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by ebilein
Wed Jan 28, 2015 6:43 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116673

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

If you want to be in an at least somewhat exciting city, go to Vilnius - lots of architecture, culture & students = nice cafés. I was in Kaunas in the 90s, it's more of a small town and I don't think it has become much more exciting since then. It's worth a day trip, though (distances are short in ...
by ebilein
Wed Jan 28, 2015 4:38 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Help your fluency in a nifty way
Replies: 4604
Views: 1116673

Re: Help your fluency in a nifty way

Vasarą norėčiau važiuoti į Lietuvą, nes mano dėstytoja man sakė, kad Lietuvoje bus Lietuvių kalbos vasaros mokykla. Viena vasaros mokykla bus Vilniuje, antra Klaipėdoje ir kita Kaune, bet aš nežinau kuris miestas būtų geriausias. Manau kad Vilniuje bus gerai, nes Lietuvos sostinė, bet Klaipėda yra ...
by ebilein
Wed Mar 06, 2013 3:32 am
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: resources
Replies: 722
Views: 306941

Re: resources

by ebilein
Sun Feb 17, 2013 3:44 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Common L2 English mistakes
Replies: 56
Views: 10333

Re: Common L2 English mistakes

(getting a little bit OT) Finnish plural nouns include also kasvot 'face', aivot 'brain(s)', and the more easily explicable housut 'trousers' and sakset 'scissors' for paired things. Although you could add aivot, if it's plural because (everyone) has two halfs. I like the sound of "Figaron häät".
by ebilein
Tue Feb 12, 2013 7:57 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: dunkles å in Austro-Bavarian
Replies: 4
Views: 1731

Re: dunkles å in Austro-Bavarian

Not sure, just something I read some time ago: [a] remained when followed by a diminutive suffix (so for example, something made of glass is "aus glås" with å, while a glass of water is "a glasl wåsser" with [a] in Glasl; Madl (~Mädchen) also has [a]; also - at least in my family: "a schnåps" but "a...
by ebilein
Mon Nov 29, 2010 4:48 pm
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Are there other voices apart from Act./Pass./Antipassive?
Replies: 31
Views: 6095

Re: Are there other voices apart from Act./Pass./Antipassive

Yes... the passive. You used it there. Unless I'm misunderstanding you. I probably didn't explain that thoroughly. "He gave her the book" has, of course, the passive "The book was given to her", but what I was particularly interested in was whether a language can produce "She received a book", thus...
by ebilein
Mon Nov 29, 2010 9:56 am
Forum: Languages & Linguistics
Topic: Are there other voices apart from Act./Pass./Antipassive?
Replies: 31
Views: 6095

Are there other voices apart from Act./Pass./Antipassive?

I was just wondering wheter there are other voices apart from the probably already by you all well known active, passive and antipassive. As far as I know, these are used to reduce the number of obligatory arguments of a verb, thus from the sentence "He's reading the book" we get the passive "The bo...
by ebilein
Wed Feb 07, 2007 3:29 pm
Forum: L&L Museum
Topic: The mistakes you've made
Replies: 115
Views: 99713

It took me a good, long minute to realize that I had added the French -er to Arbeit, leaving me with Freutsch. Joy. This is a very nice neologism (I think at least, I've never heard it before) and better than always hearing about Denglisch. *g* As for mixing languages... same goes for me as for mos...