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Quick quiz
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:29 am
by alice
What sets Irish, Icelandic, Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian aside from all other European languages (except any I've forgotten
) How long did it take you to work it out?
Re: Quick quiz
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:35 am
by hwhatting
If I got it right, less than a minute:
Using an acute to indicate vowel length.
Re: Quick quiz
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 11:12 am
by Vijay
I was puzzled by the question (I fail hard at ZBB quizzes in general). Czech and Slovak don't strike me as particularly unique among European languages. But if that's the answer, then the same is also true of Scottish Gaelic.
Also, isn't stress correlated with vowel length, i.e. don't stressed syllables also tend to have longer vowels?
In that case, then it's also Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan...
Re: Quick quiz
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 1:49 pm
by Zaarin
Vijay wrote:I was puzzled by the question (I fail hard at ZBB quizzes in general). Czech and Slovak don't strike me as particularly unique among European languages. But if that's the answer, then the same is also true of Scottish Gaelic.
No,
it's not.
Re: Quick quiz
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 2:57 pm
by Vijay
Zaarin wrote:Vijay wrote:I was puzzled by the question (I fail hard at ZBB quizzes in general). Czech and Slovak don't strike me as particularly unique among European languages. But if that's the answer, then the same is also true of Scottish Gaelic.
No,
it's not.
Okay, how do you explain
this then?
Re: Quick quiz
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:54 pm
by Zaarin
Vijay wrote:Zaarin wrote:Vijay wrote:I was puzzled by the question (I fail hard at ZBB quizzes in general). Czech and Slovak don't strike me as particularly unique among European languages. But if that's the answer, then the same is also true of Scottish Gaelic.
No,
it's not.
Okay, how do you explain
this then?
I guess I'm not extraordinarily widely versed in Scottish Gaelic, but I've never seen it written with anything but grave accents before.
Re: Quick quiz
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 4:56 pm
by Vijay
Zaarin wrote:Vijay wrote:Zaarin wrote:Vijay wrote:I was puzzled by the question (I fail hard at ZBB quizzes in general). Czech and Slovak don't strike me as particularly unique among European languages. But if that's the answer, then the same is also true of Scottish Gaelic.
No,
it's not.
Okay, how do you explain
this then?
I guess I'm not extraordinarily widely versed in Scottish Gaelic, but I've never seen it written with anything but grave accents before.
I'm not and I haven't, either, but there it is.
To be fair, I was probably wrong.
Still, I don't know why that link says that. Maybe it's vandalism or something. Idk.
Re: Quick quiz
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 5:34 pm
by Zaarin
Vijay wrote:Zaarin wrote:Vijay wrote:Zaarin wrote:Vijay wrote:I was puzzled by the question (I fail hard at ZBB quizzes in general). Czech and Slovak don't strike me as particularly unique among European languages. But if that's the answer, then the same is also true of Scottish Gaelic.
No,
it's not.
Okay, how do you explain
this then?
I guess I'm not extraordinarily widely versed in Scottish Gaelic, but I've never seen it written with anything but grave accents before.
I'm not and I haven't, either, but there it is.
To be fair, I was probably wrong.
Still, I don't know why that link says that. Maybe it's vandalism or something. Idk.
This sheds some light on the mystery.
Re: Quick quiz
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2017 5:36 pm
by Vijay
HA! Canadian Gaelic! So I was right! I just didn't identify the dialect correctly. And it probably isn't used that often in that dialect either.
But seriously, thanks!