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| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4043 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 17 of 31 21 November 2013 at 10:32am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, we do use the same in Russian constantly and it doesn't really matter if we say потому (because) или потому что (because of).
It's very convenient for Russians, I'm sure. Why? Because :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6406 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 18 of 31 21 November 2013 at 12:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's more similar to потому что гладиолус I would say :)
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6391 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 19 of 31 21 November 2013 at 12:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love this construction. It's intelligent and innovative and it expresses things in a new way, with plenty of color. I hope it will catch on and get more into spoken language. You can't stop it, because Internet.
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4637 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 20 of 31 21 November 2013 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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With all due respect to Ari, his use of it proves how ugly it is, at least to the "ears"
of an RP-ish speaking Englander. However, if it's textspeak, why not " 'cos" or "cos", I wonder. I think it's faddish, a bit like the (to me) awful "who knew?". At least the latter is usually used in a witty-ish way, but "because" used in the way described seems as light- footed and slick as a pound of wet dough. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6406 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 21 of 31 21 November 2013 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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It just takes some getting used to :) BTW do the structures I mentioned sound clumsy to you?
Another example of netspeak is "I can't even" without a continuation, or "I can't with those people". For now this sounds ugly to me as well, but let's see :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5037 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 22 of 31 21 November 2013 at 3:47pm | IP Logged | ||
Well, if I were I certainly couldn't admit it, though I will say I'm writing this while under a bridge, and boy do I have a hankering for goat chops. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4431 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 23 of 31 21 November 2013 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Having had to listen to groups of kids saying whassssup in the late 90s (from the Budweiser adverts), a piddling new pronoun doesn't offend my ears in the slightest :-)
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| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5369 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 24 of 31 21 November 2013 at 6:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Never seen or heard of it, but then I don't get out much.
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