I'm trying to translate the expression "to stand in one's way". Although it's similar in many languages including Hindi and Russian (only, it's "to stand...
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cafaristeir
Feb 13, 2010 2:26 pm
Hao dey kare Dmitry ! I think the problem is that the speaker may not be aware he's using an idiotism. It's not as obvious when, for example, someone quotes a...
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sasxsek
Feb 14, 2010 5:00 am
... "to hinder"...
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Feb 15, 2010 10:56 am
... I basically agree with Olivier here. I don't think people will generally use a marker even if it exists, because in many cases they won't remember that...
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rkupsala
Feb 15, 2010 11:20 am
I agree with Olivier and Jens. It seems that people know intuitively that idioms don't translate word to word. Really! I'm not pulling your nose, as we say in...
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lingwadeplaneta
Feb 15, 2010 4:05 pm
... in R: like to piss over 2 fingers ... As I can see now myself, it's like to give to drink (=there's no doubt about that)....
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lingwadeplaneta
Feb 15, 2010 4:13 pm
has just been created by an Azerbaijani teacher N.Kebirov. The only info is here in Russian: ...
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Feb 16, 2010 3:10 am
... That is really interesting to hear. There seems almost no information. There is a tiny bit in English here: http://en.itv.az/news/1113.html The person's...
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rkupsala
Feb 16, 2010 7:47 am
... The name suggests some kind of Esperanto with world words, though both "vol" and "lanjo" are Western. Which Cyrillic letters are mixed in, besides...
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zeinelabidin
Feb 16, 2010 9:27 am
... Hi Dmitri. In the English article it says Vollanjo is derived from 6000 languages. Does that mean Vollanjo basiclly has a similar idea like Ardano ? This...
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lingwadeplaneta
Feb 16, 2010 2:46 pm
... It seems that he goes a bit different way. He starts not from Internet, looking for like-minded people who could participate like we do, but he starts from...
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lingwadeplaneta
Feb 16, 2010 3:01 pm
... Salam, Zein! I don't know, they write only that vollanco is more difficult than Eo but representatives of every people can find there words that they know....
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cafaristeir
Feb 17, 2010 12:34 pm
Sellamat quantims ! Ho tarjen id rusk texte in sambahsa: UN ASERBAYDJANI DASKAL HAT INVENTEN UN NOV PLANBAHSA Un docent-linguiste orbatend in Quba hat creen un...
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lingwadeplaneta
Feb 19, 2010 7:48 am
Just an observation. Translating Mowgli, I've noticed that Kipling often gives to his characters meaningful names - meaningful in hindi. Thus, the bear is...
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cafaristeir
Feb 19, 2010 10:09 am
Hao dey kare Dmitry ! Even in French we have the expression "passer à tabac quelqu'un" or "tabasser quelqu'un" = "to batter (repeatedly and violently)...
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rkupsala
Feb 19, 2010 2:00 pm
I found Jungle Book Wiki, which quote's Mowgli's Brothers: "It was the jackal--Tabaqui, the Dish-licker--and the wolves of India despise Tabaqui because he...
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lingwadeplaneta
Feb 19, 2010 2:59 pm
... I've translated it recently like this: Es shakal, Dish-liser Tabaki. Wulfas de Bharat bishi Tabaki bikos ta lopi kadalok al zwo nuksan, fai gosip, chi...
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zain hassie
zeinelabidin
Feb 19, 2010 7:29 pm
Tabaq is an arabic word that means " a dish " (present also in Urdu and Turkish)Tabahi , in Arabic means " showing up " ... Da: risto@......
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zain hassie
zeinelabidin
Feb 19, 2010 7:32 pm
Mowgli !Are you talking about Cartoons ?!I didn't know that our Cartoons are the same. ... Da: lingwadeplaneta <lingwadeplaneta@...> Oggetto:...
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lingwadeplaneta
Feb 19, 2010 8:12 pm
I am surprised how many languages present this animal as a kind of spiky swine. In fact it's a rodent which isn't like a swine at all. I'm going to pick smth...
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lingwadeplaneta
Feb 19, 2010 8:21 pm
... Nowadays the bulk of cartoons and films are made in one place. But I meant first of all "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling: ...
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Jens Wilkinson
jowilkinson4
Feb 20, 2010 9:38 am
... I suppose it's strange logically, but if people around the world call it a "pig with spines," then using the compound isn't bad because people will...
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lingwadeplaneta
Feb 20, 2010 10:50 am
... Yes, those in whose languages it is so. But I, for one, would rather imagine a pig with spines. I think I'll take "nungu" from Swahili. Recently I've found...
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lingwadeplaneta
Mar 13, 2010 11:41 am
One of the ways to import more words from Chinese can be using the forms from Cantonese or other Sinitic languages. For Cantonese I usually use this: ...
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<deinx nxtxr>
sasxsek
Mar 13, 2010 2:48 pm
... I haven't done much conlanging recently but this was always my favorite Chinese resource. http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict_u8.html There was another...
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cafaristeir
Mar 14, 2010 8:07 am
Hao dey kare Dmitry ! Here you can get pronounciation of the isolated Hanzi: http://www.chine-nouvelle.com/outils/dictionnaire.html Olivier ...
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lingwadeplaneta
Mar 14, 2010 11:10 am
... A good one indeed, it gives Mandarin and Cantonese a once. ... That's what I'm looking for. So far I've found Quanzhou: ...
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Risto Kupsala
rkupsala
Mar 14, 2010 7:33 pm
... There are many good Cantonese dictionaries. It is difficult to find resources for the other languages, though I am sure that mastery of written Chinese...
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lingwadeplaneta
Mar 17, 2010 8:19 am
... So, what about an article? Worldlangism as a phenomenon is noteworthy. I am remembering it because they want to delete LdP article from Esperanto...
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cafaristeir
Mar 18, 2010 3:15 pm
Sellamat quantims ! Effectively, an article on worldlangs in general might have more chances of survival than an isolated one. Attilio's tumult may be only an...
