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Lingua 5B 
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| Gibberish and Torture | Jan 27, 2009 |
Sweet and innocent gibberish ! Btw, Alice is one of my favorite child fiction characters / books.
Slightly brainwashing. It reminds me of a Japanese torture device.:)
| | | | SarK0Y
Russian to English
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You don't love 'travels' (or noise). You mean the Travels
of Marco Polo, Gulliver's Travels, or travails of Volga
Boatmen (I try to guess this trick of yours...).
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i purported own travels only:))
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I think many
Romanians are dark, but Russians are fair.
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You don't love 'travels' (or noise). You mean the Travels
of Marco Polo, Gulliver's Travels, or travails of Volga
Boatmen (I try to guess this trick of yours...).
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i purported own travels only:))
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I think many
Romanians are dark, but Russians are fair.
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it's not right: anyone is mix of different blood & i'm not exception here. different color: hair, eyes etc. all this doesn't define nation of anyone: i did see one lass, she is born in the Russia, has russian parents, but recognizes herself to Finnish nation. in other words, human nation bases on structure h[is/er] Mind. ▲ Collapse
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SarK0Y wrote:
General Serb in the World history.
Thank you! Nikola Tesla. Very interesting! How did you know that?
(a translator is a device which stands on the tops of hills and (etc))
Have a look at the tributes to Dr Tesla here:
http://www.ttr.com/Who%20Was%20Dr%20Tesla.pdf
(Rutherford is one of ours.)
GTE Sylvania,
my old employer
L.
[Edited at 2009-01-28 09:01 GMT]
| | | | | @ Taija, Olaf: how's tricks?; tricks for when you meet a Kiwi | Jan 28, 2009 |
Taija Salo wrote: Olaf wrote:
That's easy. AFAIK, Finnish has 15 noun cases.
Olaf But other Finno-Ugric languages have more. Hungarian beats us hands down in the case fight 
Hi Taija, Olaf
Nice to meet Finns here! I met Finns in Beijing, nice people, Paola my schoolmate at the Institute, Helvi from the Embassy.
Did you know?...
1 Finnish and Hungarian and Korean might be related ... Altaic languages.
http://members.tripod.com/~Yukon_2/language2.html
(20 cases for Hungarian, it says ...)
2 Lasse Viren, the Flying Finn, came to New Zealand, one of our good coaches knew him:
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:r-K6qdNz3cUJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasse_Virén%20flying%20finn%20lasse%20viren%20new%20zealand&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:nJ2_8kW1oj0J:www.youthrunner.com/content/view/1857/36/%20flying%20finn%20lasse%20viren%20new%20zealand&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4
3 We know this famous tune from Finland:
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=hh01fTOdbok&NR=1
Chorale from Finlandia
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak_uT-Ls3IY
Be Still My Soul/This Is My Song/Finlandia
Lesley
Song from 1981, "Shanghai Bund":
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=8XVTiOq68CQ
雷人的英文版《上海滩》The Beach of ShangHai - in English
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=_VvIkoD80b4&feature=related
Shanghai Bund (Andy Law/Lau)
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=6U7Jsx68MUc&feature=related
Huang Xiaoming sings Shanhai Tan theme song
[Edited at 2009-01-28 09:33 GMT]
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| SerboCroat; Bend it like Beckham | Feb 4, 2009 |
Lingua 5B wrote:
Hello lai an,
Serbian /Croatian / Bosnian are in fact three variants of the same language. Bosnian is closer to Croatian, i.e. they are both Ieakvian variant, whereas Serbian in Serbia is Ekavian ( Iekavian - Ekavian refers to dialectic differences, basically ).
Indeed, seven cases, changes of gender / number / case suffixes on each noun, verb, pronoun, etc... Also, we are using two alphabets : Cyrillic and Latin.
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About Chinese : as far as I remember, Chinese is one of those rare languages with SOV lang. structure ? Or perhaps I mixed it up with some other language ? Or was it VOS ?
[Edited at 2009-01-25 20:56 GMT]
Hello Lingua
Thank you!
I learn:
(Illyrians, Southern Slavs, Schism, Turks, very complicated ...,
Macedonians, Slovenes, Bulgars...
Greco-Roman/Alexander, Ottoman-Turk,
Mongol-Yoke, Pax-Mongolica, very difficult ... )
Serbian has two scripts - like Tajik ... (maybe).
Croatian has one? because of (?)
A man went to Split to buy a yacht...
the engine was thrashed on the Adriatic,
so now it's in the Canaries somewhere
being repaired...
East European-New Zealand writers in English:
Amelia Batistich, An Olive Tree in Dalmatia and Other Stories
Kapka Kassabova
Anyhow, Mandarin is a Sino-Tibetan language (this I know):
no cases, uninflected, generally SVO (but sometimes flexible).
SOV langs are quite common hey!
