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I'm looking for the ZBBer who gave an excellent description of Catalan. I don't remeber exactly how it was but it just compared it to other Romance languages saying Catalan was always better. I just want to vote for him for the best quote of the year but I just can't find the thread where it's been ...

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T'has comprat el Diccionari Catal?-Occit?!!!! Ja el coneixia i me'l vull comprar, per? m'haur? d'esperar fins tenir diners. Ara vaig una mica escurat... :mrgreen: Doncs si !!! 8) Jo tampoc no vaig molt b? de peles per? igual em vaig sacrificar... ?s que no s? si t'imagines que no existeix cap dicci...

Aquesta dissecci? de l'estructura de les paraules catalanes em sembla m?s que interessant... Acabo de comprar-me aquests dos llibres: "Diccionari del Catal? antic" (M. Costa & M. Tarr?s) "Diccionari Catal?-Occit?" (C. Balaguer & P. Pojada) (Haur?s vist aquest nou diccionari suposo si has passejat pe...

chris-gr wrote:After a tornado of "how-do-you-pronounce-this-word" threads, I can say that I find this thread much more interesting.

I totally agree !!! ~ Estic totalment d'acord !!!

I like Xurnash...
This is my first (short) post here on #Almea

B? ?s un adverbi que davant d'adjectius, adverbis i formes verbals s'ha d'escriure ben . Ara b?, el perqu? d'aquestes dues formes el desconec... :mrgreen: Doncs per les mateixes raons que hi ha una -n- dins "catalans" per? no hi ?s dins "catal?". Al plural, la -s demana que es conservi la -n- que n...

Hlewagastiz wrote:

Nikura wrote:I've just remembered. Someone talks about arabic:
Maghreban Arabic also has double negation:
I don't know: ma n'raf shi

Indeed?! (then I remembered well ).

Yes, but as I know, only in Maghreb and Maltese. I don't know for litterary Arabic.

De nada !!! :mrgreen: I personnaly didn't know there were so many language who have double negation. Being French native and having the natural "ne + verb + pas" construction, I think it is good to 'pack' the verb between two negation forms... I've just remembered. Someone talks about arabic: Maghre...

Negation in French: "ne... pas" (although as it's been said, people now just say "...pas" "ne... plus" (any longer/anymore) "ne... point" (litterary) "ne... mie" (old) pas (step), plus, point (point), mie (half) are common words that have been added to the "ne" which seemed to be too much unsignific...

Una cosa que, d'altra banda, hauria de ser ben normal (aprendre la llengua del pa?s on es va a viure)... Mira, estic totalment d'acord amb tu sobre aquest punt. Jo porto dos anys vivint a Catalunya i no podia viure aqui sense aprendre l'idioma. Per? hi ha molta gent que considera que el catal? ?s n...

OK so it must be:
"L'ale l? (ce) l'ho, Lou"... Ho capito !!!
Yes it is Italian and not a dialect. An italian dialect is generally very different from standard italian Just than without the ` on the i I understood badly what he meant and thought it was a pronoun...

"L' ale li l'ho, Lou!" I don't understand this and I think there's some mistakes... But someone like Piero lo Monaco will know better than me... when we have two pronouns like gli+lo or gli+le we must say "glielo" or "gliele". In the case of "li" I don't remember but I think it also becomes "gli-"....

A correction: Frunze was the Soviet-era name for the capital of Kyrgyzstan , not Tajikistan; it was named in honor of the early Bolshevik leader Mikhail Frunze . In 1991, it was renamed Bishkek (reflecting its pre-Soviet name of Bishkek/Pishpek). Frunze himself was born in pre-Soviet Bishkek, but w...

Somebody knows why turkish names are so close to hebrew names?? I just can think they're also muslim calendar name in turkish... apity I can find now muslim calendar names just to compare the three. Sb has it? About Hobbit month names: I have a French edition of LotR and they are translated as well:...

I have trouble understanding what you mean. Croatian (or the Croatian version of Serbo-Croatian if you prefer) emphatically does not use Latin names, as the above list shows. Serbian (or the Serbian version of Serbo-Croatian) does use Latin names, as does Russian. The Serbian forms are januar, febr...

Hi ! We have a February topic. So why not doing one about names of month that don't come from the too famous latin names... I discovered years ago, that croatian (but not serbian) uses typical names for months and after that, I've found a quite nice list. Sometimes latin and typical names are used b...

Je suis d'accord ? ce que le fran?ais est en effet une langue riche (sans doute la plus riche dans l'Europe) Je ne peux que confirmer tes dires.... Mais apr?s vient le catalan !!! :mrgreen: Per? basta de parlar franc?s. Izopiru! No s? si haur?s vist la pregunta que et vaig fer dins ephemera > your ...

:wink: D?u n'hi do!!! Estic molt content de veure que el catal? t? un lloc d'honor dins aquest lloc web. Jo estaria molt content de veure que el catal? tingu?s un lloc d'honor dins tots els llocs web del m?n; per diure la vertat, el catal? es m?s molt interessant que l'espanyol i el franc?s. Person...

I can't wait to see the comparisons between Catalan and Occitan!!! Unfortunately I've never come across a native speaker of Occitan in my life. Well, just one in Val d'Aran, but she quickly changed into Catalan. I'd like to learn Occitan because it would be like learning ancient Catalan; learning t...

My family would descend from a famous Irish monk called St-Columba. Well in that time (it was a long time ago...), monks had children... So I'm very happy to learn Irish with your brilliant lessons, it reminds me my origins
Just go on like this !!!

Circ?us wrote: They refer to the english concept of "portmanteau word", which is equivalent to the french "mot-valise".

OK. I now understand better... I didn't know the use of that term in English... This Forum is a really good way to improve my knowledge of linguistic terms in English...

What kind of word would fulfill the definition of 'portmanteauoid', though? A word that looks like a blend, but is etymologically a single morpheme, maybe.. anyone know any of those? Never seen a word like this in French... "porte-manteau" exists but its a composed word, made of the verb "porter" (...