Nah, Viktor wasn't drunk when that was taken (by me, for the record), and just having met him, I can't say that I find his facial expression peculiar at all.
The name of that drink was le Sang du Dragon, [lə sã dzʏ dʁagɒ̃ɔ̃] or somesuch.
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- Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:53 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 774591
- Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:39 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Spanish phonological observation
- Replies: 61
- Views: 9124
Re: Spanish phonological observation
It's pronounced [ˈbiβe]
- Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:08 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Latin "sc"
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4193
Re: Latin "sc"
As part of the larger change of Ø > e / #_sC, e.g. étoile < estoile < stella, which occured in most Western Romance languages (cf. Spanish estrella). The French s > Ø / _C (or at least something similar) is a later change.Astraios wrote:Only initially.brandrinn wrote:Doesn't [sk] become [ek] in French?
- Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:32 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Historical Atlas of Almea coming soon!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3942
Re: Historical Atlas of Almea coming soon!
http://zompist.wordpress.com/2011/07/15 ... cal-atlas/vecfaranti wrote:What are you talking about?
- Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:23 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Learn Northern Germanic the exciting way
- Replies: 93
- Views: 15717
Re: Learn Northern Germanic the exciting way
Tbh I hope there isn't such a source to be found, because the 2ppl endings most certainly didn't remain into the 1970s in the standard language :)adder wrote:Also, I might be wrong. I can't really find the source. :(
- Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:05 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Unusual capitalisations
- Replies: 54
- Views: 9539
Re: Unusual capitalisations
You often don't do capitalization on the internet in casual contexts, people get it wrong all the time in real life, and separated compounds can be seen everywhere today, not only the internet. It may be noted that this is essentially how German was written in the early modern period, so what goes ...
- Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:23 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Sound Change Quickie Thread
- Replies: 2827
- Views: 619924
Re: Sound Change Quickie Thread
I have a sound change in a conlang where [ð] becomes [j] before front vowels and [ʋ] everywhere else, and dialectically it becomes [w] before /u/. This is reasonable, right? Didn't something similar happen with Faroese? Contrarily to what's been said on the board at least twice this last week, I be...
- Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Learn Northern Germanic the exciting way
- Replies: 93
- Views: 15717
Re: Learn Northern Germanic the exciting way
I wish Aszev were writing this thread. Otherwise it's like trying to learn English from Viktor :( <3 Aszev does know a lot about Swedish, altho as I recall he also has some particular ideas of how things should be done. Come to think of it, I suppose I do too. It's true he would be an asset, but I ...
- Wed Jul 13, 2011 3:12 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Language Instruction in Different Countries
- Replies: 86
- Views: 12769
Re: Language Instruction in Different Countries
Drydic Guy wrote:Seriously. Go fuck up your own language, GTFO of mine.
Way to be lenient with someone making one single typo/mistake in a non-native language.YngNghymru wrote:he makes a good point, please stop thinking you can spell English however you want
- Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:31 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Natlang terms for conlangs
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5334
Re: Natlang terms for conlangs
In Swedish, I usually just go with something like skapat [tungo]mål ('created language'), lek[tungo]mål ('play language') or something along those lines, or just rephrase it; 'detta är ett [tungo]mål som jag [ha'r] skapat/byggt' ('this is a language that I [have] created/built'). And those of us wh...
- Thu Mar 24, 2011 9:30 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: LCS Creating New Advisory Committee
- Replies: 104
- Views: 47851
Re: LCS Creating New Advisory Committee
For French I know of conlang, idéolangue, artlangue, forgelangue, going from more to less common if I'm not completely mistaken.
- Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:20 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: "become an X"
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6599
Re: "become an X"
Hellquist's etymological dictionary claims that the newer meaning of the word was probably already present in Middle Low German.
- Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:40 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: smorgasbord of verbal design issues
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5649
Re: smorgasbord of verbal design issues
It's probably because of the smörgåsbord title.
- Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:53 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: some questions about Swedish declension
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6610
Re: some questions about Swedish declension
Yep, pretty much, although I'm not sure I'd say ' fansen ' is a special case, as there are more -sen forms out there. Most words that come to mind seem to be unassimilated ones though, e.g. kidsen , bratsen . Also I double checked your question no. 1, so I can confirm the -n being the original defin...
- Sat Mar 05, 2011 6:52 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: some questions about Swedish declension
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6610
Re: some questions about Swedish declension
1) If my memory doesn't fail me, the plural -n for neuter words ending in a vowel is the definite form that has been reanalyzed into a plural marker. 2) As for greek and latin plurals, most people would colloquially not use them, and even reanalyze them as different words. E.g. faktum and fakta woul...
- Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:38 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Yonagu idea: Essay collection
- Replies: 75
- Views: 12581
Re: Yonagu idea: Essay collection
I could write about making/deriving an a posteriori language belonging to an Earthly language family.
- Thu Nov 18, 2010 2:36 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: The Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 2452
- Views: 418370
Re: The Innovative Usage Thread
It reminds me of a nowadays rather common construction we have in Swedish. "One each" used to be var sin each PRON.3PS.REFL "each their (own)" but was commonly misinterpreted as vars en (???) one "for each, one" which is really much more useful, because now you can also say vars två "for each, two"...
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 6:16 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 774591
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5.
Fwiw I don't think you look particularily undernourished Astraios, you just look like a thin person.
- Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:03 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Scandinavian (Now with more isoglosses)
- Replies: 161
- Views: 34939
Re: Scandinavian (Now with more isoglosses)
Magb supplied some nice info on the /d:/ area!
Also I made a slight mistake due to misremembering some etymologies at 5am in the morning, Gotland doesn't have any /d:/ from /l:/, so I've corrected that.
Also I made a slight mistake due to misremembering some etymologies at 5am in the morning, Gotland doesn't have any /d:/ from /l:/, so I've corrected that.
- Mon Nov 08, 2010 11:48 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Scandinavian (Now with more isoglosses)
- Replies: 161
- Views: 34939
Re: Scandinavian (Now with more isoglosses)
Time to bump this with a fresh isogloss map!
You know you want it.
You know you want it.
- Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:44 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: 20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words
- Replies: 53
- Views: 9626
Re: 20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words
Both #1 and #20 (both of which always crop up on these lists) can be adequately translated with the Welsh hiraeth (which never crops up on any list.) As well as the Portuguese saudade and the Cornish hireth . Also, Schadenfreude is skadeglädje in Swedish. That's a calque borrowing, though. That has...
- Wed Nov 03, 2010 12:50 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Icelandic feminine singular indefinite dative -u
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2196
Re: Icelandic feminine singular indefinite dative -u
http://bin.arnastofnun.is/leit.php?id=475966
Does that help?
I looked up a few words from different stems and it seems pretty random to me what words get this -u, but it doesn't seem to be more than a handful anyway.
Does that help?
I looked up a few words from different stems and it seems pretty random to me what words get this -u, but it doesn't seem to be more than a handful anyway.
- Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:35 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: LCK Book
- Replies: 282
- Views: 55530
Re: LCK Book
Apparently 9 days was enough to get it to northern Europe, got it today!
- Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:29 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: LCK Book
- Replies: 282
- Views: 55530
Re: LCK Book
Meh they're sending it by rowboat so I won't get mine for another month.
- Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:29 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: The Correspondence Library
- Replies: 568
- Views: 286992
Re:
I'm reasonably well versed in these, in case you need anything specific.phaed wrote:I'm interested also in Old Norse -> Icelandic and Old Norse -> Swedish, Danish, or Norwegian, if anybody has information on those.