Latin (I know); Japanese (I think I knew).
Turkic langs, recently I found out...
check here if you like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_Object_Verb
Lesley
[Edited at 2009-02-04 01:57 GMT]
| | | | SarK0Y
Russian to English
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my eyezzzz leave own orbits!!!:)) why should you need to learn too much langs??? our life is far not too long for it!!!:))) i have more spare thought about learning Arabic & Espanol for level without especial claims, but timeeeee.... time..... where are youuuuuuu!:)))
| | | | | Time like the wind | Feb 7, 2009 |
Dear Mr SarKOY
Here is some music and skating. I hope you like it.
I know you are busy. (John Rowles is one of ours.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C08jCSMYxBw
Arise, People of Russia!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTZXjuseX_8
Gene P... See more Dear Mr SarKOY
Here is some music and skating. I hope you like it.
I know you are busy. (John Rowles is one of ours.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C08jCSMYxBw
Arise, People of Russia!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTZXjuseX_8
Gene Pitney - If I Only Had Time w/ LYRICS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBuHp5g-7k4&feature=related
John Rowles - If I only had time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzm0MOzvhKg
Je n`aurai pas le temps...
princessedesnuages
what 'cause-celebre'? is it saints' days?
Have many many saints' days in the Eastern Europe, for name-days, my friend told me.
Kind regards
Lai'an
PS Do you have any socket-set for your car, or puncture kit for your bike? My car is a brown one, manual gear-shift. My bike is old, no gears at all.
This city is flat, except for on the hills. The Orbiter is our bus, it goes round the ring-road, to the uni and other places. There is no Underground. There is a tram and punts, for tourists. And a ferry.
The harbour used to be a volcano's crater.
Pics here for your interpreting:
http://www.travelpod.com/travelblogphotoalbums/celiabarclay/worldtour2005/1147233600/0/12/YES/tpod.html
And you? I know you read is easier than writing. But your writing is good, I know.
Never mind.
Actually I didn't read Andy Law vid carefully before posting.
Never mind, doesn't matter, I didn't 'on purpose'...
I am decent person, like another people.
How is your video-making?
L.
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| | | | | Julia, Juliae (f) = Julia | Feb 9, 2009 |
SarK0Y wrote:
PS.
Valentine's Day: Russia uses any cause to celebrate:)))) do you know old New Year?:)))
Br SarKOY
I know this one! It's the Julian, of course. Am I right? Now we have the 公历, Gregorian. You are a good teacher.
Maybe you have heard of Qing Ming. It will be a public holiday this year, and also Duanwujie Dragon Boat Festival. Qing Ming is one of the solar terms - they have nice names, I like them.
I said to you 'video-making', it should be computer-programming. Sorry about that.
I make mistake/I am mistaken (which is correct?)
I like your idea about the languages. castellano is a useful language, and maybe easier than English. it's a romance language. english is a hotch-potch. you are a very literate person, I think. Rurik founded Kievan Rus - he might be from Finland. But arabic is more sticky, it has another script. I tried to learn Pitmans shorthand but I was not successful, so good luck!
Li
[Edited at 2009-02-09 20:12 GMT]
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SarK0Y
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sorry, i might no answered to you by occupation reason:(
what does it mean 'Br'?? Brother?? if it is, it's more nice for me than 'Sir' or 'Mr':))
about cars: i sit on the passenger place & deep details of cars are not especial interest to me.
about bikes: as said literature classic Gogol(Гоголь), Russia has two troubles: idiots & roads - ride a bike along those roads..... uhaaaaha.... it's real crazzzzzzzzzzzy deed!!!:))
>>I said to you 'video-making', it should b... See more sorry, i might no answered to you by occupation reason:(
what does it mean 'Br'?? Brother?? if it is, it's more nice for me than 'Sir' or 'Mr':))
about cars: i sit on the passenger place & deep details of cars are not especial interest to me.
about bikes: as said literature classic Gogol(Гоголь), Russia has two troubles: idiots & roads - ride a bike along those roads..... uhaaaaha.... it's real crazzzzzzzzzzzy deed!!!:))
>>I said to you 'video-making', it should be computer-programming. Sorry about that.
>>I make mistake/I am mistaken (which is correct?)
don't loop(worry) for it:))
about saint days for names: almost each russian name, from Greece or Israel, has own saint-day[s], but no one hasn't holidays for, if don't count Tatiana day. it celebrates university students 25 Jan.:))
>>I know this one! It's the Julian, of course.
Julian calendar was in tsar Russia, since 1918 31 Jan., we use Gregorian. but, by tradition, we celebrate old New Year:)) it's no official holiday.
>>But arabic is sticky, it has another script.
surely, Arabic is no easiest lang, but has more simple structure than Chinese by alphabet, in any way. and i've sequence of reasons for:))
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thanks a lot for your youtube links - it's nice for me:))
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| | | | | A Town like Alice | Feb 9, 2009 |
Lingua 5B wrote: Sweet and innocent gibberish ! Btw, Alice is one of my favorite child fiction characters / books.
