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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #520 on: January 23, 2009, 02:06:53 PM »
Quote from: GawainBS on January 23, 2009, 11:05:34 AM
You do use casus then? It would be hell to understand for non-native speakers otherwise.
Casus? And it is hell.
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #521 on: January 23, 2009, 02:29:53 PM »
Casus, like in genitive, nominative, etc. "Case" is the correct English word, I believe.
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #522 on: January 23, 2009, 02:55:41 PM »
Ah, yes, we use that. Usually done with a simple 'n'. Miika --> Miikan. Gets more complicated if the word happens to end to a consonant, such as every single plural (all end in 't').
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #523 on: January 23, 2009, 07:49:28 PM »
Quote from: Tshern on January 23, 2009, 02:55:41 PM
Ah, yes, we use that. Usually done with a simple 'n'. Miika --> Miikan. Gets more complicated if the word happens to end to a consonant, such as every single plural (all end in 't').

You Finnish and your crazy consonants.
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« Reply #524 on: January 23, 2009, 08:12:24 PM »
Consonants I can do pretty easily.  It's just making a sound with your teeth, lips, and tongue.  Vowels you have to hold your mouth perfectly and make some sort of weird animal sound and hold it for the right amount of time and put the right inflection on it.  I generally skip vowels when I speak, much to the chagrin of anyone who doesn't know me well and can translate.  For example, at work when I ask someone if I can help them find something, it comes out "Cn I hlpu fnd smthng?"  Hate vowels, and when I'm emperor of the world they'll be abolished.  Finns and Hawaiians will have to just deal.
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #525 on: January 23, 2009, 09:07:16 PM »
We Portuguese speakers are also pretty much screwed then too.
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #526 on: January 24, 2009, 11:52:17 AM »
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #527 on: January 24, 2009, 12:29:52 PM »
What does an agnostic dyslexic insomniac do? Stays up all night wondering if there really is a dog.
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #528 on: January 24, 2009, 03:07:51 PM »
Quote from: Kuroimaken on January 23, 2009, 09:07:16 PM
We Portuguese speakers are also pretty much screwed then too.

Lousy Portuguese and their vowels, think they're so hot.
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #529 on: January 24, 2009, 03:14:58 PM »
Quote from: j0lt on January 24, 2009, 12:29:52 PM
What does an agnostic dyslexic insomniac do? Stays up all night wondering if there really is a dog.

 :D :D

This is brilliant!
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #530 on: January 24, 2009, 03:21:33 PM »
Quote from: j0lt on January 24, 2009, 12:29:52 PM
What does an agnostic dyslexic insomniac do? Stays up all night wondering if there really is a dog.

I LOL'ed
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #531 on: January 24, 2009, 03:24:09 PM »
Quote from: Irthos Levethix on January 24, 2009, 03:21:33 PM
Quote from: j0lt on January 24, 2009, 12:29:52 PM
What does an agnostic dyslexic insomniac do? Stays up all night wondering if there really is a dog.

I LOL'ed
Same here :D
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #532 on: January 24, 2009, 05:18:45 PM »
Quote from: CountArioch on January 24, 2009, 03:07:51 PM
Quote from: Kuroimaken on January 23, 2009, 09:07:16 PM
We Portuguese speakers are also pretty much screwed then too.

Lousy Portuguese and their vowels, think they're so hot.

We do have a crazy ass grammar though.
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #533 on: January 24, 2009, 05:27:25 PM »
From what I know/from I've heard we're somewhat different from other languages in terms of grammar as well, but our vowel-to-consonant ratio isn't bigger than 30-70/40-60 in extreme cases either...

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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #534 on: January 24, 2009, 05:33:27 PM »
I can tell that Finnish has the second most vowels per vocals, the aforementioned 100:109 ratio, only Portuguese beats us at that.
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #535 on: January 24, 2009, 06:18:22 PM »
Quote from: Tshern on January 24, 2009, 05:33:27 PM
I can tell that Finnish has the second most vowels per vocals, the aforementioned 100:109 ratio, only Portuguese beats us at that.

I don't actually have a source to confirm it, but I do believe it's been mentioned a few times that Portuguese is one of the most grammatically complex languages in the world.

We have prepositions for prepositions and verbs for verbs. We don't get as crazy as Japanese in terms of nouns (they have practically one to three terms for each and everything they deal with) but we do beat them in synonyms (and we also have exclusive words, such as saudade, which is literally the feeling of missing something, which is untranslatable in English and half a dozen other languages).
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #536 on: January 24, 2009, 06:21:23 PM »
I bet it is, I believe I've heard that too. From active languages, the most difficult is often said to be Chinese and Finnish standing 2nd or 3rd, depending on the source.

And exclusive words kick ass. I love to live in a country that has a unique language.
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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #537 on: January 24, 2009, 06:28:37 PM »
I've only learned a couple of words of Chinese (read: Mandarin) so far, and that's all to Firefly.

I don't think I could actually learn an entire language like that, especially at the moment...
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« Reply #538 on: January 24, 2009, 07:55:12 PM »
Quote from: BowenSilverclaw on January 24, 2009, 06:28:37 PM
I've only learned a couple of words of Chinese (read: Mandarin) so far, and that's all to Firefly.

I don't think I could actually learn an entire language like that, especially at the moment...

It's not really as hard as I might make it out to be. I have a very nice grasp of how it works, but then again I am considered to be somewhat skilled at learning languages (I learned English mostly by playing videogames). I'd be terrible at teaching it though, since my "knowledge" is more of a feel than anything.

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Re: Things that make you LOL
« Reply #539 on: January 24, 2009, 07:57:52 PM »
I learned english mostly by watching a lot of TV as a child...
Then again, english is fairly easy :)
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