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Just out of curiosity did you become familiar with Sardinian from being around people who spoke the language daily as their native tongue or did you learn what you know about the language during the course of your studies as you say you did Latin? You really don't catch on very quickly when I'm joking with you Stewart, maybe its the medium we are using to communicate here? OK, I say fuck your academics I believe Italian is closer to Latin than semitized Sardinian, its basically like splitting a hair to say either language is 'closer' to the ancient tongue according to the experts anyway. At worst, I'm only a little bit wrong. Last edited by T.Garrett; May 13th, 2019 at 08:17 PM. Reason: cant forget the French |
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It would be interesting if Alex Him could give us some insight about various Russian dialects. Russia is a vast country with many different dialects. Then there are offshoots of the Russian language such as Ukrainian and Belarusian.
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Even if you just take a quick look at some Sardinian texts or sentences, it almost immediately becomes apparent why it's considered the most conservative Romance language. Look at the following excerpt from the Wikipedia article that I linked to in one of my previous posts: Quote:
In the Italian-language version of this Wikipedia page, the above sentence reads "Mettimi tre pani nella bisaccia". Now let's compare these languages to each other: English: Put three loaves of bread in the bag for me. Latin: Pone mihi tres panes in bertula. Sardinian: Ponemi tres panes in bertula. Italian: Mettimi tre pani nella bisaccia. (Bisaccia is an old-fashioned word for a kind of bag that peasants used to have. The most common modern-day Italian word for bag is borsa, which appears to be of Greek origin. However, if you're talking about a backpack, the kind that school kids wear, you would normally say zaino, which is a Germanic loanword.) Now, do you see how similar Sardinian is to Latin? Especially compared to Italian? Yes, I know, this is just one sentence, and you could say that the person who wrote the Wikipedia article was cherry-picking, but it's just one of many examples. |
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Why couldn't you just simply say you became familiar with Sardinian during your studies at ...I don't believe you said where?
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There's huge volume of high quality verse in Romance languages ...but I get nothing. Nothing from Virgil, no Dante, no St Francis who wrote the first literature in Italian language (Umbrian dialect) Laudes Creaturarum none other than the Canticle of the Sun, which is a favorite of mine, no Ezra Pound who once called the English a slave race ruled by the jewish Rothschilds ...???? Just one sentence from a wikipedia article? You studied languages? Quote:
Cheers bro, have a good one! Last edited by T.Garrett; May 15th, 2019 at 07:19 AM. Reason: I'm hung over and spelling is atrocious |
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Texas Style Cotton Eye Joe ...or the BULLSHIT song
From the White American (Texas dialect) catalog of line dancin music, check it out Last edited by T.Garrett; May 15th, 2019 at 08:02 AM. |
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But if you feel that that's not enough, then here's a link to a (small) Latin-Sardinian dictionary that you can read for free on the internet: http://www.pittau.it/Sardo/voc/vocabolario.html You can compare the two languages to each other and observe all the similarities. Of course, it helps if you also speak Italian because then it will become apparent why Sardinian is considered the most conservative Romance language (and thus the closest to Latin). |
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Thanks for the link to the dictionary, and no I don't speak Italian I only understand a little from being around folks who are fluent in the language here in NYC. I'll check it out when I have a little more time I'm in the process of putting my boat in the water for the season and need to do a few upgrades on the electrical system and the electronics so I'll be busy with that for awhile. My 'black hole' in the water. BTW I asked my goombah at Wine@79 if he knew of a good Sardinian red ...I buy this Tuscan Sangiovese to drink with my friends there, he's getting a few bottles that I'll put on the table this weekend and see if I hear a "get the fuck outta here" over supper. Ciao for now buddy Last edited by T.Garrett; May 16th, 2019 at 12:25 AM. |
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When I first saw the Geert Wilders tweet, I didn't understand why it was trending. I kept looking at it to try to figure out why people were commenting on, and laughing at it, but eventually I gave up and went to the reliable "Know Your Meme" site to get the explanation, and I was, like, "That's it? How lame." One would probably have to be an Anglo to find stuff like this funny since Anglos are normally monolingual, and so they might not be used to the many similarities between English and other Germanic languages. Personally, I often listen to, and read texts in, Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages and dialects, and I compare them to each other, so I don't experience this "novelty effect". . Last edited by Stewart Meadows; January 22nd, 2024 at 07:28 AM. |
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The following post/tweet feels kinda similar to Wilders' "probleem" meme, only it's in German, and not Dutch: |
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If today's people were not so ignorant, they wouldn't be surprised about that. Do all those ignoramuses even know that English is a Germanic language?
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The German words suchen dich don't mean "sucking dick." They mean "seeking you."
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Well, yes, I know that since I studied German in school, but to the average American it probably looks like it says "sucking dick". |
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Slovenia is an interesting place linguistically speaking, as it has a huge amount of dialects and subdialects, which is unusual for such a small country. Quote:
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The Cinderella fairy tale, which is known and loved by so many people all over the world, has its origin in the Kingdom of Naples, and was first written in the Neapolitan dialect/language. |
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