Dear Lingua 5:
You like children's literature, that's great.
Do you mind if I ask, is it your speciality?
And did you read/watch Alice in your language?
I don't know much about Alice,
[just a few characters, and threads, Cheshire Cat, two books,
'off with her head'; 19C stuff, written for a young girl;
supposed to be satire, maybe. ]
or Jabberwocky.
Owl and the Pussycat I like.
Christopher Robin went down with Alice. ... "A soldier's life is terrible hard ..."
About Bosnia, I found out he was an officer in fact, with local staff to help out, mostly ladies, for cleaning and etc. Now he makes cheese at Barry's Bay. 'the men are macho' he said, [comparing with home, I suppose.] Here, 'girls can do anything', and men help in the house. Or so they say. I think you can imagine.
Lesley
[Edited at 2009-02-09 21:46 GMT]
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[quote]SarK0Y wrote:
sorry, i might no answered to you by occupation reason:(
-> I don't understand. you are pre-occupied? or working? or busy? or something else. Never mind, that's fine. No worries.
what does it mean 'Br'?? Brother?? if it is, it's more nice for me than 'Sir' or 'Mr':))
-> thank you, should I call you as older-brother or younger-brother, [or something else more professional. How about Engineer? At Proz we are usually called 'peers', but it's not a way to address someone. ]
about cars: i sit on the passenger place & deep details of cars are not especial interest to me.
-> you are a poet! I am surprised.
about bikes: as said literature classic Gogol(Гоголь), Russia has two troubles: idiots & roads - ride a bike along those roads..... uhaaaaha.... it's real crazzzzzzzzzzzy deed!!!:))
-> it's not very cold here, I wear a jacket usually is enough. Oblomov. follow the road, or you will never arrive. Some of the country roads are not good, I know; corrugated. Do you like 'Queen' ?
>>I said to you 'video-making', it should be computer-programming. Sorry about that.
>>I make mistake/I am mistaken (which is correct?)
don't loop(worry) for it:))
-> Ah,ha, got it! you 'develop on-line games', right?
about saint days for names: almost each russian name, from Greece or Israel, has own saint-day[s], but no one hasn't holidays for, if don't count Tatiana day. it celebrates university students 25 Jan.:))
-> Thank you! Very interesting. St Sophia's in Moscow. Greece is Orthodox, I know. Israel - I don't know, pass (but they have a 5000 year-old history, and prophets). Special day for students? Really? So, what happens? [On Womens' Day, women and girls have the day off and go to a free movie.]
>>I know this one! It's the Julian, of course.
Julian calendar was in tsar Russia, since 1918 31 Jan., we use Gregorian. but, by tradition, we celebrate old New Year:)) it's no official holiday.
-> Thank you, that's nice! Old Russia is Sha'E 沙俄 in Chinese. New Russia is 俄国，俄罗斯 E'guo/E'luosi.
>>But arabic is sticky, it has another script.
surely, Arabic is no easiest lang, but has more simple structure than Chinese by alphabet, in any way. and i've sequence of reasons for:))
-> ah-huh! I think maybe you are Muslim. Please tell me, am I right?
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thanks a lot for your youtube links - it's nice for me:))
My pleasure! You're welcome!
Lesley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNf9rEPoc8Q&feature=related
Queen - Flash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfvnyNyMFrQ
John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads (1983)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-cPvsH1_I8
Olivia Newton John - Take me home country roads
[Edited at 2009-02-12 09:59 GMT]
| | | | SarK0Y
Russian to English
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'Comrade' is most nice for me:))
>>you are a poet! I am surprised.
 ) my poetical talent approaches to zero with any lang: Russia, English & anywhere else:)
>>Some of the country roads are not good, I know; corrugated.
Amigo, you've not been seen russian roads:))) only less part of our roads are quite useful. about this fact, we say joke proverb: we've not roads, only vectors:))
[On Womens' Day, women ... See more 'Comrade' is most nice for me:))
>>you are a poet! I am surprised.
) my poetical talent approaches to zero with any lang: Russia, English & anywhere else:)
>>Some of the country roads are not good, I know; corrugated.
Amigo, you've not been seen russian roads:))) only less part of our roads are quite useful. about this fact, we say joke proverb: we've not roads, only vectors:))
[On Womens' Day, women and girls have the day off and go to a free movie.]
each families've own traditions about this day.
>>Ah,ha, got it! you 'develop on-line games', right?
right, absolutely! this is my first game.
>> ah-huh! I think maybe you are Muslim. Please tell me, am I right?
no, i love some arabic music & Arabic has quite good areal in the world.
about my nick: it's from one book..... hmmmm... i've forgot its name:)) ▲ Collapse
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