jean-luc Senior Member France Joined 4960 days ago 100 posts - 150 votes Speaks: French* Studies: German
| Message 9 of 12 10 September 2011 at 9:01am | IP Logged |
MarcusOdim wrote:
why does Iversen use such a fancy vocabulary? |
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I'm not the best at English but his post is perfectly clear for me.
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MarcusOdim Groupie Brazil Joined 4847 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes
| Message 10 of 12 10 September 2011 at 3:33pm | IP Logged |
it's not what I mean, it's that he uses words that are barely used by natives
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GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5523 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French
| Message 11 of 12 10 September 2011 at 5:09pm | IP Logged |
MarcusOdim wrote:
it's not what I mean, it's that he uses words that are barely used by natives |
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Well, the subject is barely talked about by natives.
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iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5262 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French)
| Message 12 of 12 10 September 2011 at 6:02pm | IP Logged |
This thread has deviated from the OP's subject- Aromanian. I am interested in knowing more from our community about this somewhat obscure European romance language. Instead, this topic has degenerated into whether or not one of our language learning luminaries is using "language barely used by natives".
In English when discussion turns to technical or scientific matters, a more Latinate vocabulary is used in order to be more precise. This is one of the features of our language that makes it highly useful in, and adaptable to, almost any situation. Iversen's vocabulary is quite clear, precise, unambiguous and perfectly comprehensible and appropriate to me, as a native English speaker, in this technical discussion related to the distinction between Romanian and Aromanian.
I'd love to know more about Aromanian beyond what I can find on Wikipedia. I hope we can dispense with critiquing other members' use of English and get back to discussing Aromanian, this is an interesting subject.
Edited by iguanamon on 10 September 2011 at 6:06pm
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