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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5327 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 209 of 297 24 February 2015 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thank you. You'll be first on my list whenever I go. And I do not have all that many adventures, I just like telling stories, that's all :-) Iversen and I agreed that what in my blog would be a long and detailed account on my trip to Serbia, in his blog would be:" I went to Serbia"... 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4765 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 210 of 297 25 February 2015 at 12:01am | IP Logged | |||||
About 50 Shades, I don't remember if I brought it up in our dinner conversation, but a lot of actual BDSM enthusiasts seem to really hate the franchise, saying that what it portrays looks more like an abusive relationship than a proper BDSM relationship. In fact a film critic I follow on Twitter has suggested a film that portrays these relationships much more realistically, that might still be screened in some arthouse cinemas. It's called The Duke of Burgundy, and apparently the relationship in it is "a mostly awkward series of negotiations to maintain a bizarre fantasy". Not quite as exciting, I guess :) Oh, and here's something I think you might find interesting - Журавли, sung in Avar, the language the original poem was written in by Rasul Gamzatov. Dem ejective affricates... 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5327 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 211 of 297 25 February 2015 at 5:56am | IP Logged | |||||
Hm. Yes, that connection was indeed rather flimsy. Thanks for the link! And yes, I have also heard that BDSM enthusiast hate 50 SoG, though apparently their organizations are happy that it creates more interest in the topic. And I loved the Avar version of Журавли! Where do they speak Avar, by the way? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4765 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 212 of 297 25 February 2015 at 6:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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Avar is native to the Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus region, to the east of Chechnya and to the north of Azerbaijan. It's the largest native language in the republic, but the place is so linguistically diverse that its speakers only make up less than a third of the population. Plus a lot of its dialects are barely mutually intelligible.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5327 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 213 of 297 25 February 2015 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Wow. I must admit that my knowledge on Caucasus is even less than my knowledge on Russia.
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4700 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 214 of 297 25 February 2015 at 2:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well... part of the Caucasus is in Russia. Dagestan has six main languages I think - one
of my friends speaks Lak! I know one word :D 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6696 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 215 of 297 25 February 2015 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
Well, my contribution ended up as the following long and detailed account of 2 weeks of travelling (from Oct. 15 2014): "Long time not write, but I have been away on a trip from Zadar over Banja Luka and Beograd to Novi Sad, where I have been attending the polyglot conference. Those who have read Cristina's delectable reports from the event already know pretty much what happened there, and I'm not going to try to compete with that superb piece of reporting." (though plagued by bouts of bad conscience I also wrote a few lines in Serbian about the trip just a few days later) Edited by Iversen on 25 February 2015 at 4:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5327 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 216 of 297 25 February 2015 at 4:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I guess what my geography teacher told me once, also goes for details of language studies: "You have no
actual knowledge, but your writing is superb". :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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