Yes David. You are right. But the exceptions should not prevent us from using the more general cases. And even if we in Norway use eventuelt for something else...
Knutson
asm.knut@...
Dec 1, 2006 9:44 am
10301
Hey Dave and the others i have to agree with Åsmund on this, you all have put in all the time and research and i would be happy just to us the language. My...
Jodie's french is really, really good. She is so fluent that she even answers journalists in french, and you can really tell she thinks in french. Another good...
... now? ... Even ... becomes ... unlike ... other ... your ... I'd hardly call that splitting hairs, mate. From an English point of view the details of the...
... Believe me this has not irritated me and I stand corrected. But I am interested in your opinions about the question that I have raised on C-K-Q-X. Do you...
Ingmar, he actually said that "Initial and intervocalic "s" becomes [z], spelt "z". But ce/ci/cy is always [s].". It wasn't a clear statement admittedly, but...
... is ... also ... are ... of ... pronun- ... c- ... into ... am ... on ... Mmm, maybe "splitting hairs" is a saying with a positive connotation in English,...
Dagse Chambo, I support your orthography, but I am against an "Extrwurst" for the Germans, let them pronounce the "c" in centrum as they like. Eugene ... ...
Afrikaans is similar to the dialect spoken here. They have no past tense so the say e.g. ich habe gehabt (ek het gehad) Dit is baie warm hier vandag +6°....
What does that mean egzaktly in this kase, an ekstrawurst? Something like a special rule or a privilege for a limited group? One last thing: I think FS should...
... tense ... sowat -6° Oh, hier dis al desember ;-) Hier is dit vandag slegs 10 grade, maar 'n paar dae eerder was dit nog 18 grade. ... Hakuna matata! ... ...
Baie mense assosieer Afrikaans nog altyd met Apartheid, maar dat is tog oor en virby. === Hierdie mense is baie dom! Ek was en is teen Apartheit. So is ek ook...
I think we need to address this from the point of view of how easy it will be for speakers to know how to spell words. Having "ph" and "th": orthographi or...
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folkspraak@yahoogroup...
Dec 2, 2006 10:28 pm
10319
No man, TravLang is a website: LANGuages for TRAVelers. They have got a lot of mini travelers language guides in all kind of languages. I did one in...
oh man. SURELY we can have enough logic to either have <th> and <ph> or <t> and <f> not a "oh that looks a bit poorish [whatever poorish means] to me"...
Have you tried http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ There are dictionaries for many many languages here. The Afrikaans one doesn't seem very extensive,...
When I look are "fotograf" or "teori" instead of "photograph" or "theori", they look somehow austere. Like I am looking at the skeleton of the word. These are...
... skeleton ... For me, I got the same thing with "teori" but not with "fotograf" ... vers ... or "sokk") ... rules ... confusion. Why not kw and ks, but ck?...
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Dec 3, 2006 8:44 am
10327
I deleted the Middelsprake TravLang, because that's old news, and added a new Folksprak TravLang file. Ingmar Chamavian Roerdinkholder ... of ... is ... nie ...
... Like I said, it's an aesthetic preference. I accept that "ks", "kw", "kk" are phonetic and mean less rules to learn. BUT "x", "qu", "ck" can be made...
Have you considered making "Please" be "Wes-so-god" and "Gern" instead be "You're Welcome"? Also what about "undergrund(ban)" as an alternative for "metro"?...
David Parke <parked@...> Yes and don't forget if we are speaking FS in the USA we would say (SUBWAY) hihi! don't know about us always have to be different for ...
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