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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #300 on: November 20, 2017, 09:00:13 PM
There are some Turkish loan words left from the wars where Carolus Rex took finnish troops with him all the way against the Ottomans, hence the word "Kalabaliikki" in even current Finnish, which came from "Kalabalik of Bender" as in "In Turkish the word for "crowd" or "tumult" is kalabalık, which after the incident has become a Swedish and Finnish loanword, kalabalik, with the meaning "confusion" or "great disorder"."

In Dutch, the word is kabaal.

I wouldn't be surprised that Dutch soldiers were involved somehow
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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #301 on: November 20, 2017, 09:45:56 PM
We use the same word. Additionally to disorder and chaos, it also stands for a man’s testicles!


https://el.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%B9


Don’t ask about our interaction with the Turks (and Arabs and Persians before them). It’s a long, long, long story.


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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #302 on: November 20, 2017, 10:00:27 PM
Oh it's German, how cute, with all their Genitives an such...

Here's something about the 15 cases of Finnish language...  >:D

Grammatical cases

The grammatical cases perform important grammatical functions.
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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #303 on: November 20, 2017, 10:36:06 PM
I have no idea what you guys are talking about now :facepalm: :rofl:

Kind of lost me :ahhh :D


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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #304 on: November 21, 2017, 12:01:18 AM
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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #305 on: November 21, 2017, 12:12:32 AM
I have no idea what you guys are talking about now :facepalm: :rofl:

Kind of lost me :ahhh :D

Maybe we need to get everyone to talk about some grammar lessons from The Oatmeal, such as 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling.

I particularly like this one:



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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #306 on: November 21, 2017, 12:24:03 AM
I have no idea what you guys are talking about now :facepalm: :rofl:

Kind of lost me :ahhh :D

Maybe we need to get everyone to talk about some grammar lessons from The Oatmeal, such as 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling.

I particularly like this one:

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 :D

 :rofl:

I usually try and spell the Most commonly misspelled words correctly :tu:


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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #307 on: November 21, 2017, 10:10:52 AM
Oh it's German, how cute, with all their Genitives an such...

Here's something about the 15 cases of Finnish language...  >:D

15 cases huh? That's ... impressive.  :ahhh

We only have 6. But it helps that we have 3 grammatical genders (male also further divides in to living and non living things (though what is living and what isn't is determined by culture, robot for example is a living thing)), three grammatatical numbers (singular, dual and plural), that there are a few ways of grammatical declension (didn't know that word in English before...  :D) for each group and that there are of course exceptions.  :facepalm: My way of dealing with that clustersmurf was to read a lot and thus never really have to learn to much about how to use declension. The same strategy that worked for me for English language.  :D

Also, just for the reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_declension
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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #308 on: November 21, 2017, 02:04:42 PM
Oh it's German, how cute, with all their Genitives an such...

Here's something about the 15 cases of Finnish language...  >:D

15 cases huh? That's ... impressive.  :ahhh

We only have 6. But it helps that we have 3 grammatical genders (male also further divides in to living and non living things (though what is living and what isn't is determined by culture, robot for example is a living thing)), three grammatatical numbers (singular, dual and plural), that there are a few ways of grammatical declension (didn't know that word in English before...  :D) for each group and that there are of course exceptions.  :facepalm: My way of dealing with that clustersmurf was to read a lot and thus never really have to learn to much about how to use declension. The same strategy that worked for me for English language.  :D

Also, just for the reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_declension
Fairly sure he means 15 cases of vodka... I believe that is called the weekend iron-ration.
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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #309 on: November 21, 2017, 02:29:39 PM
Oh it's German, how cute, with all their Genitives an such...

Here's something about the 15 cases of Finnish language...  >:D

15 cases huh? That's ... impressive.  :ahhh

We only have 6. But it helps that we have 3 grammatical genders (male also further divides in to living and non living things (though what is living and what isn't is determined by culture, robot for example is a living thing)), three grammatatical numbers (singular, dual and plural), that there are a few ways of grammatical declension (didn't know that word in English before...  :D) for each group and that there are of course exceptions.  :facepalm: My way of dealing with that clustersmurf was to read a lot and thus never really have to learn to much about how to use declension. The same strategy that worked for me for English language.  :D

Also, just for the reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_declension
Fairly sure he means 15 cases of vodka... I believe that is called the weekend iron-ration.

:rofl:

Cases of beer, I don't drink vodka ;)

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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #310 on: November 21, 2017, 02:42:06 PM
Oh it's German, how cute, with all their Genitives an such...

Here's something about the 15 cases of Finnish language...  >:D

15 cases huh? That's ... impressive.  :ahhh

We only have 6. But it helps that we have 3 grammatical genders (male also further divides in to living and non living things (though what is living and what isn't is determined by culture, robot for example is a living thing)), three grammatatical numbers (singular, dual and plural), that there are a few ways of grammatical declension (didn't know that word in English before...  :D) for each group and that there are of course exceptions.  :facepalm: My way of dealing with that clustersmurf was to read a lot and thus never really have to learn to much about how to use declension. The same strategy that worked for me for English language.  :D

Also, just for the reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_declension
Fairly sure he means 15 cases of vodka... I believe that is called the weekend iron-ration.

