Hi, I joined Sf years ago just to have some idle talk about science. Now I'm returning for some investigation for my latest university dissertation....
You mean.... you hear it from americans or from foreigners? The first case would be quite shameful!:)
Finnish is pretty weird and keen on word assembling. This is quite long: epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkäänköhän = doubting: not even...
Come on, disease and diets are bad, but they are not violence. From Oxford Dictionary: Violence - noun. behaviour involving physical force...
I totally agree. Of course language evolves, but not necessarily by teenagers' misspelling. Unfortunately I can't give you data; I haven't...
I don't know if that sounds hilarious to you, but Berlusconi said a few days ago: "I am worried but optimist", (of course in Italian because doesn't...
Can I guess that you are finnish? ;)
Thanks for the wonderful explanation! Actually, I know there are several differences on the [ç] phoneme (while the [X] is usually only misunderstood...
excellent reasoning. You are right.
My teacher is Austrian and pronounces all (or most?) of the -ig endings as... [ig]. Just as is it written. Is she a fake mother tongue :confused: or...
Lots of multilinguists here! And many 4+ even! I am mother tongue italian, fluent in english - oh, surprise surprise - and good in french. I am...
This is actually pretty wrong. Not everybody of course speaks in the same way, but what I understood with my studies is that an Anglo-Saxon retainer...
It actually came south-west from what could be today's russia, and then north to Scandinavia. BTW, Eragon old language is pretty much a mixture of...
Did the dream itself actually happen?:bugeye: Wouldn't some other emperor find christianity convient, sooner or later?
I am heathen
Roman society is quite a bad example, especially in big cities. Roman world was much of a mixture of everything, of capitalism ante-litteram, most...
Muslims don't hate the west. Muslims ate the west. Ok this joke sucks. Now, seriously: The muslim countries that hate the west (for example Turkey...
I am quite passionate about languages and I'm currently studying several of them, both for university and for fun. But while now I focus on modern...
I must say this is my first post and this thread convinced me to actually join the forum. Loki has been paired to Heimdall sometimes (they kill...
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