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Post by Echo on Feb 9, 2016 0:10:22 GMT
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Post by ⚓️anchor on Mar 20, 2017 0:37:05 GMT
The language protectors of Iceland and France have traditionally been among the most restrictive, but this indicates that the guardians of the French language are starting to think more practical and less dogmatic. A language that stops developing and progressing tends to become stagnant and less attractive, IMO.
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Post by Joey on Mar 20, 2017 5:24:41 GMT
I say put the little hat back on some vowels.
Hmm when I tried it it reversed the words and no little hats.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 6:26:38 GMT
why is this generation continually being dumbed down? what is going on>!
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Post by Joey on Mar 20, 2017 6:28:10 GMT
Have you tied the new math?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 6:29:40 GMT
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Post by Joey on Mar 20, 2017 6:31:44 GMT
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Post by Echo on Mar 20, 2017 10:51:26 GMT
I fail to understand how this can be easier to learn. Maybe young people today are born with a different ability to reason than us?
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Post by Joey on Mar 20, 2017 19:27:53 GMT
Just like the France think it's dumbing down the kids. if you can't grasp the concept of 1 apple plus another apple = 2 apples and if you take 1 apple away you you are left with 1 apple there is no help for you. I'm not the best at math but I can't grasp adding subtracting multiplying and division. I under stand algebra but that never helped me on my job.
On vacation in Hawaii and on a tour of an area they tell you what the an area is called, then they give you what the Hawaiian name is for it. This keeps there language on going and they teach it to their kids. I find it super interesting. Once my wife was going to take me to a place and surprise me. She had the address or so she thought.
Can't remember the number but it was something like this 123 E Komo Mai So she got directions and we found a street named E Komo Mai but it was just a subdivision street. She was taking me to where they filmed Dog The Bounty Hunter. I looked it up and I believe it was on King street. We found the place and sure enough above the number it said E Komo Mai. We bought some tee shirts from on of the cast and left. As I was looking around I saw E Komo Mai on just about every place we went. Finally I was standing and waiting for my wife and found a Hawaiian working there and ask what it meant. They had no idea so I guess it isn't taught to all kids growing up. Found another guy and he told me it loosely means Welcome. So all the stores and shops say Welcome above them. Hahaha made me laugh and then each shop we went into I would open the door and tell my wife E Komo Mai. We had fun with it.
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Post by ⚓️anchor on Mar 20, 2017 23:26:21 GMT
A friend of mine was a truck driver in Germany for many years. He told me that once, another friend rode with him for about a week and the latter guy didn't know any German. One evening, he asked the driver which was the biggest city nearby. How so, was the reply. Well, there are so many signs indicating somewhere called Ausfahrt! The driver laughed so hard that he almost caused an accident with his big rig. Ausfahrt means Exit in German.
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Post by Echo on Mar 21, 2017 12:12:21 GMT
A woman fell in love with the fried noodles that were served with soup at a new Asian restaurant. She asked what they were called and decided to tell everyone about the kwan chi noodles. It was a good while before she realised that the waitress was just saying crunchy noodles with an accent!
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Post by Joey on Mar 21, 2017 20:49:13 GMT
hahaha...both of those a great stories.
Years ago my dad had a tire or a just a bad tire so he went to a tire place and told them he needed a new tar, They said they didn't sell tar there. My dad couldn't understand because they had tires all over the place. He said no I need a tar (he is sort of from the south) Finally they figured our tar = tire and took car of him. Some people north and south of her think we have accent...when it's really them...lol.
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Post by ⚓️anchor on Mar 21, 2017 21:22:25 GMT
Accents and dialects are fun. They add another dimension to the language. Particularly when you understand them!  |
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Post by Joey on Mar 22, 2017 1:28:47 GMT
That happened when my dad was a lot younger. Last year we went to Oklahoma and at times I had a hard time understanding some words because of their drawl. Then take a trip to Wisconsin and my cousin and I use to laugh about how they spoke. Now he lives there and speaks just like them. And they joke about people in the Upper peninsula of Michigan. I always thought New Yorkers would have a distinctive accent but when there I didn't notice it. Then while shopping we ran into a clerk that went to college close to here and she figured we were from the mid west because we sounded like her.
But I think the people in France are missing out by not teaching the language like it was taught them.
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Post by ⚓️anchor on Mar 23, 2017 21:35:09 GMT
If I understood it correctly, it was just getting rid of an accent that people forget to write anyway and cutting down diphthongs to single vowels, more in line with how people pronounce those words. Also English has been simplified and adapted to pronunciation, particularly American English.
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