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- Sat Jan 15, 2011 5:30 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: European languages before Indo-European
- Replies: 812
- Views: 200231
Re: European languages before Indo-European
merijn : I wonder if this could have something to do with your confusion, if you are a native English speaker, about animacy: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2592
- Fri Nov 19, 2010 11:39 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: же
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3334
Re: же
Thanks, it makes more sense now. I can't really think of a Serbo-Croat equivalent though, except maybe the highly colloquial Turkish loanword "bre." "Ko ti je dao tu knjigu, bre?" :P "бре" comes from Greek, not Turkish. In modern Greek it's "ρε" and in current colloquial Bulgairan it's "бе". They b...
- Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:12 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
- Views: 443786
Re: Credit for one, but not the other, as is convenient
(N.B. This videos are not available outside of the United States, which is disappointing, but not surprising) They are blocked in countries where Comedy Central has agreements with local broadcasters for the show. Reportedly they are viewable in Canada on the website of the local broadcaster. They ...
- Fri Mar 05, 2010 12:22 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: How your idiolect differs from the standard language
- Replies: 371
- Views: 101845
- Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:32 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
- Views: 443786
I can't find the right thread but someone was asking about how people see non-native languages. And people started linking and uploading impressions of languages. This is Bulgarian comedian Kamen Donev doing several: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnJtKkrRu84 EDIT2: better link: http://www.youtube.c...
- Sun Jun 28, 2009 3:54 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
- Views: 443786
- Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:25 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
- Views: 443786
- Sun May 27, 2007 6:55 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
- Views: 443786
- Sat May 26, 2007 11:35 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)
- Replies: 2235
- Views: 443786
- Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:35 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Bulgarian Thread
- Replies: 58
- Views: 72970
When I was in Bulgaria (mostly Blagoevgrad and the Pirins), and trying to learn Bulgarian, I noticed something about the 'L' in certain words. It seemed that, in words like malcho , the tongue was possitioned further back in the mouth, instead of behind the teeth. Is this true, or was I just "heari...
- Fri May 12, 2006 9:17 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Sibling terminology
- Replies: 24
- Views: 22404
- Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:02 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: "Female" ewemi
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3507
Re: "Female" ewemi
I don't completely get it, but I imagine this is my fault and it would ruin it to explain.brandrinn wrote: what do you call an ewemi who leaves the toilet seat up?
a bisexual.
- Fri May 27, 2005 9:42 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Bulgarian Thread
- Replies: 58
- Views: 72970
I means throw. Хвърча (hvyrchy) means somehting like летя (letjy) - fly, but not exactly. Hvyrchilo means kite. Hvyrlej means 'a throw away', as measure of distance. Vryhletjy means to come at someone with great speed (and possibly great force). An adjective derived from хвър- like hvyrkovat is clos...
- Thu May 26, 2005 1:36 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Bulgarian Thread
- Replies: 58
- Views: 72970
Do you by any chance know the etymology of the Bulgarian word chvyrljam? (cf. Rumanian azvirli)? It seems not to be of Slavonic origin... Do you mean хвърлям (perfective хвърля)? Related words include хвърча, хвърлей, хвърчило (hvyrchy, hvyrlej, hvyrchilo). I don't have anywhere to check right now ...
- Mon May 23, 2005 9:47 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Weird phrases from real languages
- Replies: 323
- Views: 186192
- Mon May 23, 2005 9:47 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Weird phrases from real languages
- Replies: 323
- Views: 186192
Err, the point was: me loves Dutch because all of the aa's, ee's, oo's, uu's, ij's М/у другото мене slechtstschrijvende не ми изглежда никак трудно слехт-стхрейфъндъ и то при у-вие, че всичко се произнася. The Georgian word gvbrdgvnit ("you tear us into pieces") has 8 consecutive consonants. Here: ...
- Sun May 22, 2005 4:57 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Weird phrases from real languages
- Replies: 323
- Views: 186192
- Mon May 09, 2005 11:03 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Bulgarian Thread
- Replies: 58
- Views: 72970
- Sun Apr 17, 2005 4:39 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Bulgarian Thread
- Replies: 58
- Views: 72970
- Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:32 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Bulgarian Thread
- Replies: 58
- Views: 72970
Bulgarian surnames generally end in -ov(a)/ev(a) or -ski/ska, also -in/ina, which is rare; and -ich, which besider being rare will probably make people think you're Serbian. But Soyetski doesn't sound like something that could pass for a Bulgarian surname. I suppose Mikhail could do, but there's mor...
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:21 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Aorist question
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16099
Adder, as far as I know all slavic languages (well, I know nothing about Kashubian, Sorbian and other exotic lingos) except BG use past participle + the verb 'to be' to form a past tense. The -l form is not the past participle. I don't know the term for this but it's different from what the past pa...
- Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:20 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Aorist question
- Replies: 27
- Views: 16099
- Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:06 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Bulgarian Thread
- Replies: 58
- Views: 72970
Any archaic forms/idiomatic expressions with retained case endings? Besides Io's, also вкъщи - at home, home(as an adverb). Are there any specific words that Bulgarians consider to be representative for themselves and their state of mind or mood? Well, from your point of view at least ;) Good quest...
- Sun Jan 16, 2005 8:57 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Bulgarian Thread
- Replies: 58
- Views: 72970
I descided to do a quick phonology giude, before I got to the things that actually require thinking :wink: :roll: Phonology front back bil lbd dnt alv pav pal vel и | у stops б,п д,т г,к | frics в,ф з,с* ж,ш -,х |ъ affr. дз,ц* дж,ч е | о nasals м н | lat.apr л** |а р й /A, @\, O, u, E, i/, /r, l, m,...
- Sun Jan 16, 2005 7:06 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Bulgarian Thread
- Replies: 58
- Views: 72970
The Bulgarian Thread
Oric expressed interest in a Bulgarian thread, with the purpose of teaching Bulgarian. As I am not much good for anything else around here, I thought why not
Io, you might want to help out. Or not. Anyway, I'll start writing soon. I hope there will be t least some interest
Io, you might want to help out. Or not. Anyway, I'll start writing soon. I hope there will be t least some interest