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Sorry I do this all in one post.I'm mostly sound asleep when you do the talking.> Maven, ah, reseda lutea, growing in urban peripherial places and alongside railroad tracks. >The Pook: Wow! who'd have thought the Scheveningse Old Dutch paint would make it all the way to Tasmania! It is super quality. I have some too. (I hope you will add a homepage or site to your profile.What and how would Tasmanians paint?). > Latishiya: , the Danish video. We once did a ten days ' biketrip in Denmark with only a little pocket Polyglot. We had great fun with that. Though many words seemed related to ours, we were always fooled. we were great with the litte sentence : "jay ikke verstor". (I do not understand) " jay" , we thought, meant "you", but no, it means "I". "ikke" we thougth meant "I", but no, it means "no". Verstor is similar to our word for understand, but the point was always: who was to understand who? At midday we once took a beer ( øl ) at a wayside Frankfurter (pølser) - stand. >> lunch. The word øl looks lik oil and we thougth it might add some fuel to the muscles.We hat to crawl our way up that hill. > zjmejhzd, I hate to appear ignorant, but at last I'll ask : what do those little cubicles mean? I tried to look it up but Google takes no ɛ for a question.
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what do those little cubicles mean?It's the IPA ( link) transcription of the pronunciation of the Danish shibboleth.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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It also makes me think of this gem from youtube.
Sad, but true. That is the funniest thing I've heard in weeks. I worked with a Norwegian for a while, and he would start to rant about Danish at the drop of a hat. Mind you, there are two official, competing versions of Norwegian, and kids have to make a decision sometime early in their schooling which one to go with: Bokmål 'Book Language' (aka Dano-Norwegian) and Nynorsk 'New Norse'.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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>It's the IPA (link) transcription of the pronunciation of the Danish shibboleth
Aieaye! When I see that page I know I am and will stay ignorant.
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Aieaye!
It's just like painting with sounds, Bran. Every profession has its terminology.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Jackie, it's really a good question. I had often entertained it whilst writing "The World, as Told to the Young Man" a work of some 77,000 words entirely of one syllable except for the footnotes
Webster's Collegiate is somewhat equivocal. Presumably the hyphen preceding the schwa signifies a syllable. Weald doesn't have it while world does though for the life of me both sound the same
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>a work of some 77,000 words entirely of one syllable
good gosh! that sounds like some thing for (or by) an eight year old.
-joe (it's not so hard) f.
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For yes but by, I'm not so sure. Have you tried it, might be harder than you suppose
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It also makes me think of this gem from youtube.
Sad, but true. That is the funniest thing I've heard in weeks. I worked with a Norwegian for a while, and he would start to rant about Danish at the drop of a hat. Mind you, there are two official, competing versions of Norwegian, and kids have to make a decision sometime early in their schooling which one to go with: Bokmål 'Book Language' (aka Dano-Norwegian) and Nynorsk 'New Norse'. The follow-up youtube video has the two Danes briefly talking about Nynorsk.
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Can you say bean in one? Yep--silent a. Or wealth? Yep--silent a. Or wield? Nope How about wheeled?
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