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by Soren
Mon May 20, 2013 2:39 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)
Replies: 218
Views: 39971

Re: Help me with semantic examples! (from Zomp's blog)

A few things that I can think of between Czech and English: Tlustý and tenký cover thick/thin as a physical dimension: books, slices, paper, etc. For some things, e.g. slices, it is common to use silný "strong" and slabý "weak" to talk about thickness. Tlustý can also be used for people ("fat”), tho...
by Soren
Thu May 16, 2013 9:48 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Yiuel has a class about tips for learning languages!
Replies: 36
Views: 7482

Re: Yiuel has a class about tips for learning languages!

One thing that I think is useful is learning collocations rather than just words where possible. For example, verb phrases: take a photo make a mistake commit a crime have breakfast tell the truth apply for a job take your shoes off shout at somebody get home Noun phrases: bank robbery car theft pub...
by Soren
Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:04 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
Replies: 1058
Views: 221487

Re: Confusing headlines, and other trips down the garden pat

Language Log has an all-time classic today : "Sack rape row Clarke - Miliband". There's a nice one in the comments to that post: Slough sausage choke baby death woman jailed A woman who fed a nine-month-old baby a piece of sausage, despite being told not to by the boy's mother, has been jailed afte...
by Soren
Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:19 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Finger survey
Replies: 33
Views: 6750

Re: Finger survey

Polish: kciuk - thumb (perhaps from dialectal krzcić "to baptize") palec wskazujący - pointing f. p. środkowy - middle f. p. serdeczny - cordial mały palec - little Interesting that Polish and Russian use palec for 'finger' - in Czech it is only used for 'thumb' (and 'big toe'), while 'finger/toe' ...
by Soren
Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:47 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: How much does linguistics knowledge help in learning languag
Replies: 9
Views: 2079

Re: How much does linguistics knowledge help in learning lan

I've found it a huge help with learning pronunciation and grammar, which opens up more time for practice/exposure and vocabulary learning. I agree with Xonen though that it can make some resources frustrating to use.
by Soren
Sun May 16, 2010 9:35 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: How your idiolect differs from the standard language
Replies: 371
Views: 96918

We have medvind in Swedish. I'm trying to think – I feel sure there's a word. But we'd probably say we're cycling with the wind, we just can't shorten it/noun it to withwind . I was thinking slipstream, but, while related, that's something different. Are you thinking of "upwind"/"downwind"? Not qui...
by Soren
Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:20 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Language change in the absence of demographic change?
Replies: 55
Views: 13182

Re: Language change in the absence of demographic change?

Nowhere did I say that time is not important, I thought it was a given. What I'm trying to ask here is about "major" changes, be it lexical, phonological, or grammatical. How likely is it, for example, that within a milennia an isolated lang (as in the "Iceland" scenario) have developed/lost a whol...
by Soren
Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:00 pm
Forum: None of the above
Topic: OTTER
Replies: 1013
Views: 404116

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Otters crossing
by Soren
Tue May 15, 2007 6:27 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
Replies: 2235
Views: 433127

Somebody linked to some of these photos on #isharia yesterday, but I thought it was worth posting them here as well. They're from the US in the early 1940s.
by Soren
Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:12 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
Replies: 2235
Views: 433127

by Soren
Thu May 11, 2006 6:25 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Russian Lessons / Uroki Russkogo Jazyka (Take 2)
Replies: 68
Views: 81481

... It isn't. That's what I get for only half-paying attention while I write. (I was doing other thigns at the time - An hour or so literally passed between my hitting the "Quote" button and my hitting the "Submit" button...) It should read учусь русскому языку Thanks :) Does "учиться" always take ...
by Soren
Thu May 11, 2006 3:35 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Russian Lessons / Uroki Russkogo Jazyka (Take 2)
Replies: 68
Views: 81481

Сейчас я учу русский язык, и надеюсь что я её смогу прочитать. Now I uchu russian yaz'ik, and nadeyus' what I her smogu prochitat'. Now I'm learning Russian, and hope that I will be able to read it. If it isn't a matter of feel, could you explain why it's ok to use nonreflexive "учу" here for "to l...
by Soren
Mon May 30, 2005 11:03 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Allophony and Orthography
Replies: 34
Views: 17767

