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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... @Khomus, I really meant the modern English which has lost most of the old grammatical features. I haven't studied the old English much, but from what I could observe from other sources, yes it was based on German but today it is radically different. URL

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... I am Brazilian, my first language is Portuguese, here, we use capital letter only at the beginning of phrases and  names URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/610333/#p610333 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... I've studied Russian for 4 years, and I can say that it definitely uses capitalization. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609835/#p609835 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... AlirezaNosrati wrote:I'm only fluent in 3 languages and English is the only one.same, only english has them, i know 2 languages it might sound weerd URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609828/#p609828 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Oh it's worse than Latin! Greek, French, Hebrew, German, Irish, we've stolen a lot of stuff, or borrowed it, if you like. And borrowing's only the half of it. Some of our grammar rules were imposed because British dudes of earlier centuries thought Latin

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... As far as I know people think Egyptians got the idea of writing from the Sumerians, but the system of writing was then created independently, so I suppose whether it's an independent invention depends on if you're talking about the writing system

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... As far as I know people think Egyptians got the idea of writing from the Sumerians, but the system of writing was then created independently, so I suppose whether it's an independent invention depends on if you're talking about the writing system

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... The problem with claiming that the Latin alphabet was influenced by Egyptian hieroglyphics is that it's pretty speculative. What we know is that Semitic peoples, probably Canaanite, were influenced by the concept of writing from the Egyptians

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... I know about Phoenician. But even Phoenician has its basis in hieroglyphs. This is an interesting video to watch about history of Latin alphabets.Anyway, regardless of where English comes from, or Latin script, admittedly, it's all very interesting and I

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Sorry Germans, that should be Kneipe shouldn't it? What we Americans call a bar and the Brits call a pub?Also, let's compare the words for day. In Old English it was dæg, the 'ae' character is like the 'a' in that and the 'g' would get pronounced like

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... The Latin alphabet wasn't influenced by Egyptian hieroglyphics, or if it was, it was incredibly indirect. The alphabet as we know it is typically understood to go back to a Semitic language, Phoenician to be exact.Re:  English as a Germanic languageYou

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... I do understand English is a Germanic language. That's why I said it is Latin-based, as in, it uses the Latin alphabet. Perhaps clarification would've been helpful. The Latin alphabet influenced many European families of languages. And going back further

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... @23, older English is closer to germanic, while modern English takes more from other languages, example norman and latin. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609567/#p609567 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... @20, can you elaborate more on that? I can't see many similarities between English and German besides nouns/adjective position or some uncommon grammatical structures.So if we take the sentence: He is a highly talented actor, which in German is Er ist

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Sorry @mastodont, I did not realized I did it that way. Probably I typed a lot of capital letters are used not used are used are not used so I got confused in one or 2. I have edited it though. That was a mistake from my side. URL: https

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Wooops. Sorry @mastodont, I did not realized I did it that way. Probably I typed a lot of capital letters are used not used are used are not used so I got confused in one or 2. I have edited it though. That was a mistake from my side. URL: https

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... @15 I am sorry to contradict you but Romanian deffinitely uses capitalization. It is my native language and I am quite familiar with it's grammar and structure. We use capital letters for propper nouns mostly and at the beginning of sentences. I

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... English is absolutely a Germanic language. You can tell because most of the basic words are solidly Germanic. Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, borrowed a lot of Latin, it's true, but if you saw it, it would look a lot more like German. Here's some, so you

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Ooo good to know there are more people who speak multiple languages! I agree with what has already been said here. Latin-based languages certainly have a concept of lowercase and uppercase characters. It also depends on what language family from which

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... @afrim, Thanks for the German info. Yes, I've seen that most of the English words are not related to German, in fact they are more common in Español. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609223/#p609223 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... @post 15, Actually the capitalisation of nouns in German doesn't have to do by and large with the desire of someone who developed these rules to ease the destinction of the position of nouns in a sentence; it is in fact, something that had to do

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Hi.Since persian letters are adapted from Arabic, Persian doesn't have capitalization URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609209/#p609209 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Wall of text coming up.I searched about nouns in German, and here is what I got.As @Connor and others said, the German language, unlike English, uses cases. Cases show what tense a particular noun is in (Case = Subject, Direct Object, Indirect Object

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... no capital letters in Persian. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/609176/#p609176 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... I don't remember the history of capital letters right off, but they're related to manuscripts, in other words books where everything was written or copied by hand. But also in manuscripts, words were often written without spaces. Fun fact, the &q

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Hindi doesn't have any capitals, though it does have symbols like comma, and question mark. aside from that, when it comes to spacing, it is just like English.Japanese doesn't have any spaces, and the foreign words are written in katakana. URL: https

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Yes, German has weird capitalization rules. Spanish is very similar to English. But we have signs for opening questionmark and exclamation point, like: ¡Hello! ¿How are you today? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/608975/#p608975 -- Audiogames

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Yeah ...most if not all Latin alphabet-based languages will have them in some form, I'd say German uses them most often but then I don't know all capitalization rules for all latin-based languages. I've seen some African languages where proper names

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... I don't know how capitals are related to multilingualism but anyway, I speak Albanian as a mother tongue, English fluently and German at a considerably good level and also speak Italian at almost level B1, and out of these three, German has a quite

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... if that was some sort of joke well I guess I'll have to r/woosh myself URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/608788/#p608788 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... I'm only fluent in 3 languages and English is the only one. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/608786/#p608786 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Well I believe most if not all languages based on the Latin (most probably Cyrillic as well) alphabet have the concept of capitalization at the beginning of sentences or when it comes to proper nouns and the like. As for my mother tongue, Arabic, it has

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... for example a similarity of japanese and english is that some japanese words sound english, the same for some spanish words like piano (it is pronounced very similar) vocal (this one is pronounced diferently in spanish) and others URL: https

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Yeah, romanian has it as well, we use them like in english. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/608780/#p608780 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Yeah, that was something I always forgot when I was studying german. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/608778/#p608778 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

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Re: Multi Linguists of the Forum... Sure, german has them. We actually use them even more than in English. We capitalise sentence beginnings and propper names like in english, but we also capitalise all nouns in general. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/608776/#p608776

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Multi Linguists of the Forum... Do other languages have capitals, or something similar? I mean, they have to have something similar, otherwise how would they have names or have things stand out. This is probably really stupid, but I was kind of curious. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net