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Post by adamrocks on Sept 6, 2015 23:48:18 GMT -5
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Post by adamrocks on Sept 6, 2015 23:53:40 GMT -5
I must have missed this video comparing Freddie vs Adam on WWRY and WATC. I love them both!  |
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Post by Craazyforadam on Sept 7, 2015 0:10:56 GMT -5
After all the wonderful news you all brought here, I have nothing to contribute in Adamland, so I decided to add a few cents worth to the ongoing language discussion. Only connection to Adam? He probably does not give a flying fig about any of this. Lol So please read this stuff only, if the question why Adam becomes Adamem was of any interest to you. (Most Slavic languages declinate the names, for the different cases, Germanic languages and Romanic/Italic languages often do not). English though, which is a Germanic language that really has only one case left that leads to a change in ending (Genitive-or possessive), does coincidentally use that declination for names as well, just like these Slavic languages do. The ending is 's, in English. My car's license plate Peter's bicycle As far as the relationship between languages, I thought, this might be of interest to a few, and a good overview: s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/X_cY_ZNscizLBC1y_FXwMQ--/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9NjAwO3E9OTU7dz04MjE-/http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nPHpSNSGxPs/UHp9RXsLa-I/AAAAAAAAE3M/9azADQAOdpo/s1600/Indo-European+tree.gif Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and Basque are notoriously absent. They are the non Indo-European Languages within Europe. Which means that i.e. English and Persian have more in common with each other, than i.e. Finnish and Swedish, even though they are next to each other. Btw, it took us Europeans about 3000 years, to get from one common language, to the mess we have today. So much for progress! How the hell did that happen? |
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Post by adamrocks on Sept 7, 2015 0:11:14 GMT -5
Time for some sleep. Nite!  Sara Gabriella ✨ @saracamposxd 19m19 minutes ago I'm so sorry I couldn't help myself
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Post by Craazyforadam on Sept 7, 2015 0:15:08 GMT -5
Sara Gabriella ✨ @saracamposxd 19m19 minutes ago I'm so sorry I couldn't help myself
lol, that is too funny.  |
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Post by freakydeaky on Sept 7, 2015 1:01:23 GMT -5
Wow, I will never complain about French grammar again.... And I thought French was an assault of grammar...  I took Latin in high school, and as someone mentioned, I think, Latin uses cases for nouns too. Nominative, genitive, accusative, ablative(?), at least (That's subject, possessive, direct object, indirect object.) I found it actually made it easier to understand English grammar, and helped also with French and Spanish, and Russian when I took a couple of semesters of that (I'm a language geek!). French had a lot of irregularities, and I'll bet English is pretty tough to learn too! What you call cases, we call conjugations, I think. From what I understand English is hard because it is not phonetic, and our sentence structure is usually reversed, but is easy to speak when you don't know it well and still be understood, like Spanish. You don't need to know all the grammar or have an extensive vocabulary, e.g. pigeon English. Our regular verbs are easier, I eat, you eat, she eats, etc. And the irregular ones are the commonly used ones, I am, you are, she is, etc, so you learn them bc you use them most. The phonetic languages are so much easier to speak though. I think Spanish is the easiest, for me anyway. Italian as well, but it's written grammar gets very complicated. French is just grammar! A Grammar attack. Russian sounds beautiful, but I never want to attempt it! Language is so interesting, and yes, you do learn more about your own language when you learn another, I found that too... EDIT: Ok, I understand more what cases are now, thanks to Craazyforadam's post... |
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Post by freakydeaky on Sept 7, 2015 1:02:01 GMT -5
Well, I think we know where Lady M's mind is.....  |
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Post by freakydeaky on Sept 7, 2015 1:17:00 GMT -5
Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and Basque are notoriously absent. They are the non Indo-European Languages within Europe. Which means that i.e. English and Persian have more in common with each other, than i.e. Finnish and Swedish, even though they are next to each other. Btw, it took us Europeans about 3000 years, to get from one common language, to the mess we have today. So much for progress! How the hell did that happen? Yeah, Basque/Euskera is an interesting one, no relation to any of the surrounding languages, I mean, did they just drop there from Space?! |
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Post by freakydeaky on Sept 7, 2015 1:27:21 GMT -5
In his promo interviews for ALN, I just crack up when he talks about being all alone. Yeah right, then we get photos and tweets about him being spotted at nightclubs and bars. At least he could post a photo of himself in his Jammie's with a bowl of ice cream and then we can empathize.  Good one! |
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Post by freakydeaky on Sept 7, 2015 1:31:59 GMT -5
No offense to my friends in Poland, Denmark and other parts of Europe -- but I am really t looking forward to Adam being in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries where I have a shot at figuring things out. But we rarely even hear Polish in the US -- even though so many Americans are of Polish decent -- in 2012 -- 9,757,528 (3.4 percent of the entire population) but very few <5% speak Polish. French, Italian, Spanish -- I have a shot. Yeah, I'm better at Latin languages too, even though my first language is a Germanic one.. |
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Good one!