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Anyone know of any IPA descriptions of the Englishes spoken in North American movies from the 30s to the 50s?    Any leads or key words even would be useful... Or youtube videos from particularly poignant examples.   I can just listen, but detailed descriptions might be useful.  Any acting resources for speech accent learning available anywhere?

Thanks. :D

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Just read an interesting article in the International Herald Tribune: "Belgium teeters on a linguistic edge." It's a little long to post the full text, but it makes for an interesting read.

Liedekerke has only 12,000 inhabitants, but its elected council has caused a stir by insisting on the "Flemish nature" of the town. Not only must all city business and schooling take place in Flemish, true throughout Flanders, but children who cannot speak the language can be prohibited from taking part in holiday outings, like hikes and swimming classes.

"België barst!" says the graffiti on the bridge near the train station, or "Belgium bursts," the cry of the nationalists who want an independent Flanders. But here they also want to keep the rich, French-speakers from Brussels - only 21 kilometers, or 13 miles, away, and 15 minutes by train - from buying up this pretty landscape and changing the nature of the village.

Facebook Learn Spanish of the Day: "saber a gloria"
to be wonderful
Entregar eso ensayo me ha sabido a gloria.

From facebook:
El baño me ha sabido a gloria

That swim was wonderful.

Saber a gloria - when something is delightful. Also used with la siesta... la comida... el paseo...


So why is it not Though i do not understand why it is not "entregar eso ensayo me sabió a gloria."
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 Can anyone help me out with translating an occasional phrase into Russian for use in fiction?

At the moment, I'm looking for an expression that would be translated as "jumpy" or "nervous", as in slightly inclined to paranoia.  The speaker is an older woman, and she's talking about a man.  A colloquial expression would be wonderful, but it has to be a term that would have been in use 20 or 30 years ago; current slang would be anachronistic.

Many, many thanks!

Hi. With finals almost over, I'm looking forward to reading whatever I want. I'd love to read a good linguistic/language related book, but nothing too dense or intellectual (don't make me think after finals). Does anybody have any recommendations for an interesting language related book that is an enjoyable read? Something I could pick up at Barnes & Noble or something?

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After a series of random internet clicking, I ended up on ED's page on Wikipedia. There's a section all in Hebrew, and I'd really like to know what it says... so if anyone could help, I'd appreciate it!

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Here's the link: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Wikipedia

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Hello Linguaphiles,

Anyone want to recommend OED equivalents in other languages? I would like to find etymological and historical evolutions of words for Portuguese in European Portuguese, and a separate volume for French in European French. Any ideas where I may find and purchase such volumes? I browsed fnac.com without any luck.

Best to all,

isa

  

"In the event the defendant declines to submit necessary information to the relevant agency(,) or fails to submit it within the prescribed period(,) or significantly obstructs the investigation..."
To be or not to be? To comma or not to comma? :))))

On my last post here a number of members of this community gave me a recommendation to read "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

I just finished school today and started reading it in the sunshine on my balcony. I'm well into book II as i write this but i can't keep the smile off my face. It's already got me hooked and it's an awesome story that i find myself just looking around me and finding a sense of timelessness as a result.

anyways, thanks to the people on here who turned me onto it. It's kickstartin my summer in the bestest way possible. I'll be back for more recommendations throughout the summer.

while i'm posting this i suppose does anyone have any favourite parts in the book? I can already think of 3 that made me laugh out loud and i'm only 40 pages in.

I'm a new member. :]

I have a question for anyone who's had their tongue webs cut/removed. I have ankyloglossia (i.e. "tongue-tied") and for the sake of my dental health and personal comfort I'm going to see an oral surgeon later on this year to get a lingual frenectomy. I would go to a local studio to get it done if I could, but piercers in Ohio aren't allowed to operate scalpels from what I've heard. :|

What was the healing time like, how was speaking/eating/etc. for the first couple of days/weeks, and what was the after-pain like?

Also, I want to get my tongue pierced after the frenectomy -- I've wanted it for a while and since my tongue basically never leaves the bottom of my mouth, I've never been able to consider it. It'd be sort of a triumph for me. I'm not pushing it, though. How long do you think I should wait between the surgery and the piercing? I'm thinking healing time + a couple "just-to-be-safe" months.

Thank you in advance! :D

I went out looking for tropical yams for a Beninese recipe I wanted to try, but I ended up buying taro. I guess I'll boil the corms.

PS: The Ethernopian was delicious.

I'm trying to translate the insult "seaweed brain" into Ancient Greek. I... have tried several dictionaries, and I can't find any entry for seaweed. In modern Greek I think it would be "fyki myalo" if I'm not mistaken?

I don't know anything about Greek, so I'm kind of at a loss.

Greek letters with transliteration would be wonderful, please.

Dear community,

I have a problem speaking about of the process of getting a higher education.


In English: there are lectures and... practicals/seminars? and those who teach us are called professors and in the second case ...?

En Français: un cours/une série de conférences? et des travaux dirigés. Les professeurs et les enseignants/répétiteurs/...?


Thank you.

Hi! I don't post here often, but have a question for any blind teachers/professors out there... or anyone else who might have suggestions.

What methods do you have for reading/grading students' exams? I can't go into a lot of detail, but it's most likely that the students would be doing their exams by hand in class. I'm totally blind so magnifyers and CCTVs aren't an option. While I have no problem scanning typed materials, I'm not quite sure what to do about the hand-written stuff.

Thanks for any suggestions!

P.S. Anyone have info on the accessibility of Blackboard?

Hey all of you, I just heard about an opportunity to submit a poem about my current study abroad experience at a party in an hour, and I would LOVE it if someone would clean up the gravest of my errors so that it at least sounds presentable, anyone care to help? I didn't have much time to write it and have even less to correct it...I guess I'm mainly wondering about the de + infinitive stuff, and if the phrase "sinon déjà, t'inquiètes pas, il reste deux semaines" works or not. Anyone care to lend a helping main? Merci beaucoup!!! Disregard the accents, I'm using a crappy-as-hell computer/keyboard and don't have time.

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i keep hearing many different things regarding this issue, so someone please enlighten me :]

is it true that if i were to go to the northern cities of Germany, i would be hearing a form of the German language that was very different from that spoken in the southern cities of Germany? and does the same apply to the east/west cities, as well as the German spoken in Austria? I have heard that for sure, the German in Switzerland is markedly distinct, but I had really thought that in Germany at least, the language was fairly homogenous. is the standard, or 'high' German, considered the most proper or formal, whereas another type is considered the colloquial spoken form?

i'm considering going to Munich or Frankfurt in September with my mom, maybe there is a better city we should look into visiting if we want a really good exposure to the language? (at least, that's what i'm into, i think she's more into the shopping!)

thanks guys :)