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Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

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Post by stragies »

dionian wrote: post #87
dmoy wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> European It's not restricted to European languages. 贝果 is bagel, just sounded out phonetically, and 三明治 is sandwich. Idk if there's anything super odd about it. Of course, English is the worst offender of loan words. As someone else said somewhere, "[English doesn't] just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary…

Fun fact, 99% of words ending in -tion are the exact same in French. Every English speaker has a head start of hundreds of word vocabulary in French.

Those words also exist in Spanish, there the ending is "cion", and in Portuguese with ending "cão"

Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

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Post by rasmus-kirk »

dkga wrote: post #72

Interesting use case. By coincidence I am also learning Danish quite intensively. What I do (and that tends to work for me) is the following: - I try to actively write something and when I hit a wall, I try in other languages: the important in this part is to get the text flowing from me. Eg, "du could har hjælpe mig, når jeg called du" (trying to write in Danish, "you could have helped me when I called you") - I the…

> As an aside, for me the most challenging part of learning Danish is the pronunciation. It's beautiful...

As a Dane, all I have to say is; lol

Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

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Post by ElevenLathe »

stragies wrote: post #101
dionian wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun fact, 99% of words ending in -tion are the exact same in French. Every English speaker has a head start of hundreds of word vocabulary in French.

Those words also exist in Spanish, there the ending is "cion", and in Portuguese with ending "cão"

And in Polish: -cja. Lots of languages have had a deep relationship with Latin, not just Romance languages.

Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

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Post by netsharc »

robobro wrote: post #85

Doesn't seem to work for Bahasa Indonesia, #10 most spoken language in the world[1]. What a shame! [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...

Why don't you just call it "Indonesian"...

If it didn't work for German and I said "Doesn't work for deutsch", would you hear the pretentiousness?

Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

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Post by parpfish »

IggleSniggle wrote: post #99
triceratops wrote: post #97

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> It's like going to a new place and identifying yourself as an "emigrant" instead of an "immigrant." All immigrants are emigrants, and vice versa. You have to emigrate from someplace in order to immigrate somewhere.

Correct. So, you can emphasize your new identity as an "emigrant from A" or as an "immigrant to B." "Expat" goes one step further by not only emphasizing that you are an emigrant from A, but also that you are no longer a political participant or under the authority of A. It is not semantically incorrect to call yourself an "expat" if you are an expat, nor would it be semantically incorrect to call yourself an emigran…

You’re not going to find an answer to this by parsing out the technical definitions of the words. It’s about how the words are used and the connotations they have developed over time.

Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

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Post by [deleted] »

IggleSniggle wrote: post #79
Cupprum wrote: post #46

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Whats wrong with it?

It generally means that while you live somewhere permanently with no timeline on returning "home," you do not allow yourself to think of your new country as "home." It comes across as a refusal to immigrate . It means that what you care about is that you are no longer living "at home," rather than caring about assimilating with your new home. It's like going to a new place and identifying yourself as an "emigrant" in…

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Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language

#109

Post by whycome »

you should make it clear that it works in any language. the name makes one think that it's a specific language (and the example as well).

though right now maybe you reached an api limit or something because any french i type comes out with an error

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