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- Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:05 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Nynorsk Reform / Dialect use among adult immigrants
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2051
Nynorsk Reform / Dialect use among adult immigrants
My girlfriend has a subscription to Språknytt, the quarterly publication from the Norwegian Language Council. Two articles caught my eye in this quarter's edition, and I thought I would draw your attention to them. The first is more details of the new standard for Nynorsk . Generally, a lot of the m...
- Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:34 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Survey on language learning beliefs
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9322
Re: Survey on language learning beliefs
I hate memorizing vocabulary, I see it only as a painful thing you do when starting to learn a language where most roots are alien (e.g. Chinese). And even then that's only for familiarization purposes with the words, using a single simple translation. (Unless you want to spend a huge amount of tim...
- Thu Oct 06, 2011 1:13 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Survey on language learning beliefs
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9322
Re: Survey on language learning beliefs
I didn't know of anything else with that acronym. :( What's a special repair service? It really stands for "spaced repetition system". It's about software like Anki, Supermemo and others, that encourage route memorization using flashcards, but going over them or a fraction of them every day or so o...
- Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:16 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Survey on language learning beliefs
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9322
Re: Survey on language learning beliefs
No, don't be silly, Special Repair Service.Skomakar'n wrote:Sexual reassignment surgery?Åge Kruger wrote:2. Use an SRS
- Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:52 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: The Semantic Drift Thread
- Replies: 127
- Views: 48671
Re: The Semantic Drift Thread
intelligent -> clever -> sly -> tricky -> fiddly
Necktie
Necktie
- Wed Oct 05, 2011 1:49 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Survey on language learning beliefs
- Replies: 45
- Views: 9322
Re: Survey on language learning beliefs
I thought the tips were for learning many languages, so I didn't give any, but if I were give to give tips on how to learn any language, I would say:
1. Spend as much time as possible with the language
2. Use an SRS
3. Shadow
1. Spend as much time as possible with the language
2. Use an SRS
3. Shadow
- Tue Oct 04, 2011 5:23 am
- Forum: C&C Archive
- Topic: The Semantic Drift Thread
- Replies: 127
- Views: 48671
Re: The Semantic Drift Thread
naïve --> honest --> advisor
Next: teddy bear
Next: teddy bear
- Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:50 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 419400
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
I recently read in an online debate the Norwegian innovation en mørk - "a dark", for a person with dark skin. I am yet to read "en lys" for someone with light skin, but hope springs eternal for a full range of nouns to describe someone's skin colour with exceptional precision - "I was served by a fa...
- Fri Jun 24, 2011 2:56 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: An interesting American dialect
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4688
Re: An interesting American dialect
The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by linguists. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, su...
- Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:03 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 642959
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
I think you misunderstand my intent. I was highlighting the hypocrisy inherent to the fact that Geert Wilders gets away with so much more than me. Everyone jumps on me every time I say anything remotely negative about the South or rural white as if I am talking about racial genocide. So why don't t...
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:27 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Bokmal or Nynorsk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4852
Re: Bokmal or Nynorsk
But that's exactly the problem here, isn't it? You're applying American politics to a situation where it is entirely inappropriate. In fact, you've fallen into the trap of saying the same sort of things that bourgeois Norwegians say about country people and rural dialects. But aren't rural people m...
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:27 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Bokmal or Nynorsk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4852
Re: Bokmal or Nynorsk
Modern Norwegian is more democratic, and is stereotyped as being more poetic. I'm quite surprised that you'd rather be associated with the literati and sophisticated-classes, than the working-man, but to each his own. Well, keep in mind the left in America has by far the most traction among the edu...
- Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:05 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Bokmal or Nynorsk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4852
Re: Bokmal or Nynorsk
I would definitely go for Bokmål myself, given that it sounds more literary and sophisticated which obviously meets my purposes. Of course it depends on what you are planning to do with your knowledge of Norwegian and such. Modern Norwegian is more democratic, and is stereotyped as being more poeti...
