True jokes about SLOVENIAN language

frau kaleun · 06-14-12, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by U570

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)

Catfish · 06-15-12, 07:22 AM

English was not so lightly accepted as the world language, because you can only think with the words you have and know - so any language which is easy to learn because of its simplicity, is also a poor one when it come to imagination. Or so some philosophers say

There are 14 entirely different words for conditions to be in an unlucky love, in portoguese. I am happy i was not born there ...

06-15-12, 01:48 AM	#2
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)

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06-15-12, 07:22 AM	#3
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,800 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	English was not so lightly accepted as the world language, because you can only think with the words you have and know - so any language which is easy to learn because of its simplicity, is also a poor one when it come to imagination. Or so some philosophers say There are 14 entirely different words for conditions to be in an unlucky love, in portoguese. I am happy i was not born there ...