!
(/pac waits impatiently for Croatia's admission ...) |
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MrMojo
Joined: Apr 17, 2004
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Mar 15, 2006 - 21:53 |
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| RedFish wrote: | | eyeslikethunder wrote: | yeah it an old joke
anyway welsh should be the official language of europe
then we all sound like elves |
Not much into Tolkien but I do know that he based elven language on Finnish which has roots in Mongolian, so if you want to sound like a Tolkien elf I suggest you speak Finnish  |
Mongolian?
Read some linguistics before making bold statements about my native tongue. |
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Pirrekurr
Joined: Mar 11, 2004
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Mar 15, 2006 - 22:34 |
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I always thought Finnish was an ugric language, and that no one really know where the ugric languages came from. They sounds ugly and funny, and are totally unsynched with every other language in the world. But then again, my linguistics profesor can be wrong... |
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hauge
Joined: Oct 23, 2005
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Mar 15, 2006 - 22:41 |
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There can be only one language... And that language is Danish... |
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spiderhider
Joined: Dec 10, 2005
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Mar 15, 2006 - 22:41 |
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Woodpecker
Joined: Apr 08, 2005
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Mar 15, 2006 - 22:46 |
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Mark Twain wrote something like this, didn't he? |
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Arcon
Joined: Mar 01, 2004
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Mar 15, 2006 - 22:48 |
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| Pirrekurr wrote: | | I always thought Finnish was an ugric language, and that no one really know where the ugric languages came from. They sounds ugly and funny, and are totally unsynched with every other language in the world. But then again, my linguistics profesor can be wrong... |
Well. right about that funny part. I do not think it sounds ugly. I once travelled to Finland (starting in Amsterdam) in a coach with only finnish people and I think during the whole drive one woman was talking something to the group. I had to listen. The WHOLE long way. No, it is not ugly. It gets narcotic after some hours though...
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lauth81
Joined: Aug 21, 2004
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Mar 16, 2006 - 07:21 |
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- Finnish has absolutely no relationship with Mongolian. Finnish is part of the Uralic language family (along with Hungarian and the mentioned Ugric languages), Mongolian belongs to the Altaic language famliy. They are quite different in many, many ways.
- Tolkien based his Elven languages on ancient nordic languages (He was a professor for these languages), which are part of Indo-Germanic lanuage family. No relation to Finnish. |
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veron
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Mar 16, 2006 - 07:36 |
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| lauth81 wrote: | | - Tolkien based his Elven languages on ancient nordic languages (He was a professor for these languages), which are part of Indo-Germanic lanuage family. No relation to Finnish. |
"At this time he was also working on various poetic attempts, and on his invented languages, especially one that he came to call Qenya [sic], which was heavily influenced by Finnish"
http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html
Qenya is one of the languages spoken by Elves on Middle-Earth. |
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lord_real
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Mar 16, 2006 - 08:16 |
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There can be only one language... And that language is Danish...
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I heard that there is a discussion in denmark about why danish children learn their own language later than other people. And the theory is that the language is to "blurry". |
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Curro
Joined: Jun 07, 2005
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Mar 16, 2006 - 12:02 |
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Could we choose spanish, please? |
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Nature_Warden
Joined: Feb 10, 2006
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Mar 16, 2006 - 16:04 |
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You know... it was sounding like a really sweet idea, the whole simplifying thing until about the second year I'd say... ...a lot of those really have no value... although dual vowels and silent es are absolutely neccessary... wait... way to serious... uhhhhhh... I'd love to learn Spanish but the real question is which language is by far the most efficient? I find English somewhat dull and impertinent at times though the vocabulary options offer a somewhat specific ellegance as well? |
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