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<Nexus> · May 3, 2016

dbkblk said:
Hi
I'm still not playing Civ 4 anymore

I hope you get better soon

@Sogroon: No vowels, but no need to pronounce it

Well, true.
BTW what does it mean?

new pseudo, BTW?

Sort of.
You know, "you can never be alone with schizophrenia" :lol:

45°38'N-13°47'E;14254094 said:
Edit: ZN, aren't you from Hungary? I think you shouldn't have any problem with words with too few vowels

Yes and no

Yes, I'm from Hungary.
No, vowels are important in Hungarian. It's a common miss-concept that Hungarian language belongs to the Slavic family. No, it isn't. We are an isolated civ without any relatives nearby. In theory we are related to Finnish language, but it is questioned by some. Even if it's true, the relation is not that evident as in the case of English-German or Italian-French.

Compare Hungarian with Czech. Now they really lack the vowels

45°38'N-13°47'E · May 3, 2016

I knew about Hungarian-Finnish language relationship, I know Hungarian doesn't belong to Slavic languages. But compared to Latin derived languages, there are still too few vowels.

I've been to Budapest 5-6 years ago, very nice city. But I will never be able to read the word Hungary in Hungarian.

<Nexus> · May 3, 2016

I think what is confusing you (and most 6 year old Hungarians at school :lol:

) is that we have a lot of double-consonants: cs, dz, gy, ly, ny, sz, ty, zs; and even a triple-consonant: dzs. These all stand for 1 single sound.
So the word "magyar" is 6 letters but only 5 sounds.

But now thinking of it... English has far more of this kind of behavior. Which is often far more chaotic as the same combo can represent different sounds.
In Hungarian exceptions are rare, we say what we write.

Arakhor · May 3, 2016

An off-topic thread? You mean we have to be on-topic in other threads? Noooo!!!!

45°38'N-13°47'E · May 3, 2016

Arakhor said:
An off-topic thread? You mean we have to be on-topic in other threads? Noooo!!!!

This thread is about languages, you are off topic.
And the subject of the thread is way too generic. [emoji13]

<Nexus> · May 3, 2016

Arakhor said:
An off-topic thread? You mean we have to be on-topic in other threads? Noooo!!!!

Well... Maybe not, but...
The "How many vowels has your mother-tongue?" definitively is not one of the Frequently Asked Questions which is a sticky thread.

Arakhor · May 3, 2016

Five, like any proper language, clearly.

45°38'N-13°47'E · May 3, 2016

Arakhor said:
Five, like any proper language, clearly.

And in Italian we have a short word using them all: aiuole. [emoji13]

Leoreth · May 3, 2016

Arakhor said:
Five, like any proper language, clearly.

And I thought yours was English

Arakhor · May 3, 2016

British English, yes. Pronunciation is a silly thing.

45°38'N-13°47'E · May 3, 2016

Arakhor said:
British English, yes. Pronunciation is a silly thing.

As they say, there's no British/American English. There is English and there are mistakes [emoji13]

dbkblk · May 4, 2016

@ZN, 45°: Well, it's kind of hard to work that much but I have hopes it won't last long. It's just that deadlines are really close for a lot of studies. I have to admit that sometimes, my brain is like an apple purée in the evening.
The pseudo is based on my initials and an infortunate mix of my old pseudo (when I was younger) "babar-le-killer" (yes, the elephant

, i like absurd).

(The word "aiuole" looks like "aioli", which is one of the culinary specilities in south east of France.)

Arakhor said:
Pronunciation is a silly thing.

Like the word "although", I naturally don't know how to pronounce that correctly

<Nexus> · May 4, 2016

Arakhor said:
Five, like any proper language, clearly.

Only five? Ehh, beginners...

45°38'N-13°47'E;14255017 said:
And in Italian we have a short word using them all: aiuole. [emoji13]

What does it mean?

45°38'N-13°47'E · May 4, 2016

Zeta Nexus said:
What does it mean?

Plural of aiuola, a patch of grass usually with flowers.

Arakhor · May 4, 2016

dbkblk said:
Like the word "although", I naturally don't know how to pronounce that correctly

There's a reason that some people spell it "altho".

All, plus hard-th (as in the), followed by a long o, as in oh.

Leoreth · May 4, 2016

Arakhor said:
British English, yes. Pronunciation is a silly thing.

Pronunciation is all that counts. The only reason English only has five vowel letters is because it stole the alphabet of a proper language

dbkblk · May 4, 2016

Arakhor said:
..plus hard-th ..

Do you mean, while throwing splutters at the face of your interlocutor ?

Arakhor · May 4, 2016

We're not German or Gaelic - we can manage to speak without spitting at everyone in range!

<Nexus> · May 5, 2016

Just found a few language jokes that are fitting

Q: What is Grammar?
A: The difference between knowing your sh!t, and knowing you're sh!t.

45°38'N-13°47'E;14255017 said:
And in Italian we have a short word using them all: aiuole.

Q: Is there a word in the English language that uses all the vowels including "y" ?
A: Unquestionablely!

Leoreth said:
Pronunciation is all that counts.

Arakhor · May 5, 2016

Ghoti/Fish is a very old chestnut and of course wouldn't be pronounced that way.

The Evesham Hotel used to have a standing offer of a free bottle of wine for any non-native Anglophone who could read out a deliberately confusing poem entirely correctly. Highlights included cough, bough, enough and so on, such that even a native speaker would have to concentrate to do it properly!

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