What’s In A Name?

[Loopeend]

If you want to be technical...this is like saying you would recognise ANY language because it all has latin roots either way nice info

I can say I can. when it is written. In a latin alphabet.
T', te, ti, ta, tu, u, du, dou, you. If you know a few you know 'you'.

When in Macadonia or Ukraine it gets a bit shady. It starts in Greece. They use the cyrilic alphabet. Which means, for me, I understand it better when they speak then when it is written. Greece and Poland have a few cyrillic letters, but more to the right it keeps getting more and I fail to be able to read it. And understand it by speaking. I had the hardest time in Kosovo since they use the Arabic alphabet. And Ireland. With their Gaelic. So close,; but yet so far. A whole different sub-group of language. I would like to learn arabic and mandarin; because probably it will work the same. If you get a grasp of 1 language you can guess other languages. Not speak it, but understand what they mean.

I can't speak German or French. But when reading my shampoo-bottle on the toilet when taking a dump I know what is says. I did not know this so obviously, untill I went on a roadtrip through 24 countries in Europe in 24 days. and I could read the menu in Romania or Serbia because I had to learn French and Spanish in School, and then understood Italian, and then found out that these are languages which are a lot like Italian how dutch is a lot like German.

Long story short. It is really fun to invest time in languages. And French is a gateway-drug.

 

[Loopeend]

Though I do have problems with people from South Africa vs Australia or Newzeland... the nuance is very subtle to me.

It was quite weird when I went to South Africa. Their language comes from Dutch. But they made a better language of it ( in my view). I could understand them perfectly. But they could not understand my Dutch. Which was a bit weird. You are sitting their all being happy that you can actually understand someone from the other side of the world, like really, every word.. but as soon as you open your gap they don't understand what on earth you are saying... I guess I experienced what some Dutch people with a thick heavy local accent in the Netherlands encounter everyday.. Or a deaf person that can read lips but noone understand their signing. Or some Afrikaan people are a bit too proud of their language. I mean.. a whole sentence where the only difference is 'ek' or ík'. And you suddenly don't understand... uhu.
Afterwards I don't blaime them. I thought is was weird when my inlaw-family wanted to go to the voortrekkers-monument. And take a LOT of pictures of it. While it is a really sad monument about slavery. No wait. It started even when we arrived in Johannesburg and they said stuff that there were too many black people... And we had to stay at 5-star small hotels with racist white owners with black slaves... I just naivly thought that, I don't know, this is what rich people do or something. I have never set foot in something above 2 stars... let alone in south-Africa..

Later in a fun research-family-thing I found typed the last name from my partner and they actually had became rich due to slavery in South-Africa. Big shock. Because allthough people say the Dutch were an active part in slavery, that was atcually 0,1 procent of the people and I had never encountered someone with actual ties to slavery. 99,9 procent was just being poor farmer being farming not knowing about these few elites that had fancy plantations in exotic countries where they held people as slaves =/ They might not have 'not understand me' but saw sooner what was going on here in this family then I could.

 

[perchie.girl]

Its like listening to pidgeon English... You understand the gist if your ear is quick enough but Dang ..... I once found my self in a taxi full of Haitians... Fun loving group.. I knew someone was teasing someone else but soon there was mention of hardboiled eggs and lots of jostling .... I rolled down the window because I knew what was coming.... YEP.... "OH Mannn.... " I said and coughed out the window.... The laughter was Resounding....

I heard "My eyes is Teearin man...." More laughter... I never figure out who dealt it but we laughed all the way to the night club....

I love people.... all people...

deb

 

[Loopeend]

Its like listening to pidgeon English... You understand the gist if your ear is quick enough but Dang ..... I once found my self in a taxi full of Haitians... Fun loving group.. I knew someone was teasing someone else but soon there was mention of hardboiled eggs and lots of jostling .... I rolled down the window because I knew what was coming.... YEP.... "OH Mannn.... " I said and coughed out the window.... The laughter was Resounding....

I heard "My eyes is Teearin man...." More laughter... I never figure out who dealt it but we laughed all the way to the night club....

