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Koko.Dk wrote:Ulrike Meinhof: I'm not looking to fight Miekko, I just clearly misunderstood her and her writing style. I don't start fights intentionally just so you know.

Him and his writing style.

Koko.Dk wrote:text

I'm sorry, but Miekko is pretty well respected on this board, and you're not, so you're going to lose this battle.

Legion wrote:Oh and, of course, the all time classic: Hindi kal means both "yesterday" and "tomorrow".

That's really just two meanings from a SAE point of view. You might just as well say that it means "the day adjacent to today", and which one of them is implied by context.

Zoris go! Aeetlrcreejl go!

Chuma wrote:I've been mostly doing it in Swedish

I'd like to see some of those words!

Many Swedes will often shorten the verb to va' . Are there any dialects that genuinly don't? I've always thought that the spelling reform that did away with <giva> and <hava> (now <ge> and <ha>) might just as well have replaced <vara> with <va>, but for some reason that didn't happen, and now peopl...

Skomakar'n wrote:Pancakes are gooder than hamburgers.

God just isn't part of the paradigm that continues bättre, bäst in modern Swedish. Bra has completely replaced it. Deal with it.

Legion wrote:This coming from the guy who speaks in a condialect…

Yeah. I'm not really going to listen to any arguments from Skomakarn. Nor should anyone who is interested in learning anything about normal Swedish.

I've caught myself preaspirating plosives when speaking both Norwegian and English after I started toying around with some Icelandic. It makes so much sense! Many Scandinavian dialects do normally preaspirate voiceless plosives in certain conditions. I noticed Jens Stoltenberg was doing it heavily ...

Swedish å, ä and ö are usually just written a, a and o when they're not available. Some people use aa, ae and oe, but that's much harder to read.

A similar phenomenon occurs in Swedish, although with gender rather than number agreement. Neuter singular adjectives are used with common and/or plural nouns when talking about some unspecific, general idea, or when the noun is used to refer to a situation in which it would be involved in some way:...

finlay wrote:those are the same things

No, the first ones are used in these:



And the second ones in these:

I use these names too, but I had actually forgotten about knappnål , so I probably would have said nål for that one as well. The annoying thing about calling the second one häftstift , is that this is also a häftstift : http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo191/Skomakarn/haeftstift.jpg I'd be inclin...

finlay wrote:Oh god, whosever's idea it was to replace proper nouns with pronouns in the text because it supposedly makes it easier... you were wrong.

Not to make it easier, to make it harder.

Sent and sent. I think I may be the "Romanian" link this time...

Oh god, I am officially destroying the text. I think I may just have invented a new idiom whose meaning evades me.

Dewrad wrote:Done and sent. If I'd known it would only take me an hour or so, I'd have done it a lot sooner. How embarrassing.

Received. Starting the translation right away, because I'm bored.

Are we interested in a bit perspective on the pin discussion? In my native Swedish, I readily distinguish between these: http://www.ngn.nu/DoItYourSelf/Zip/images/Knappnalar.jpg "Knappnål" ('button pin') http://static.beta.pixgallery.com/images/detail/P/U/7/PIX-PU7TWF.jpg "Häftstift" ('fastening tac...

The subjunctive is all but gone in most Scandinavian dialects, but the verb-initial conditional construction remains. (Although I'd describe it as quite rare in spoken language, at least in Norwegian.) It's very much alive and well in Swedish. Om is probably more common, but it doesn't raise anythi...

My phonetics teachers were generally not that careful about pronouncing phones properly, nevermind phonemes. They might write "[a]" on the whiteboard and say "[A]". When it was necessary to distinguish between phones like in your example, I think they'd pronounce them pretty spot on though.

I would also use "ye" to refer to a group, even if only one person of the group is there, just as I would use we to refer to a group I'm in, even if I'm the only representative. Is that also the case in languages that have a clearly defined singular and plural 2nd person pronoun? In all of those th...

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...

Vardelm wrote:Theta role

Ah, generative grammar. I don't know much about it.

Which article was that in?

Chuma wrote:As for the east Asian classifiers, I don't see how they're connected to definiteness. So if "a cat" becomes "creature cat", how would you say "the cat"?

They're not, as far as I know. If you were to compare them to anything common in European languages, it would be gender.