Croissants came from Austria. >.>

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I fail at pastrylogy. Forgive me. I actually speak zero French apparently. Carry on.

Si, es "Discusion". Ya que la literalmente la traduccion de "Thread" es "Hilo" no tiene mucho sentido

Si, creia que "hilo" era una traduccion mala. ¡Ingles goberna la Red!

I don't find it cute so much as annoying.

More annoying is when people don't even speak it the right way.

I'd rather someone call Romeo and Juliet an example of accurate Middle English than an example of a perfect romantic relationship.

I'd agree with that, but that's like agreeing that a punch in the face is better than two broken legs. Or something.

"Oh my love, we can be just like Romeo and Juliet!"
"Just like them? Alright, you go first. >:3"

That was cold. >.>

I'm always surprised at how different Old English is from current English. On one hand, the name is kind of deceptive in that way, though on the other hand, it is what they spoke in England in old times. On the topic of related languages, I'm kind of jealous of some other languages that have very similar languages spoken still today. Almost no one speaks Scots, and German is far from mutually intelligible.

I know somebody who speaks Scots.

Also, Dutch is easily understandable, at least if you know both English and German. I remember watching Attack of the Show (which for the record, I absolutely hate), and they had this clip of something or another and it was in Dutch, and the guys were being their normal terrible selves and they spoke of how they couldn't understand what was going on, but it was funny anyway...and I thought it was totally understandable. Really, sometimes Dutch just sounds like guttural English. Doesn't much read like it though.

Also, Old English is...old, and English had a lot of different influences come into it and change it. Unlike say, Modern Icelandic, which to my non-specialist ears and eyes, is basically exactly like Old Norse.

Oops. My bad. Don't worry about it... I either make myself look like an idiot here, or make an idiot of myself on my French tests. Sooo.... it's fine. =)
I know I need the 's' looking thing (cidilla?) on francais, but I don't know how to do that character either. xD



Nice to meet you Alex M. I'm only in French 1, so I got:
I am Alex. I am French, and (something) is the (something) language (when? too sleepy to pull out notes atm.) I speak.

Well, better here than on your French tests.

I THINK it's "I am Alex. I am French, and that is the only language that I speak."

Yeah, that's pretty much what I saw.

It is, but he lied. He told me this before. E|:P
You should read the main comic comments more often,...

刚才花生向葡萄求婚。葡萄接受了，害马克斯给气坏了！ Before I learnt how to read Chinese, all I saw was squiggly lines. Do you see the same thing?

Since Chinese is my first language, so my brain auto-translates. Too bad I don't get to see Chinese characters as squiggly lines!

Although a lot of non-English alphabet foreign languages still appear like squiggly lines to me.

Since I've learned a few kanji (hanzi) from Japanese I do see the individual characters.
So instead of a bunch of squiggly lines, they look like little individual blocks of squiggly lines

Now Thai looks like a bunch of squiggly lines to me

Cyrillic just looks like bizarre Greek to me. I have some knowledge of what the symbols usually sound like, but I have to think about it. I can't just read it phonetically like I can Greek.

This is my sentiments exactly!

Cyrrilic looks like bizarre Greek.

Vos quereis una palabra lóbregua asi que os estoy dando lo mas inusitado que he de conocer. Vos no me odieis si antes no he cumplido con su expectativa, espero que lo que os he convidado satisfaga su discernimiento sobre el español que he de hablar.

Well there is.Some of the most obscure words that i know of the Spanish.



Maybe because in Spanish are "Aches Mudas"

And in English "r" and "rr" sound exactly the same. You also had the nerve to be using the obscure "vosotros" conjugation, making it even worse.

Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, but i'm not accustomed to write on Old Spanish >:(

Vos ha de abominarme por mi deficit del suficiente discernimiento del español.

Как вы думаете, кто говорит по-русски?
Yup, I speak Russian!It's my native language, and English... Auto-translate as someone said

English, French, and some various con-langs.
I'd show my most recent creation, but I'm not done with the font. This is my first time moving away from pure oligosynthism, because in pure oligosynthism, I found either a bloated alphabet arises, or bloated words. There is also the risk of having ideas you may not be able to accurately portray.

My last language (that had a font made - it also has a base-25 numeric system):


The one I'm currently working on is nearly finished... I'll likely post something on it then. This one has a base-24 (so it also supports 3 as a root)
There was an intermediate version that was never finished - it has a base-16
(Note: versions prior to the base-25 used base-any magnitude of 10 (ie, 10,100,1000,10000,etc) due to a neat trick in glyph generation)

Why not base 12? That seems a lot cleaner.

It looks very nice.

But oligoynthism? Why? There aren't any languages like that in real life!

Anyone care to define "oligosynthism" for me?

I've made a few conlangs myself. They're usually made by me going "wouldn't it cool if a language sounded like X, but had grammar and syntax like Y?"

For example, I made a language with Japanese-like grammar, and Old Norse phonology.

I never get very far with a con-lang because creating an entirely new vocabulary always seems such a daunting task
<--(me at all the new words I gotta make)

I was all over base 25 once... then I looked at the fractions... a system where 1/2 is an infinite decimal makes me laugh
So now I'm all over base 30
(1/2 = 0.BBBBBBBB... vs 1/2 = 0.F)

English

Some; french, german, russian (romanised), italian, spanish
And a few words in latin

At some point you have to balance the number of factors with the number of digits. Bigger bases mean more convenient fractions but really complicated sets of digits. Smaller bases make for easier digits but more complicated fractions. In my opinion the best balance is base 12.

1/2 = .6
1/3 = .4
1/4 = .3
1/5 = .(2497), which can be approximated as .25
1/6 = .2
1/7 = .(186A35), which is pretty terrible but is equally terrible in most bases
1/8 = .16
1/9 = .14
1/A = .1(2497), which can be approximated as .125
1/B = .(1)
1/10 = .1

Not counting the ties,
Advantage decimal: 1/5 and 1/10 (1/A)
Advantage duodecimal: 1/3, 1/6, 1/9, 1/11 (1/B), 1/12 (1/10)

I'd call it worth the other two digits.

...Does the numerical part of languages still count as on-topic, or should we either shut up or make a new thread?