Author Topic: Language Megathread 1.0 (Read 9677 times)

Pie Crust · April 30, 2014, 10:22:15 PM

Owoh reea ouoy odayot?

Wait, does the Y count as a vowel or as a consonant?

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XR-7 · April 30, 2014, 10:25:10 PM

Quote from: Pie Crust on April 30, 2014, 10:03:13 PM

Tratar/intentar are different words to say "try".
El intento. The attempt.
Él intentó. He tried.

Ah ok. In my Spanish class, I remembered "probarse" meant "to try on" with the "se" attached to the infinitive, "probar". I guess it was slightly off.

Pie Crust · April 30, 2014, 10:28:05 PM

You need to be very careful with the tildes "`". It WILL change the meaning of your sentence.

XR-7 · April 30, 2014, 10:29:05 PM

Quote from: Pie Crust on April 30, 2014, 10:28:05 PM

You need to be very careful with the tildes "`". It WILL change the meaning of your sentence.

As in accent marks?

Pie Crust · April 30, 2014, 10:29:39 PM

Yep. Like I posted before, the words were the same. The only difference was the marks.

Markey · April 30, 2014, 10:30:54 PM

Who can speak Yiddish?

XR-7 · April 30, 2014, 10:31:09 PM

Quote from: Pie Crust on April 30, 2014, 10:29:39 PM

Yep. Like I posted before, the words were the same. The only difference was the marks.

Only thing is that I'm too lazy to search around for letters with marks. I get what you're saying though.

Pie Crust · April 30, 2014, 10:35:08 PM

There are four kinds of words.
Agudas. The strong sylable is the last one. "cagó" Contains the mark ONLY if the last letter is a vowel, N or S.
Llanas/Graves. The strong sylable is the second last. "lápiz" Contains the mark ONLY if the last letter ISN'T a vowel, N or S.
Esdrújulas/Sobreesdrújulas. The strong sylable is anywhere except the last two.

The fourth kind is a special exception made with questions and pronouns.

Quote from: Markey on April 30, 2014, 10:30:54 PM

Who can speak Yiddish?

I was taught hebrew the last two years of school. No yiddish though.

SWAT One · April 30, 2014, 10:37:20 PM

I am in the process of writing a language. Latin and German-based, but having an Asian-like typeface.

"Miam ün a piøl." meaning "I am one of many."

/Pacha · April 30, 2014, 10:47:32 PM

Quote from: Pie Crust on April 30, 2014, 10:16:03 PM

¿Qué tan bien podes hablar?

did you mean puedes

Pie Crust · April 30, 2014, 10:48:40 PM

In Argentine spanish, podes is correct. This is exactly why I hate having different types of a language.

/Pacha · April 30, 2014, 10:50:33 PM

Oh yeah, I know Argentina uses "Sos" too which is odd.

NEkram · April 30, 2014, 10:51:10 PM

imo argentine spanish sounds gay :\

Pie Crust · April 30, 2014, 10:51:32 PM

Sos is more fitting than tu (And it's shorter to write).
"Sos una gran persona"
"Tu eres una gran persona"

Quote from: NEkram on April 30, 2014, 10:51:10 PM

imo argentine spanish sounds gay :\

I think the exact same thing with mexican and spain spanish.

DrenDran · April 30, 2014, 11:07:53 PM

Quote from: SWAT One on April 30, 2014, 10:37:20 PM

I am in the process of writing a language. Latin and German-based, but having an Asian-like typeface.

"Miam ün a piøl." meaning "I am one of many."

All the fun of looking Japanese with none of the difficulty