Language Acquisition

[Lemonaide]

[jessicasimpson]

I think we need some abariginal clicks

[Zilverzmurfen]

I think we need some abariginal clicks

I think you're thinking of Xhosa, a language spoken (clicked? ) in South Africa.


(Not saying there isn't any 'click language' in Austrailia 'cause there very well might be, I've no idea...)

[Neinteen]

*click click click*

Hai ZZ.

[PeterGustafsson]

Hi!

I think you're thinking of Xhosa, a language spoken (clicked? ) in South Africa.


(Not saying there isn't any 'click language' in Australia 'cause there very well might be, I've no idea...)

Not to mention that ZZ, FraterFrag, and I can say vowels which almost none would be able to pronounce!


Have a nice time!

Peter Gustafsson

[mrbiggs]

Darlings! I have thought of something. Will the Real Men of Genius take a look at this and feedback?

Okay here it is: In America, we have 26 letters of the Alphabet which I think is very nice and we've done pretty well using it to write such tomes as War and Peace in inkpen well before the invention of the typewriter, so in order to bring about world peace through the blending of cultures, I propose that we include in our Alphabet sounds which we currently do not have. I'm thinking of borrowing from China and Russia - we need the tsu sound and the nya sound.

We can spell the tsu sound and the nya sound. They're spelled like this: "tsu", "nya".

If anything, it would make sense to switch to the Chinese system of writing. It's faster to read and is comprehensible no matter what your language is. The only downside is that it takes awhile to learn.

I think you're thinking of Xhosa, a language spoken (clicked? ) in South Africa.


(Not saying there isn't any 'click language' in Austrailia 'cause there very well might be, I've no idea...)

I think that those are the only remaining click languages, but I'm not sure.

The extremely interesting language book I got at a used book store the other week makes mention of a few African click languages, but no Aboriginal, so that doesn't really help either way.

[jeff]

We can spell the tsu sound and the nya sound. They're spelled like this: "tsu", "nya".

If anything, it would make sense to switch to the Chinese system of writing. It's faster to read and is comprehensible no matter what your language is. The only downside is that it takes awhile to learn.

Sure does talk a long time - you need to memorize several thousand characters to be literate! 3000+ to be adequate, 10,000 to be truly capable. Keyboarding on computers and typewriters is an arduous process. In China, you can see Chinese language written phonetically in "Roman characters" (that is, Western alphabet). Not for benefit of Westerners, but for the benefit of Chinese, for whom it is easier to become literate using Western characters than Chinese ones.

[mrbiggs]

Keyboarding on computers and typewriters is an arduous process. In China, you can see Chinese language written phonetically in "Roman characters" (that is, Western alphabet). Not for benefit of Westerners, but for the benefit of Chinese, for whom it is easier to become literate using Western characters than Chinese ones.

That's true. I forgot that you need to know how it's pronounced to type it using current software.

[jessicasimpson]

how about this? "Ftsu"
Get Ftsued
Ftsu off
i don't give a ftsu
there are many more examples

[Zilverzmurfen]

the ! sound is not in our language

Yes it is, it's pronounced like this:

[I_luv_saber]

OK, then involve these too: ö ü ó ő ú ű á é (sitting at a Hungarian keyboard with the owner of this login )

Nusy

[Zilverzmurfen]

OK, then involve these too: ö ü ó ő ú ű á é (sitting at a Hungarian keyboard with the owner of this login )

Nusy

You forgot Å and Ä.

[I_luv_saber]

I just took the Hungarian ones. And anyways, my poor little keyboard lacks Å... ä I have. As well as Ł and đ from Polish Ahh, and ß, but this is "ss"


Nusy

[sionnach]

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[Zilverzmurfen]

Hungarian language is too close to english...

It's another language 'branch' entirely.

[Zilverzmurfen]

I'm not sure, I thought English was Indo-European.

It is Indo-Europena (germanic branch).

Hungarian, on the other hand stems from the Finno-Ugric language branch.

[sionnach]

Hungarian language is too close to english

Hah, too close to english my foot. They're worlds apart. You try getting by in hungary with a mastery of the english language. Won't happen, I barely survived. Even playing it safe and requesting a hamburger from a restaurant with a menu sign clearly displaying the word "hamburger" will get you looks of complete bafflement from the waiting staff.

[BrianH]

...In America, we have 26 letters of the Alphabet which I think is very nice and we've done pretty well using it to write such tomes as War and Peace...

I don't recall that we in America wrote War and Peace. I believe Russia claims Leo Tolstoy as their own.

[Zilverzmurfen]

Even playing it safe and requesting a hamburger from a restaurant with a menu sign clearly displaying the word "hamburger" will get you looks of complete bafflement from the waiting staff.

Gnarled trotters, anyone..?

(Or something along those lines. Have you framed the Gödör menu, sionnach? )

[Phaeton]

Magyar and English are about as similar as oranges and iridium.

I remember spending a few hours with a Magyar->English, English<->Spanish, and a Magyar->Spanish dictionary trying to translate some book at a Hungarian friend of mine's house.

It didn't end well. I just ended up very, very confused.