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Farben Lehre - Matura

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=RatQ1u--IxE

Nie matura, lecz chęć szczera zrobi z ciebie oficera, ta...

Negatyw - Manchester

http://krzystoff.wrzuta.pl/audio/evpWBG ... manchester

Because Mysłowice is no fucking Manchester.

Hroþgard wrote:
(4th one is disgusting)

Du bist was du isst... Somehow I couldn't help listening to it in dinnertime today.

KAT - Łza dla cieniów minionych

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=USH7mcAVojg

How do you call it in English, when one is oversimplifying a certain issue (for the sake of brevity, or more as a slip of tongue) in expectation that one's interlocutor will supplement the missing part in his mind? In Polish it's called skrót myślowy lit. "thought shortcut"; I can't find any English...

If Týr - Wings of Time doesn't count (partly in Faroese, partly in English), then Regin Smiður.

Can't one just say "which": "which president of the USA was Reagan?"?

In Polish you'd ask "którym prezydentem Stanów Zjednoczonych był Reagan?" (which.INSTR president.INSTR state.GEN.PL united.GEN.PL was Reagan[NOM]), also "którym z kolei..." (lit. which in the order).

Something about Burushaski, don't know if good but seems fairly extensive

I remember that when I started to learn German and later English I considered it annoying that they don't have a direct equivalent of Polish jaki (or Russian какой), and one has to get by somehow using "what", "which" and "what sort of" instead.

Алконост - Море-Сон

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1OtG4YReWX8

Eridanian is Accusative-Dative language in Active Voice but is Tripartite-Dative in Passive Voice. In Passive voice transitive sentences the Agent of the sentence takes the Ablative Case and the Patient takes the Accusative Case. Now, that is interesting ! AFAIK there are some languages which do a ...

That's the right attitude (so here we could stop spamming this thread).

Moja siostrzenica datowa rzeźbiarza. Out of curiosity, what is it supposed to mean? I was trying to type "My niece is dating a sculptor" in Polish, but apparently I got it wrong. :? Well, "datować" does mean "to date" but in the sense "to assign a date/age to something" like this . As for "My niece...

BGMan wrote:Moja siostrzenica datowa rzeźbiarza.

Out of curiosity, what is it supposed to mean?

If anyone is interested, here you can compare names of months and days of the week in various Slavic languages. The days of the week are given like this: 1 - Sunday, 2 - Monday etc. The native names of the languages are used rather than the English ones: język polski - Polish, kaszëbsczi jãzëk - Kas...

I've looked through a few dictionaries and it seems that Greek (χύνω) as well as some Romance languages (it. versare fr. répandre) use or can use the same verb in both meanings, so that weird behavior is more common than I thought. It's definitely not what the Lord intended

Maybe it isn't that English really "lacks" it, but I think it's odd that the same verbs: "to spill" and "to pour" are used in the meaning "to pour/spill sand" and "to pour/spill water". For instance, Polish has entirely separate verbs for pouring/spilling powdery substances and for pouring/spilling ...

Little Polish tongue-twister (especially for non-native speakers) that I discovered:

Cieszę się, że się cieszysz.
rejoice.1sg REFL COMPL REFL rejoice.2sg
/t͡ɕɛʂɛ ɕɛ ʐɛ ɕɛ t͡ɕɛʂɨʂ/
"I'm glad that you're glad."

I.e. some cute sibilants 4 U!

Downtimer wrote:I also found the ewemi fascinating. How did you think up this idea?

It makes me think of muxe who are sort of third sex among the Zapotecs.

It's interesting that English has the word Slav 'member of a Slavic nation/tribe' but apparently there isn't any single word for a 'Germanic person', is there?

Ancenande wrote:Since that's not the case, you can tell that the plate boundaries are either at the middle of oceans or at the middle of continents..

Or that once they were there (compare Ural). However, in that case the mountains would have to be quite old and eroded.

And some not very numerous languages have "marked nominatives" in fact (even one is said to have "marked absolutive"). Check Oromo , a Cushitic language where one can say that the nominative is derived from an unmarked form used as direct object, nominal predicate and after prepositions. Slavic femi...

Have you seen this thread?