Happy New Year for all (two or three) of you ! I hope some of your dreams will get true this year, or at least that your nightmares won't get worse ;-) For...
A happy new year for you too! I am not surprised at your apparent (or deeply felt) pessimism as concerns the future of Folksprak. But that does not at all mean...
Knutson
asm.knut@...
Jan 2, 2008 11:25 am
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I'm afraid, so. Design by committee does not work without a strong leader (dictator)....
Tanke di for din reaktion. Ja, Ingmar Roerdinkholder on ig er 1, ig ha kreered Middelsprake in 2004, befor ig kennede Folksprak doch after ig havede lerned...
Hello, I wish you all a happy year. I am one of the silent majority here in the group. I think the Folkspraak idea is a very good one and the beginning was...
Eg danke deg Ingmar! Den dag after morgen, Ruth ok eg fare to Tenerife for two weeken. Eg hofe dat man kan fortsetse de work mit een mittelspraak in de noye...
Knutson
asm.knut@...
Jan 3, 2008 8:03 pm
11989
Also a happy new year from me. Well, I don't know if Folksprak, or the idea about creating it, is dead. But I think it is impossible to construct a language in...
... Herlik Groeten All. Gelykkig Ny Jar! First of all my apologies for being absent from the FS community for so long. I have enough other complications in my...
Basic English is far from being a "perfect language". David's remarks are correct. But it is properly the best language in the world, if we only measure how...
Well, I myself learnt Interlingua (IALA) in less than a day... but I know quite a lot of French, reasonably understand Spanish and Portuguese and even some...
Hey, David, hi! Hello! Happy New Year! Welcome back! I'm so happy that you're still around! ... dead. ... level ... language ... for so ... the ... want ... ...
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I do believe in a limited vocabulary. The words in FS should have cognates that share a meaning in the majority of source languages (Germanic languages). The...
I don't think there's a need for a limited vocabulary, since vocabulary has a tendency to limit itself through daily usage; that's why you can understand the...
... Agreed, I think that having a limited beginners' vocabulary is a teaching technique. But which words are the most essential to learn first, I wouldn't...
... It's actually not that hard - just take a list of the 3000 or so most used words in English and get their Folkspraak equivalents, then start writing...
... This is a very good example of one the problems in using the interlingua-methode. If felg serves as the word for tyre in FS, then it will bee a false ...
Hej Ingmar I believe, that you could read and understand Interlingua rigth away, but I don't believ that you could write let us say a small article in correct...
I remember becoming a member of an Interlingua forum immediately and wrote in that language right away. I don't think I made a lot of mistakes, but of course I...
Same in Dutch, where "velg" means rim, and felly, felloe. For tyre, we say "band", or sometimes compounds like "luchtband", "rubberband", "gummiband" ... word ...
So *felg is probably not an entirely useless word, but it shouldn't mean "tyre", but the part of the wheel that the tyre/tire is mounted to. EN felly/felloe is...
I guess 'pneu' is a gallicism in Belgian Dutch, I myself have never heard it being used in the Netherlands. But what about a description like the Dutch terms...
Well the Dutch terms are probably the most self-obvious words. Most Germlangs have words like "band". Perhaps a compound such as "wylband" would be more...
Förlåt! I forgot that it's a low german borrowing, not a native word. ... Belgium?) ... inter-germanic ... maybe ... And I ... just for ... false ... ring...
Förlåt! I forgot that it's a low german borrowing, not a native word. ... Belgium?) ... inter-germanic ... maybe ... And I ... just for ... false ... ring...
... In Danish we have tag for roof and tække for making a roof. But the word for tyre is dæk. d not t. Anyway, in all cases where there isn't a common word I...
... Belgium?) ... So tag and tække would be native Danish words, cognate to EN thatch. Dæk would be a borrowing from the Low German word of the same source ...
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