MrMarcus said:
LOL, he is probably referring to England, but it is CCR, so he could be referring to Turkey just as easily.
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LOL, he is probably referring to England, but it is CCR, so he could be referring to Turkey just as easily.
Notice the WASPY. Meaning White Anglo-Saxon Protestant-y. Ie. he's talking about England (or Great Britain, or possibly the British Island, depending on your point of view).
PS: No offense is a stupid sentence, CCR, don't use it. No offense means that you know you're offending someone, but are too lazy not to.
Bwaha. I love the "Ye Olde English" stuff. It sounds a lot like the Scandinavian languages.
PS: No offense is a stupid sentence, CCR, don't use it. No offense means that you know you're offending someone, but are too lazy not to.
John Uskglass
Venerable Relic of the Wastes
DJ Slamák said:.
Is that for sure? It's not like I actually know anything about Bulgarian (and since we're in the business of splicing/merging languages, Macedonian is little more than a dialect of Bulgarian), but from what I've seen it actually seemed very analytic. I.e. fixed word order, no inflection (extensive use of prepositions instead), and what have you. Should have mentioned that before, too.
Yep. Bulgar means "Mixed" in proto-Turkick (meaning they where probably mixed Mongol, Turk and Urlaic), and the origional Bulgarians where related to the Volga Bulgars.
Turkish was-however-also influential in the development of Modern Bulgarian. Turks are 9% of the Bulgarian population, and was signifigantly more until recently.
Czech ain't exactly the purest language of them all, being a quasi-independant part of the German Empire for so many years, not to mention being part of Austria, was fairly important.
England. Almost all of my ancestors where over there at the time.
It's closest related to Icelandic, so, yeah. I personally think it is kind of cool, English is kind of relitively gay.
It also mean's I can't get banned for it!
Come on Sander, you have to admit that Dutch is not the most attractive of languages. I admitted as much about English.
ConstinpatedCraprunner said:
No language is without foreign influence (except one of a perfectly isolated community, if such a thing has ever truly existed). And I wasn't trying to take a shot at the English language or those who speak it, I was just replying to this.
ConstinpatedCraprunner said:
Oh, but I would like to nudge you for a bit, here:
Surely you realise that this sort of thing is entirely subjective, so he doesn't have to admit a damn thing?ConstinpatedCraprunner said:
Ratty said:
I kind of said my opinion on this in an earlier post:
http://www.nma-fallout.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5367&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=21
In terms of the alphabet and writing/spelling, it just doesn't get any better than Serbian. 100% phonetic. Every letter is just one sound.
CCR said:
Very true. It's ok, but i have to admit i'm kind of getting tired of them. I still haven't met a true "Belgradian" (as myself) around here.
John Uskglass
Venerable Relic of the Wastes
Really?
That's kind of odd. I know maybe one or two people from Serbia, and a few Bosnians.
Are most of the Bosnians you know Muslims? The only ones I know converted because in Hyde Park, Islam=Nation of Islam, and they don't take kindly to blue eyed Muslims.
Meh, I don't care about that. Although it'll probably depend a lot on who's talkign, there's a huge difference between someone from Amsterdam and someone from Limburg, for instance. Personally, I don't like the sound of Amsterdams. Plus, I have heard Dutch for my entire life, so I don't think it sounds crap.
And I have a problem with the sentence "No offense", it's silly. I don't give a shit that you think Dutch sounds like crap.
ConstinpatedCraprunner said:
Wanna bet?
ConstinpatedCraprunner said:
Dutch is an enormously unattractive, crude, rasping, annoying, innefficient language. I can't understand people crying about it fading into English, even Language Purists.
The small vocabulary also makes it a terrible literary language, much like German. English or French, biatch.
Again, this depends on who you listen to. Try listening to someone from Limburg and you'll notice that it doesn't need to sound like that.
And it isn't annoying that it's fading into English, it's the way in which that is happening. (eg. LOL!).
I disagree, methinks the vocabulary is quite large. However, people only use very few of those words, making it seem like it has a small vocabulary. English has more words that are more frequently used.
Ugh. Not French. You can't cuss properly in it. Which means it sucks. There's no power behind any cusses there.
Plus, almost all French are arrogant annoying fucks.
John Uskglass
Venerable Relic of the Wastes
That was sarcasm. 'Duh.
English? Small vocabulary?
It's not Greek, but the unique combination of Romantic and Germanic elements are fairly unique.
No, he said that German and Dutch had a small vocabulary. Then the next sentence was that French and English were good.