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- Sun May 01, 2016 11:53 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Grammar resource for 1,362 languages
- Replies: 21
- Views: 26888
Re: Grammar resource for 1,362 languages
I love you! Awesome compilation.
- Thu Feb 03, 2011 3:08 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Stress and meaning in Russian adjectives - minimal pairs
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2613
Re: Stress and meaning in Russian adjectives - minimal pairs
Малый (small) — малой (a kiddo, slang).
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- Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:25 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What do foreign editions of LotR do with the appendices?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3280
Re: What do foreign editions of LotR do with the appendices?
There are a fwe Russian translations, e. g. the very first one was awful and the translator got bored in the middle and invented her own END! Lol. I love the version of Kamenkovich&Karrik because the large appendix was buffed by the translators' appendix, revealing their thoughts about how should ev...
- Sun May 20, 2007 4:00 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Weird phrases from real languages
- Replies: 323
- Views: 186113
- Thu May 17, 2007 2:49 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Russian Lessons / Uroki Russkogo Jazyka (Take 2)
- Replies: 68
- Views: 81905
- Wed May 16, 2007 1:35 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Russian Lessons / Uroki Russkogo Jazyka (Take 2)
- Replies: 68
- Views: 81905
Oh... I forgot it))) Sorry) It's probably because "Я тебя люблю" is more common than "Я люблю тебя", the 2nd variant is used in films oftenly and in official cases. When you say "Я тебя люблю", the logical stress is on the word ТЕБЯ? means you. And while using Я люблю тебя is to show that the main w...
- Mon May 14, 2007 5:49 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Sibling terminology
- Replies: 24
- Views: 22403
Technically, the only sibling designations here are брат and сестра. Cousins are not considered siblings (although many languages do refer to them with sibling terminology) and neither are in-laws. So Russian's kinship terminology in this area isn't actually any more elabourate than that of most Eu...
- Mon May 14, 2007 5:27 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Sibling terminology
- Replies: 24
- Views: 22403
In Russian there is a big linguistic family tree: (exactly about siblings there are) муж - husband золовка - his sister деверь - his brother жена - wife своячница - her sister свояк - своячница's husband брат - brother кузен or двоюродный брат - cousin сестра - sister кузина or двоюродная сестра - c...
- Mon May 14, 2007 5:12 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Russian Lessons / Uroki Russkogo Jazyka (Take 2)
- Replies: 68
- Views: 81905
- Mon May 14, 2007 4:52 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The mistakes you've made
- Replies: 115
- Views: 102434
- Mon May 14, 2007 4:27 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Languages in Civ IV
- Replies: 55
- Views: 52355