The talk your own language thread

[Moros]

Ich weisse nicht, was 'Oop gaar wie gropfji' bedeutet, aber oftmal sehe ich es, oder etwas aehnlich.
Ja ja! Ich erinnere mich gar wohl an dem Mafia Spiel! Es war sehr kompliziert und interessant.
Ich war nicht zornig, dass Du unbestaendig war. Etwa enttauescht vielleicht.

Ich glaubte, dass Du ueber meinen wirklichen Rossen geschrieben hattest, wenn Du schreibtest, "Ritter"!

Lateinisch lerne ich mit dem englischen Kursus von der Cambridge Universitaet.
Sie ist ein ganz einfach Sprache zu erlernen, wenn man die, "Inflektionen", versteht.
paro,paras,parat,paramus.... Griechisch ist noch sehr schwieriger.

Es ist nicht noetig, dass Du mich, "Sie", bezeichnest. Ich glaube dass wir nicht mit einander in einer foermlichen Vorstellunggespraech reden - dafuer, "Du", ist wunderschoen!

Sage mir, wenn Du etwas nicht verstehen kannst, dass ich geschrieben habe.

Ich wunsche Dir Denkwuerdige Weinachten Moros!

(Fremder, wir sollen ausfinden - wer wirklich der armer kleiner Wuerstel ist.)

Fröhliche Weihnacht, Glenn! Latin is quite easy indeed, most can be understood easily. Writing it is something I can't do without dictionnary and grammar book (for exeptions and because I'm quite a distracted figure). Reading is very easy though. Got a 16/20 last year on university, so I think my Latin can't be all bad. :) I haven't used the Cambridge Cursus, but I'm quite sure that's a good one indeed.

Greek is quite a bit more difficult indeed, first you gotta get used to the alfabet. And of course you've got more Cases than in latin. But It's certainly doable. Once you're getting on to it, it becomes as easy as Latin. It's just a bit more difficult at the start. Though I must admit than I don't know (much) Greek, I'm going to learn some day I've got more time. Or perhaps if I'm going to do Archeology after I graduate as Historian.

Another language I'm planning on learning some day is Japanese. Like the culture, the history and the language itself too. Great sound (in contrary of chinese, which sound really awfull IMO) and a very poetic language.

And if I know my Japanese then I might improve my german. But as I can read German like anything, I don't really need to. I'm not planning on writing or talking it, but it does come in handy having an extra language when I'm searching for historical sources or papers. (In contrary to many English historians I can use Dutch, English, French, German and Latin literature or sources. Which does make a difference.)

EDit: shouldn't post when slightly drunk and fairly tired.

[Drisos]

tut tut wat is dit voor germaans gebrabbel... geen bier en braadwurst in hier.

niks mis met bier en braadworst

[Moros]

niks mis met bier en braadworst

vooral niet met bier!

[The Stranger]

een gruwelijk en zalig 2009 voor jullie allen!! ik zal jullie missen wanneer ik aan de andere kant van de wereld zit. willen jullie op TYOLT passen voor me?

[Fragony]

Als je belooft je benen te scheren

[Herkus]

Ev veči kādā valodā jūs runājat, es klausos Lil Jon nēgeri, ko? ko? ko? Beidzot brīvdienas!

Viņi te pārsvarā runā holandiešu valodā.

Sveiciens jaunajā gadā!

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Head uut aastat kõigile eestlastele siin!!

[Moros]

een gruwelijk en zalig 2009 voor jullie allen!! ik zal jullie missen wanneer ik aan de andere kant van de wereld zit. willen jullie op TYOLT passen voor me?

Gelukkig nieuwjaar. En een spetterend verblijf down under!

[General SupaCrunk]

Viņi te pārsvarā runā holandiešu valodā.

Sveiciens jaunajā gadā!

Paldies!

[Moros]

moet slaap, nood hoog slaap. Bed.



moe zijn is ik. slaa...p.

[PershsNhpios]

Es scheint mir, dass Niederlaendisch eine sehr wortgewaltige Sprache ist, denn man kaum einen Satz braucht, um seinen Punkt zu machen.
So ist das aufs Internet..

[Moros]

Es scheint mir, dass Niederlaendisch eine sehr wortgewaltige Sprache ist, denn man kaum einen Satz braucht, um seinen Punkt zu machen.
So ist das aufs Internet..

I'm not quite sure what the bolded part means?

[PershsNhpios]

"It seems to me, that Dutch is a very eloquent language, for one needs hardly a sentence, in order to make his point.
So it is upon the Internet".

(It may be my own fault Moros - I have advanced enough to realise when an English saying cannot be translated into Deutsch - however I often have difficulty finding the correct Deutsch expression instead!)

(Es koennte vielleicht mein eigne Schuld sein, Moros - Ich habe genug Fortschritt gemacht, um wenn ein englische Sage nicht in Deutsch uebersetzen koenne zu erkennen - aber habe ich Schwierigkeiten oftmal, wenn ich den richtigen deutschen Ausdrueck zu finden versuche.)

[The Stranger]

german is barbaric, its not the same as dutch, which is a sophisticated language, brought here by Aliens from the GKUYDT galaxy.

[Andres]

Jullie ook een gelukkig nieuwjaar !

[Fragony]

"It seems to me, that Dutch is a very eloquent language, for one needs hardly a sentence, in order to make his point.

That's because the dutch tend to be to the point, I adore the german language I wish I was better at it, it's so civilized. As the Germans are compared to the Dutch jugernauts. In my opinion the melody of the german language is perfectly in concert with what is said.

