Where Are You From?

[Praefectusclassis]

Pffft, we've got two year olds who do a good enough job. <p>Greets<br>
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Jasper</p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

well I have been doing it for two years<br>
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but at least I am allowed to go the pub after lessons<br>
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[Robert Vermaat]

Quote:</em></strong><hr>Yes, I am familiar with the concept of the Germanic language family, thanks<hr><br>
Sorry to be pedantic but if it was you would not be surprised why your "unfocused ears" effect of spoken Dutch on your Anglophone ears is not duplicated by spoken German.<br>
Like I said, modern German (which replaced the 'Lower German' spoken in the upper part of medieval Germany), which does not resemble modern Dutch, is different. It does therefore not work in your "unfocused ears" mode.<br>
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Valete,<br>
Valerius/Robert <p></p><i></i>

[Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus]

Jasper:<br>
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The only problem about the two year olds can learn latin easy enough is that people can learn languages very easily if they are taught it before in their young years, before 16, because their minds are able to information and learn things easier. Some one like me, who is in his early twenties, has a harder time learning different languages because I have only spoken english for 20 or so years, so various differences in languages, such as sentence structure, nouns, verbs, conjugating, is harder for me to learn.<br>
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Peace<br>
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Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus <p></p><i></i>

[Caius Fabius]

Of course, learning a language is easier if the visual writing/ sound connection is similar to one you already know! The Romans learned Greek and Latin, two different alphabets! (You think they are almost the same? Try sounding out a word in Greek or Cyrillic!) It is a good thing that the Romans forced the Latin style alphabet on all the barbarians in the west! <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

By the way,,,,,,,<br>
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I come from PROVINCIA GERMANIA INFERIOR,<br>
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In the IMPERIUM ROMANORUM (which still exists...) <br>
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M.VIB.M. <p><span style="color:yellow;font-family:times new roman;font-size:medium;">M.VIB.M.<br>
V COH II<br>
LEGIO X GEMINA<br>
EX GER INF</span></p><i></i>

[Robert Vermaat]

Imperium Romanorum or Imperium Romanum?<br>
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Btw, I'm from Germania Secunda..<br>
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Valete,<br>
Valerius/Robert <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

Dont even know how they pronounced it.... hehehehehe<br>
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M.VIB.M.<br>
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<p><span style="color:yellow;font-family:times new roman;font-size:medium;">M.VIB.M.<br>
V COH II<br>
LEGIO X GEMINA<br>
EX GER INF</span></p><i></i>

[JRSCline]

Robert is actually dwelling in the Imperium Annoyorum at the moment... If he were a dinosaur he'd be a Correctosaurus.<br>
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Jenny <p></p><i></i>

[Robert Vermaat]

That's what you get for helping to get the facts right, duh..<br>
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Valete,<br>
Pedanticus Magnus <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

Pompeius wrote "are those other languages a branch of english, meaning do they use the same principles of the language and similar words, or are they completly different from english"<br>
Well, Welsh is utterly different from English and Latin in grammar etc- in fact one of the possible linguistic clues to the Saxon wiping out of the Romano Brits in their area is the lack of Celtic loan words surviving in English.<br>
In Welsh, however, a fair number of Latin loan words survives- pont (bridge), llurig (breatplate/ lorica), cleddyf (sword/gladius), pedyt (foot soldier) cefl (horse cf French cheval), llyfr (book, cf French livre), ffenestr (window, cf French fenetre), and the place names e.g. Caerleon from Castra Legionis, Caerdydd (Castra Didius) (Welsh form of Cardiff). And the Welsh dragon (as on the national flag) possibly claims descent from the Roman draco....<br>
Hwyl (regards)<br>
Paulus <p></p><i></i>

[Crispvs]

Cornish displays most of the same features, along with case endings, which Welsh has largely lost. Unfortunately I don't speak Cornish, although I've often considered learning it, but then, I'm not afraid of the fact that I am a native English speaker born in Engand, which, like Cornwall, Wales and Scotland is situated in Britain and that my language, although Germanic (I can of course ask directions to the nearest railway station in German) enjoyed a separate development to other Germanic languages and thanks to the occasional interaction of some of those languages, principally Norse and Flemish, along with Latin, French and Hindi developed into a particular insular form, which was then able to be disseminated around the world. Like EVERYBODY, I have an accent, mine being fairly indeterminate thanks to having a Cornish mother who grew up in Kent, a father from Essex who went to university in Bristol and twenty two years in Southern New Zealand. I can, if I try, do a pahsa-bull Njzellund exunt - but I try not to. Incidentally, pupils in the first class I ever taught commented when I spoke, saying "M'sta Giddiz - yiv godden exunt". I told then they had too and they were very surprised.<br>
Regarding the poll, it's a shame you can't tick more than one box. Yes, I'm British, but nearly three quarters of my life spent in "Godzone" should surely count for something.<br>
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Crispvs <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=crispvs>Crispvs</A> at: 6/8/04 2:43 am<br></i>

[L C Cinna]

btw modern day high german is a made up language itself. I can easily understand old english (anglo-saxon) texts as it's quite close to the dialect I'm speaking because we didn't have the soundshifts high german had. very interesting topic.<br>
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as for the main topic: I'm from Raetia. Brigantium at the Brigantius lacus, now I live in Vindobona, Pannonia <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

There you go, the first ASIAN!<br>
Cheers. <p></p><i></i>

[Jeroen Pelgrom]

Salve Mowahid,<br>
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are you a Kuwaity or "just working there"?<br>
Good to have you here. <p>-------------------------------------------------------<br>
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings -- they did it by killing all those who opposed them.<br>
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</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p200.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=pelgr003>pelgr003</A> at: 7/14/04 4:05 pm<br></i>