just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.
first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.
red, arrow, break.
Gaelic is fun to listen to. That is enough reason to learn some - the following vid is by a Gaelic-speaking Aussie girl from Melbourne, I believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNzQ0xOW9zc
The language has a strange beauty. Her accent is almost similar to a Welsh lilt.
hello all, i'm 'researching', a jw who is in the first steps of taking a look at their beliefs.. i've semi-recently (about a couple weeks ago) heard about the sexual abuse cases (pennsylvania attorney general’s investigation request) and then the arc in 2015. this lead to a deep investigation, which lead to many questions arising.
a jw friend of mine suggested i be careful (due to apostates) and ask the brothers.
so i typed up my questions + concerns and emailed an elder my mother has known for a long time.
Here is a link to *Paul Grundy's experience, well worth a read if you have the time ...
https://jwfacts.com/watchtower/experiences/paul-grundy.php
*the guy who runs JWFacts.com.
hello all, i'm 'researching', a jw who is in the first steps of taking a look at their beliefs.. i've semi-recently (about a couple weeks ago) heard about the sexual abuse cases (pennsylvania attorney general’s investigation request) and then the arc in 2015. this lead to a deep investigation, which lead to many questions arising.
a jw friend of mine suggested i be careful (due to apostates) and ask the brothers.
so i typed up my questions + concerns and emailed an elder my mother has known for a long time.
Welcome, Research.
The brothers will view you as a member of the 'Awkward Squad'.
The CO will give some kind of answer, probably ending with 'wait on Jehovah in this time of the end'.
^^^ That's his way of asking you to drop the subject.
If you continue asking these kind of questions, you'll find yourself in the back room, meeting with three elders.
Edited to add: Cofty nailed it in his comment.
(Also, there is a site called JWFacts.com. The guy who runs that site questioned things and found himself in a similar situation to you. He was eventually disfellowshipped, from what I remember. Check out his life story on his site. It shows how the elders treated him, thus giving hints as to how the CO and elders will treat you.)
i was thinking about this at work the other day, and realized the one positive thing i can truly credit the jws with: .
i have no fear of public speaking.
i was a shy kid, fat, clumsy, with crooked glasses and worse teeth, who wore hand-me-downs in one of the wealthiest counties in all of america, who sat still while classmates got up to salute the flag or recite the pledge of allegiance.
Name one POSITIVE thing you took from your experience as a Witness - getting on with different people, I suppose.
My congregation was made up of people with different ethnic, cultural and economic backgrounds.
just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.
first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.
red, arrow, break.
A form of aig + pronoun is important in Gaelic because there is no verb 'to have'.
Instead of saying 'I have something' Gaelic literally says 'something is at/with me'.
Tha mac agam - I have a son (literally, 'there is a son at me').
It's also used to say if you speak a language (in Gaelic you 'have a language/a language is at you'):
Tha Beurla agam - I speak/know English ('there is English at me'')
Chan eil Gaidhlig aig an fhear sin - that man doesn't know Gaelic
It's also used for saying I know/I don't know (literally 'knowledge is at me/isn't at me'):
Chan eil fhios agam - I don't know
Tha fhios agam - I know
just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.
first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.
red, arrow, break.
^^^ So that's a bit of Arabic and grammar.
Now on to Gaelic.
In Gaelic, verb forms don't change according to person (I, you, he, etc.).
Tha mi a' fuireach - I live/am living/am staying
Tha thu a' fuireach - you live/are living/are staying
Tha e a' fuireach - he ...
Tha i a' fuireach - she ...
Tha sinn a' fuireach - we ...
Tha sibh a' fuireach - you (plural or polite) ...
Tha iad a' fuireach - they ...
Verb forms in Gaelic change according to whether the sentence is a statement or question:
A bheil thu a' fuireach ann am Pàislig? - Do you live in Paisley?
Tha thu a' fuireach ann am Pàislig. - You live in Paisley.
