Hi! Do some foreign names sound like phrases in Chinese? Is it somewhat funny to natives? I have learnt that my name (Leonardo) is ɶ in Chinese....
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Hugo Cesar de Castro ...
hcesarcastro@...
Mar 1, 2013 1:31 pm
Hi Leonardo, I always wished to know if there is a straightforward way to transliterate people's name into hanzi. But two questions come to my mind: 1. How can...
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Zach Wellstood
zwellstood@...
Mar 1, 2013 1:42 pm
liyaá' łí'! I'm not a native, and can't speak to the actual question, but fun fact: the Chinese name for the restaurant, Subway is 赛百味 sai4bai3wei4,...
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Leonardo Castro
leolucas1980@...
Mar 1, 2013 1:47 pm
... Hi, Hugo! (Another Castro!) [...] ... I don't really know it, but I have the impression that Chinese people perceive other languages' features such as...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Mar 1, 2013 3:50 pm
... That's completely the opposite of a problem, as I see it! It's a natural unification of the functions: "it" just means 'that thing we're talking about, or...
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Roman Rausch
aranwe@...
Mar 1, 2013 3:56 pm
... As a native speaker I'd say _Вы - Джордж Корли? Тот самый Джордж Корли?_. The construction _тот самый_ 'that very'...
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H. S. Teoh
hsteoh@...
Mar 1, 2013 4:21 pm
... [...] First of all, due to the fact that Chinese has tone distinction but most other languages (like English) don't, means that when transliterating names...
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H. S. Teoh
hsteoh@...
Mar 1, 2013 4:35 pm
... Short answer: no. Long answer: it depends. :-P Well, there are a few different ways one could go about it: you could take the pragmatic route of finding...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Mar 1, 2013 5:17 pm
... In Spanish, the masculine definite article is identical to the nominative of the masculine pronoun (though in writing, the pronoun is spelled with an acute...
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taliesin the storytel...
taliesin-conlang@...
Mar 1, 2013 5:44 pm
... Malbolge? t....
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Mar 1, 2013 5:56 pm
... How much do the ebooks cost. Sadly, the facts of publishing right now are such that publishers vary in how they price ebooks. Some of them even price the...
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taliesin the storytel...
taliesin-conlang@...
Mar 1, 2013 8:53 pm
... I get the privilege of paying VAT on ebooks but not on paper books. So most ebooks are more expensive than most hardcovers. But then again, even an ebook...
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And Rosta
and.rosta@...
Mar 1, 2013 9:05 pm
... English too, IMO. Synchronically, [It] and [They] have, when transitive, (i) a truncated form of {it} in most trad Northern English dialects,(usu spelt...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Mar 1, 2013 9:19 pm
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:53 PM, taliesin the storyteller < ... That's kind of messed up. Does Norway have a big printing lobby or what?...
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Alex Fink
000024@...
Mar 1, 2013 10:06 pm
... It could've been that you were thinking rather of a system more like the one I had in mind when I glossed 23 as "3 in the 2nd ennead": the second digit...
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taliesin the storytel...
taliesin-conlang@...
Mar 1, 2013 10:15 pm
... The publishers own the book clubs, the media (some tv-channels, some newspapers), the printers and the book stores. And the politicians :) They're...
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MorphemeAddict
lytlesw@...
Mar 1, 2013 10:19 pm
... Only in the singular: el libro (the book) vs. él (he). In the plural it's "los libros" (the books) vs. ellos (they [m or mixed]). stevo Also, I believe...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Mar 1, 2013 10:40 pm
... That's true (though I would say that ellos is simply masculine, and that mixed-gender groups default to masculine agreement). It is still valid to say...
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Adnan Majid
dsamajid@...
Mar 1, 2013 10:41 pm
... Choosing a "Chinese written name" with meaningful characters can be very fun. I settled on wn (an1 nan4), made up of the characters for "tranquility"...
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Logan Kearsley
chronosurfer@...
Mar 1, 2013 10:43 pm
... Not in all cases; I agree there are many situations in which it is totally valid to invent a sentence and ask someone to make judgments about it. But in...
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George Corley
gacorley@...
Mar 1, 2013 10:54 pm
... For clarity, according to WALS, tone languages are actually more common than non-tone languages: ...
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Logan Kearsley
chronosurfer@...
Mar 1, 2013 10:58 pm
... Longer source code generally isn't the problem, for exactly the reason you guess- length of source has very little relation to the size of compiled machine...
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H. S. Teoh
hsteoh@...
Mar 2, 2013 12:05 am
... Huh, that's new to me. :) I stand corrected. ... Yes, but the section immediately preceding that table speaks of the variety of different transcription...
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Leonardo Castro
leolucas1980@...
Mar 2, 2013 1:44 am
... I thought standard German did this: aren't "Was ist das?" and "Das Auto." standard German? ... My conlang doesn't distinguish pronouns by gender: "it",...
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MorphemeAddict
lytlesw@...
Mar 2, 2013 4:07 am
... "Das" is both a pronoun ("that") and a definite article (neuter singular nominative/accusative. It doesn't mean 'it', which is "es". stevo...
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Roger Mills
romiltz@...
Mar 2, 2013 4:15 am
... Only in the singular: el libro (the book) vs. l (he). In the plural it's "los libros" (the books) vs. ellos (they [m or mixed]). stevo Also, I believe...
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Patrick Dunn
pwdunn@...
Mar 2, 2013 6:57 am
So now I'm looking at tonogenesis. I'm thinking perhaps that stops will raise the tone of the preceding vowel, while fricatives will lower it, which appears...
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Douglas Koller
douglaskoller@...
Mar 2, 2013 8:28 am
... This has been covered quite adequately by others, but please to indulge me to opine... :) Yes and no. NO, I feel a kind of mental suspension of character...
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yuri
yuridg@...
Mar 2, 2013 9:10 am
... I had a linguistics lecturer at uni who told us that when she went to Thailand (I think it was Thailand - it might've been somewhere else) the locals got...
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Leonardo Castro
leolucas1980@...
Mar 2, 2013 12:56 pm
... In Portuguese, the object pronouns have exactly the same form of the definite articles: "o, a, os, as" . But sometimes the object pronouns can be written...
