Tower of Babel

[Agamemnon]

Aha! Vinny old chum, THIS site should be all you need.

[Beartalon]

I assume you mean something other than Canadian English which is amazingly like British and American English, just different pronounciation.

But here's one you don't have - Esperanto:
unu, du, tri, kvar, kvin, ses, sep, ok, na?, dek

[Vinny]

Oh man, good site, thank you old bean.

~got bitten by the same bug~

[The Doctor]

Originally posted by Beartalon:

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I assume you mean something other than Canadian English which is amazingly like British and American English, just different pronounciation.

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Yes, I hear they add "eh" to the end of their words

Requium: You are taking Japanese too? I am about to start my second year of it--daisuki-desu. I also want to take German when I have a bit more Japanese under my belt.
One of my favourite Japanese expressions is "shitsuree shimashita", "I'm sorry", but literally, "I have committed a rudeness."

All the ways I know to count to ten have already been said (French, German, and Japanese)

[Beartalon]

Originally posted by "The Doctor":

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Yes, I hear they add "eh" to the end of their words

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An uncorroborated story has is that Canada received it's name thus:
When the founding fathers of Confederation were sitting in their Charlottetown meeting room one 1867 day, names for the new union were proposed. No-one could agree, so they decided to write all 26 letters of the British alphabet on small squares of paper. The squares were placed in a hat. One person pulled out three random letters, and hoped they spelled something.

It went like this - "C, eh?", N, eh?", D, eh?"

And so it was ... C A N A D A.

[The Doctor]

He he! Nice story, Beartalon!

BTW, what is Esperanto. Sounds like a language spoken by the hopefull.

(By the way, Beartalon, old buddy, let's pat each other on the back for having two whole posts each in a row in which we did not edit a thing! *pats Beartalon on the back*)

[The Doctor]

Darn: should be "hopeful"... but I ain't editing it!

[CrystyB]

RO: unu doi trei patru cinci şase şapte opt nouă zece

RU: один два три четырь(четыре) пять шесть ?~forgot~?(семь) восемь девять десять - sorry i forgot some, i haven't used these in a looooong time. The bracketed numbers come from the site Aga provided.

[This message has been edited by CrystyB (edited 08-26-2002 12:02 PM).]

[The Doctor]

I think I am looking at it in the wrong font: all I see are que?tion marks. Which should I be using?

[edited: Bah!]

[This message has been edited by The Doctor (edited 08-26-2002 12:35 PM).]

[CrystyB]

The site's default. It's in HTML not in the font. I use the European Encoding for Windows if that matters any. I guess US would work too if one would have that...

[Beartalon]

*pats the Doctor on the back*

Esperanto is the first major attempt in a world-common (fabricated)language. It roughly came into prominence with the world peace and flowers generation (1969?), although I think it was around before then. It's main features are set rules for grammar and spelling (not like English at all).

William Shatner starred in a movie written in Esperanto and there are several people worldwide who can actually converse in it (Esperantists).

Hey, no editing!

[Vinny]

~farts~

shitsuree shimashita

[Vinny]

Ah ... Esparanto ... the golden nugget of languages ...
the phantom Tower of Babel ...
the mirage of world unity ....

http://www.esperanto.net/veb/faq.txt

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mesperanto.html

[Amb]

Quailman - you got them almost completely right

1.tahi
2.rua
3.toru
4.wha (said FA)
5.rima
6.ono
7.whetu
8.waru
9.iwa
10.tekau
11.tekau ma tahi
12.tekau ma rua
13.tekau ma toru
...

Maori counting.

And Kiora is hello.
Taniwha is monster. (wh is said as an F)

Kiora Quailman

The Taniwha is eating some Kai. (food)

[Ferris]

Hey, amb - maybe we could meet up IRL?

But only if you're (a) JAFA, I guess...