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RE: Blandom Snuff

French is hard. It's not difficult to read, but is nearly impossible for me to listen to. I cannot tell the difference between any of its dozen verb conjugations, except for maybe passe compose. Also the grammar is pretty ridiculous.

The other language I'm learning, Japanese, is much simpler than people claim. Unlike english or french, it has two irregular verbs. Two. Syllables all end in vowels (except for one nasal 'n') so it's very easy to pronounce. Grammar is quite laissez faire, as sentences just need to end with verbs. Kanji is a bit difficult because the same character has multiple pronunciations depending on its context in a sentence, but it just takes practice.

Out of the four languages I speak, French was the dooziest to learn.

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Lol, exact timing minute by minute.

I am fluid in one language and that is Finnish, otherwise I speak Estonian, Sami, Swedish, Karelian, Mäenkieli, a bit Japanese and Russian, almost forgot English. So that's 9 languages as a whole.
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RE: Blandom Snuff

(10-16-2014, 12:46 AM)Rött Wrote: @MrBehemoth, sorry but no. Welsh is definitely not Finno Ugric. It would be cool if it was, to be honest.
Go and check the "Finno Ugric" term from wikipedia. There's a full list of all languages which belong to that tree somewhere.

I stand corrected! You're absolutely right.

That's a mistaken belief I've had for a long time and I know where it came from... Tolkien was influenced by both Finnish and Welsh when he created Sindarin and Quenya. Some time long ago I must have put 2 and 2 together and made 5.

Thanks for enlightening me!

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No problems! It is just that the general knowing of the languages and the tree is kind of... poor, with everyone it seems. Even some Finns believe English and Finnish are related.
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RE: Blandom Snuff

(10-15-2014, 11:26 PM)MrBehemoth Wrote: there really aren't many languages, other than Italian, which have their own word for spaghetti. At least not indo-european languages.

In Portuguese, it's "esparguete". Smile


@Rött: When Tarja Turunen was kicked out from Nightwish back in 2005, I remember seeing her surname "Turunen" spelled as "Turusen" in some Finnish magazine screenshots that I found online. What does it mean?

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RE: Blandom Snuff

Wow. Came home from school to this:
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10-16-2014, 06:19 AM
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RE: Blandom Snuff

The spambots in the AMFP technical forum should be dealt with. How about a "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"?

10-16-2014, 07:17 AM
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I think its because you can be unregistered or be a guest in the Tech Support forums.

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10-16-2014, 07:41 AM
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RE: Blandom Snuff

Maybe. I've actually dealt with bots like these on 2 other forums in the past, and they don't seem to be too troubled to make an account though. I think FG should instantiate some form of CAPTCHA if the user is unregistered. It might make it slightly less intuitive for a user, which might be a reason enough to not do it, but nowadays you should almost expect to do a few CAPTCHAs if you're online a lot, so I don't think it would be too bad.


As long as it doesn't look like this of course.
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RE: Blandom Snuff

(10-16-2014, 01:28 AM)Ashtoreth Wrote:
(10-15-2014, 11:26 PM)MrBehemoth Wrote: there really aren't many languages, other than Italian, which have their own word for spaghetti. At least not indo-european languages.

In Portuguese, it's "esparguete". Smile


@Rött: When Tarja Turunen was kicked out from Nightwish back in 2005, I remember seeing her surname "Turunen" spelled as "Turusen" in some Finnish magazine screenshots that I found online. What does it mean?
Turunen + sen(possesive suffix) = "Turunen's" or "of Turunen".

Turu might mean something, but it's possibly an ancient word so it hasn't reached the vocalubary.
It might be easened variant of "Turku", which is a city in the southern Finland. This kind of "easening" often happens when adding suffixies. For instance: "Juuka" = "Juuan", "Juuka" = "Juuka's" or of "Juuka"

Turku + nen(adjective suffix) = "Turkuly" or "Turuly".
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