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| Fledz |
| Nope. Her breasts are unremarkable and I don't really dig Asian chicks whatsoever. |
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| Cloudburst |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fledz
Croatian spelling ftw! The only true phonetic language in the world (apart from the dirty Serbs).
Ok so our grammar sucks ass but you can't have it all. |
hey hey hey! Finnish is phonetic too! Everything is spelled exactly how it is pronounced. No special sounds, no special rules. Every letter always sounds the same. |
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| Fledz |
Don't you have double letters in finnish though? Doesn't that destroy your argument?
EDIT - No wait, that could work actually. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fledz
Don't you have double letters in finnish though? Doesn't that destroy your argument?
EDIT - No wait, that could work actually. |
Indeed. It's got both long vowels and long consonants.
| quote: | Originally posted by Fledz
Nope. Her breasts are unremarkable and I don't really dig Asian chicks whatsoever. |
I don't find her attractive either, but there's something about that picture that makes her breasts mesmerising.
I think it's because I try to look for a keyboard, find out there's none, but there's a pair of breasts where I first focused :p |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fledz
Croatian spelling ftw! The only true phonetic language in the world (apart from the dirty Serbs).
Ok so our grammar sucks ass but you can't have it all. |
Russian isn't bad, although I know it is not truly phonetic either. I can think of a bunch of things that aren't pronounced like they appear.
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
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Actually, there are other writing systems with a good phonetic fit. English just happens to be on the chaotic side of the spectrum, whereas Croatian is on the tidy one... and Portuguese is somewhere in the middle. |
German, in my experience anyways, is relatively phonetic. I wouldn't say it is fully, but much better than English. At least that is my experience. |
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| Slylee |
never gave much thought to this guy but he is becoming more and more sexy every time i see him in a movie. love the accent and everything, he's just full blown hot to me now.
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| kadomony |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
never gave much thought to this guy but he is becoming more and more sexy every time i see him in a movie. love the accent and everything, he's just full blown hot to me now.
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vtec_junkie? |
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| Slylee |
huh?
woody harrelson! :D |
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| donegalredneck |
| He doesn't strike everyone else as looking a bit crazy in that photo? |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Russian isn't bad, although I know it is not truly phonetic either. I can think of a bunch of things that aren't pronounced like they appear. |
As far as I can remember, the exceptions in Russian work almost like rules. The "a" instead of "o" in weak syllables (just like the "i" instead of "e" in the same environment), the random "g" that becomes a "v" and, to me as a foreigner, final -ye and final -ya seem to have merged into a single sound (-ya).
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
German, in my experience anyways, is relatively phonetic. I wouldn't say it is fully, but much better than English. At least that is my experience. |
Indeed. I just wish it marked vowel duration more systematically =/ |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
As far as I can remember, the exceptions in Russian work almost like rules. The "a" instead of "o" in weak syllables (just like the "i" instead of "e" in the same environment), the random "g" that becomes a "v" and, to me as a foreigner, final -ye and final -ya seem to have merged into a single sound (-ya). |
Funny, those were the exact things I was thinking of!
| quote: | | Indeed. I just wish it marked vowel duration more systematically =/ |
It is pretty easy to tell the difference though if you study it long enough. It just comes to you naturally. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Funny, those were the exact things I was thinking of! |
Yeah, the "g" thing really puzzles me, as a linguist. I'd expect it to become a "X" over time, not a "v". Now, where is Noisician? He studied linguistics AND Russian is his native language...
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
It is pretty easy to tell the difference though if you study it long enough. It just comes to you naturally. |
I hope so :) |
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