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1837 Daan
daangoedkoop Send Email
Jul 21, 2002
10:46 am
... Walen is the Dutch word for Wallons (French-speaking Belgians), by the way. Daan (dgoedkoop@...)....
1838 Abrigon Gusiq
abrigon Send Email
Jul 21, 2002
12:26 pm
Sorry no umlaut, I can find it, but .. I expect it depends on how you think Wales is in it's relationship to the crown. Yes, he is Prinz von Wales, since he is...
1839 bribri56@...
bribri562000 Send Email
Jul 21, 2002
1:38 pm
You can add the Special English web address to the Yahoo! Groups Folkspraak page's Bookmarks. We have a few Web resources listed there, but we could definitely...
1840 bribri56@...
bribri562000 Send Email
Jul 21, 2002
1:39 pm
In a message dated 7/18/02 9:42:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ... Subscribe to the original Folkspraak discussion group, where your emails are posted and...
1841 bribri562000 Send Email Jul 21, 2002
1:57 pm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/folkspraak/links Links - Linken, Forbindingen/Verbindigen, Skaklen? Ver- vs. For- ..... Pros and cons of each? Op wider sehen, ...
1842 peter_reep Send Email Jul 21, 2002
2:44 pm
DE FLÅMS BAN ga genem en steil, smal ond vunderskon Bergdal ond ar en Mesterverk av Ingenierkunst. Det ar enik 20 km lang, men de Reis fran Myrdal station,...
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6:56 pm
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1846 Jan-Willem Benjamins
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Jul 22, 2002
7:20 am
... Wales ... If memory serves me right, the word Waals/Welsh/Welsch originally just meant "foreigner&quot;, so: somenone who isn't ...
1847 Abrigon Gusiq
abrigon Send Email
Jul 22, 2002
8:28 am
I wonder how to handle words that are if like nature, but cause of being adopted at different times and language in English mean something different. Skiff and...
1848 Abrigon Gusiq
abrigon Send Email
Jul 22, 2002
8:31 am
Yeppers, Welsh and Wales are English words for the people who are called Cymru or Cymri.. Atleast one of their names for themselves and their language. And it...
1849 wordwulf Send Email Jul 23, 2002
3:17 am
... called ... Ja, Modern Deutsch (English version "Dutch", as in Pennsylvania Dutch, meaning Pennsylvania German) comes from *(th)iudisk, a word related to...
1850 hanskamp2001 Send Email Jul 23, 2002
8:36 am
I think that the pronunciation of Folkspraak shouldn't be dependent from that of German, but it should be averaged, too, just like the languages that...
1851 hanskamp2001 Send Email Jul 23, 2002
10:08 am
... I would prefer "mit" for "with", because of Dutch/Afrikaans "met", German "mit", Danish "med". "Vith" seems to have just one etymology from English "with"....
1852 hanskamp2001 Send Email Jul 23, 2002
10:32 am
... up ... that ... In normal cases, I would prefer: - the subject as the first part of the sentence; - the changing verb (dependent from the subject) as the...
1853 hanskamp2001 Send Email Jul 23, 2002
11:08 am
... net ... gebreke ... gepakke ... I would like to use the prefix ge- for building participles not for changing the meaning of infinitives: Ete - geeted = eat...
1854 hanskamp2001 Send Email Jul 23, 2002
11:16 am
... the ge- ... Swe/Dan/Nor had ... less ... necessary aid in ... In Dutch ge- is used to build participles when there isn't already another prefix: Eten -...
1855 Jan-Willem Benjamins
benjaminsjw Send Email
Jul 23, 2002
11:18 am
... In other words: the dutch/german way of doing it. As native dutch speaker I have no problems with that. But I know that it is rather confusing for...
1856 hanskamp2001 Send Email Jul 23, 2002
11:24 am
... I would agree with the majority, because the form twe-ond-twetig is used in Dutch, older English, German and Afrikaans. Hans Kamp....
1857 Hans Kamp
hanskamp2001 Send Email
Jul 23, 2002
11:33 am
... Van: Jan-Willem Benjamins [mailto:benjaminsjw@...] Verzonden: dinsdag 23 juli 2002 13:19 Aan: folkspraak@yahoogroups.com Onderwerp: Re: [folkspraak]...
1858 Jan-Willem Benjamins
benjaminsjw Send Email
Jul 23, 2002
11:36 am
... to ... I'd go for the english version, which is also used in scandinavian. Jan-Willem _____________________________________________________ Gratis e-mail...
1859 hanskamp2001 Send Email Jul 23, 2002
11:42 am
... considering ... comes ... the ... to ... In Dutch there is a confusion: What hit the car? = Wat raakte de auto? "Wat" is subject, "de auto" is object. What...
1860 Hans Kamp
hanskamp2001 Send Email
Jul 23, 2002
11:49 am
... Van: Jan-Willem Benjamins [mailto:benjaminsjw@...] Verzonden: dinsdag 23 juli 2002 13:37 Aan: folkspraak@yahoogroups.com Onderwerp: RE: [folkspraak]...
1861 hanskamp2001 Send Email Jul 23, 2002
12:24 pm
... Under the following Folkspraak sentences I will add pronunciation in SAMPA. ... one ... and ... /"fOlkspra:ks "alfabEt b@"stant "a:vo: d@ "fOlg@nt...
1862 hanskamp2001 Send Email Jul 23, 2002
12:54 pm
... your ... I assume that "hi" and "shi" are sufficient, when "ie" and a long "i" have the same value: /i/. "Hi" would be pronounced as /hi/ and "shi" as...
1863 hanskamp2001 Send Email Jul 23, 2002
1:44 pm
... his ... I have made a few translation from English to Dutch in that database. Hans Kamp....
1864 wordwulf Send Email Jul 23, 2002
5:47 pm
... Nah, there's also Swedish vid, as in "Jag bodde vid min farmor", (I lived at my grandmother&#39;s house.), but the Germans use bei. In addition, I prefer to...
1865 wordwulf Send Email Jul 23, 2002
6:14 pm
... sillable; ... Hi, I would propose: 1. adding y as a 6th vowel to give us more range (1 umlauted vowel) 2. making the rule for long/short be that a stressed...
1866 wordwulf Send Email Jul 23, 2002
6:30 pm
... I agree that we should use hi and shi instead of hie and shie. In fact, I am thinking that the majority of Germanic languages don't use sk, but use sh or...
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