For folkspraak to archieve its target to be easy to use, understand and learn, it's important to have a consistant and easy syntax and pronunciation. I believe...
... "greenhouse" and "glasshouse" are both used, but in the proverb "glasshouse" is used. ... Johnny ... I think it means, you can get someone to do something,...
... and ... like ... etc.). ... before ... versions ... before ... Hmmm, to some extent I agree with you. However I think the grammar you quote should only be...
Re: "Also I think one problem we have is the fluidity of our membership, for a few months someone posts regularly and their ideas are taken on board, then they...
Just in case someone wanted to read this, info about the possessive pronouns in swedish: (I think danish and norwegian is, by large, very similar.) ...
... I have to confess I'm a newbie here. Is there some WWW page describing the Poll results / decisions? It would be nice to update the "core" documentation to...
Hallo, Folkspraakeren! Evert, much of the information you and others are looking for is handy if you are on any of the www.groups.yahoo.com/group/folkspraak ...
... result of polls. ... describing the Poll results / decisions? It would be nice to update the "core" documentation to reflect the poll outcomes. ... ...
... vocabulary ... Germanic ... I don't know if diacritics (áéíóúý) are that difficult, they could cause some technical troubles with different computers...
I have been giving some thought to the relative pronouns, which in English are "that, who, which". Swedish and Norwegian generally use "som" (please correct me...
... am ... (again ... article, ... Its ... to ... reading" ... add ... the ... favourite ... whose ... mother ... Uhmmm, I think I would generally choose...
I was checking out the verb conjugations for "to be" at g. langs at www.verbix.com, but I couldn't find Yiddish and Old High German, want to check them out... ...
... in ... case. ... you ... I did read that in spoken Swedish and Norwegian the relative pronoun can be left out the same is true in spoken English (I don't...
... I don't know to much about Yiddish and sadly the information I do have is incomplete, but here is some of what I have found out, it may not be entirely...
... such ... whose ... think) Or possibly "who" in an old nominative tense, akin to german wer, with a -s genitive, I'm not sure... ... you ... pronoun ... ...
... at ... may ... Yep, I checked it out in an old book (1979) in the library.. I will post that info later... See if it differs some.. "gewen" is akin to...
... <hakans@w...> ... langs ... German, ... too ... do ... it ... with "gey,geyst,geyt,geyen", ... Allright, according to S.A. Birnbaum: Yiddish, A Survey and...
Ok, I guess this has been discussed earlier... What do you think of passive verbs (or whatever it's being called) As in: the distinction between "I have thrown...
... You are right it has been discussed previously, see posts 1980-1991. I personally favour a passive/causative construction, although by the current poll...
... called) ... english ... enough ... could ... puts ... 1991. ... the ... Yup, Sik (reflexive). It could be interesting to add that in a few cases in...
... God dag, De tiden av de verben in Aldgermansk var de nutid ond de forntid. Dat var all. De framtid var subjunktiv (kann, vill, skull, mag, etc.) or it var...
It was something like that I had in mind "is *ed" = "is *en", "have *ed" = "háb *et" . Swedish has got a similar distinction. Common verbs "a"r *ad" / "har...
Uhmm, I guess I meant "motion verbs", and not "movement verbs", though I am unsure of the exact word in english.. (Like in german: Ich bin gegangen, ich bin...
God dag, As I am talking about distinctions between grammatical topics that it would be hard to do in Folksprak, I'm going to stick to English this time: In...
... I think you ought to check out me folkspraak korpus where I have gathered allmost every folkspraak text ever written, that is a good source also check out...
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Which software is used to read this file properly? ... dialects ... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/folkspraak/files/vordenbuken/Vordenbuk% 20040518.csv...
... FS ... if ... can't ... Try ... are ... basis ... like ... good ... group. ... Where can one find the corpus? Which texts have you choosen? Only longer...
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