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- Thu Nov 13, 2014 2:30 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: engdutchdeutsch?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4740
Re: engdutchdeutsch?
In some Northern Swedish varieties or rather what is left of the original languages the change /s/ - /S/ before m,l,r,s is also standard and in some words there that otherwise are identical in meaning and pronunciation to English( bham, brainfeeze) this is the sole difference.
- Wed Jul 02, 2014 10:21 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Swedish verb musings
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6022
Re: Swedish verb musings
I came up with an other one, nyck , thought I only ever used the plural nycker . One translation I found is "ideas" thought it doesn't quite capture the word because it means more like "one who constantly gets strange ideas and the need to do them" with a positive or negative interpretation dependin...
- Wed Jun 25, 2014 9:26 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Acquiring numerals
- Replies: 44
- Views: 8538
Re: Acquiring numerals
In some northern Swedish dialects the English numeral two is also pronounce two, written most often as to . Compare Swedish två . Funny, in standard Swedish there's a kid's rhyme or used to be one that has preserved a memory of this where två is pronounced as tu . It goes: ett, tu , tre (one, two, t...
- Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Rate of sound change
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8733
Re: Rate of sound change
When person X forgets/doesn't notice to comment that person Y pronounces word A slightly different, and then begins to do it her self.
- Fri Jun 06, 2014 7:26 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Odd natlang features thread
- Replies: 354
- Views: 148533
Re: Odd natlang features thread
I remember skogvur saying something of a region specific speech in Swedish, that it had the same type of /i/
- Mon Jun 02, 2014 2:28 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 376761
Re: Happy Things Thread
There are few bands I can listen to what feels like again and again on low volume in the background and Megadeth is one of them. Countdown to Extinction is currently playing in background and it makes me remember the few happy times I had in my childhood and this for once without interference from t...
- Sat May 31, 2014 2:25 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Help your conlang fluency (2)
- Replies: 6633
- Views: 763905
Re: Help your conlang fluency
Solotihemotizeniim kertu no zulmohiehemeniiz.
I have a work day tomorrow and it isn't good for me.
I have a work day tomorrow and it isn't good for me.
- Wed May 28, 2014 5:58 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: What tools do you use for conlanging?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 13106
Re: What tools do you use for conlanging?
Some files contains grammar sketches and words or one of the other. Sometimes I create a new document and rewrite the whole grammar changing some parts to something that I like just that time. I don't create a full vocabulary, rather I derive words as I need them. I made a set of phonotactial rules ...
- Wed May 28, 2014 5:27 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: What tools do you use for conlanging?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 13106
Re: What tools do you use for conlanging?
I use notepad of all stupid stuff. That is all. You all didn't need this post but here you go
- Tue May 27, 2014 5:02 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 651465
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
A current plaything, that probably doesn't merit a C&CQ post yet, but which I wanted to share: // Ne hou nde grâü dwaz liveŋe Habe / Dis twazne harbl mêsí wa̦rí Hou, dás fïwe̦t wëm Aɲz nde móki Smyü tï, ndis twazne nerívne jaï bë syeri Hou, dás lákaɲ ênitaɲ ïɲne fesiraɲrâun ö fe̦rireŋóp / Dis twaze...
- Mon May 19, 2014 7:39 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Swedish verb musings
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6022
Re: Swedish verb musings
I wouldn't say gry thought, but gryning And sko sig can also mean, atleast for me to get fortunate on the expense on someone else.
Yeah it is.araceli wrote:Is "ha", "to have", also Swedish?
- Fri May 16, 2014 6:20 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Nationalism and fringe linguistics
- Replies: 46
- Views: 9789
Re: Nationalism and fringe linguistics
Swedish is related to Nihali via on off-shot of Turkish that was forced across the Bosporus. Twise. Danish and especially Norwegian are unrelated languages that have borrowed much of the lexicon and undergone structural relexification but still displays a non-european substrate(Danish: Stod and Vige...
- Sat May 10, 2014 1:44 pm
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 630314
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
/k[k]/ as an allophone of /p[p]/ in initial position? No/yes?
- Thu Apr 17, 2014 3:27 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What do you do with a walk?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6753
Re: What do you do with a walk?
Walk a walk, take a bath and just go and rest and "go and place me"(go to sleep in Swedish)
- Tue Apr 15, 2014 4:16 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 376761
Re: Happy Things Thread
Great news of today:
jStor bugs out and I was able to access any article I wanted, but now they seem to have taken the article database off-line. Pretty quick reactions.
edit: or maybe I'm just stupid.
jStor bugs out and I was able to access any article I wanted, but now they seem to have taken the article database off-line. Pretty quick reactions.
edit: or maybe I'm just stupid.
- Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:09 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: resources
- Replies: 722
- Views: 314437
Re: resources
Anyone have anything on Nihali? That is, not Nahali.
- Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:37 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
- Replies: 3108
- Views: 664268
Re: The "How do You Pronounce X" Thread
Error?
For me it would something like [erɔr] but I'm non-native
For me it would something like [erɔr] but I'm non-native
- Thu Apr 03, 2014 3:45 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: "Fore" as a nonstandard form of "before"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3183
Re: "Fore" as a nonstandard form of "before"
Just posting to say that in Swedish it's före and till.
- Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:14 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 788886
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
Why would you use the arm of an octopus in a drink?
- Thu Feb 20, 2014 1:14 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 376761
Re: Happy Things Thread
Electric is back! Just to say, the crisis is still going quite strong, enough for someone to come and steel the transformer... again. Doesn't a transformer need a cool down period after it is switched of? Pretty cool if it does, and they / them managed to snatch it burning hot. Also electricity pow...
- Wed Jan 29, 2014 5:19 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 227284
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Is it an Siuan language?
- Sat Jan 25, 2014 10:42 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: to run out of x
- Replies: 34
- Views: 6354
Re: to run out of x
Swedish, få slut på x - literary get end on x.
- Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:47 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What do you call this?
- Replies: 302
- Views: 91886
Re: What do you call this?
Slickepot in Swedish. It's slicka lick with a binding e and then pot which probably used to mean something else but now has fused with the other word.
- Thu Jan 09, 2014 1:35 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Slang For Penis In Europe
- Replies: 90
- Views: 20274
Re: Slang For Penis In Europe
Well, Swedish slang masturbate is "runka" which used to mean "to shake" but has shifted meaning so much that it's just funny to read old books where suddenly whole houses, everything, is described as masturbating until you realize that, "oh!" the author meant shaking.
- Wed Jan 08, 2014 10:36 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Slang For Penis In Europe
- Replies: 90
- Views: 20274
Re: Slang For Penis In Europe
He means ad Hitlerum. No?