... In my Ueberlist, I have both "rinne" and "renne". I forgot. But in English, its not "rin" for liquid. Maybe in the Old English period, there were two...
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Wolfram Antepohl
antepohl
Jan 24, 2006 10:24 pm
Well, seems I understand how making words for Folksprak work then. Found a lot of rinning blood on the net when googling though ... Bu it turned out to be...
9120
David Parke
parked71
Jan 25, 2006 6:56 am
... I think I whole heartedly agree with you here. I would like FS to have a nice wide vocabulary, even at the expense of some universal understandibility (yes...
9121
stefichjo
Jan 25, 2006 10:58 am
... Hi Moritz, so you're from Austria? It's good to have so many to have Germanic language speakers of so many different regions. Of course one can imagine...
9122
Roly Sookias
xipirho
Jan 25, 2006 8:20 pm
Hello! I just started a German evening class yesterday and the teacher's Austrian, and they're German seemed really quite odd! :-) I was fairly amazed to hear...
9123
Roly Sookias
xipirho
Jan 25, 2006 8:21 pm
I have to say I'm beginning to think REGULAR differences between the dialects don't matter. Of course we can have a standard voted on, but if it's only whether...
9124
David Parke
parked71
Jan 25, 2006 8:29 pm
I learnt german from an Austria tutor too. I think she was quite careful (mostly) to teach us "Bühnendeutsch". But I did notice a few Austrianisms creeping...
9125
Roly Sookias
xipirho
Jan 25, 2006 8:36 pm
*their, even! ... From: folkspraak@yahoogroups.com [mailto:folkspraak@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Roly Sookias Sent: 25 January 2006 20:10 To:...
9126
Roly Sookias
xipirho
Jan 25, 2006 9:10 pm
Right! Yeah, she says initial [s] too, like your tutor! How did your Dutch tutor say things? :-) ... From: folkspraak@yahoogroups.com...
9127
David Parke
parked71
Jan 25, 2006 9:30 pm
I don't really remember, to tell you the truth. But it being at a university, I think the tutors were meant to be teaching a version of German as close to...
9128
Roly Sookias
xipirho
Jan 26, 2006 12:17 am
LOL. OK! I guess I shouldn't have that trouble too much (I'll just sound Italian or something instead! ;-)), although the [y]/[y:] for [u]/[u:] prono's...
9129
David Parke
parked71
Jan 26, 2006 7:55 am
... The difference between "t" and "d" in English is not just a matter of voiced versus unvoiced. English speakers aspirate their voiceless stops. Same goes...
9130
Roly Sookias
xipirho
Jan 26, 2006 9:06 am
Yeah I wondered about aspiration too. Not sure. In Spanish and French I don't get /d/ and /t/ mixed up though, so I obviously CAN hear [t] (as opposed to...
9131
David Parke
parked71
Jan 26, 2006 7:57 pm
Well for all it's problems, SmartGroups still seems to offer a solution to our voting needs. Also the Database feature seems to be a lot more powerful than...
9132
stefichjo
Jan 26, 2006 8:37 pm
Hello, I'm remaking my FS grammar as a Wikibook. It is at a hidden (but not secret) place, unlinked and all (not at TidingKonien, since I have difficulties...
9133
stefichjo
Jan 26, 2006 8:42 pm
I agree! Regards, Stephan Schneider ... of 10 ... test to ... can give ... adding up...
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Roly Sookias
xipirho
Jan 26, 2006 10:18 pm
Me too! ...wow, that's pretty unusual! ;-) ... From: folkspraak@yahoogroups.com [mailto:folkspraak@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of stefichjo Sent: 26 January...
9135
David Parke
parked71
Jan 27, 2006 5:27 am
After checking the help about the smartgroups databases, it seems you can only have 1000 records in a database. I had initially thought that the smartgroup...
9136
Roly Sookias
xipirho
Jan 27, 2006 2:41 pm
OK. Can't you just use an excel file anyway? It might still be useful for voting tho methinks. ... From: folkspraak@yahoogroups.com...
9137
stefichjo
Jan 27, 2006 3:52 pm
I'd prefer Excel, too. Regards, Stephan Schneider ... useful for ... [mailto:folkspraak@yahoogroups.com] On ... you ... that ... over ... ...
9138
stefichjo
Jan 27, 2006 3:59 pm
Another voiced "th": though One can assume that "though" is related with the demonstrative pronouns. "gh" is added like in "enough". Quite rare piece of ...
9139
David Parke
parked71
Jan 27, 2006 11:02 pm
I have my Ueberlist as an Excel file. That's what it is saved as on my own computer. The best use for the public database, is that other members can add words...
9140
Stephan Schneider
stefichjo
Jan 29, 2006 12:52 am
Hello, Just wanted to state what's my result for the f*r problem, i.e. what meanings should be associated with the stem f*r according to the stem vowel. I...
9141
David Parke
parked71
Jan 29, 2006 1:46 am
... Looks fine to me ... I would make this "fâr", or "gefâr" since I use "â" to represent PG *æ:. I pronounced "â" as [{:] in my "western" style of...
9142
folkspraak@yahoogroup...
Jan 29, 2006 5:04 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the folkspraak group. File :...
9143
Stephan Schneider
stefichjo
Jan 30, 2006 12:01 am
I'm checking the etymology of some l*v and l*b words, again. I cannot check "to leave" and "to believe", since they don't seem to have cognates in German, do...
9144
David Parke
parked71
Jan 30, 2006 12:31 am
EN leave (verb) f OE læfan f PG *laibhijan causative of PG *lîbhan. DE bleiben f. OHG bilîban f PG *bi-. + *lîbhan. So perversely the English and German...
9146
stefichjo
Jan 30, 2006 2:52 pm
... *æ:. ... Hm. It could be a meta-æ, then ("âe"), yielding [{:]. Unfortunately æ, ø and y cannot take circumflexes. :( ... pronouned ... Yes. I use...
9147
stefichjo
Jan 30, 2006 6:22 pm
Thank you very much for this, too, Dave. ... *lîbhan. DE ... English ... source. This is weird! Those proto-germanic intensive nad causative forms are ...
9148
stefichjo
Jan 30, 2006 6:27 pm
Just wanted to state, that DE "Lob" and "loben" (to praise) are not represented in Folksprak, then, unless, it is cognate with "Laub", which is taken into...
