Number Of Civilizations!

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
Nous tous parlons le français couramment.

Excellent, cela signifie donc que je peux me dispenser d'écrire en Anglais dans les forums Apolyton.

[Devil of Truth]

Non. Apparemment il est impoli et contre les règles!

[Tamerlin]

OK, I won't do it again!

But it's not fair...

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Devil of Truth
Non. Apparemment il est impoli et contre les règles!

BtW, Replace "il" by "cela" and your sentence is perfect.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Zacharov
Sy sprekken allegear har eigen bargedútsk. Ik ferstea dêr neat mear fan. It is allegear sljochtweihinne. Ik tocht dat dit oer CTP2 gie, mar blykbar ha ik mysels fersint. Kinne wy werom nei it tema gean. Oars wurdst it neat mei dizze thread. It is net komysk mear.

"bûter, brea en griene tsiis, wa dat net sizze kin is gjin oprjochte Frys." Grutte Pier

There are problably less than half a dozen people on all of Apolyton can actually make sense of that, but I think I get the stretch of it I guess Frisian and Twents are not all *that* dissimilar

No, this thread seems to have left CtP2-related topics a long time ago, you got that right

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Locutus


There are problably less than half a dozen people on all of Apolyton can actually make sense of that, but I think I get the stretch of it I guess Frisian and Twents are not all *that* dissimilar

No, this thread seems to have left CtP2-related topics a long time ago, you got that right

Frisian and Twents ?

Even when you speak English I can't understand.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Devil of Truth
Non. Apparemment il est impoli et contre les règles!

Vous pouvez parler finlandais cependant. Son non juste .

[Dauphin]

As I understad it, Frisian and Twente are different dialects of Dutch.

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Big Crunch


Vous pouvez parler finlandais cependant.

How come we can speak Finnish and not French? Isn't it equally forbidden by the rules?

Son non juste .

The first sentence is perfect but I don't understand what you mean with the second one. Is it "it's not fair"? In this case you should write : "ce n'est pas juste or (if you want to give it a childish touch) "c'est pas juste!".

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
As I understad it, Frisian and Twente are different dialects of Dutch.

Almost Frisian and Twents (Twente is the region, Twents the language) are dialects in the Netherlands. They're not dialects of the Dutch language. Of course, over the course of the past dozen or so centuries, Dutch had a huge impact on both dialects, but they're not Dutch in origin. Twents is a Lower Saxon (= ~German) dialect and if I'm not mistaken Frisian is a language in it's own, not a dialect of any other language (though Scandinavian languages come closest). In fact, English has strong Frisian influences, stronger than most other Germanic influences. So if anything, English is actually a dialect of Frisian

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Tamerlin
The first sentence is perfect but I don't understand what you mean with the second one. Is it "it's not fair"? In this case you should write : "ce n'est pas juste or (if you want to give it a childish touch) "c'est pas juste!".

I had an attack of stupidity is all.

Like the time I forgot gold fish was poisson rouge and translated it literally from English to "poisson d'or". I got a funny look that time too.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Tamerlin


How come we can speak Finnish and not French? Isn't it equally forbidden by the rules?

There is a 'grandfather' rule. In the OT the Finns had their own language thread. When the new rule about languages came into effect they were specifically exempted so as not to close down the suomithreadi.

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Locutus
Almost Frisian and Twents (Twente is the region, Twents the language) are dialects in the Netherlands. They're not dialects of the Dutch language. Of course, over the course of the past dozen or so centuries, Dutch had a huge impact on both dialects, but they're not Dutch in origin. Twents is a Lower Saxon (= ~German) dialect and if I'm not mistaken Frisian is a language in it's own, not a dialect of any other language (though Scandinavian languages come closest). In fact, English has strong Frisian influences, stronger than most other Germanic influences.

Thanks for the explanation Locutus, it reminds me of the time two languages were in use in France, the Oc tongue (in southern France) and the Oil tongue (in Northern France). I remember the old persons talked what we named the Patois when I was young, it's now called the Occitan and is almost no more in use.

The Patois was different from region to region and a whole part of France is still called the Occitanie (Toulouse is a part of it and one of its emblems is the Occitan Cross) while a neighbouring one is named the Languedoc which can be translated as Oc Tongue.

So if anything, English is actually a dialect of Frisian

Here is the Occitan Cross:

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
I had an attack of stupidity is all.

Don't worry, some of my mistakes in English would make you feel like a Super Genius.

Like the time I forgot gold fish was poisson rouge and translated it literally from English to "poisson d'or". I got a funny look that time too.

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
There is a 'grandfather' rule. In the OT the Finns had their own language thread. When the new rule about languages came into effect they were specifically exempted so as not to close down the suomithreadi.

C'est pas juste !

But it is very cool anyway.