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posted October 12, 2013 01:36 PM |
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keldorn said:
When I was re-reading my old posts, I came across something that I wrote on page 7 in this thread. We were talking about difficult languages to learn, and DagothGares claimed Dutch not being a very difficult language at all. Now comes my problem.
I think in English, there's a phrase to express "very difficult" or "not well-understandable", and this phrase is "double Dutch". Example: This math problem is double Dutch for me.
Do I know something wrong? What is the truth here? 
Oh, if you think dutch is hard, try swiss german or austrian(Tirol) german...
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posted October 12, 2013 03:50 PM |
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keldorn said:
I think in English, there's a phrase to express "very difficult" or "not well-understandable", and this phrase is "double Dutch". Example: This math problem is double Dutch for me.
Do I know something wrong? What is the truth here?
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/double-dutch.html
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posted October 12, 2013 04:07 PM |
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Yea double Dutch s Ok mean pig-Latin
You can call "miracle China"
EDIT: longtime I was view here
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idontcare
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posted November 11, 2013 10:39 PM |
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Hi, for what i understood so far you always attach the ending "ly" on adjectives, if they describe a verb.
Why it isnt called then:
"I am strongLY" instead of the correct "I am strong"
in the sentence the verb "being" is described or are those "must have"-verbs like doing, being etc excluded from that rule?
Edit: and:
why its called Tome (of Earth)?
oldgreek word "tomé" means cutting, which has no connection with a book, well except that paper can cut your fingers..
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posted November 12, 2013 01:09 AM |
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idontcare said:
why its called Tome (of Earth)?
oldgreek word "tomé" means cutting, which has no connection with a book, well except that paper can cut your fingers..
Tome is another word to say book, more or less. Usually when "cutting" a big book in several "tomes" or volumes.
So you're greek, huh?
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idontcare
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posted November 12, 2013 01:39 AM |
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no, im german, but wikipedia states it 
of course Tome means Book, i dont question that, i just wonder WHY its called that way
your explanation makes sense, i think "tome" is more used on old books, where volume is used on neotechnogibberishbooks or?
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posted November 12, 2013 02:20 AM |
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Apparently it comes from Ancient Greek "tomos", which means "roll of papyrus".
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posted November 12, 2013 07:51 AM |
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Frankly, if you can speak and german, you can speak dutch
I probably meant "English and German" back then. And I have revised my opinion on that. Dutch is pretty heinous to learn from scratch. German grammar is more consistent. Dutch pronunciation is harder, since we have more sounds than most languages I know. Current exception: Russian is sort of trying to take my money on that, but they also miss some sounds in their tongue.
They both have about the same huge treasure vault of words, as well as English. English is actually a hard language, but we all sort of know it, since die Amerikanen have conquered the world.
And dialects. You may perfectly know Dutch and not understand a single word of casually spoken Dutch in my country. Great fun, though.
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posted November 12, 2013 12:50 PM |
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idontcare said:
no, im german, but wikipedia states it
Okay
idontcare said:
of course Tome means Book, i dont question that, i just wonder WHY its called that way
Oh, silly me!
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posted December 03, 2013 11:32 PM |
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why is it called armory, shouldn't it be called weaponry? ;P
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mvassilev
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posted December 03, 2013 11:52 PM |
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idontcare
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posted December 04, 2013 12:02 AM |
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ah, thought it comes from armor
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artu
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posted December 06, 2013 07:50 PM |
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Is there any difference (even on association level) between saying Russia or Ryssland?
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mvassilev
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posted December 06, 2013 09:14 PM |
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posted December 06, 2013 10:02 PM |
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Depends on context. From what I gather, Ryssland means Russia in some other language, probably Swedish or Finnish(I'm not sure). Therefore, in an English context, it is meaningless, jumps out of the text with no immediately decipherable meaning, much like Russia would be in Ryssland's language's context.
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artu
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posted December 06, 2013 10:02 PM |
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One of the recent members had a nick that resembled Turkish, so I checked his info, his location was Ryssland. When you google it, it directly opens Russia links and flag etc. It means Russia in some language for sure.
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mvassilev
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posted December 06, 2013 10:08 PM |
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posted December 07, 2013 04:13 PM |
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Ghost, I deleted your spam post. Enough is enough already.
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keldorn
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posted December 09, 2013 06:57 PM |
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And how about words that change in pronounciation if it gets a suffix. Such as sign and signal. Is there some kind of a rule for this? How does this work?
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