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by greg
Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:33 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Intro to Basic Concepts of COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Replies: 87
Views: 84805

The human mind is embodied, i.e., the way the mind works is fundamentally tied to the nature of the human body as a whole. Any ontological separation between mind and body, whether physically objective or spiritually subjective can be empirically shown to be nonsense. Cartesian dualism is bunk. Des...
by greg
Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:23 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
Replies: 333
Views: 145694

There would be no need to translate it [tutoyer — duzen — tutear] literally, you would just need an indication that they were on familiar terms. That could be achieved by having one address the other as 'buddy' or 'pal' or 'dude'. Agree. So that would be rendition rather than translation, wouldn't ...
by greg
Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:30 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
Replies: 333
Views: 145694

OK, /metRobulododo/ (uttered in one shot) is rather familiar, though no slang at all, and conveys the meaning that workday routine essentially boils down to spending your time in the underground (métro) , at work (boulot) and then in your bed (dodo) . You may say /metRobulododo/ even if there's no u...
by greg
Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:13 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
Replies: 333
Views: 145694

How about some hints in German ? bisaïeul → Urgroßvater métro-boulot-dodo → U-Bahn, Arbeiten, Schlafen rentrée → Anfang September, Ende der Sommerpause, Schulanfang, Schulbeginn, Schuljahresbeginn, Semesterbeginn, Wiederaufnahme der Aktivitäten terroir → Boden, Erde, Gegend, Mikroklima, kulturelles ...
by greg
Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:06 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: I wish English had a word for this!
Replies: 333
Views: 145694

May be English has them all, but I wonder how the following could be rendered : bisaïeul, trisaïeul → /bizaj9l/, /tRizaj9l/ :D bravitude → /bRavityd/ :D métro-boulot-dodo → /metRobulododo/ rentrée → /RÃtRe/ terroir → /teRwaR/ tutoyer → /tytwaje/ vague à l'âme → /vagalam/ voussoyer, vouvoyer → /vuswa...
by greg
Sun Jun 03, 2007 4:40 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Languages in Civ IV
Replies: 55
Views: 51971

FRANÇAIS Comme vous voulez — Comme vous voudrez — Comme bon vous semble(ra) — À votre guise — Comme tu veux — Comme tu voudras — Selon votre (...) — À ta guise — Vomme bon te semble(ra) — Selon ta/ton (...) Allons-y ! (ça dépend aussi du contexte) Certainement — Certes — Assurément — Naturellement ...
by greg
Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:07 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: An introduction to Catalan
Replies: 149
Views: 149446

Moi je serais plutôt intéressé par une approche comparative (ou contrastive) entee le català antic et l' occitan ancian . Is such a thing even possible ? Weren't Catalan and Occitan the same language during middle-age ? Probablement très proches, tout comme les anciennes langues de la famille d'Oïl...
by greg
Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:24 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: An introduction to Catalan
Replies: 149
Views: 149446

Moi je serais plutôt intéressé par une approche comparative (ou contrastive) entee le català antic et l'occitan ancian.

Nichts neues ?