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What's the different in the pronunciation of the feminine nominative seine and feminine genitive seiner? I usually pronounce the former [zaIn@]. Is the latter something like [zaIn@6] or [zaIne6]? Am I pronouncing both incorrectly?

Just listen to a lot of Russian and you'll begin to pick it up. It's somewhat counterproductive to learn stress any other way. Stress in Russian was particularly difficult for me to learn (and I still struggle with it) because it's very different from stress in Serbo-Croat. I still pronounce things ...

What are some good introductory texts in the field?

Psychohistory, yo.

In what ways did Anglo-Norman differ from contemporary French? Are any of the surviving Norman dialects closely related to it?

you're not allowed to say no if you're a native speaker of any of these languages and have inherited the collective hate towards any of the other, and wish to distantiate yourself from any of them I was being sarcastic. I'm a native Serbo-Croatian speaker and find it funny when I hear the nationali...

"бре" comes from Greek, not Turkish. In modern Greek it's "ρε" and in current colloquial Bulgairan it's "бе". They both come from "μωρε". The intermediate form "бре" used to be most common at one point I think, but I think in the long term "море" will outsurvive it when you're trying to deliberatel...

I'll have to start looking at Czech or Russian or Bosnian soon enough.

Why not Hercegovinian?

As a Serbo-Croatian speaker: Russian: Written Russian isn't too difficult, I only have trouble with more involved texts. I've been exposed to Russian enough that I can understand quite a bit of the spoken language, but it all depends on the speed and topic. The one reason I've never undertaken a sys...

Hm, this would make sense. But whence đ in those forms, gd > đ? gdj > (g)đ. Compare modern standard Serbian "nigde" (nowhere) with ijekavian standard "nigdje" and medieval Serbian "nigđe/niđe." Ijekavian used to be the prestige dialect so I wouldn't be surprised if takođe first developed in ijekavi...

The two examples Gray Richardson provided sound good to my ears (Что ж нам делать? Кто же дал тебе эту книгу?), but you shouldn't think of "then" as a translation of же. It works in these cases, but it won't in most others. Thanks, it makes more sense now. I can't really think of a Serbo-Croat equi...

How is this word used in Russian? I don't know of any South Slavic equivalents, at least not used in the modern language, it looks like a cognate of the ђе in такође.

I wonder how long it survived in County Wexford in Ireland.

Any takers on my second question?

When did English lose the -en infinitive, and which dialect kept it the longest?

Also, were modern compound verbs ("to go out") separable verbs in OE a la Deutsch?

So when can we expect a translation of the anthem of the Kaisertum?

And when you say "alongside German translations", do you mean texts in WS/English/German?

Aye, to compare the more German-like development of WS from OE.

I'd personally like to see "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" in WS

It looks good, when are you planning on making the navigation work? And can we get some sample texts, perhaps alongside German translations?

Looks more Frisian-y than before. Is having the dental fricatives shift to /d/ in the modern language part of the revision?

Nessuno?

Are there any good/decent books about Mozarabic in Spanish or English?

mi dispiace

Where did you learn Dalmatian?

Monolingualism is a disease, bro, but it is easily curable.

Do you speak a Romance language? If so, reading Italian shouldn't be much of a problem. I made my way through a Sardinian grammar in italiano before I ever took an Italian course with little trouble.

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Slavophobe.