Chan eil thu a' fuireach ann am Pàislig. - You don't live in Paisley.
Nach eil thu a' fuireach ann am Pàislig? - Don't you live in Paisley?
^^^ these verb forms are the same regardless of the person (I, you, he, etc.).
The following is a bit strange - you don't conjugate verbs in Gaelic; you conjugate prepositions.
The word for 'at' is aig in Gaelic. But to say 'at me', 'at you', etc. you don't say aig mi, aig thu ...
Aig kinda changes and is amalgamated with the pronoun. So:
agam - at me
agad - at you
aige - at him
aice - at her
againn - at us
agaibh - at you (plural/polite)
aca - at them
^^^ Weird, huh? XD
just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.
first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.
red, arrow, break.
Just want to talk about grammar. English doesn't have much of it. Old English certainly did but Modern English doesn't.
So, re verbs, foreigners learn the stem of English verbs and the third person singular form.
E.g. drink, he/she drinks. The simple past tense is drank (drink being a strong verb).
Er, and that's pretty much it. Once you've learnt those forms, you're kinda good to go (although English does have continuous forms - I am drinking; I was speaking, etc.) - I drink/drank, you drink/drank, he drinks/drank, we drink, etc.
Arabic has a verb form for each person (I, you, he, etc.)
ashrab - I drink
tashrab - you (masculine singular) drink
tashrabina - you (feminine singular) drink
yashrab - he drinks
tashrab - she drinks
nashrab - we drink
tashraboona - you (masculine plural) drink
yashraboona - they (masculine plural) drink
There are also forms for they (feminine plural), they two (dual), you (feminine plural) and you two (dual) but these aren't used in everyday speech. The you and they (masculine plural) forms are used as a gender-neutral forms in everyday speech. The dual forms aren't often used - being replaced by the plural forms.
I'm a bit of a grammar geek so I love this kind of stuff.
The correct forms, using the correct prefixes and suffixes, are used for virtually every Arabic verb ...
adrus - I study
tadrus - you (m. sing.) study
tadrusina - you (f. sing.) study
yadrus - he studies
tadrus - she studies
nadrus - we study
tadrusoona - you (m. pl.) study
yadrusoona - they (m. pl.) study
There are also different forms in the past tense ...
darastu - I studied
darasta - you (m. sing.) studied
darasti - you (f. sing.) studied
darasa - he studied
darasat - she studied
darasna - we studied
darastum - you (m. pl.) studied
darasoo - they (m. pl.) studied
^^^ And that's the two main tenses in Arabic - simple present and simple past. For the future tense, you just add sa- to the present tense.
a criminal in nz- in this case a murderer - has the right not to be identified - even after conviction?
quote: "why was grace millane’s murderer granted anonymity?
the reasons for the so-called suppression order, like the name of the killer himself, cannot be given for legal reasons.
New Zealand's a nice country but its authorities and institutions have been infected with social justice thinking.
Expect a right-wing, conservative government to be elected within the next 10 years.
while even non-peaceful people have been awarded the peace prize (e.g.
arafat, kissinger), i am confused as to how obama could possibly have won the award one year after being the first term junior senator from illinois with zero “peace” experience (other than his ‘well-articulated’ rhetoric)..
reading the obama-pining on a couple of posts made me reexamine my view of barry’s presidency..
Because he's half-black.
Not properly black, but still better than being white.
i suspect that the leaders of eu countries which have large fishing fleets are seriously worried/panicking (for their own jobs!
) that the uk is going to drastically reduce/eliminate those fleets' access to the uk's rich fishing waters.. the eu knows how its rules and regulations pummeled the british fishing fleets, now it fears that it's their turn to experience the same collapse: .
"i am not sure that an agreement will be reached between now and the end of the year," mr macron said at a meeting with fishermen in paris on saturday......mr macron also said fishing rights could be a sticking point in negotiations.
Boris Johnson can use this as leverage during negotiations ... i.e. give us good trade deals or we'll stop you fishing in our waters.
