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poet13
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Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Gravely out of practice in spanish and greek. Tagalog is our household language. English fair to middling. |
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Hank the Iconoclast
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ilovebdt
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
Location: Nr Seoul
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French, German, Spanish and a little Italian and Polish.
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politica
Joined: 12 Dec 2006
Location: Suwon-si
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| Spanish, Arabic, and Hebrew . . . |
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UberJRI
Joined: 22 Apr 2008
Location: Not where I want to be...yet
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:01 am Post subject: |
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| Dome Vans wrote: |
| I also passed my Cornish exam when I was 11 years old. But that language died out with the cavemen. |
Ever thought of contributing here?
http://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennfolen |
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Atramentous
Joined: 12 Jan 2008
Location: Ansan
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| French fluently, but with the melodious Belgian accent. Choppy Spanish due to lack of use. |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 5:28 am Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| Dome Vans wrote: |
| I also passed my Cornish exam when I was 11 years old. But that language died out with the cavemen. |
Ever thought of contributing here?
http://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennfolen |
I think the only thing I'll contribute to that is 1-10:
1: Onan
2: Dew
3: Tri
4: Peswar
5: Pymp
6: Heth
7: Seyth
8: Eth
9: Naw
10: Deg
Dyth da - Good day
Gwelles - Bed (I only remember that because my teacher said that you wear your 'wellies' in bed)
Apart from that I've forgotten the rest although I do miss Kernow a great deal. |
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jinks
Joined: 27 Oct 2004
Location: Formerly: Lower North Island
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:11 am Post subject: |
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I think the only thing I'll contribute to that is 1-10:
1: Onan
2: Dew
3: Tri
4: Peswar
5: Pymp
6: Heth
7: Seyth
8: Eth
9: Naw
10: Deg
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Is that 's' in number 4 a typo? Shouldn't it be pedwar (don't know Cornish, but it's close enough to Welsh) |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:36 am Post subject: |
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| jinks wrote: |
| Dome Vans wrote: |
I think the only thing I'll contribute to that is 1-10:
1: Onan
2: Dew
3: Tri
4: Peswar
5: Pymp
6: Heth
7: Seyth
8: Eth
9: Naw
10: Deg
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Is that 's' in number 4 a typo? Shouldn't it be pedwar (don't know Cornish, but it's close enough to Welsh) |
A full 19 years after I passed a primary school exam, I never thought I'd be discussing on a Korean forum about the Cornish language.
You're right that it's similar to Welsh and it also has a lot of links with Normandy french. It's pronouned 'pedgwaar' from what I remember, so it makes sense that it's pedwar. But I found it here as a back up:
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four - peswar
feminine = peder |
http://www.cornish-language.org/English/Dictionary.asp
My teacher was and still is a Cornish bard. Strange how learning a strange language at such a young age can give you such an interest to study more languages. I'm not too sure how many people actually speak Cornish now, can't be many, especially not since the trendies and Jamie Oliver took over the South West. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 7:30 am Post subject: |
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Since we're on the subject, has anybody ever had the chance to learn or hear Papiamento?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nHOZvw3UTvI
Basically it's the Spanish-like (actually more based on Portuguese, but whatever) language you wish you had gotten to learn in school. Check out the verb conjugation:
I have - Mi tin
You have - Bo tin
He has She has It has - E tin
We have - Nos tin
You have - Boso tin
They have - Nan tin
I can - Mi por
You can - Bo por
He can She can It can - E por
We can - Nos por
You can - Boso por
They can - Nan por
The Past Tense
I could / I could have = Mi tawata por
Short sentences:
I can dance = Mi por baila
to dance = baila
and so on. A lot of IAL advocates think Papiamento would make a good world language for its simplicity but close similarity to current major languages. |
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MUOhio82
Joined: 25 Apr 2008
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Bilingual - German and English .... when intoxicated turns into something quite unintelligible  |
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endo
Joined: 14 Mar 2004
Location: Seoul...my home
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Thiuda
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Location: Religion ist f�r Sklaven geschaffen, f�r Wesen ohne Geist.
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Deutsch. German is my native language, English my L2. I became a Canadian citizen at 23 after naturalizing. Koreans think my accent is British. |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| French, Japanese, a little German and Thai |
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