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Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 5108 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French
| Message 73 of 117 26 November 2010 at 11:19pm | IP Logged |
Oh, I just discovered Toki Pona. I am in love. I am adding that to my list, way up at the top with Esperanto.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6463 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 75 of 117 26 November 2010 at 11:32pm | IP Logged |
paranday wrote:
Lianne wrote:
Oh, I just discovered Toki Pona. I am in love. I am
adding that to my list, way up at the top with Esperanto. |
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It's a charming little conlang. I'd call it the language of fun. |
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Indeed. Not a complete language, in the sense that you can't use it to talk about every
topic, but that isn't the purpose either, the purpose is more philosophic.
Coincidentally, Esperanto meet-ups are a good place to go looking for fellow Toki Pona
speakers, including the inventor.
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5686 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish
| Message 76 of 117 27 November 2010 at 2:22am | IP Logged |
hrhenry wrote:
Jinx wrote:
... assume that everything you type will be interpreted in the most negative way possible, and provide for that eventuality in your original communication. |
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That's a sad way to view any type of communication, online or otherwise, don't you think?
Sure, care should be taken, but walking on eggshells really doesn't help, either.
The inverse is also true: try not to view every single thing so negatively. Frankly, I see a lot of that in my short time here. We could all stand to lighten up a bit.
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Sad indeed, but unfortunately borne out by experience. The Internet is not the most forgiving place. This forum is, often, a refreshing change from that.
It's certainly lovely when people can let stuff flow off their backs without ruffling any feathers, but when a tone is perceived as negative, it's a fact that some people can be hurt by it, and in that situation I don't think it's fair to expect them to just "deal with it" without respectfully speaking up about it.
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| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6287 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin
| Message 77 of 117 27 November 2010 at 4:56am | IP Logged |
Lianne wrote:
19. Elvish (because it's pretty)
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Quenya or Sindarin?
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| Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 5108 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French
| Message 78 of 117 27 November 2010 at 7:00pm | IP Logged |
jimbo wrote:
Lianne wrote:
19. Elvish (because it's pretty)
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Quenya or Sindarin? |
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You know, I didn't even know there was a difference. The last time I tried to learn Elvish was in junior high, about a decade ago, and I found it really hard to find learning resources. Are they both really developed languages?
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| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6861 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language
| Message 79 of 117 27 November 2010 at 7:41pm | IP Logged |
I don't know much about the differences myself. However, there is a grammar for Sindarin available at Amazon.com. I guess purists aren't always pleased with it because the linguist who wrote it apparently changed some aspects of the language, but like I don't know that much about the subject.
I think I have a grammar and vocabulary of one of the languages on my computer that I downloaded for my own personal language library. I don't know how thorough it is, though.
I agree the languages are beautiful, but I am interested in learning the languages that inspired Tolkien: Old English, Finnish and Welsh (I'm not sure what else there was).
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| ßruno Triglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5306 days ago 5 posts - 8 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: German
| Message 80 of 117 28 November 2010 at 12:08am | IP Logged |
I don't think i will really learn all these languages at all, but these are the ones that i most like.
The ones that i am really interested in learning:
German - I'm a big fan of Germany, mainly it's history and the country itself.
Russian - Because I like the alphabet
French - Because it's very used in Canada, wich i really like.
Italian - Italy is another country that i love.
Japanese - I like the japanese people and their intelligence.
The ones that i will learn if possible:
Finnish,Swedish,Danish,Icelandic - I like cold places.
Romanian,Dutch,Hungarian - For the challenge
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