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Contrary to what JAL might have thought, my home dialect is not Flemish, but falls squarely within the area marked as Kleverlands speaking, albeit the Dutch variety.

Stuff like this makes me sad, thinking that the only really strong dialects are Upper German dialects... Kleverlands has a strong, but increasingly niche dialectal scene. My impression is that it is not commonly spoken, but generally understood and very much celebrated during events such as Karneval.

There are many examples of spoken Klever Platt that I expect to be much easier to parse for speakers of Standard Dutch, than for speakers of High German. This is quite a cute example.

I know that I should know the answer to this myself, but I don't, so here it goes: Are there any dialects of German in Germany that have such a sound that, to speakers of sufficiently different dialects from completely different parts of Germany, the speaker's accent might sound downright foreign? ...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 5:48 am So the poster called people like themselves "Simple People"? That's interesting. Without that context, I'd have guessed that it's a rather condescending way to refer to other people.

In Russian, простой человек is considered a compliment.

The presentation doesn't seem to be posted on the Language Creation Society channel on YouTube yet, or am I overlooking it?

The original context was the podcaster referencing his subject matter as very niche and thus interesting for specialists in particular. So perhaps the link was/is Spaten as (Fach)idioten? EDIT: I am paraphrasing the quote, but it was something like "Ich mach' diesen Podcast natürlich für die Sp...

While listening to a podcast I thought I heard Spaten, but in the meaning of "enthousiast, afficionado, connaisseur". Is this sense commonly found?

I remember reading a discussion on teh Interwebs (it may have been here on the ZBB, but phpBB's search feature is so broken as to be useless) where people were discussing the pronunciation of nasal vowels in French loans in German, and the general view of them of them was that they were pronounced ...

Stop debasing yourself with the "but they too", it comes across as very infantile and it does nobody any good.

Very much digging your radicals, Man in Space. At this point, would you be able to put together a couple of sentences using them?

Ahzoh wrote: ↑Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:54 pm Chuck should have gotten covid and died during the pandemic, along with some other useless people.

Wishing death on people seems to be all the rage on this conlang hobby forum.

I remember playing Football Manager ages ago, perhaps it was even still called Championship Manager. Its developers were such diligent translators that, in the Dutch version, they parsed Francesco Totti as "Frankrijksco Totti". That was early '00s machine translation for you.

I bet that as we speak his whitelaced, swastika embossed jackboots are dictatorially resting on the desk in the Oval Office.

De valse vrienden lichten me altijd een voetje ⁰. En "er".. Ik weet nooit , ¹ wanneer ik die ² zou moeten / moet ³ gebruiken. ⁰I think this may be an expression, in some old-fashioned Dutch, but it isn't current. I'd never use it. This idiom is still in common use, JAL. I would not use it...

jal wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:25 am

AwfullyAmateur wrote: ↑Thu Jan 09, 2025 11:13 am400th word is sebokušeset, meaning sugar-water, which in Soduar is used as a cosmetic.

For some reason, for a second I read "sexbot". 🤔

Στην κρεβατοκάμαρα το μυαλό...

There's no need to get into the semantics of "brutish", but the idea of being driven into the "mosquito infested jungle" by bands of machete-wielding drunken youths is, at least to me, a grim one. This quote is from pages 14-15: Monei’s adult children openly accused their materna...

I like to quote Kulick & Terrill’s Grammar and Dictionary of Tayap This one is great, thanks for mentioning it. I absolutely love how the grammar is filled with ethnographical notes. As much as it is a linguistic grammar, it is an account of the life of a speaker of Tayap, which is pretty bruti...

Bro, are you kidding me? If I ever get called in the middle of the night by a +675 phone number, you bet I am picking up. The chance of Tok Pisin' with my new friend, twirling the telephone wire while discussing sago grub recipes till the sun comes up is not to miss.