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| Gilgamesh Tetraglot Senior Member England Joined 6243 days ago 452 posts - 468 votes  14 sounds Speaks: Dutch, English, German, French Studies: Polish | Message 1 of 7 22 August 2009 at 6:43pm | IP Logged |
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Interesting.
Edit: I've merged two very similar threads together, I'm sorry for any inconvenienced caused and hope that you don't feel offended by this. - Jiwon Edited by Jiwon on 22 August 2009 at 8:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Tupiniquim Senior Member Brazil Joined 6084 days ago 184 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, Russian | Message 2 of 7 22 August 2009 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
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Very interesting.
It made me realize that a new Portuguese word should be coined in order to express "Prozvonit" appropriately, perhaps the first name of a couple of people I know... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6437 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 7 22 August 2009 at 7:40pm | IP Logged |
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I saw a similar list before, although it has different 10 words.
http://www.cracked.com/article_17251_10-coolest-foreign-word s-english-language-needs.html Warning: there's some rude language there as it's intended to be for adults. Edited by Jiwon on 22 August 2009 at 7:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Monitor16807 Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 5693 days ago 21 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English, French* Studies: German, Latin | Message 4 of 7 22 August 2009 at 8:04pm | IP Logged |
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This is where the second thread started - Jiwon
I'm always interested in words which are unique to a language, post yours. For example one of the "si" in French, it can only be used if I'm answering a question asked with a negative sense, here is an example. Don't you like it? -Si. But Do you like it? -Oui./Yes Both meaning that I do like it. Although I don't know if it's unique to French or non-existing in English. Edited by Jiwon on 22 August 2009 at 8:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 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 5 of 7 22 August 2009 at 8:23pm | IP Logged |
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This mechanism is also found in Danish>
Do you like it? Kan du lide det? Ja Don't you like it? Kan du IKKE lide det? Jo (in both cases the person like whatever it is) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6437 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 7 22 August 2009 at 8:27pm | IP Logged |
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You get that also in German. The word is "doch", although there are many more places where you use doch, other than just this. Edited by Jiwon on 22 August 2009 at 8:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kubelek Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland chomikuj.pl/Kuba_wal Joined 6853 days ago 415 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 7 of 7 06 May 2011 at 10:05pm | IP Logged |
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world/"> another list of 20
the-world/"> and yet another edit: oops, old thread. Sorry if there was a longer one already, that's the one I managed to find. I didn't want to create a new one. Edited by Kubelek on 06 May 2011 at 10:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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