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Monday, 17-Mar-14 22:40:26 UTC from web
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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)
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@awl And then of course there's the Mexican-American foo' as in, "Whachu lookin' at, foo'?" :p
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@scribus they do put the ? After the ka
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@scribus Such an ancient thing in language now making a comeback. Hooray for illiteracy.
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@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian It's used in the sense of making a statement into a question, yes? I ask because of lack of knowledge in Japanese.
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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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@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?).
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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.
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@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian Sounds like the Turkish "mi", acts the same way.
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@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?"
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@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian I inherently like languages that have interrogative pronouns/participles.
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@awl i just like languages in general
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@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian Fandoms like this will come and go, but the spoken and written word will always fascinate me.
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@awl at my highwater mark i spoke 6 languages enough to get by and understand.
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@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian wow, i', still strugling to learn my 3rd one
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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.
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@awl i spoke Russian and Italian theough heritage, Swedish through interest, Spanish through traditional school, English natively, and Japanese through living there.
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@mushi not easy my friend
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@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian i was going to get polish this semester. but when i find out i coul do that a little too late
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@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.
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@awl most of my stuff is out of interest.
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@mushi polish in a word -tak
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@mushi Means "yes"
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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
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@mushi It's the same word in old Slavonic. Polish is pretty cool.
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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
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@mushi it's like the whole language
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@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.
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@mylittlesistercantbethislesbian sounds easy enough, then
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@awl .-.
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@mushi Don't worry I'll keep a lid on it.
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@awl you use terms that i've not been introduced to
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@mushi Oh, it was pertaining to how being at first a Catholic kingdom influenced the Polish language, in a nutshell.
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@awl they have influence even on that?
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@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.
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@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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@mushi Between Brazilian and European Portuguese I'd study the latter for sure.
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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
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@mushi (I think the same for European Spanish [Castillian] versus any American Spanish).
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@awl yeah, they probably think the same about us here
