Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a Glance

Post by amake » Fri, May 13, 2016, 12:06 PM UTC

jkdkfgkhlkhsdfg wrote: post #25

Nadya wrote: post #5

Additional bonus: Korean uses lots of basic angles, squares, and lines and many Hangul have "three parts" eg. 한국어의 It's a beautifully simple writing system. You can go quite a long comment chain in Japanese without seeing の. I always tell people "look for lots of simple characters that can be written with only 2 or 3 lines mixed in between a bunch of really complex characters". 来週は学校に行きません For those who don't know Ja…

来週は学校に行きません This sentence makes no sense.

Post by amake » Fri, May 13, 2016, 12:07 PM UTC

jkdkfgkhlkhsdfg wrote: post #40

getoj wrote: post #34

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Hi, I'm a gainfully employed translator of Japanese and linguist. Short answer: the sentence is fine as it stands, although your alternative is equally grammatical (if less idiomatic - "学校へ行かない" gets about 1/4 of the ghits of "学校に行かない" by my count, and personally I'd never use へ). Long answer: Japanese draws a distinction between verbs of A→B movement (e.g. 行く to go; 引っ越す to move house; 移動する to move/change location)…

Japanese N1 and JETRO biz japanese here. Yeah sure, in vernacular construct, which explains more Google results.

Post by tremon » Fri, May 13, 2016, 12:26 PM UTC

eru wrote: post #69

yohoho22 wrote: post #45

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> No diacritics An understandably naïve view of things whose errancy could easily be corrected through your coöperative perusal of The New Yorker.

Wouldn't it be cöoperative?

Post by Grue3 » Fri, May 13, 2016, 12:48 PM UTC

Post by vacri » Fri, May 13, 2016, 1:31 PM UTC

dalke wrote: post #61

aylons wrote: post #22

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No diacritics, and generous use of apostrophes.

That guideline would likely classify Xhosa as English. See https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphepha_Elingundoqo , which has no diacritics and three apostrophes.