Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: Rating Languages

From:Dan Jones <dan@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 25, 2001, 9:25
Herman miller wrote:

> Ancient Greek: verb conjugations.
Why? There's onnly two of them. I find Greek verbs a lot easier than their Latin counterparts, and normally I find Latin a lot easier (even with its five cases as opposed to Greek's four). Dan ---------------------------------- La plus belle fois qu'on m'a dit "je t'aime" c'était un mec qui me l'a dit... Francis Lalane ----------------------------------
> Arabic: tricky alphabet, short vowels unwritten, emphatic consonants. > Chinese: writing system, tones. > Finnish: noun declension, consonant gradation. > Georgian: consonant clusters. > Irish: spelling, initial consonant mutation. > Japanese: writing system, levels of politeness, syntax. > Korean: "tense" consonants. > Russian: palatalized consonants, perfective vs. imperfective verb stems. > Thai: no spaces between words, complicated spelling of tones. > Tibetan: spelling. > Vietnamese: unfamiliar vowels, tones. > Zulu: clicks. > > -- > languages of
Azir------> ---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/index.html>---
> hmiller (Herman Miller) "If all Printers were determin'd not to print
any
> @io.com email password: thing till they were sure it would offend no
body,
> \ "Subject: teamouse" / there would be very little printed." -Ben
Franklin
>

Reply

Herman Miller <hmiller@...>