Post B6dFvLHTg9PYBsMk40 by ellenor2000@mastodon.top
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 (DIR) Post #B6dBE2FYA1L4tjYg40 by nytpu@tilde.zone
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       I dunno if it's good or bad that the epigraph of The Waste Land is my favorite quote from it
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dBE2SJOZXzXJWrxI by nytpu@tilde.zone
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       Maybe I should learn classical Latin
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dBE2a6vZmlvVB66y by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @nytpu do you already know any language with elaborate grammar?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dDbczfuh0LQTViIS by nytpu@tilde.zone
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       @wolf480pl Nope!
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dDbd9xITEBwMJvJw by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @nytpu then I think you should try!My native language is Polish which has 7 cases, nouns with inherent gender, verbs that conjugate depending on gender of the subject... oh, and the order of words in a sentence can be freely chosen to express emphasis.And English is sooo limiting in comparison.I heard Latin has similar expressive power to slavic languages, but I wonder how hard it'll be for you to learn it to the point you can use it playfully :/
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dDfcSxoiCCwq75k0 by ellenor2000@mastodon.top
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       @wolf480pl @nytpu I doubt it'd be harder than learning Polish for an anglo. #lang_en
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dDw4BWWkJNY7nZAW by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @ellenor2000 @nytpu oh, yeah, learning Polish would definitely be more difficult because we have features such as:- japanese-like phonetics (ś, ć, ń)- consonant bunching (eg. chrzęszczyrzewoszyce)- a fuckton of exceptions to the rulesnone of which are helpful for playing around with the expressiveness
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dE7w4uUeL7skMg2i by quad@akko.quad.moe
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       @wolf480pl @ellenor2000 @nytpu Luckily my native language (Norwegian) is pretty easy to learn.Unfortunately once you land in Norway anything you learned will be useless since nobody follows the rules.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dECm4F8m3qHYMNea by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @quad @ellenor2000 @nytpu does "Romani ite domum" and "romanus eunt domus" translate to two different things in Norwegian?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dEL7AqYDXG3kQSDw by nytpu@tilde.zone
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       @wolf480pl People called 'Romanes' they go to the house??@quad @ellenor2000
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dEL7MXqitQe1tnSS by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @nytpu @quad @ellenor2000 it's so funny how much Monty Python had to go out of his way to translate it to English in an ungrammatical way
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dENE2tyM1Bx2iSWm by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @nytpu @quad @ellenor2000 also, it was "they go the house", no "to", which is kinda the point
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dEOF6HXN9hVlmY2i by quad@akko.quad.moe
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       @wolf480pl @ellenor2000 @nytpu Norwegian has two written standards (Bokmål and Nynorsk), and a spoken standard is effectively on hold indefinitely until they agree on a written standard, which seemingly isn't happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language_conflictSo yes. Although I dunon what those latin phrases mean, basically everything translates to two different variants when translated to written Norwegian.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dEZa0EAB1TWZM8hs by quad@akko.quad.moe
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       @wolf480pl @ellenor2000 @nytpu Apparently "Romani ite domum" means "romans go home"."Romere, dra hjem" in Bokmål"Romarar, gå hjem" in Nynorsk
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dElY8iuohbDn2Oxs by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @quad @ellenor2000 @nytpu yes, and "Romanus eunt domus" is a naive, grammar ignoring concatenation of:- "a Roman" (singular, nominative)- "go" (plural)- "a house" (nominative)kinda like"He love she"instead of"He loves her"
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dF4SSQGYqF6HGgNs by quad@akko.quad.moe
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       @wolf480pl @ellenor2000 @nytpu I dunno man, my grades in Norwegian weren't particularly great.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dFHl2OUrDoUSR2qu by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @quad @ellenor2000 @nytpu do you know German?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dFN22ihOmQgA6QG8 by quad@akko.quad.moe
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       @wolf480pl @ellenor2000 @nytpu No. I can parse a decent chunk of German, but I don't know it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dFvLHTg9PYBsMk40 by ellenor2000@mastodon.top
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       @wolf480pl @quad @nytpu so it's like "a roman and a house go" #lang_en
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dGCirXFxBkFaWFI8 by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @ellenor2000 @quad @nytpu hmm yeah, I think the form of these words is such that it'd be appropriate for "a roman and house go", you'd just need to reorder the words and add an "and".
       
 (DIR) Post #B6dGcnMb90EbjtTs48 by ellenor2000@mastodon.top
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       @wolf480pl @quad @nytpu the word order works for «a roman goes... and a house» (which would likely be said as «et domus» or «domusque») if preplanned, otherwise it'd be in singular #lang_en