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In what contexts is it not possible to replace ja with sekä ? E.g., Heräsin, sekä/ja nousin Puursin sekä/ja hikosin koko päivän Pidän vain hedelmöistä sekä/ja kasveista Kiitos, sekä/ja nähdään pian! K

Quote: Originally Posted by Gavril In what contexts is it not possible to replace ja with sekä ? E.g., 1) Heräsin, sekä/ja nousin 2) Puursin sekä/ja hikosin koko päivän 3) Pidän vain hedelmöistä sekä/ja kasveista 4) Kiitos, sekä/ja nähdään pian! K Mikä sattuma, mietinkin juuri tätä asiaa pari viikkoa sitten! I think the words are almost always interchangeable. There's only a slight difference: Sekä is a more general ja...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gavril Would iva be a good translation for the words irony, sarcasm or mockery ? Are there more specific words for any of these? First of all, I agree with all the Finns who have already commented on this. My intuition at first was that iva would rather be mockery than irony or sarcasm. I was even going to say that I would never use iva to refer to sarcasm or irony because I thought it wouldn't be right....

Quote: Originally Posted by jonquiliser Out of curiosity, would you Sakvaka and GOM say that there's anything to what I said about verb vs. noun? What you said is fine with me. I wouldn't hesitate to say kirjan on toimittanut X. Also, lehtimies is an old good word. It, too, has just become unfashionable. GOM

Quote: Originally Posted by Ghabi You mean that both Chinese and Thai have mostly mono-syllabic morphemes, right? So would you prefer the Vietnamese chữ Nôm system? An interesting thing is, in the modern Latin alphabet used for Vietnamese, each syllable is written separately, even though two consecutive syllables form a single word (i.e. a di-syllabic morpheme), a feature that some people complain about. Yes, native Thai morphemes...

Here are other verbs that will further support this theory that -in verbs are used for objects that move towards the actor: hilahin (to pull something) saluhin (to catch something) bilhin (to buy something) i- verbs used for objects that move away from the actor: itapon (to dispose something) ihagis (to throw something) itulak (to push something) ihulog (to drop something) But then, the pattern does not work for: hubarin(to undress) ->...

Yo tampoco conozco a ninguna chica llamada Haize. Pero conozco a un chico llamado Haizea...

I see these sounds described with the IPA characters /ɟ/ and /c/ all over the internet, but that doesn't seem possible to me. I've been talking to a Hungarian friend of mine, her language having these sounds, and she agrees that they sound quite different from the letters Gy and Ty (to which they would correspond) in Hungarian. I'm thinking now that perhaps /ɟʑ/ and /cɕ/ would be more accurate...

I have been working on Thai for almost a year now, and I am faced with a barrier that has frustrated me considerably. I hope some foreros out there might be able to pass on some useful ideas. Thai writing is purportedly phonetic (that's a subject for another thread, though). Nevertheless, I have a great deal of difficulty reading Thai. It was a while before I realized that the reason for this was not the symbols themselves, but rather...

Quote: Originally Posted by Gavril Would it make sense to say the following? : Gootit pitävät yleensä kaameudesta (= often like macabre things ) It would, even though I'd use a straight translation: ~ pitävät yleensä kaameista asioista . Kaameus means something like "macabreness". Quote: Hyvää k iitospäivää kaikille! Samoin sinulle! Muistathan myös, että Viikonpäivät, kaikki kuut / joulun sekä juhlat...