Re: CHAT: Being taken for a furriner ...

Articles with proper names/nouns?  I always thought that was a Iberian feature
- O Brazil, El Cucaracha, etc.

It occurs in one of my languages:
Nu Praleyo - The Praleyo; Nu Shelaisha, The Shelaisha
with a vocative extension "nuaa" - Nuaa Praleyo "Thou Praleyo!"

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 07:13, you wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:54:24 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?q?Steven=20Williams?=
>
> <feurieaux@...> wrote:
> >In a conversation with a German friend of mine, she
> >made the remark that I sounded very Bavarian. For
> >background purposes, my native accent is standard
> >(i.e., 'Midwestern') American, leaning a bit towards
> >Southern, thanks to all but five months of my life
> >being spent in the South.
>
> Maybe any strange German accent would have sounded Bavarian to her?
>
> >Anyways, she made that remark after laughing at my
> >saying something like "Draussen ist sehr heiß ,
> >nicht?" ("It's very hot out, isn't it?"). I'm pretty
> >sure she was laughing at me using 'nicht' to mark tag
> >questions. Tell me, are tag questions particularly
> >Bavarian?
>
> Not at all! It's common to tag-question with "nicht" (the "t" usually
> dropped which doesn't occur in other words ending on "cht"). There's even a
> kind of tag particle in Southern German, "gell", which is originally a verb
> form related to "gelten", which can still be seen by the use of it's plural
> form in southwestern dialect: "gellet", which is used when adressing groups
> or as honorific (either third or second person plural).
>
> >He used articles with proper names, which I find
> >awesomely cool, if a bit comical. I'd use them myself,
> >if I felt brave enough.
>
> In German, that is? It's considered to be a southern regionalism, and maybe
> northern speakers consider it to be vulgar.
>
> g_0ry@_ˆs:
> j. 'mach' wust
--
Wesley Parish
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Clinersterton beademung - in all of love.  RIP James Blish
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Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."

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