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DiM wrote:in german the numbers are always written together. 245 is not written two hundred and forty five but rather twohundredandfortyfive and wham bam you have a new word for each number.
MrBenn wrote:DiM wrote:in german the numbers are always written together. 245 is not written two hundred and forty five but rather twohundredandfortyfive and wham bam you have a new word for each number.
It's actually zweihundertfünfundvierzig... but who's counting
for example german language can create virtually an infinite number of compound words
DJ Teflon wrote:I reckon we need an experiment for this one:
Get a non-european language kid and teach them English, any latin language whatsoever (except Latin) and a germanic language (such as german), teachers of equal skill, and see which language they are closest-to-native in after, say, five years (including a few visits etc).
DJ Teflon wrote:DiM wrote:for example german language can create virtually an infinite number of compound words
Exactly, compound words are simple to understand.
DiM wrote:take a newborn kid and try to teach him
DiM wrote:english doesn't have the largest vocabulary in the world
natty_dread wrote:English is actually one of the easiest languages to learn
natty_dread wrote:it's very easy to teach newborns... they learn simply from hearing the language being used - I don't remember anyone ever teaching my native language to me, yet I speak it fine..
natty_dread wrote:no matter where you are, it's hard to turn on the tv or radio and not hear english (ok, unless you live in one of those crazy countries that insists on dubbing everything - but even then you still have the internet).
QoH wrote:If you're American/British and think grammar/vocabulary/spelling your own language is hard, then you're just a plain dumb-ass. Or really really stupid.
natty_dread wrote:DiM wrote:take a newborn kid and try to teach him
You know, the way learning languages works, it's very easy to teach newborns... they learn simply from hearing the language being used - I don't remember anyone ever teaching my native language to me, yet I speak it fine...
DJ Teflon wrote:Reason 1 for calling this map Futbol. So many of the people who play the sport call it this, especially those who rule the world.
Reason 2 is that is would not comfuse our United Statsian friends who (due to our shared illogical non-compund language) as they like to use the word football for a sport involving hands and egg shapes. If we called it Football, then, later on, the USians wanted to create a map for their national body armour sport, they'd be forced to differentiate. I'm sure they wouldn't want to call it 'Handegg'.
DiM wrote:it's not just about speaking the language but also reading and writing
natty_dread wrote:Also the american "foot" "ball" is not even egg-shaped, it's more like a stretched pointy ellipsoid... or a lemon. We should just call it handlemon.
Teflon Kris wrote:Maybe, in the absence of team starting positions, this map could be designed for 1 v 1 only in the short-term?
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