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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View Post
    The language that scares me most is Politico-speak. Should be banned.
    Can I nominate Management speak for banning too?

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  • DaveB
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    Originally posted by ookook View Post
    "Hello World" ?
    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    42?
    No.

    And No.

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  • Churchill
    replied
    42?

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  • ookook
    replied
    "Hello World" ?

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  • DaveB
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Brainfsck
    Now that is scary. There was a link there to some code written using it.

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by sunnysan View Post
    ...

    That being said I am pretty sure any tonal language must be light years harder.
    The grammar is generally simple - no tenses, no verb/adjective/noun agreement.

    Future tense: tomorrow I go
    Present tense: today I go
    Past tense: yesterday I go

    What's important is the get the tones right and to get the pronouns correct - they change according to who you are and who you are addressing.

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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View Post
    Jysk is largely incorrect Danish.

    Are you really a Danish teacher?
    Yes, Jysk is 'incorrect', but students come into class repeating stuff they've heard at work, read in the newspaper etc. and you have to know how to explain to them why it is wrong, and how to do it correctly. It's this thing about communicating with people, as opposed to passing a set of language exams. They are sometimes quite separate things, and there's an awful lot of exam-technique involved.

    Oddly enough, most of the people teaching at the top end i.e. Modules 5, 6 and 'Prove i Dansk 3' are 'foreigners'. Danes whose Danish is that good tend to be Lawyers or Doctors.

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View Post
    Are you really a Danish teacher?
    Erm, this is Threaded you're talking about, what do you think?

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  • ThomasSoerensen
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    Originally posted by threaded View Post
    Yes, but it is used that way.

    My favourite in "that's a sign of ignorance" is in one of the jysk dialects when they say something like "Han elsker hans kone", when in Rigsdansk they said "Han elsker sin kone", but jysk is tonal in this regard, and if you use 'sin' it's like, ew look at him putting on the 'airs.

    threaded in "bop bop, bop bop" mode
    Jysk is largely incorrect Danish.

    Are you really a Danish teacher?

    The language that scares me most is Politico-speak. Should be banned.

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  • threaded
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    Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View Post
    It cannot be "telten". Using that is a sign of ignorance.
    Yes, but it is used that way.

    My favourite in "that's a sign of ignorance" is in one of the jysk dialects when they say something like "Han elsker hans kone", when in Rigsdansk they said "Han elsker sin kone", but jysk is tonal in this regard, and if you use 'sin' it's like, ew look at him putting on the 'airs.

    threaded in "bop bop, bop bop" mode

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  • Menelaus
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    Originally posted by sunnysan View Post
    I must admit Rooski is a bee-hatch to learn.

    Learning the Cyrillic alphabet is easy, but the grammar is quite somthing else.

    However once you get that under your belt, any other slavic languages will be easier to learn.

    I am three yearss of part time study down and I am only beginning to be able to structure coherent sentences.

    That being said I am pretty sure any tonal language must be light years harder.
    I wanted to learn Dari (for SnG) a while ago - mental. Gave up after about six weeks.

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  • sunnysan
    replied
    Russian

    I must admit Rooski is a bee-hatch to learn.

    Learning the Cyrillic alphabet is easy, but the grammar is quite somthing else.

    However once you get that under your belt, any other slavic languages will be easier to learn.

    I am three yearss of part time study down and I am only beginning to be able to structure coherent sentences.

    That being said I am pretty sure any tonal language must be light years harder.

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  • ThomasSoerensen
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    Originally posted by Lumiere View Post
    Can I have some rødgrød med fløde then ?
    If you have red berries (strawberry, raspberry etc. ) - then sit on them - then apply cream - then you have Rødgrød med fløde. Enjoy!

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  • ThomasSoerensen
    replied
    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    Have you met Threaded?

    He's our "Something rotten in the state of Denmark".
    And I am your "Something rotten in the state of Denmark - that is why I left"

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  • Churchill
    replied
    Originally posted by ThomasSoerensen View Post
    It cannot be "telten". Using that is a sign of ignorance.
    Have you met Threaded?

    He's our "Something rotten in the state of Denmark".

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