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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #15 on: July 12, 2012, 03:20:09 PM »
Thatisbraveofthemidsay
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #16 on: July 12, 2012, 03:37:21 PM »
Very brave indeed. It's a bitch to typeset and layout such scripts if you don't know the language, but there are ways to automate it.
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #17 on: July 12, 2012, 04:01:49 PM »
Welltheromansdiditmanuallybutthenagaintheywereveryverybraveindeedthoseromans
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #18 on: July 12, 2012, 04:10:56 PM »
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #19 on: July 12, 2012, 04:12:13 PM »
YESTHEYCERTAINLYHADAFEELINGFORGREATNESSTHEROMANS
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #20 on: July 12, 2012, 04:15:53 PM »
THEGREEKWEREBRAVEONCAPITALISINGANDNOTUSINGSPACESTOOTHEROMANSDIDNOTMINDTHOSEINFLUENCESFROMGRAECIAATALLITISABUGGERTOREEDTHOUGH
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #21 on: July 12, 2012, 04:18:31 PM »
IFYOUWANTTOBEBRAVEYOUSIMPLYDONTMINDPETTYTHINGSLIKEREADINGDIFFICULTIESIMAGINEJULIUSCAESARMINDINGREADINGDIFFICULTIESHOWBRAVEWOULDTHATHAVEBEEN
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #22 on: July 12, 2012, 11:05:57 PM »
He could get a high educated slave to read it for him.
Those Romans did automatise things, by using non civilians.  :M
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #23 on: July 13, 2012, 02:25:35 AM »
Middle Egyptian scripts had no vowels.
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #24 on: July 13, 2012, 02:38:29 AM »
Having only consonants is  :viking:
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #25 on: July 13, 2012, 02:39:32 AM »
Problem is, with dead languages like that nobody knows how they actually sounded.
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #26 on: July 13, 2012, 03:33:44 AM »
universal hand signals work well!
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #27 on: July 13, 2012, 03:38:09 AM »
Not necessarily. The gesture we use for "OK" in the West means "shit" or "fuck" in some parts of the world.
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #28 on: July 13, 2012, 03:48:52 AM »
Quote from: Lit on July 13, 2012, 03:38:09 AM
Not necessarily. The gesture we use for "OK" in the West means "shit" or "fuck" in some parts of the world.

Even better :viking:
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Re: Pet Grammar/Spelling Peeves
« Reply #29 on: July 13, 2012, 04:10:42 AM »
Languages are like LEGO; many pieces fit together at random but not all.

For instance the Swedish verb måla. It's about 100% coterminous with the English verb "paint". But the Swedish verb färga is not 100% coterminous with the English verb "colour". In English you also have a verb "dye" for that.

Or the other way around: the English word "grandfather" could be considered to be only 50% coterminous with any Swedish word, because there is one Swedish word for paternal grandfather and one for maternal.

Or the word "brave"  8) In German brav might mean "brave" as in English, but it's also another word for "good". Swedish bra and Italian brava only mean "good".
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