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Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a Glance

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Re: Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a Glance

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Post by gazrogers »

> Welsh is actually quite different from the other two. It uses lots of ll and ff and it uses w as a vowel (e.g., cwm).

Welsh also uses a circumflex accent to extend any of the vowels, and since both 'w' and 'y' are vowels in Welsh (leading to many jokes by English speakers about words with no vowels) they can have the circumflex accent too. I've had problems in the past finding the alt-codes to generate w or y with a circumflex accent - so those may be unique to Welsh.

From http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/bylanguage/welsh.html : > Because of the writing system, Welsh places accents on the letters w (phonetic /u/) and y (phonetic /ɨ/ or /i/), which is very unique in languages of the world. These symbols require Unicode support apart from that of other Western European languages.

Re: Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a Glance

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

brendyn wrote: post #41

Some of my Chinese friends use の instead of Chinese equivalent 的 just for fun. Personally I distinguish them by just going and learning the languages. It's easy to distinguish them by noticing Japanese has curvy characters mixed with blocky complicated Chinese ones, where is Chinese is 100% complicated blocky characters. Also I just want to put it out there randomly that if you want to learn a language but believe yo…

> It's easy to distinguish them by noticing Japanese has curvy characters mixed with blocky complicated Chinese ones, where is Chinese is 100% complicated blocky characters.

And Korean has lots of circles/ovals.

Re: Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a Glance

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Post by eru »

tremon wrote: post #75
eru wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't it be cöoperative?

It wouldn't be. The goal is to separate the second o from the first, not to separate the o from the c: The diaeresis indicates that a vowel should be pronounced apart from the letter that precedes it [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29#Diae...

Oh, true. Naive should have tipped me off.

Re: Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a Glance

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Post by jkdkfgkhlkhsdfg »

amake wrote: post #73
jkdkfgkhlkhsdfg wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Just stop. You're embarrassing yourself.

Thanks. But fuck off.

Re: Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a Glance

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Post by executesorder66 »

executesorder66 wrote: post #62
to3m wrote: post #2

This is all very helpful, but how do you spot English?

To all sibling comments, I'm sure he meant how does someone who does not speak English, identify it by the letters?

And now that I think about it, how would you differentiate Latin and English?
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