ja. ik vit - ik vár mákend klár vat dín punkt vár. als for 'just', hu bi (ja, dat bi rekt, ik nu brúk de 'b-' vurtel for 'to be'! ...ik denk et bi hélig...
heheh. i'll type in english, as i didn't express myself very clearly in FS - by 'meaning' i mean that the word isn't built from basic FS words, and thus adds...
... hm. but it appears for two people in the german present tense (and i think dutch), whereas verbs which resemble (to the untrained eye) 'is' occur for only...
Hmmm, German. I think "gerade" and "eben" are common words. "Gerade" means basically "straight", and "eben" "even "... No, I don't think it is a straight...
... for 'just', ... be'! ...ik ... in ... vuld ... prepositión. ... i ... eye) 'is' ... anyway - ... is ... i ... for 'bí' ... with 'is' ... No, dialects...
... OK. I don't mind 'is', but by 'widespread' do you mean appears in Scandinavian AND West Germanic?...coz the b- root certainly appears in West Germanic....
Hm, OK. Where's the 'rade' bit of 'gerade' from BTW? Oh, and 'even' doesn't mean 'just' does it? Anyway, if lots of people use 'just' that's fine. Thanks lots....
... spráket ... denk 'alén' ... sprák. ... (and ... least 'be' ... not ... used ... Scandinavian AND West Germanic?...coz the b- root certainly appears in...
Hmmm, it seems to come from the same word as "rather", Old german "rado", Proto-germanic "hra`ta-" or "hra`da" from an old word meaning "quick" or "fast"... ...
OK, here is some info about "rath" from www.dictionary.com : rath \Rath\, Rathe \Rathe\, a. [AS. hr[ae][eth], hr[ae]d, quick, akin to OHG. hrad, Icel....
God dag, Ik forsok en FS vord fur de engelsk "fire" finde. Ik alreds bruk de follgend:- fir = englesk four fur = engelsk for for = engelsk fore/before Ik...
I was at a music festival in the north of Sweden recently, and I saw a T-shirt proclaiming somthing like "Atoom kreeft, ne tanke" (Nuclear power,no thanks) not...
... saw ... (Nuclear ... like ... It is standard Frisian, my dictionary gives "kręft" for power, I believe "ę" is just another way of writing "ee". "Atoom"...
hm. intriguing about the T-shirt. anyway, glad you're back as I have a question for you ("oh no" he sighs!)! - would it be OK to say [C] in dumsprák as [x]?...
... Allright, interesting... I don't know much about frisian... I just thought the "tanke" looked suspicious... BTW, I grew up in the 80's, I remember that...
... <hakans@w...> ... I ... like ... Hmm! not quite sure what you mean by sorting under? It should stand alone I think, I personally wouldn't lump Nor/Swe/Dan...
... So do 'dag' and 'weg' have short vowels in Dutch? That's interesting. Oh, and the Frisian looks exactly like several reformed versions of english spelling,...
... and ... much ... makes ... I ... does ... language, ... are ... migrations ... degree ... Uhh "sorting under", maybe that's a svecianism/swedicism(?). My...
Cool. Very interesting - I didn't know another such language had been made. The pronounciation seems ridiculously complicated for an international language...
E sca scribe ta u po neu sprak. U fersuca o forstoa ca e scribe. ... Fra: Jan-Willem Benjamins [mailto:benjaminsjw@...] Sendt: 25. august 2004 13:00 Til:...
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