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| Choscura Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5546 days ago 61 posts - 82 votes  Speaks: English*, Thai | Message 801 of 2529 19 September 2009 at 4:54pm | IP Logged |
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Prassart (passat)
asshole (as in, "you asshole") Thai 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 802 of 2529 19 September 2009 at 6:38pm | IP Logged |
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eine Quelle - a source eine Nahrungsquelle - a source of food eine Informationsquelle - a source of information aus guter Quelle - from a good source 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 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 803 of 2529 19 September 2009 at 10:55pm | IP Logged |
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Râu = river in Romanian, using the version of Modern Romanian orthography where people actually care about following the rules (instead of using the keys you find on an English keyboard).
Under the Ceaucescu regime the midtongue vowel was generally written as î (and that was the ortogrophy I learned in the 70s). When he had been eliminated all non-initial î's were overnight changed into â, whether or not it was etymologically correct to do so, because the î's were seen as Russian interference. In some cases there was a good reason, such as with câine (from Latin canis), but in the case râu (from Vulgar Latin rivus) there has never been any trace of an 'a'. But of course it is practical to have simple spelling rules whatever the etymology. Spelling can be political. Edited by Iversen on 19 September 2009 at 11:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 804 of 2529 20 September 2009 at 12:18am | IP Logged |
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der Stau - build up, tailback/backup, traffic jam. German
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 805 of 2529 20 September 2009 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
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卵 (tamago)
'egg', Japanese 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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das Unwetter - bad weather, German
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| drfeelgood17 Bilingual Hexaglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6447 days ago 98 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog*, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Japanese, Latin, Arabic (Written) | Message 807 of 2529 20 September 2009 at 1:17am | IP Logged |
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la vacca - cow
Italian Edited by drfeelgood17 on 20 September 2009 at 1:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 808 of 2529 20 September 2009 at 1:21am | IP Logged |
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der Wellensittisch - a budgie, German
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