MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5810 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German
| Message 113 of 115 27 October 2010 at 3:31pm | IP Logged |
Ari wrote:
MäcØSŸ wrote:
Qinshi wrote:
Today is my friend's birthday.
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今天是我朋友的生日。
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Hôm nay là [ngày] sinh nhật của bạn tôi
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It's amazing how sentence in hanzi is completely intelligible to Mandarin speakers, even though Vietnamese is a
very different language. |
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I'm guessing that's because it's written in Mandarin and not Vietnamese? |
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Oops... I thought it was the same sentence written in Hán tự...
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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 114 of 115 27 October 2010 at 3:52pm | IP Logged |
Old Chemist wrote:
Yes I know! I meant as a world written language. Esperanto is a bit too "Eurocentric," i.e. Indo-European for the rest of the world don't you think, dude? (LOL - first time I've called anyone "dude" - not even sure what it means exactly!) |
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Esperanto is too heavily based on the physical world. A new international language would need to be based on the peculiarities of internet communication, which is very poorly served by any current language.
An "internetese" would be difficult to learn for someone who hasn't used the internet, but I think seasoned internauts would get it pretty easily.
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Qinshi Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5754 days ago 115 posts - 183 votes Speaks: Vietnamese*, English Studies: French, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 115 of 115 28 October 2010 at 2:30pm | IP Logged |
MäcØSŸ wrote:
Oops... I thought it was the same sentence written in Hán tự... |
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This is what hôm nay là ngày sinh nhật của bạn tôi looks like in Hán-Nôm. All of the characters in the image are already encoded and available to type. For the last character, there is a better alternative that is yet to be encoded with a person radical on the left.
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