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I have a hard time understanding it and only get like two thirds, but I have virtually no experience in listening to it either and come from a totally different dialect region to boot. A friend of mine who grew up 50km away from the border has absolutely no problems with it on the other hand and when she speaks dialect it sounds pretty similar to Lëtzebuergesch to my untrained ears
System Metternich fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Jun 22, 2020 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Do luxemburgers not play tag? Not really, no. When I was in Luxembourg as a kid and someone tried to chat me up in Luxembourgish, I could just smile and nod sheepishly. When I now listen to it as an adult, it sounds like a Rhinelander doing an extremely racist impression of a French accent that is about 50% intelligible. That said, there's a dialect continuum where people from along the Mosel also sound kind of like that (and I probably couldn't really understand them either).
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Quick dialect study before going to bed: I'm looking at the results of the Wenker survey (an extremely detailed late 19th century study on German dialects) for a random Luxemburg village (in this case Breidweiler), a German village right on the border (Biesdorf), the Eifel village my friend is from (Schalkenmehren) and just for fun a random Bavarian village too (Zillendorf in the Upper Palatinate region). I'll be transcribing the replies to the sentences 1, 10 and 33 each: Standard German
Breidweiler
Biesdorf
Schalkenmehren
Zillendorf
System Metternich fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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I just need to know why, in my corner of rural Australia at least, the name for the chasing game comes from northern Wales, while the name for the safe spot comes from... Munster? I don't even know how to make the umlaut appear.
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Tree Bucket posted:I just need to know why, in my corner of rural Australia at least, the name for the chasing game comes from northern Wales, while the name for the safe spot comes from... Munster? I don't even know how to make the umlaut appear. If it’s "Packs" it might be a rendering of Latin pax, 'peace' and thus might have developed independently
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Tree Bucket posted:I just need to know why, in my corner of rural Australia at least, the name for the chasing game comes from northern Wales, while the name for the safe spot comes from... Munster? I don't even know how to make the umlaut appear. Protip: In German (and German only, don't try this in other languages), if you don't know where to get an umlaut from it's acceptable to follow up the letter that was supposed to get an umlaut with an e instead. Muenster.
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There were a lot of separate French languages and now there's French. There were a lot of separate German languages and now they're German. There were lot of Italian languages, and now they're all Italian. European languages were entirely defined by borders and war.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Protip: In German (and German only, don't try this in other languages), if you don't know where to get an umlaut from it's acceptable to follow up the letter that was supposed to get an umlaut with an e instead. Muenster. Thanks, friend. That’s ueber useful knowledge.
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# ? Jun 23, 2020 07:09 |
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Or just press the ¨-key and then the vowel. Lïkë sö.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Or just press the ¨-key and then the vowel. Lïkë sö. The... the what key? Carbon dioxide posted:Protip: In German (and German only, don't try this in other languages), if you don't know where to get an umlaut from it's acceptable to follow up the letter that was supposed to get an umlaut with an e instead. Muenster. That's good to know! System Metternich posted:If it's "Packs" it might be a rendering of Latin pax, 'peace' and thus might have developed independently It's tip for the game and bar for the safe zone. Come to think of it, "bar" really doesn't make a whole lot of sense...
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Carbon dioxide posted:Protip: In German (and German only, don't try this in other languages), if you don't know where to get an umlaut from it's acceptable to follow up the letter that was supposed to get an umlaut with an e instead. Muenster. Moetly Cruee
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Tree Bucket posted:The... the what key? The ¨-key, right next to the å-key.
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# ? Jun 23, 2020 07:25 |
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The keys of the perfidious Bavarian, no doubt.
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ASAPRockySituation posted:The keys of the perfidious Bavarian, no doubt. Aha! Whereas I, a rugged colonial, use the sensible, civilised keys decreed by Queen Victoria herself.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:European languages were entirely defined by borders and war. Checks out, Dutch and French are the exact same language as long as you're in Belgium.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There were a lot of separate French languages and now there's French. There were a lot of separate German languages and now they're German. There were lot of Italian languages, and now they're all Italian. European languages were entirely defined by borders and war. Most of them still exist although it's true they are losing ground. Interesting parallel to how all the Italic languages were replaced by Latin some two millennia ago I think. I wonder how many times similar consolidations took place in prehistory.
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cebrail posted:Belgium. Dude, watch your language.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The ¨-key, right next to the å-key. ¨ is shift ^ and it's next to p and $ you finnish monster.
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I'm glad Estonia has reached the pretty good countries club.
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# ? Jun 23, 2020 19:19 |
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Luxembourg and the Netherlands are innovation leaders for tax fraud schemes.
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# ? Jun 23, 2020 21:06 |
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Cat Mattress posted:Luxembourg and the Netherlands are innovation leaders for tax fraud schemes.
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i love, that no one is a bad or nonexisent innovator. Everyone is a winner.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Germany ekes into the strong innovator category through its innovations in emission fraud. that's not fair, it's not all fraud. We also blatantly replace mostly clean energy (nuclear) with not quite as clean, but for some reason "green" energy (coal)
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Dr Sun Try posted:that's not fair, it's not all fraud. We also blatantly replace mostly clean energy (nuclear) with not quite as clean, but for some reason "green" energy (coal) coal isn't made of spooky scary atoms
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Byzantine posted:coal isn't made of spooky scary atoms I tucking hate atoms man. I hate them so much.
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Byzantine posted:coal isn't made of spooky scary atoms spooky scary nucleii send shivers down your spine
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Dr Sun Try posted:that's not fair, it's not all fraud. We also blatantly replace mostly clean energy (nuclear) with not quite as clean, but for some reason "green" energy (coal) Hey, that's not fair on Germany, they're also doing a lot in the hydrogen sector, and you don't get CO2 emissions from burning hydrogen! You get the emissions from creating it.
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I want you all to know I'm innovating so hard right now.
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Dr Sun Try posted:that's not fair, it's not all fraud. We also blatantly replace mostly clean energy (nuclear) with not quite as clean, but for some reason "green" energy (coal) No, that's right wing propaganda. We're not "replacing" nuclear energy with coal energy, we're building as much coal energy as possible because it's profitable. No amount of nuclear power plants would have stopped Germany from also building coal power plants.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 13:53 |
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Note to thread: The Something Awful Forums owner is under credible accusations of being a family abuser, and is rapidly losing patreon supporters. If there's anything you care about on the forums, back it up. If there's anyone you care about on the forums, find some offsite way to stay in contact with them. Just in case.
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 14:16 |
Would anyone be interested in a polmaps discord?
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# ? Jun 24, 2020 15:34 |
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HookShot posted:Would anyone be interested in a polmaps discord? only if flags and charts are invited
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:only if flags and charts are invited
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HookShot posted:Would anyone be interested in a polmaps discord? Yes
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HookShot posted:Would anyone be interested in a polmaps discord? anything to spare me from having to get maps content from the general d&d discord
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Badger of Basra posted:anything to spare me from having to get maps content from the general d&d discord What's the D&D discord?
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Kamrat posted:What's the D&D discord? See https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3929141
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Awesome thanks!
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PM me(or let me know in this thread) if you want the discord link
HookShot fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Jun 25, 2020 |
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