:rofl:

Cases of beer, I don't drink vodka ;)

 :cheers:

I don't think this is how you are supposed to finnish...  :pok:

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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #311 on: November 21, 2017, 03:12:35 PM
Oh it's German, how cute, with all their Genitives an such...

Here's something about the 15 cases of Finnish language...  >:D

15 cases huh? That's ... impressive.  :ahhh

We only have 6. But it helps that we have 3 grammatical genders (male also further divides in to living and non living things (though what is living and what isn't is determined by culture, robot for example is a living thing)), three grammatatical numbers (singular, dual and plural), that there are a few ways of grammatical declension (didn't know that word in English before...  :D) for each group and that there are of course exceptions.  :facepalm: My way of dealing with that clustersmurf was to read a lot and thus never really have to learn to much about how to use declension. The same strategy that worked for me for English language.  :D

Also, just for the reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovene_declension
Fairly sure he means 15 cases of vodka... I believe that is called the weekend iron-ration.

:rofl:

Cases of beer, I don't drink vodka ;)

 :cheers:

I don't think this is how you are supposed to finnish...  :pok:

 :D

Ask me again on Friday night, I'll probably be totally Finnished...  :pok:

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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #312 on: November 21, 2017, 04:27:00 PM
I have no idea what you guys are talking about now :facepalm: :rofl:

Kind of lost me :ahhh :D

Maybe we need to get everyone to talk about some grammar lessons from The Oatmeal, such as 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling.

I particularly like this one:

(Image removed from quote.)

 :D

 :rofl:

I usually try and spell the Most commonly misspelled words correctly :tu:

I think I usually manage to mispell the most common words incorrectly.

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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #313 on: November 21, 2017, 10:02:38 PM
Not a grammar issue but rather a pronunciation one.... I'm listening to an interview on the radio with a zoo keeper who looks after orangutans and she calls them oranguTANGs.  :rant:


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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #314 on: November 21, 2017, 10:22:12 PM
Not a grammar issue but rather a pronunciation one.... I'm listening to an interview on the radio with a zoo keeper who looks after orangutans and she calls them oranguTANGs.  :rant:

That´s Bahasa. The words o-rang and u-tan (orange man) both with short vowels in the first syllable and emphasis on the second.


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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #315 on: November 21, 2017, 11:11:35 PM
It's what now?  Sounds more like a refreshing fruity drink they way they (mis)pronounce it...


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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #316 on: November 22, 2017, 02:23:00 AM
What a great thread this is - I never knew what a clever bunch of linguistical academics multitool owners were !!   :pok:   :o

I love language, languages, words and plays on words - and etymology - But all this stuff on cases is a bit beyond me
- I struggled with German at school - But Finish and Greek - Ouch !!


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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #317 on: November 27, 2017, 05:39:21 AM
I always get "then" and "than" usage wrong


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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #319 on: November 27, 2017, 06:47:07 AM
I always get "than" and "then" usage wrong
FIFY  :D

 :facepalm: alrighty then(no idea if that's the right one)


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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #320 on: November 27, 2017, 11:16:11 AM
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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #321 on: November 27, 2017, 04:52:10 PM
I always get "than" and "then" usage wrong
FIFY  :D

 :facepalm: alrighty then(no idea if that's the right one)

I'd rather use "than" than "then."   :D


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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #322 on: November 27, 2017, 05:21:15 PM
This one´s for keeps.  :rofl:
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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #323 on: November 27, 2017, 05:36:15 PM
This one´s for keeps.  :rofl:
I must be dumb, I can't see what the difference is, other than swapping "then" and "than" around?  :think: :facepalm: :rofl:
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Reply #324 on: November 27, 2017, 05:38:12 PM
This one´s for keeps.  :rofl:
I must be dumb, I can't see what the difference is, other than swapping "then" and "than" around?  :think: :facepalm: :rofl:
I swapped them because Blackbeard always gets them wrong.


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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #325 on: November 27, 2017, 05:39:39 PM
This one´s for keeps.  :rofl:
I must be dumb, I can't see what the difference is, other than swapping "then" and "than" around?  :think: :facepalm: :rofl:
I swapped them because Blackbeard always gets them wrong.
Ah, so I was missing context.  :rofl:
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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #326 on: November 28, 2017, 01:04:29 PM
Not a grammar issue but rather a pronunciation one.... I'm listening to an interview on the radio with a zoo keeper who looks after orangutans and she calls them oranguTANGs.  :rant:

I still do  :facepalm:

In my own defense, I was 4'ish when Every Which Way but Loose came out, no idea when I saw it, but I bet I've been mispronouncing since then I bet  :rofl:



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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #327 on: November 28, 2017, 02:40:40 PM
I just noticed that in an older thread I have written "mike" instead of "make" :facepalm:
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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #328 on: November 28, 2017, 04:58:37 PM
I just noticed that in an older thread I have written "mike" instead of "make" :facepalm:

Mike is a right smurf for hanging around in sentences he has no place being in!  :twak:

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Re: My musings on the lack of grammar nazis
Reply #329 on: November 28, 2017, 05:03:38 PM
Seriously? Bstrd in smuf-filter worthy?!  :ahhh
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