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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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 Posted - 06/03/2005 : 07:53:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by ljbrs
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Aside the fact the entire language is Latin-based, you'd probably die of anguish if you were introduced to portuguese and then introduced to the people that speak it - including all regional variations. And that's only counting Brazil.
Anglo-Saxon-based words are not Latin-based words. English is said to be the "language of literature". Whoever he was, Shakespeare's plays are full of delightful phrases such as "in one fell swoop" or "beyond the pale".
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I was talking about portuguese, which is a direct derivation of Latin, as is italian, french and other languages from Europe. |
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 06/05/2005 : 15:54:38 [Permalink]
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Aside the fact the entire language is Latin-based, you'd probably die of anguish if you were introduced to portuguese and then introduced to the people that speak it - including all regional variations. And that's only counting Brazil.
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Anglo-Saxon-based words are not Latin-based words. English is said to be the "language of literature". Whoever he was, Shakespeare's plays are full of delightful phrases such as "in one fell swoop" or "beyond the pale".
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I was talking about portuguese, which is a direct derivation of Latin, as is italian, french and other languages from Europe.
Siberia:
I misread your post. I should watch my reading more carefully. Thanks for explaining this error.
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latsot
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/08/2005 : 08:54:29 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
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Originally posted by Dik-Dik Van Dik
schedule is not universaly pronounced like that in england. Infact i'd say it not even a majority say it that way, i think thats a class thing rather than a regional thing. BBC is generally full of upper middle class people with generic accents who don't represent the majority of the country
Cool, I did not know that.
I don't agree that it's a class thing. Some say skedule, some say shedule - I've never noticed a pattern.
We British can be fairly annoying about pronunciation. In particular, we often deplore the way Americans pronounce our cherished words. Interestingly, in many cases the American pronunciation is 'correct' historically - by which I mean that word was originally pronounced that way (in Britain) and remained so in America, but changed in Britain in the meantime.
There is still no excuse for pronouncing 'route' as 'rowt' though :-) |
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latsot
Skeptic Friend
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/08/2005 : 09:13:03 [Permalink]
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Well, I find the creation of new words to be absolutely stimulating.
I read somewhere - possibly Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson - that suprisingly many English words were originated by suprisingly few people in an oddly short space of time. I like the idea of people having to randomly make up new words to describe the new things that are happening to them.
Maybe we are in a similar phase of the language right now. The news this morning used the phrases 'real-time' and 'multi-tasking'. These and many other phrases originated with us geeks, but are now commonly used outside their original contexts. Used *wrongly* (in the sense of their original meaning), to be sure, but used.
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