It IS the opposite - cf Spanish, English (American 'water'), Welsh.... ... Really? I would have thought exactly the opposite ... Andreas ... Yahoo! Messenger...
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Benct Philip Jonsson
bpj@...
Mar 30, 2006 6:53 pm
It is both: in many languages -- i.e. most Germanic languages other than Dutch -- voiced tops and voiced fricatives next to voiceless stops and voiceless ...
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Larry Sulky
larrysulky@...
Mar 30, 2006 6:55 pm
... Different languages have different tendencies. Is there a "tendency of tendencies"? Does one tendency occur more frequently, by language count or by...
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Harold Ensle
heensle@...
Mar 30, 2006 7:07 pm
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:01:26 +0300, John Vertical ... I mentioned this "let me" construction as well (and in my conlang, I also do the same thing with the...
... Geoff from the ZBB has a collection of sound changes up on his website: http://www.cix.co.uk/~morven/lang/soundchanges.html It lists types of sound...
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Michael Adams
michael.adams1@...
Mar 31, 2006 1:05 am
Might check out Grimms Law on how somethings happen? (same people who brought us Grimms Brothers Fairy Tales), going back to their days of wandeirng Germany...
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Remi Villatel
maxilys@...
Mar 31, 2006 2:04 am
... That's because of the grammar as Joe explains so well. What should be the subject is grammatically the object. The way imperative is built in English with...
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Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Mar 31, 2006 8:10 am
... A 300-level course? Russian must be really difficult to pronounce! "The palatalised vowels are coming on really well. Soon you'll be able to move on to...
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Peter Bleackley
Peter.Bleackley@...
Mar 31, 2006 8:53 am
... I'd guessed that it actually meant a third-year course, but a little willful misinterpretation seemed to be in order......
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Philip Newton
philip.newton@...
Mar 31, 2006 9:02 am
... I'm not sure whether you're kidding or whether you're not acquainted with US university course numbering schemes. From what little I've gathered, courses...
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Michael Adams
michael.adams1@...
Mar 31, 2006 11:16 am
Russian can be difficult for some, depends on back ground. I can do some, but helps got exposed to it some when I was younger, father was a...
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David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Mar 31, 2006 11:54 am
Philip wrote: << I'm not sure whether you're kidding or whether you're not acquainted with US university course numbering schemes. ... Note the plural on...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Mar 31, 2006 12:29 pm
I'm sure it wasn't just a pronunciation course. I took Amanda's point to mean only that the particular details of proper pronunciation were not taught until...
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Tristan Alexander McL...
conlang@...
Mar 31, 2006 1:33 pm
... This one slightly confuses me. "Course" I'm aware means what I call "subject" or "unit" in the US, and I thought that "major" approximately corresponded to...
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Yahya Abdal-Aziz
yahya@...
Mar 31, 2006 1:51 pm
Hi Remi, On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 Remi Villatel wrote: [snip] ... Neat! And what about "everybody" and "everything"? Regards, Yahya -- No virus found in this...
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Ph.D.
phil@...
Mar 31, 2006 2:29 pm
... A "course" is a one-semester class on a particular topic. For example, the Spanish Department may offer the following one-semester courses: SP 101...
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Mark J. Reed
markjreed@...
Mar 31, 2006 2:40 pm
... Sorry, my mistake. I should have said "department", not "major". A "degree" is the certification that you have completed a given course of study at the...
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Isaac Penzev
isaacp@...
Mar 31, 2006 3:20 pm
... Exactly. And rather was than is, because non-3rd pers. sounds pretty archaic, e.g. in the Synodal Bible (the most popular Russian version, 1876): John 14:6...
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Amanda Babcock Furrow
ababcock@...
Mar 31, 2006 5:24 pm
... Hahah :) Um, 300-level just means third-year, except that nobody takes these things in exactly the year that they are numbered for :) Amanda...
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Jackson Moore
jacksonmoore@...
Mar 31, 2006 5:39 pm
... Thank you for this response, it was very helpful. It could be that a basic word order a) doesn't exist, b) exists only as a theoretical inevitability,...
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Amanda Babcock Furrow
ababcock@...
Mar 31, 2006 5:44 pm
... Nope, it was entirely on pronunciation. One semester, 3 hours a week. There were other courses for conversation and grammar that a Russian major would...
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Amanda Babcock Furrow
ababcock@...
Mar 31, 2006 5:59 pm
I'm spending all my posts today on US university stuff :) Oh well, it's not like Mli Vjacgu is making much progress. ... More commonly, students in different...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Mar 31, 2006 8:09 pm
... Really? I would have thought exactly the opposite ... Andreas...
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Remi Villatel
maxilys@...
Mar 31, 2006 8:59 pm
... Maybe I'll think about it later. I just need to regularize the way some quantifiers (articles) can be turned into pronouns. (Thank you for the idea.) Right...
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David J. Peterson
dedalvs@...
Mar 31, 2006 9:01 pm
Jackson wrote: << In designing a language, one could systematize the relationship between word order and grammatical meaning by defining such particles ...
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Chris Peters
beta_leonis@...
Apr 1, 2006 12:34 am
... Russian is a language I've always been meaning to learn. I only know a few words, but my Russian acquaintances tell me that my accent is nearly flawless. ...
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Michael Adams
michael.adams1@...
Apr 1, 2006 4:11 am
Old Church, is close to the lingo the Bulgars and southern slavs than the eastern or western ones.. If I remember right, old church and cyrillic was invented...
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Roger Mills
rfmilly@...
Apr 1, 2006 4:37 am
... That's an interesting and pretty complete list. But I don't think likeliness/ranking/hierarchy is possible. It's even risky to say "X is not a _possible_...
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Cian Ross
cian@...
Apr 1, 2006 7:54 am
... ` = preceding vowel has primary accent but is short ^ = preceding vowel is long and has primary accent A:n lo:custe yn i Veldane:assu lingwassu? A:n...
