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in english, adjectives are usually placed before the nouns they modify, but english is not a SOV lang, is it? :) Anyway, as linguists say, " grammars leak ", and "virtually all languages include patterns that do not accord with the patterning expected in languages of their type." I merely gave some ...

Lately I've noticed some questions about SOV langs, so I thought it would be helpful to gather SOV characteristics in one place. Please, post your comments and criticism :) Notice: SOV langs are not necessarily agglutinative; some of them (like Turkish, or Mongolian) are, some others (like Hindi) ar...

Echobeats wrote:
"1. What conditions does something have to fulfil in order to be called gezellig? When can I use this word and when not?"

I've got the same question too

chris_notts (politely) explained that "[he] was avoiding mentioning the young boys since [he] thought as a modern greek might be offended." Oh, please! I'm not going to get offended for some people that lived 2,500 years ago! Afterall, they never discovered any depilation method, did they? (God, do...

chris_notts wrote: "If I remember correctly, didn't the ancient greeks also chain maidens to rocks to appease sea monsters? I'm pretty sure it happened in at least one greek myth... Sacrificing all the young women to sea monsters must've caused them a bit of a population problem too." Well, I've got...

ok, this is the greek style: your father takes you when you're, say, 6-7 y.o., and throws you into the sea. If you don't get drowned, it's ok. it's that simple :) i am glad i aint greek, i wouldnt be typing this if i were... and how many children die every year from that? :P well, suffice it to say...

ok, this is the greek style:
your father takes you when you're, say, 6-7 y.o., and throws you into the sea. If you don't get drowned, it's ok. it's that simple

mea culpa! i should've explicitly stated that i had in mind university students, not high school ones...

oh, and by the way, according to my речник, a student booklet* is студентска книжка. but, of course, zmeiat joro will have the last word


(*) a student booklet is also in use here, in greece. And IT IS a booklet

shouldn't it be /Cтоянов/? just wondering