On 2013-03-13 09:56, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
A Q about the Slovak language: while you were in a union with the
Czechs, did the languages start to unify spontaneously? I mean like
vocabulary changes, minor grammatical drift, spelling oddities changing
and so on and so forth?
I've got a bit
Ah, yes, and there are also diacritics and many wild rules about
them, sometimes with barely noticeable influence on pronunciation
and serious disdain from officials who must work with and respect
the official proper language (which the SMS-generation can't write
due to lots of practice with
As an American, I think it's funny because it works on so many levels --
it's a wry commentary on seemingly boundless American imperialism, it's
a good send-up of the perception of Americans as culturally ignorant
boors, and it even works as a simple joke on baffling languages. No
matter how
On 03/16/13 01:23, låzaro wrote:
exist any alphabet with uppercase and lowercase numbers?
They're somewhat common in typography. A short introduction to text
figures is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowercase_numbers
--
James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W
On 2013-03-16 06:16, låzaro wrote:
Could somebody from Rusia tell me what think about special characters?
Well, there are almost none in the alphabet. A couple of letters have
embedded apostrophes or carets (й vs и) and dots (ё vs е), but they
are static explicit symbols of the alphabet, with
On 18/03/2013 15:13, Jim Klimov wrote:
Other than that, diacritics are a nuisance of other languages for us,
funny to look at and tedious to learn, which modern English luckily
avoids - and see how it dominates the world today.
Just look which language dominates the world:
On 2013-03-18 16:10, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
On 18/03/2013 15:13, Jim Klimov wrote:
Other than that, diacritics are a nuisance of other languages for us,
funny to look at and tedious to learn, which modern English luckily
avoids - and see how it dominates the world today.
Just look which
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G
Computing is SOOO boring in comparison..
On 2013-03-15 01:25, Jim Klimov wrote:
On 2013-03-13 10:17, Marcel Telka wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:56:07AM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
Way off-topic ;)
A Q about the Slovak language: while you were in a union with the
Even more off-topic!!!
You all don't know what you've been doing to me! With all of the stupid
computer problems I've had this week, all I've wanted to do all week is pack a
bag and move to Moravia, where my (German) ancestors came from! Live a nice,
simple, quiet life, without from
On 03/14/13 20:25, Jim Klimov wrote:
In some words they take role of a vowel for phonetics, thus there
can be words and phrases without vowel characters at all. Possibly
the most popular example is strč prst skrz krk (put a finger
through the throat)
On 2013-03-15 07:57, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G
Computing is SOOO boring in comparison..
Well, humans are computers for ideas, and natural languages are a way
to program them, inquire and report data. So it is not that much
different... just think of Neuro-Linguistical
On 2013-03-15 08:42, dormitionsk...@hotmail.com wrote:
Even more off-topic!!!
You all don't know what you've been doing to me! With all of the stupid
computer problems I've had this week, all I've wanted to do all week is pack a
bag and move to Moravia, where my (German) ancestors came from!
I'm not sure europeans think that funny for quite the same reasons as an
american might...
Perspective is a funny thing.
On 2013-03-15 12:37, James Carlson wrote:
On 03/14/13 20:25, Jim Klimov wrote:
In some words they take role of a vowel for phonetics, thus there
can be words and phrases
On 03/15/13 09:25, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
I'm not sure europeans think that funny for quite the same reasons as an
american might...
Perspective is a funny thing.
Maybe you're right, but I'm not so sure.
As an American, I think it's funny because it works on so many levels --
it's a wry
On 2013-03-13 10:17, Marcel Telka wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:56:07AM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
Way off-topic ;)
A Q about the Slovak language: while you were in a union with the
Czechs, did the languages start to unify spontaneously? I mean like
vocabulary changes, minor
Can that confusion happen at the start of a word or only inside words??
And how many rulebreaking words are there, can they be enumerated??
On 2013-03-12 22:50, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
On 03/12/2013 10:10 PM, Marcel Telka wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:02:27PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
I'm
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 08:01:16AM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
Can that confusion happen at the start of a word or only inside
words?? And how many rulebreaking words are there, can they be
enumerated??
It can happen only in the middle. Only in a case when the word is constructed
from two
not such an easy thing then...
however. I suppose given a complete dictionary, a system could try
splitting a word between c and h and see if the resulting subwords are
in the dictionary. Hmm
On 2013-03-13 08:57, Marcel Telka wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 08:01:16AM +0100, Hans J.
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:04:43AM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
not such an easy thing then...
however. I suppose given a complete dictionary, a system could try
splitting a word between c and h and see if the resulting subwords
are in the dictionary. Hmm
Sometimes they might not be
I remember taking a course in Latvian, when the teacher proudly
announced that all of 3.5 million people spoke it world wide.
I suppose she had Livian to compare with, 300 or so, these days..
Swedish is a BIG language: 9 million here, 2 million speak east swedish,
and then about a million in
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:56:07AM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
A Q about the Slovak language: while you were in a union with the
Czechs, did the languages start to unify spontaneously? I mean like
vocabulary changes, minor grammatical drift, spelling oddities
changing and so on and so
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:17:51AM +0100, Marcel Telka wrote:
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:56:07AM +0100, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
A Q about the Slovak language: while you were in a union with the
Czechs, did the languages start to unify spontaneously? I mean like
vocabulary changes, minor
I sort of expected
echo {Z..Ö}
to generate
Z Å Ä Ö
when LC_ALL was set to sv_SE.UTF-8
But it doesn't. Seems like a bug, or what??
Found while hacking some scripts for backup and indexing stuff. Major
showstopper, actually.
___
On 03/12/2013 09:53 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
I sort of expected
echo {Z..Ö}
to generate
Z Å Ä Ö
when LC_ALL was set to sv_SE.UTF-8
But it doesn't. Seems like a bug, or what??
Found while hacking some scripts for backup and indexing stuff. Major
showstopper, actually.
I'm
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:02:27PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
I'm pretty sure nobody in bash development actually considers
locale-specific letter ordering rules. Language-specific idiosyncrasies
are a never ending stream of hurt and implementation problems (e.g. in
my language ch is supposed
On 03/12/13 16:53, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
I sort of expected
echo {Z..Ö}
to generate
Z Å Ä Ö
when LC_ALL was set to sv_SE.UTF-8
But it doesn't. Seems like a bug, or what??
It doesn't seem to do that on any of the platforms I tested. Given that
the bash documentation for echo
On 03/12/2013 10:10 PM, Marcel Telka wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:02:27PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
I'm pretty sure nobody in bash development actually considers
locale-specific letter ordering rules. Language-specific idiosyncrasies
are a never ending stream of hurt and implementation
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