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:42 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Language Instruction in Different Countries
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12778
Re: Language Instruction in Different Countries
They get someone in to teach that one person Dzongkha on a very slim position (like 5% of a normal position). Yeah but, where are they gonna find someone who speaks that language? In my class, there were two boys who spoke Somali. They hired a woman to come and talk to them in that language. She wa...
- Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: For shame, Germany
- Replies: 57
- Views: 7556
Re: For shame, Germany
How can people say this is fine ? Because native English speakers don't expect perfection from foreigners, and have a huge tolerance of linguistic variation when it comes to non-native speakers. Of course, is this just the tip of the icemountain. While you may think there is something muffins with ...
- Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:40 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Swedish spelling
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4693
Re: Swedish spelling
Icelandic does in fact use triple consonants when a word ending in two is compounded with one starting with the same letter. The most commonly example is probably þátttakandi (participant, part+taker: þátt+takandi). But we can have fun with this: rassskítur (assshit), kopppiltur (pottieboy) and sul...
- Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:34 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Bokmal or Nynorsk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4852
Re: Bokmal or Nynorsk
Okay, I've come up with a sufficiently derogatory name for Dano-Norwegian, so from now on, I'm going to be calling it Brokmal - trouser pattern.finlay wrote:... why call Nynorsk by a made-up English name if you're not also going to call Bokmål "Literary Norwegian" or something?
- Thu Jun 09, 2011 1:32 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Underused and underrated words
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9180
Re: Underused and underrated words
Epicaricacy
- Tue Jun 07, 2011 3:23 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Language Instruction in Different Countries
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12778
Re: Language Instruction in Different Countries
And that is why he smells.Gulliver wrote:My smelly boyfriend started French in year 3 (aged 7),
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:01 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Language Instruction in Different Countries
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12778
Re: Language Instruction in Different Countries
In Sweden, you start learning English the day you begin school. Is that so? Because I didn't start having English classes until second grade, and my sister not until third. That was 1998 and 2001, respectively. My class had English from 4th grade on (age 9-10). But those who were one class further ...
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:22 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Language Instruction in Different Countries
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12778
Re: Language Instruction in Different Countries
In Sweden, you start learning English the day you begin school. Is that so? Because I didn't start having English classes until second grade, and my sister not until third. That was 1998 and 2001, respectively. My class had English from 4th grade on (age 9-10). But those who were one class further ...
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:36 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Bokmal or Nynorsk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4852
Re: Bokmal or Nynorsk
Because Modern Norwegian needs all the help it can get, and i don't care to give Bokmål anymore prestige than it already has. This is politics, nothing grander.finlay wrote:... why call Nynorsk by a made-up English name if you're not also going to call Bokmål "Literary Norwegian" or something?
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:36 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Bokmal or Nynorsk
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4852
Re: Bokmal or Nynorsk
If one was to learn Norwegian, would it be a better idea to learn Nynorsk or Bokmal? I would guess Bokmal, but I'm not sure. That depends entirely on what you're going to be using your Norwegian for, and also how you plan on learning it. Today, there is only one book in English for learning Nynorsk...
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:51 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Learn Northern Germanic the exciting way
- Replies: 93
- Views: 15722
Re: Learn Northern Germanic the exciting way
I remember reading in a magazine article about Sweden that the only person with whom you'd use the formal pronoun in Sweden is the king. Is that true or is that one of these "how quaint" stories journalists like to make up? There was an interview recently with the King (he's been a very naughty boy...
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:57 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Learn Northern Germanic the exciting way
- Replies: 93
- Views: 15722
Re: Learn Northern Germanic the exciting way
I remember reading in a magazine article about Sweden that the only person with whom you'd use the formal pronoun in Sweden is the king. Is that true or is that one of these "how quaint" stories journalists like to make up? There was an interview recently with the King (he's been a very naughty boy...