Mein Liebe, Entschuldigung, zuruck. Beautiful words.
eh sgatjuh, sorrie heur. Less beautiful, somehwat

Dutch is great when written but as a spoken language it's more like a sore throat, it's loud and vulgar

[Moros]

Not only that, but I can imagine us being quite to point always.

[ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88]

Guten Tag!
Wo Whost Du? (Pardon me spelling!)
Kennst du die Wochentage?

[PershsNhpios]

Meinst du zu fragen, Warman, wo ich wohne?
Ich habe immer in Australien gewohnt.
Ich kenne auch die Wochentage... Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch, Donnerstage, Freitag, Samstag, Sontag, naechtser Tag.. jo.. ist im Ordnung.

I can not entirely judge if you are using sarcasm, Fragony. I agree that Deutsch has both beautiful and ugly words, and all can be placed poetically. From experience, I think that both Niederlaendisch and Deutsch create sore throats.

One begins to sound cancerous after a three hour conversation with words like; "Vorstellenunterhaltung", or, "Minderwertigkeitskomplex".

In any case, I prefer either to English. English is a sinking ship! (Or an evolving one..)

Ich muss wieder einmal in Grinzing sein - beim Wein, beim Wein, beim Wein..

[Fragony]

No sarcasm

[Moros]

My favourite German word remains Schadefreude. And of course Smetterling, German is the only language in which a butterfly/un papillon/een vlindertje sounds actually dangerous and murderous.

[PershsNhpios]

You have reminded me! Yes! When I found Schmetterling in the dictionary - that was the moment I became charmed with the language.
Of course, I did not realise how strange the word was until an Austrian told me that to, "schmetten", was to pound something to small pieces..

Hat Irgendman dieses lateinsiches Gedicht schon gelesen?

BEATUS ille qui procul negotiis
et prisca gens mortalium
paterna rura bobus exercet suis
solutus omne faenore
neque excitatur classico miles truci
neque horret iratum mare
forumque vitat et superba civium
potentiorum limina
libet iacere modo sub antiqua ilice
modo in tenaci gramine
labuntur altis interim ripis aquae
queruntur in silvis aves
fontesque lymphis obstrepunt manantibus
somnos quod invitet leves.

horace

[Moros]

Yeah I know the poem. Although I must say I'm not into latin peotry that much. Though there are certainly some poems that are worth discovering. Catullus has a few good ones IMO. Personally I rather read something that gives us more information about the past.

[theoldbelgian]

amai leuke thread nooit geweten dat er zoveel belgen en nederlanders waren ook precies veel duitsters
guttentag :p verder gaat mijn kennis niet
ow en ik denk dat smetterling voor het moment tog wel 1 van de bekensdste duitse woorden is
goeiendag nog eeh aan iedereen :p

[PershsNhpios]

Das Gedicht gibt mir etwa Kenntnis, denn ich mir vorstellen kann, was Horatius in seinem afrikanischen Villa angedacht hattet - und wie alte Roma ihm scheinte.

There are some of Catullus which I admire, however Horace has written all which I most favour - of those which I have yet discovered. Ovidius is well worthy of his posthumous fame also.. All these classical men are.

You prefer the histories, which I am also in the habit of reading countless times over - although I remember all the content of them anyway.
Das letzte Buch das ich gelesen habe ist die Geschichte des peloponnischen Krieg von Thukydides, und seinen nachfolger habe ich auch gelesen - die 'Ellenikon von Xenophon.
Es gibt eine grosse Unterschied zwischen den Glauebe der beiden alten 'Ellenoa - meistens ist diese Unterschied ueber Religion.

But I love the style of them both, and just as soon as my mind is able, I shall read the Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics, Dialectic, Anabasis, Histories, both 'Symposions', Aristophanes, Oedipos, and all minor works once more in Greek.
And then go on to those I have not yet touched!

Latin histories are simple for the most part to understand - the Divine Iulius had a most comfortable style, and his is my favourite latin work - always. ('Twas the first classical work I ever read.)
For this reason I learn further through the poetry of the language - as in Deutsch - I have found that if one can understand the most abstract and rule-bending expressions of a tongue then there is no factual, grammatically sound work which he shall have difficulty with.

In the same manner as Sokrates married Xanthippe, (Perhaps the most difficult of women to get along with of all there were, or are, or perhaps who ever will be..), with the belief that if he could handle her, he should have no trouble in dealing with the rest of mankind.. Ha ha ha!

[Moros]

In the same manner as Sokrates married Xanthippe, (Perhaps the most difficult of women to get along with of all there were, or are, or perhaps who ever will be..), with the belief that if he could handle her, he should have no trouble in dealing with the rest of mankind.. Ha ha ha!

LOL.

Now about learning new languages, I might gonna have a try at Aramaic next year.

[Fragony]

amai leuke thread nooit geweten dat er zoveel belgen en nederlanders waren ook precies veel duitsters
guttentag :p verder gaat mijn kennis niet
ow en ik denk dat smetterling voor het moment tog wel 1 van de bekensdste duitse woorden is
goeiendag nog eeh aan iedereen :p

Ach zo een nieuw zuiderbuurtje, wij hollanders beginnen in de minderheid te raken zo! Een uiterst kwalijke ontwikkeling jullie hebben Brugge al!

[Hax]

Waarom dan geen unie van Nederlandstaligen?

[Moros]

amai leuke thread nooit geweten dat er zoveel belgen en nederlanders waren ook precies veel duitsters
guttentag :p verder gaat mijn kennis niet
ow en ik denk dat smetterling voor het moment tog wel 1 van de bekensdste duitse woorden is
goeiendag nog eeh aan iedereen :p

Hartelijk welkom broeder en telg van het Belgische Gerstenat.

[Hax]

Pagina twee?

Hoe had zover kunnen komen!?