True jokes about SLOVENIAN language

CCIP · 06-15-12, 01:48 AM

You guys have the same number of cases and genders (and thus possible endings) as Russian (well, technically Russian also has a residual 7th case, but it only shows up in a small number of individual words - I'm sure you guys have that too).

It's not too bad for a speaker, just really kicks the learners in the butt

And really, what you get for it is some awesome freedom of poetic/emotional description that's simply not available in a lot of other languages. Slovenian is one of the most expressively nuanced languages in the world thanks to that and I'd rather it not lose that

(also, I guess being a linguist, I can't help but see this all as a good thing, haha)

06-15-12, 01:48 AM	#8
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	You guys have the same number of cases and genders (and thus possible endings) as Russian (well, technically Russian also has a residual 7th case, but it only shows up in a small number of individual words - I'm sure you guys have that too). It's not too bad for a speaker, just really kicks the learners in the butt And really, what you get for it is some awesome freedom of poetic/emotional description that's simply not available in a lot of other languages. Slovenian is one of the most expressively nuanced languages in the world thanks to that and I'd rather it not lose that (also, I guess being a linguist, I can't help but see this all as a good thing, haha) __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)