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| WANNABEAFREAK Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong cantonese.hk Joined 6828 days ago 144 posts - 185 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English*, Cantonese Studies: French | Message 1 of 12 29 December 2010 at 3:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Every time I hear an Indian speak English they say "very less". For me I have never heard any American, British, Australian etc say this ever. The only people who do are from India.
I'm assuming they are saying "very few" or "very little". However, whenever I hear it, my tracking of a conversation stops and immediately I notice this grammar error or difference and for some unknown reason I translate it to "very few" like translating a foreign language. Is "very less" incorrect? Edited by WANNABEAFREAK on 29 December 2010 at 3:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5101 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 2 of 12 29 December 2010 at 3:39am | IP Logged | ||
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It is indeed incorrect. Perhaps, they mean "Less" or "much less."
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| WANNABEAFREAK Diglot Senior Member Hong Kong cantonese.hk Joined 6828 days ago 144 posts - 185 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, Cantonese Studies: French | Message 3 of 12 29 December 2010 at 3:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Ah, just found this:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100410185022AA Ee0oI 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 4 of 12 29 December 2010 at 8:33am | IP Logged | ||
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I was wondering if anyone had any good links for learning the Persian alphabet. I get
bored with learning it letter by letter, so I'd prefer a good reference chart. I sort of understand the concept of the initial, middle, and final stages, as well as the markings. I learned Hangul this way relatively quickly, and I learned the Japanese alphabets in a similar manner. Can anyone please give me some advice on how I can apply this to Persian? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 5 of 12 29 December 2010 at 8:33am | IP Logged | ||
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I've reposted my question above three different times but I keeps re-directing me to this
thread. Bug? Forum problem?? Edited by Po-ru on 29 December 2010 at 8:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6950 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 6 of 12 29 December 2010 at 8:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Po-ru, it seems to be an intermittent problem. You should PM a moderator to move it to a new thread for you.
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 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 7 of 12 29 December 2010 at 10:32am | IP Logged | ||
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I couldn't even make a new thread myself, so I couldn't help Po-ru. I have PM'ed Administrator to ask for a reboot of the system. Edited by Iversen on 29 December 2010 at 10:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 8 of 12 29 December 2010 at 1:47pm | IP Logged | ||
How do you know? Do you speak Indian English? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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