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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6087 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 161 of 225 20 January 2013 at 12:19pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, MIR is awesome. I think LanguageSponge should patent his "Little Challenges" here in the forum. I think the administrator has a sticky thread for than somewhere under General. I'd love to have a website, but I would have no idea how to do that. Anyone?
I don't know accusative adverbs since I learned that an adverb is something separate from an object, but I'll answer the only way I know, 1. adverbiale Bestimmung (der Zeit) 2. adverbiale Bestimmung (der Zeit) 3. Objekt 4. adverbiale Bestimmung (der Zeit) 5. adverbiale Bestimmung (der Zeit) 6. Objekt Man kann die Frageprobe benutzen, um Adverbien von Objekten zu unterscheiden. (Wie lange, wie, wann, aus welchem Grund... tut man (Verb)) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5228 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 162 of 225 20 January 2013 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, the bickering (or whatever they want to call it) on the voting thread has really put me off it. I couldn't care less, even if I had some opportunity to 'win' by whatever rules/definitions.
As I said somewhere else, I can do it but [...] I could overcome any technical problems without much effort, but since we have individual and team logs I don't really see the point of a TAC team website (and I bet it'll have very little use) other than sheer 'coolness' factor, pure eye-candy. I mean, off-HTLAL websites are OK for people who already had one for some reason, but starting one just for the TAC? If you ask me, it's just one more thing to keep track of for absolutely no reason, instead of getting some more study done. So, do we really want a website for the team? Why? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6087 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 163 of 225 20 January 2013 at 1:18pm | IP Logged | ||
"eye-candy" :) I don't want to take anything away from the discussion but I'm having fun with BAnna's Little Challenges before I have to get up and go. (We're all going sledding this afternoon^^) Q. Who can give equivalents to these expressions and idioms in English or another language? Some are easier than others, but they can all be found with Google's help. 1. zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen 2. sich wie ein Elefant im Porzellanladen benehmen 3. Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund 4. sich in jemanden verknallen 5. auf dem Schlauch stehen ("Ich stehe auf dem Schlauch.") 6. von der Pika auf lernen ("Er hat Japanisch von der Pika auf gelernt") 7. jemandem ein Dorn im Auge sein 8. den Kaspar spielen ("In der Schule habe ich immer den Kaspar gespielt.") 9. jemanden/etwas ins Leere laufen lassen 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4875 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 164 of 225 20 January 2013 at 1:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Some of them...
1. zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen Two flies in one strike 2. sich wie ein Elefant im Porzellanladen benehmen To throw a stone in a glass house? 3. Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund In Norwegian: "Morgenstund har gull i munn". Exact translation. Can't explain it though. 4. sich in jemanden verknallen To fall in love with someone 7. jemandem ein Dorn im Auge sein EDIT: No... this must mean to have a grudge against someone or something. Edited by stifa on 20 January 2013 at 2:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6087 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 165 of 225 20 January 2013 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | ||
The other two "Little Challenges" are still open of course but I'd like to throw another one out there because stifa's "Morgenstund har gull i munn" inspired me to respond to this from BAnna, :)
I'm only familiar with Platt. I know how to recognize Hessisch enough, but I'm really fascinated by Platt in the northern regions. Q. What are the German words? (words are simple) 1. snacken 2. Dag för Dag 3. Lüüd 4. gahn 5. Hus 6. Vagel 7. Moder/Mudder 8. Bloom 9. Fruend 10. Dörp 11. Appel Tip: check out Plattmasters BTW "Morgenstund har gull i munn" = whoever wakes up early is richer. In the middle ages when you only had daylight, it was necessary to get up early to work enough hours so you got paid a decent piece of gold or silver, or whatever the pay was. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5353 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese | Message 166 of 225 20 January 2013 at 3:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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For Plattdeutsch, I have lots of use from my Swedish, as the vocabulary actually is a
lot more similar to Swedish as Hochdeutsch. 1. snacken - reden (Swedish snacka) 2. Dag för Dag - Tag für Tag (Swedish Dag för dag) 3. Lüüd - ? 4. gahn - ? 5. Hus - Haus (Swedish Hus) 6. Vagel - Vogel? 7. Moder/Mudder - Mutter (Swedish Moder/mamma) 8. Bloom - Blume (Swedish blomma) 9. Fruend - Freund 10. Dörp - ? 11. Appel - Apfel Of course, I'm just guessing for most of them. :P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4624 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 167 of 225 20 January 2013 at 6:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I also don't put a great value in having a team website. Es ist mir egal. Although the content was interesting, my first thoughts were "These folks are really obsessed!" and "If someone is spending all their time putting this together, when are they working on their language(s)?" Thanks for warning me off looking at any voting discussion: shouldn't learning be its own reward?
@Sunja: this was way too easy for you :). Sorry for the "accusative adverb". The original in German was adverbialer Akkusativ, but a literal translation of that (adverbial accusative) sounded weird to me. Now of course accusative adverb also sounds weird. Seemed like a good idea at the time ... Answers to mini-quiz: 3 and 6 are accusative objects. They can be detected using the questions wen? or was? 3. Wen oder was folgten sie? 6. Wen oder was soll man nicht loben? Also you can substitute a pronoun for them (here ihn works for both). 1,2,4 and 5 are adverbial accusatives. You cannot substitute a pronoun and the part of the sentence fulfills an adverbial purpose such as 1,2,4 time/duration (Zeit) or 5 route (Strecke). I think that last would be like an adverb of manner or degree in English. Th original explanation of the answers is in German, but I think this is targeted to more of a beginning level so I am putting it in English. Above is my interpretation (not a teacher nor grammar expert), so please pitch in anyone if you have any useful clarifications. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4513 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech | Message 168 of 225 20 January 2013 at 6:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't care too much about websites for a team. It's interesting and useful, but I agree with BAnna. Learning is enough and it has got its own reward.
Regarding related languages, I'll tackle Dutch soon :). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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