New European Language

[[R-MOD]Mongolian_dude]

This is suprisingly easy to read for dyslexics, since is pretty much phonetic.

...mongol...

[El_Vikingo]

Originally Posted by sekiryu

Spanish is fast becoming the de facto language of the US. It's pissing me off.

Ay! Que te paso, gringo!

[Dark_Wolf]

yes that's true it's StraBe (I have no scharfes s ) which does mean street, but then "way" can also be used in the term of "path" as well, which is kinda same thing.

on a slight off topic:

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

[[R-COM]Outlawz]

We arldey konw

[JohnnyPissoff]

By the way for you non-German readers the "ß" in straße is pronounced as a double "s" as in stras'se.

Yea well whether it's milchweg (literally milkway or milkpath, after all the English "milkyway" can be translated to milkypath as well) or milchstraße (literally milkstreet) my point was the diversion of the various germanic tribal languages, English included.

I love this kinda stuff man...heh-heh. If you want to go deep check out Farsi or sometimes called persian (a subfamily of the Indo-European languages) there's a lot of German root grammar and similar wording and meaning there as well. It's no coincidence the original name for Iran was Aryan.

[Dark_Wolf]

wouldn't you spell it Strasse though? Why is there an ' ?

don't forget to capitalise your nouns

English is a combination of French, German and Latin I think.

[system]

ja!!

[Hardtman]

Originally Posted by Dark_Wolf

wouldn't you spell it Strasse though? Why is there an ' ?

don't forget to capitalise your nouns

English is a combination of French, German and Latin I think..

Too true....Ever wondered where rucksack,kindergarden and the like comes from?

But IIRC it is not only a combination, but it has had influence on the other language as well. I'm not a linguistic, but I think the anglo-saxons had developed some kind of pre-english simultanously with early germanic and french and whatnot. Of course all these languages heavily influenced each other, although you can't see the latin parts in german a clearly as in french,italian or spanish.

Yeah,you just spell it with a sharp,short s, this is what "ß" was used for, but with several new reformings of the german language "ß" is slowly replaced with "ss"(don't you dare to make a joke involving the SchutzStaffel here )

And the thing about the first and last letters surprised me pretty much.I was really able to read it all without hesitation.

[JohnnyPissoff]

Originally Posted by Dark_Wolf

wouldn't you spell it Strasse though? Why is there an ' ?

don't forget to capitalise your nouns

English is a combination of French, German and Latin I think.

Oh yea Wolf for sure. I did that to phonetically emphasise strasse as 2 syllables. Like stras-se. Not one syllable like strass with a silent "e".

About English being a combination of French, German and Latin; not entirely so. The franks (French) originally spoke Germanic before, like the Spanish, adopting the Romansh language they speak today. Although it was reserved originally for the court only and bastardized in the street. Many French and Latin words were incorporated in modern German as well as the English language but not part of the root language.

[Dark_Wolf]

Originally Posted by Hardtman

Too true....Ever wondered where rucksack,kindergarden and the like comes from?

not really cause I'm half-german . I always knew that, though it does seem strange to me that they'd keep those terms pretty much same.

oh right ok, I see what you mean. Yeah I think Stras-se would've made more sense as that's how they do it in dictionaries, I think.