I love people.... all people...

deb

Letting a big one rip sounds the same in every language. A bit more romantic when in France in Paris at the eiffeltower... but they tend to sound and smell the same :') lol. Humans :')

 

[Loopeend]

* note to self*

Bring partner to the city of love.
Stand on eiffeltower together.
Let one out instead of prosposing.
Don't forget to bring a hard-boiled egg to blame.
Don't forget to bring a Dutch oven.

 

[Mimi13]

@perchie.girl and @Loopeend, this is hilarious to read, but unfortunately is all over my poor old head. I took Latin in HS and don’t remember a thing...should have taken Spanish. Don’t know a lick of it either.
But I must say, I am experienced in one thing and know it two different ways: sound and smell! Yep, cutting the cheese is pretty universal.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

I can say I can. when it is written. In a latin alphabet.
T', te, ti, ta, tu, u, du, dou, you. If you know a few you know 'you'.

When in Macadonia or Ukraine it gets a bit shady. It starts in Greece. They use the cyrilic alphabet. Which means, for me, I understand it better when they speak then when it is written. Greece and Poland have a few cyrillic letters, but more to the right it keeps getting more and I fail to be able to read it. And understand it by speaking. I had the hardest time in Kosovo since they use the Arabic alphabet. And Ireland. With their Gaelic. So close,; but yet so far. A whole different sub-group of language. I would like to learn arabic and mandarin; because probably it will work the same. If you get a grasp of 1 language you can guess other languages. Not speak it, but understand what they mean.

I can't speak German or French. But when reading my shampoo-bottle on the toilet when taking a dump I know what is says. I did not know this so obviously, untill I went on a roadtrip through 24 countries in Europe in 24 days. and I could read the menu in Romania or Serbia because I had to learn French and Spanish in School, and then understood Italian, and then found out that these are languages which are a lot like Italian how dutch is a lot like German.

Long story short. It is really fun to invest time in languages. And French is a gateway-drug.

Very interesting. I will say im better at reading different languages than i am speaking them. When people speak it it doesnt necessarily give you enough time to comprehend it. I think if i could emerse myself in any language like living in france for a year id figure it out. But i live in america where we speak american lol. I only occasionally hear foreign languages and its usually some tourist speaking with their family. Around my area its either english, chinese, the occasional korean and japanese, and mexican spanish(only quantifying because mexican spanish is not the same dialect)

 

[Loopeend]

Very interesting. I will say im better at reading different languages than i am speaking them. When people speak it it doesnt necessarily give you enough time to comprehend it. I think if i could emerse myself in any language like living in france for a year id figure it out. But i live in america where we speak american lol. I only occasionally hear foreign languages and its usually some tourist speaking with their family. Around my area its either english, chinese, the occasional korean and japanese, and mexican spanish(only quantifying because mexican spanish is not the same dialect)

It's so weird. When I was a child I used to here Dutch, German, French, and a LOT of English songs on the radio. We all loved English songs. Dutch songs are TERRIBLE. The lyrics are flat out sooo simple and bad. And then the question arose.. Is this what English speaking people also hear in the English songs I'm listening to? Are most English songs I like, because I don't reeeeally understand what they are about, just as annoying to them like Dutch music is for me? :O That must be an horror.

 

[Mimi13]

It's so weird. When I was a child I used to here Dutch, German, French, and a LOT of English songs on the radio. We all loved English songs. Dutch songs are TERRIBLE. The lyrics are flat out sooo simple and bad. And then the question arose.. Is this what English speaking people also hear in the English songs I'm listening to? Are most English songs I like, because I don't reeeeally understand what they are about, just as annoying to them like Dutch music is for me? :O That must be an horror.

Haha, very interesting. I would have to answer “No.” I love music of many genres, but I must say I only listen to American (mostly), British, and Australian (Keith Urban). My fave is country. Of course pop music has artists from many different countries. Maybe Dutch music is just boring.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

It's so weird. When I was a child I used to here Dutch, German, French, and a LOT of English songs on the radio. We all loved English songs. Dutch songs are TERRIBLE. The lyrics are flat out sooo simple and bad. And then the question arose.. Is this what English speaking people also hear in the English songs I'm listening to? Are most English songs I like, because I don't reeeeally understand what they are about, just as annoying to them like Dutch music is for me? :O That must be an horror.

I love finnish metal: Finntroll is really good.