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leosmith
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 Message 9 of 12
26 December 2011 at 6:26pm | IP Logged 
Ari wrote:
Monodick: A monolingual person who insists everyone speaks their language even when abroad

I don't get it. Would women normally not be required to speak their language?
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clumsy
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Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi

 
 Message 10 of 12
22 February 2012 at 1:05pm | IP Logged 
I think it's a enterntaining idea to do the same with some more langs.
Korean:




주차하다 meaans 'to park a car'.

then we can say: 주마하다 to 'park' a horse.

By using hanja, you can make a lot of new words, actually Koreans do it as well
(making words that do not exist in Chinese from hanja.)

I found myself creating new words, which later I learned, already existed in Korean.





We in Poland have a sweet called 'ptasie mleczko' (bird's milk).


I had problem how to translate it into Korean, when talking about it to my pen pal.



Since





우유 the word for milk, already includes 'cow', and if you want to say 'mother milk'
(milk which babies drink from mother's breast) you say 모유 not 어머니 우유, same
with goat milk 양유 (not sure about this), Then I made up a word '조유' using hanja.



조 is Sino-Korean word for bird (native Korean word is 새).



If I think about it now, I think using English loanword for 'milk would be a better
choice.


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tommus
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 Message 11 of 12
22 February 2012 at 3:19pm | IP Logged 
language leerner - a polyglot wannabe

Closetta Stone - unused language course

produnciation - early second language speech

speling - early second language spelling, similar to writting.






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Lucky Charms
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 Message 12 of 12
23 February 2012 at 5:08am | IP Logged 
Mezzofonti (adj.) - used to describe a language learning forum that does not provide the
option to alter font size.

Pimpsleur (n.) One whose language learning agenda revolves around luring women to one's
hotel room with promises of wine and dollars.


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