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Forums => English & Linguistics => Topic started by: kojabu on November 28, 2005, 04:26:54 PM
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pooka, no it's not whatever that big word is language. It looks like they're mostly an agglutinating language.
Ex:
Due to your apparent minor errors is
QaghHommeyHeylIjmo'
where
Qagh: error
-Hom: diminutive
-mey: plural
-Hey: Apparent
-lIj: Your
-mo': Due to
I'm still working on the noun section, the verb part will come later.
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It's like those ancient Sumerian noun phrases in which one word is like.
The-first-king-who-sat-on-the-throne-in-the-kingdom-by-the-mountain-at-the-beginning-of -time-that-spoke-to-god-and-he-replied.
:lol:
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Haha yea, gotta love them. Swahili is agglutinating too.
Klingon's just weird because everything is backwards. The syntax structure is Object Verb Subject.
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The notable thing about Klingon is that it was designed to seem very foreign to most humans. Hence the word order (which I believe never occurs in natural languages) and other weird features like the morphology and phonology.
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Yea, you gotta love glottal stops all over the place. And that funky tlh sound. Oh Klingon how we love you.
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Don't forget the voiceless uvular affricate.
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Err... I'm not doing phonetics, which letter is that?
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Q, but it's sometimes transliterated as kr. Of course, that's about as accurate as transliterating the tlh sound as kl.
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Oh yea, the choking sound.
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German is big on agglutinating, and has a modest inventory of gutturals.
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German's agglutinating?
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I'll agglutinate you! :pirate:
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Oh please don't. I feel like it would hurt.
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German is the most agglutinative language I've studied*. They have a particular fondness for prefixes.
*Unless you include English, but I think it is only in sciency jargon like pneumonoultramicro... yada yada. I guess there is also preantepenultimate, which is actually a linguistics term.
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Kleinkindergeschaeftigungsanstalt!
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Right. I'm not sure how to express the difference between that and Spanish where they say the whole thing as a phrase with a bunch of prepositions in between. I mean, when it comes down to it, who is to say what is a word and what is a phrase beyond how you write it? And the "line" they held when I was in school was that orthography didn't mean squat. I personally disagree, but there you go. Maybe the phrase doesn't act as a discrete lexical unit, but maybe it's a nonconcatenative dealy-oh. Man, language just all sucks. What was I thinking majoring in linguistics?
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What's the English translation of that German spiel?
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little children business institute
This was the name proposed first by the man who invented kindergarten. Luckily, he decided on the name that has stuck.
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We could have always called it the KKDGSTGSS :fear:
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Can each of those prefixes stand on its own?
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More like KKGA.
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Klein = little
Kinder = children
Geschaeft = business
igungs = not sure what this means, but it's a suffix that cannot stand alone
Anstalt = institute
So most of them are complete words on their own. German likes to jam words together, not just add prefixes and suffixes, though they do plenty of that too.
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:huh:
Is there a lost first page to this thread?
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It spawned from either the pie thread or some other thread on the other side of the forum.
Ruth: Klingon's weird because all the stuff that gets put together can't stand alone, unless it's the primary verb or noun.
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Wee I got an A on the paper.