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| mserious Trilingual Tetraglot Newbie Israel Joined 5196 days ago 2 posts - 4 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Modern Hebrew*, Russian Studies: Spanish, Ukrainian | Message 25 of 85 11 December 2010 at 10:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Do away with gender-specific second-person personal pronouns in Hebrew, i.e the word
'you' having to be m/f. It makes it quite annoying to have an affair when anytime you receive a call the caller's gender is immediately disclosed. I think I will start referring to everyone as "atem" (you, plural) regardless of sexual affiliation. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Segata Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 5175 days ago 64 posts - 125 votes  Speaks: German*, Japanese, English Studies: Korean, Esperanto | Message 26 of 85 11 December 2010 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | ||
More noun genders in every language! 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 27 of 85 11 December 2010 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Vietnmese people to go back to chu nom!!!
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| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5475 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch | Message 28 of 85 11 December 2010 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | ||
Heh. Do you seriously think Latin is all that irregular? You should try a romance language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 LauraM Pro Member United States Joined 5356 days ago 77 posts - 97 votes Studies: German Personal Language Map | Message 29 of 85 11 December 2010 at 11:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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MORE genders in other languages???
Wirklich??? Aber warum?! LOL Seriously, I'm just curious...and reflecting, I must admit, there is something about the "puzzle" of genders in German that I actually like...so many "Aha!" moments... Edited by LauraM on 11 December 2010 at 11:57pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5613 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written) | Message 30 of 85 12 December 2010 at 12:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Get rid of all the R's in all the languages. Even though I love the sound I was not made for them and they were not made for me :P Even my native English accent doesn't have medial or final R's! When I say car it's more like "caa"
Have each Japanese kanji only have one pronunciation. Is that really too much to ask? No more silent letters 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Raari Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5101 days ago 4 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 31 of 85 12 December 2010 at 12:50am | IP Logged | ||
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I second the idea that English should regain common use of thou. Not only because it sounds nice, but more because, after getting used to the tu/usted distinction in Spanish and then to the Japanese honorific system, it just seems wrong to call my girlfriend, grandfather, professor and strangers all by the same "you". I remember well my meeting with the mayor of Nihonmatsu, which became immediately smoother once I grammatically indicated my respect for him. English could use something like that. I'm probably very mistaken in thinking that dropping a full honorific system on English would magically bring some omoiyari with it, but you never know...
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| batswinger Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5100 days ago 2 posts - 6 votes Speaks: FrenchA2 | Message 32 of 85 12 December 2010 at 3:02am | IP Logged | ||
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English is too hard for many learners and needs simplifying by making it more standard. I would make a survey of the 500 or so most misspelled words and respell them to conform with the most high frequency spelling pattern. So a word like dumb might become dum to go with rum and sum. Comb (roam), tomb (loom) and bomb (Tom) doant rime on the page and could join their propper word-families.
We could rationalize the used of the apostrophe (for instance: woant, doant but Tom's and Jill's) & follow the double consonant rule more rigorously (very - berry, comic - common, ruddy - study, rabbit - habit). Silent letter would need a prune too. The English English habbit of writing "a service - to service, a promise - to promise but a practice - to practise", could usefully go. English is complex in its verb constructions (catch - caught, hatched - hatched) but I would leave changing lexical rules to someone who is braver. Changes would look odd until people become habituated to them and then folks would not want to go back to the archaisms of English. The spoken language would remain essentially the same. But, who is going to push these, or reforms like these, thru? Also I would use Esperanto as a standard starter second language in schools. I know, Im asking too much. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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