Hey, my old poll is closed... I think the closing date was somewhat chosen at random, 1st Jan 2005 just had a nice ring to it... =S ... grammar, making it more...
Could it be that you have no German native speaker? Maybe I could help you a bit. Pitily, I don't have much time because it's my final year at school but I...
Willkommen Anthony! No, there don't seem to be any German-speakers participating at the moment. So your input would be very helpful. My own German is very ...
This is all I've achieved over my holiday break. I hope you find some useful additions to your dictionaries somewhere amongst these words. Apologies if some of...
... This one has been borrowed unchanged from the Latin. What's wrong with "hall" and its cognates? English: Hall Dutch: Hal German: Halle Swedish: Hall OE:...
... some ... words. ... Yiddish, ... There's nothing at all wrong with "hall", it's just a word that didn't happen to be on that list. I don't think there's...
... Correct, which I why I didn't raise it. There is a perfectly good thoroughbred Germanic word for the concept(s). ... I tend to disagree. Originally,...
... some ... can ... are ... section ... the ... separate. ... This looks rather OK, altohough I disagree about certain words, and general ortography... Could...
OK here are some of the words that I think some people will dispute about their presence in the lexicon of FS. ... Cognates are present in only two of germanic...
... and ... OK, As a synonym to Folk? Synonyms are good, but now there already is a general word. ... Swedish has "kyrass", I see, but I don't think that it's...
... seems appropriate. Yes, I've heard of "seadog" but never referring to a furry sea-mammal of the family Pinnipedia. It seems to refer to a sailor who spends...
... is ... By the criteria of your Dumsprák, it would be in the lexicon, since you seem to allow word that have cognate roots in only two of the source...
LOL. Yeah, I've of course heard that usage too ...and it's more common as it's part fo the whole 'ahar me harties' semi-pirate stuff! :-) It is used (by...
... Hm. Having /T/ seems bloody stupid as no-one can say it apart from Englanders and Icelanders and even some fairly prominent varieties of English don't have...
Ayyy Matey! I know... I know... I'm going waaaay off-topic... You just reminded me of the hilarious concept of "Talk Like a Pirate Day" :o) Look at this site...
... Englanders and Icelanders and even some fairly prominent varieties of English don't have it! ... I have the Thorn letter/ /T/ sound at the beginning of...
... (German ... already ... Yeah, it fits the criteria. It might be homonymous with Lied(Líed) though, (song, tune)... Could be a rarer synonym... ... and ......
... Englanders and Icelanders and even some fairly prominent varieties of English don't have it! If you don't use /T/ or /D/ to represent sounds that have...
... (German ... compound ... sæl/ ... German ... could ... I was unsure about what to do with a word for "sail". Etymologically speaking I would prefer to...
... and ... might ... Etymologically ... other ... Scandy ... diphthong eg ... be "sejl" ... once ... is ... In swedish, it is "segel". I think the norwegian...
... the ... from ... of ... out ... happened ... I think english /T/ corresponds quite regularly to scand /t/. When it differs, I believe it's generally due to...
... "segel". ... comes ... How is "segel" pronounced in Swedish. /se;j@l/? Is the "g" pronounced as in the "g" in "Sverige"? Or is that one of those questions...
I have some TrueType fonts that convert SAMPA to IPA. Basically if you type stuff in SAMPA notation, it displays the proper IPA symbols if you are using this...
... the ... that ... there. ... which ... sway ... In general high language, it is pronounced as /se;gel/ or /se;g@l/, it might be pronounced as /se;j@l/ or...
... proper ... type "D", ... greek ... if ... It could be useful, one problem is that several X-SAMPA characters uses two ascii characters, but I don't think...
... Well I merge them both to 'd' or 't' depending on the same rules basically - 'tenk', 'ting', 'dem', 'dus' - and I'm really dead set against having [T] and...
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