#lingu

(regarding my tags on this post)

So in German linguistics there's a differentiation between semantic meanings that a genitive phrase can convey (I worded my tags a bit... clumsily lol). A genitive is an attribute and thus needs a core substantive. These two also have a specific kind of semantic relationship. Examples would be the genitivus possessivus (showing who/what possesses smth, e.g. Flora's phone -> paraphrasing: Flora owns the phone.), genitivus subiectivus, g. obiectivus, g. explicativus, g. hebraicus (book of all books - das Buch aller Bücher - repetition of a substantive in the genitive case to indicate significance etc.), ....

The Old High German word for ‘pirate’ is meridiop. It consists of the words meri (’sea’) and diop (’thief’).

The New High German word for ‘pirate’ is Seeräuber. It consists of the words see (’sea’) and Räuber (’thief, robber’).

“A servant who earned a lot of money was asked, ‘What will you do with this money?’ He replied, ‘I will buy a master who treats me well.’”

“Çok para kazanan bir köleye, ‘Bu parayla ne yapacaksın?’ diye soruldu. O da, ‘Bana iyi davranacak bir efendi alacağım,’ diye yanıtladı.”

“En tjänare som tjänade mycket pengar blev frågad, ‘Vad ska du göra med dessa pengar?’ Han svarade, ‘Jag kommer att köpa en herre som behandlar mig väl.’”

hello, my name is carlo and i'm 18 years old. today i'm going to talk about my typical day. i always [alzo = wake up?] at 7:00 and make a good snack with tea and cookies. after meeting my best friend marco, at 7:40 i take the bus that takes me to school. i really like my school because [there's a lot of material that looks at the world of information?]! [ogni] day has 6 hours of lessons, [tranne il = except?] saturday [in cui ne = in which???] have 5. when i come back home, i study and do [i compiti], [ma mi diverto = ...have fun???] [anche = ... is this cognate with aunque] playing on the computer and [suonando la mia chitarra = ... playing my guitar???]. i eat dinner at 19:00 with my family, comprised of my mother, my father, and my three brothers. at 22:30 [circa vado a letto a leggere alcuni libri prima di] sleep.

i kind of operated for a few years under the assumption that spanish and portuguese were quite similar... which they are in terms of vocabulary and grammar! but i realized after a while that the pronunciation was completely different. portuguese writing is similar enough to spanish that i could understand it, but i always got really stuck when trying to pronounce the words out loud. a lot of the letter combinations just doesn't make sense at all when you try to read them in a spanish way~!

this year i got really into bossa nova and the music of joão gilberto, and i felt a strong need to learn how to sing some of his songs, and this got me into learning more about the portuguese phonological system and i realized it was so much more soft and mushy than i ever could have expected and i thought 'OHHHH THAT'S WHY the old people i know sound kinda russian'