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@scribus I didn't even think of that! (maybe some part of me still believes the old claptrap of Japanese being Altaic)
Monday, 17-Mar-14 23:06:45 UTC from web-
@awl And then of course there's the Mexican-American foo' as in, "Whachu lookin' at, foo'?" :p
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Monday, 17-Mar-14 23:24:10 UTC from web
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@scribus they do put the ? After the ka
Monday, 17-Mar-14 23:23:48 UTC from web-
@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian It's used in the sense of making a statement into a question, yes? I ask because of lack of knowledge in Japanese.
Monday, 17-Mar-14 23:25:06 UTC from web-
@awl ya. You add it at the end, usually to verbs. Makes it a question. Like it I wanted to say "I watch this" you'd say これは見る (kore wa miru) miru beingthe verb watch. If you want to say "should I watch this" you say これは見るか？ (kore wa miru ka?).
Monday, 17-Mar-14 23:42:24 UTC from web-
@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian Sounds like the Turkish "mi", acts the same way.
Monday, 17-Mar-14 23:48:50 UTC from web-
@awl in fact it has more uses. Like if someone said でも (demo) sort of like a 'but' thing you could reply でもか (demo ka) which would be like "but what?"
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 00:02:37 UTC from web-
@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian I inherently like languages that have interrogative pronouns/participles.
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 00:09:22 UTC from web-
@awl i just like languages in general
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 00:21:01 UTC from web-
@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian Fandoms like this will come and go, but the spoken and written word will always fascinate me.
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 00:31:39 UTC from web-
@awl at my highwater mark i spoke 6 languages enough to get by and understand.
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 00:58:29 UTC from web-
@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian wow, i', still strugling to learn my 3rd one
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 01:01:18 UTC from web-
@mushi not easy my friend
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 01:11:00 UTC from web-
@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian i was going to get polish this semester. but when i find out i coul do that a little too late
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 01:11:52 UTC from web-
@mushi polish in a word -tak
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Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:25:26 UTC from web
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@awl oooh, i dont even knwo anything about polish, i only know they have a cool alphabet and that there are tons of science content in it
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:26:15 UTC from web-
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:27:38 UTC from web
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@awl i've heard a little (EgQ linked some polish pony songs), it sorta sounds like a slashed french or something
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:28:53 UTC from web-
@mushi They do have more of a west european twang than say, Russian does. Part of the divide that they had from other Slavic tribes was Catholicism versus Orthodoxy.
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:33:17 UTC from web-
@awl .-.
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Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:40:45 UTC from web
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@awl you use terms that i've not been introduced to
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:42:47 UTC from web-
@mushi Oh, it was pertaining to how being at first a Catholic kingdom influenced the Polish language, in a nutshell.
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:46:38 UTC from web-
@awl they have influence even on that?
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:47:39 UTC from web-
@mushi Back in the Middle Ages, definitely! So much in fact influences the changes in spoken and written language, but religion in Europe back then was really the biggest thing.
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:49:07 UTC from web-
@awl brazilian portugese is cool, it had influence of spanish, english, tupi guarani, japanese, dutch and some other stuff. yay for colonization
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@awl european portuguese sounds real ugly for me. Some games of the ps3 generation have portugal dubs, but i really preffer the english ones
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:53:08 UTC from web-
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@awl yeah, they probably think the same about us here
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:54:50 UTC from web
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@mushi it's like the whole language
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:31:53 UTC from web-
@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian sounds easy enough, then
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:34:46 UTC from web
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@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian I could count that much back when I left Russia. Although Russian, Abkhaz and English I had basically grown up with.
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 01:04:37 UTC from web-
@awl i spoke Russian and Italian theough heritage, Swedish through interest, Spanish through traditional school, English natively, and Japanese through living there.
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 01:10:45 UTC from web-
@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian I tried hand at swedish way back, learning about it proved more interesting. Italian was kind of a necessity, but Catalan was purely out of interest, much like my current studies of Turkish.
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 01:12:40 UTC from web-
@awl most of my stuff is out of interest.
Tuesday, 18-Mar-14 02:23:42 UTC from web
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@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian Yeah, that's why I was wondering if it would count.
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@scribus Technically in Turkish they do use question marks after "mi", but that's for uniformity.
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@scribus well I guess if you do it in traditional writing top to bottom right to left you don't use any punctuation. They only use punctuation in the westernized left right sentences.
Monday, 17-Mar-14 23:44:27 UTC from web
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