Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
Not at all, the people who I am criticizing don’t have a clue.
Which is your first language?
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Sudacafan
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@SystemicAnomaly you didn’t vote English in the poll, as I supposed. You voted Other. Which is your first language?
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
It’s enough to get almost everywhere in the world.
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
Are Ladino and Spanish mutually intelligible? To what degree?
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
I knew someone who responded when he was called an “hijo de puta”:
“Con el trabajo de mi madre no te metas, cabrón!”
It's time I learn you. (teach you)
It's all Chinese. Even if it is foreign it is 50% Chinese in writing.
What is this?
It's a penny, of course. Half right (is also half wrong)
It's both a:
penny
cent
penny is English, cent is French (Latin derivative). 100th, 100, century, centi-meter.
Think of the picture as the Chinese glyph, and China says "penny", but Japanese use the same picture but say "cent", that makes Japanese already half Chinese.
Comprende, amigo?
People don't want to admit they get their stuff from China. I know, I'm Vietnamese. We think we are different from Chinese, but we get everything from China.
Even more sad, you don't know English.
English itself is a bilingual language. It is half English and half French. You will notice that Star Strek villains (that's French for bad guys) speak the "French" part of English, and not English-English.
RaulRamirez
Legend
I don't want to come off as an expert in either language, as I'm, at best, a dabbler. Spanish is (as I understand) the closest single language to Ladino, though Ladino has various dialects. I believe that what my maternal grandparents spoke was a mixture of Spanish, Turkish, Greek (?) and a little Hebrew. So, a Spanish speaker would have a leg-up on, say, an exclusively English speaker in navigating Ladino, but I don't know what percentage to put on it.
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python -c "print ('python')"
I can only speak English but I understand some Yiddish lol
Sentinel
Bionic Poster
France has a big Sephardic community but most of them won’t be in France in 10-20 yrs
donquijote
G.O.A.T.
Azure
G.O.A.T.
त्वमेव श्रेष्ठ
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
Ah! That’s tattoo language!
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
That’s blasphemy. Only Our Srshsness can elicit those Godly traits.
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
I wonder why Sanskrit/Hindi have an upside-down pattern of text underlining.
Sudacafan
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Mods on vacation?
Azure
G.O.A.T.
Good question. Words in Sanskrit can be combined to make very long words. The convention of having spaces between words have Latin origins. Earlier, the words were separated by strokes of lines. A lot of other Indian languages do not have the lines and have only spaces between the words despite having Sanskrit origins.
TheGhostOfAgassi
Talk Tennis Guru
Norwegian my first language. Since i know that I also know Danish and Swedish. Im fluent in Italian.
I know French and some Spanish as well. I studied German.
English is maybe my 3 language.
I know French and some Spanish as well. I studied German.
English is maybe my 3 language.
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
Yiddish and German are mutually intelligible?
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
Please rewrite all this in Vietnamese, so I get a chance to better understand it. Thank you.It's time I learn you. (teach you)
It's all Chinese. Even if it is foreign it is 50% Chinese in writing.
What is this?
It's a penny, of course. Half right (is also half wrong)
It's both a:
penny
cent
penny is English, cent is French (Latin derivative). 100th, 100, century, centi-meter.
Think of the picture as the Chinese glyph, and China says "penny", but Japanese use the same picture but say "cent", that makes Japanese already half Chinese.
Comprende, amigo?
It's not the language, it's the concept.
The Greek has a word for it. It roughly translate into : word, concept, truth in naming. They call it logos, from which we get the words logic and logo.
Here's a concept of logos, truth in naming.
https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/new-word-thread.607157/post-13082224
RaulRamirez
Legend
...as in Aristotle's Ethos, Logos and Pathos? As a writer/speaker - and teacher of same - I often think of, and use, these elements of persuasive speaking. (perhaps, not always on TTW, though it can be applied.)
Vcore89
Talk Tennis Guru
Or both
German sounds like crap to me
Night Slasher
Semi-Pro
Serbian.
Night Slasher
Semi-Pro
print("Kotlin")
Atennisone
Hall of Fame
Danish as first, and English as my 2nd language which I talk a couple of hours per day because of study reasons. Apart from that I am learning Spanish at the moment.
Sudacafan
Bionic Poster
Thanks for having answered my question in your own special way.
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SystemicAnomaly
Bionic Poster
It's time I learn you. (teach you)
It's all Chinese. Even if it is foreign it is 50% Chinese in writing.
What is this?
It's a penny, of course. Half right (is also half wrong)
It's both a:
penny
cent
penny is English, cent is French (Latin derivative). 100th, 100, century, centi-meter.
Think of the picture as the Chinese glyph, and China says "penny", but Japanese use the same picture but say "cent", that makes Japanese already half Chinese.
Comprende, amigo?
No comprende. Condescending much?
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Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
You have confused me. Now I don't understand anything.It's time I learn you. (teach you)
It's all Chinese. Even if it is foreign it is 50% Chinese in writing.
What is this?
It's a penny, of course. Half right (is also half wrong)
It's both a:
penny
cent
penny is English, cent is French (Latin derivative). 100th, 100, century, centi-meter.
Think of the picture as the Chinese glyph, and China says "penny", but Japanese use the same picture but say "cent", that makes Japanese already half Chinese.
Comprende, amigo?
SystemicAnomaly
Bionic Poster
Lol
One more try.
Chinese is a written language. All other languages are spoken languages. The writing of other languages record the sound. Chinese is a glyph based language, a picture based language.
Here is a glyph.
In English is spoken as "car".
In French it is spoken as "automobile".
But both use the same glyph.
Now substitute English for Chinese and French for Japanese, and there you have it.
The list goes on and on.
engine - motor
merry-go-round - carousel
movie - cinema
SystemicAnomaly
Bionic Poster
Chào, LGQ7. Are you the same person as rogerroger917 by any chance?
I believe that your math and perspective might be a bit off. Most Japanese regularly only read or use some 1000 to 2000 kanji characters from what I understand. It appears to be a shorthand of sorts for the Japanese. I believe that these 1000-2000 kanji characters could also be spelled out using one of their kana syllabic "alphabets".
While I had already mentioned kanji in my previous post, the point I was making was primarily in reference to the spoken language and the understanding of the spoken language.
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One more try.
Chinese is a written language. All other languages are spoken languages. The writing of other languages record the sound. Chinese is a glyph based language, a picture based language.
Here is a glyph.
In English is spoken as "car".
In French it is spoken as "automobile".
But both use the same glyph.
Now substitute English for Chinese and French for Japanese, and there you have it.
The list goes on and on.
engine - motor
merry-go-round - carousel
movie - cinema
Your next question is if they use Chinese glyphs, how do they know the pronunciation? Japanese is a tri-lingual language. It has Chinese glyph, Japanese pronunciation, and Romanization for foreigners.
No, I'm not. Why would I be?
Mike Bulgakov
G.O.A.T.
I was joking. I've been to Japan and China and once got a rudimentary explanation of this by an embassy language expert.One more try.
Chinese is a written language. All other languages are spoken languages. The writing of other languages record the sound. Chinese is a glyph based language, a picture based language.
Here is a glyph.
In English is spoken as "car".
In French it is spoken as "automobile".
But both use the same glyph.
Now substitute English for Chinese and French for Japanese, and there you have it.
The list goes on and on.
engine - motor
merry-go-round - carousel
movie - cinema
