Has anybody tried this software or bought it? Does it work? Is it worth the money they charge for it? I'm thinking of parting with my hard earned money but I...
... really have a proper definite BS - it's just some ideas really, not a definite version or anything (and the conventions I use I keep changing all the...
Mostly looks good. Maybe "fremdh" would be better to translate "odd" than "komisk". "Great" in EN cannot always (or even often) translate into DE groß or NL...
Here are a few words not in the "uber" lists that appear to have cognates. ACHSEL n. = armpit DE Achselhöhle, NL oksel, PG *ahsulaz AEL [ae = æ ligature] n....
Sorry I've never been able to understand they circumstances under which this phoneme split in EN/NL/DE. What you are describing is i-mutation. But what is the...
... after palatised consonants PG /k/ became OE /tS/ if followed by historical back vowels PG /sk/ became OE /S/ if followed by historical back vowels Usual...
Never noticed that. PG *skeutanan >> EN shoot, DE schießen PG *leugan >> EN lie, DE lügen (but ther is also "leugnen") So for "schießen" it seems to work,...
... Hi David, In Berlinish we say "Boom" instead of "Baum" and "Ooge" instead of "Auge" ("ooch", "loofen", "koofen"... ). So here the transformation is ...
Thank you David, So I did. When I use a romance word, it's often because I don't remember a germanic one. But I try to stick to germanic words - more ...
Hm. Any idea why there are the two verbs? One could add a preliminary exception "except before /g/, where /eu/ becomes /y:/" ...any exceptions there? ... From:...
Why /o/ in "wonder", when it has /U/ in HDE and /6/ in EN? ... From: folkspraak@yahoogroups.com [mailto:folkspraak@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of stefichjo ...
"lügen" is to lie, but "leugnen" is to lie saying that you didn't do something (but in fact you did!). There is also "biegen" and "beugen" in German! (and...
No, /6/ is how historical /U/ (short u) is said in most words in modern Southern English. E.g. "must" is /m6st/. /V/ is often used instead, but it's a bit...
As far as your choice of "Melkstraet": English is Milky Way. Dutch is Melk Weg. German is Milchstraße. Swedish is Vintergatan Dansk is Mælkevejen Norsk is...
The graeco-latin word "planet" is pretty much universal throughout European languages for this concept (even Icelandic!) . But if you really insist upon using...
GUMMI n. = rubber EN gum, NL gummi, DE Gummi, DA gummi, NO gummi, SV gummi, IL gumma, Slovio gum KAUCHUK n. = rubber [kaU"Su:k] EN caoutchouc, NL caoutchouc,...
Not really relevant, but I hadn't realised Danish and Norwegian spelt postvocalic PG /g/ it that way. Do they have "dei" or something for "day"? I think /ej/...
I think it's mainly after a front vowel where the "g" changes to a "j" or similar in both the spelling and in pronunciation. But there seem to be lots of...
Oki doki. Hm. Not so sure now! ...and very humungous LOL about "moderat"!!! ... From: folkspraak@yahoogroups.com [mailto:folkspraak@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf...
... modern ... but it's ... north of ... even ... Ukay. Thank you. -> wunderfull ... spelt ... for "day"? I ... Scandy and ... still ... In Danish it's...
By the way, EN "word" is DA "ord" and EN "year" is DA "år". So "y" and "w" again have a special role (i. e. they become elided at the beginning of a word in...
The original PG *w was like in English, a semi-vowel that was very similar to the "u" vowel. The original latin "v" was likewise, both a vowel and a consonant....
How should we do this in FS? Formal English uses "one", as in "One should not eat poison", when addressing everybody, but nobody in particular. Informal...
... nicht ... No it is not. The "man" root originally meant "human being" covering both sexes, and is connected to the same root as "mind", i.e. "a creature...
... I think Old English used "wer" for man a lot of the time. Preserved in "werewolf", "wergeld". Related by way of Proto-Indoeuropean to Latin "vir" as in...
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