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| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5554 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes  Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 9 of 85 11 December 2010 at 5:43am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Fourthed. Also, while not a change to the language itself per se, I'd severely limit the extent to which knowledge of English has spread in Finland and Scandinavia. It actually scares me how common it is to speak English fluently and without a foreign accent in this part of the world. EDIT:
This is an example of how I would not want the orthography to be changed. Looks terrible. While I feel a lot of people would disagree with me, I believe English needs a massive amount of diacritics and every vowel should be represented by its own letter, not by combining two random characters. Oh, and as controversial as this sounds, different dialects of English should have different orthographies. But all this is for a nother topic on a whole nother day. Edited by kyssäkaali on 11 December 2010 at 5:48am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5961 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 10 of 85 11 December 2010 at 6:16am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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All East Asian languages shall return to using traditional Chinese characters.
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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5767 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 11 of 85 11 December 2010 at 6:21am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Oh but I love those that aren't exactly internationalisms and so bastardized that no English speaker will recognize them. I'd make German more agglutinative. Edited by Bao on 11 December 2010 at 6:31am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Sierra Diglot Senior Member Turkey livinginlights.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7125 days ago 296 posts - 411 votes Speaks: English*, SwedishB1 Studies: Turkish | Message 12 of 85 11 December 2010 at 7:01am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I'd bring "thee," "thy," "thine," and "thou" back into English. "Hither" and "whither"
are welcome, too. They just sound so nice. Edited by Sierra on 11 December 2010 at 7:03am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 13 of 85 11 December 2010 at 7:50am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I'd love it if Japanese dropped all or most of its recent English loanwords and went back to the original Japanese words. It makes it sound way more authentic and beautiful. For example, why say コイン (koin) for "coin" when there is already 硬貨 (kōka)?
Also, I think it would be so awesome if English were to rid itself of most or all of its vocabulary from Latin and French and become purely Germanic. It should also bring back cases, and noun gender, and... Maybe I should just learn Old English? This one might sound pathetic, but I really wish Persian weren't written in the Arabic alphabet. It just doesn't work for it, and I've found that the alphabet is my biggest obstacle when it comes to Persian. Edited by ellasevia on 11 December 2010 at 7:51am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5101 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 14 of 85 11 December 2010 at 7:55am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I would completely eliminate Spanish.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7157 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 15 of 85 11 December 2010 at 8:28am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Doing any of the following could make me happy:
- Replace mobile stress in any one of Belorussian, BCMS/Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Russian, Slovenian or Ukrainian with fixed stress on the first syllable as in Czech or Slovak. - Get rid of vowel reduction in Belorussian, Bulgarian, Russian or Ukrainian, and so pronounce a given vowel in the same way regardless of whether it bears stress or not. - Make agglutination in Estonian or Finnish follow the agglutinative model of Hungarian or Turkish - Let determination of grammatical gender for French or German nouns follow the general principle used in Slavonic languages (e.g. -a is feminine, nouns ending in consonants are masculine) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5336 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 16 of 85 11 December 2010 at 11:24am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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These would probably be on my list:
- bring the Dutch cases and the distinction between feminine and masculine nouns back. I know it would make the language more difficult but I'm really curious about how the language would sound and look. - eliminate all English loanwords that have a perfectly good Dutch equivalent. I was going to add some silly grammar mistakes people make that irritate me but then I realised there are so many of them that I changed it to "make people speak Dutch properly". 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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