To S?ren: I must have been unclear, I apologise for that. I meant that I would not advocate an analysis in Norwegian that proposed that the first sound in [ji] be analysed phonemically as /j/. I would however say that this [j] sound is merely an allophone of /g/ which is found before /i/ and which ...
by Soren
Mon May 30, 2005 10:46 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Allophony and Orthography
Replies: 34
Views: 17767

I don't like the latter analysis. Mainly because there is evidence in the same language that the [j] sound in [ji] "give" is different from the [j] sound in [ja] "yes" because when the verb /gi/ is put in the past tense it is pronounced [ga] "gave" and not *[ja]. There is a differentiation between ...
by Soren
Mon May 30, 2005 9:32 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Allophony and Orthography
Replies: 34
Views: 17767

I disagree with that. I think that interpreting two phonemes is the best solution to that example. A similar example in Danish exist in words like "sjov" (fun) (with minimal pair like "sov" (slept)) pronounced with an initial palatal sibilant, this is normally phonematised as four segments while it...
by Soren
Mon May 30, 2005 8:46 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Allophony and Orthography
Replies: 34
Views: 17767

Re: Allophony and Orthography

The normal position is that a phonemic analysis should be based only on the phonetic data, without appeal to orthography or the historical development of the language. Your examples would normally establish contrast between those phonemes. Unless you take a generative phonology approach, where you w...
by Soren
Sun May 22, 2005 1:12 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: motion verbs
Replies: 16
Views: 14896

Re: motion verbs

yes, another one of those threads. i probably sound like a broken record player. what are some interesting things encoded in motion verbs besides path and method, and among the aforementioned, what are some interesting paths and methods encoded? Russian has an interesting distinction between multid...
by Soren
Sun May 08, 2005 5:32 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Welsh lessons.
Replies: 158
Views: 107611

Re: Prynhawn da sut dych chi?

Note: there are two forms of where in welsh ble is for questions and lle for other not question forms. eg O ble dych chi'n dod? I'm fairly sure that "lle" can be used in questions as well, and that "ble" is just a Southern variant. Faint o Siaradwyr Cymraeg sy 'da yn y fforwm 'ma? Dw i ddim yn gwyb...
by Soren
Fri May 06, 2005 6:03 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: Welsh lessons.
Replies: 158
Views: 107611

Re: Welsh lessons.

Nice :) I'm very out of practice...I'll have a go at the excercise: 1) Is he reading? - Ydy o'n darllen? 2) He is sleeping - Mae o'n cysgu 3) Ioan is eating - Mae Ioan yn bwyta 4) Is Rhodri snoring? - Ydy Rhodri yn chwrnu 5) Deiniol is teaching. - Mae Deiniol yn addysgu 6) Eleri is driving. - Mae El...
by Soren
Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:51 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: OTTER
Replies: 1013
Views: 404116

by Soren
Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:01 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: OTTER
Replies: 1013
Views: 404116

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Baby otter
by Soren
Wed Feb 16, 2005 4:52 am
Forum: None of the above
Topic: OTTER
Replies: 1013
Views: 404116

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Golden Lion Tamarin
by Soren
Sun Oct 12, 2003 8:21 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Verdurian speaking people check this out!
Replies: 29
Views: 10725

Re: ??????

S?ren, hvernig vissir ??? ?etta var r?tt hj? ??r, en m?li? er a? ?etta er ekki um a? keyra um, heldur ? ?g heima ? Vegh?sum og ?etta var nafni? ? geimskipinu sem heimas??an m?n var um. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just if you are good enough at ...
by Soren
Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:37 am
Forum: Almea
Topic: Verdurian speaking people check this out!
Replies: 29
Views: 10725

Vegfarandi?

Am I right in thinking that this is a compound from <vegur> and the verb <a? fara>? Something to do with a road driver perhaps?

Kve?ja,

-S?ren-