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Offline Karlos

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Re: Learn to speak Finnish in 5 minutes
« Reply #14 from previous page: January 15, 2011, 01:34:00 PM »
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Why not create your own "hyper synthetic" language that puts Finnish in the shade?
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Re: Learn to speak Finnish in 5 minutes
« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2011, 01:49:48 PM »
We should all learn to whistle v.42bis. :D
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Re: Learn to speak Finnish in 5 minutes
« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2011, 03:41:06 PM »
I could do. I found the syntax of Lojban quite difficult. The way you have morphemes to effectively parenthesise parts of the sentence is an interesting concept, but when you're trying to communicate a complex meaning it's really hard to generate the sentence. Lojban is supposed to be totally unambiguous (semantically), so perhaps there's room for a language which has a simpler syntax, allowing for a degree of ambiguity (which can be resolved by the listener using pragmatics and context), but with 100% regular rules.
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10  IT\'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
20  FOR C = 1 TO 2
30     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA
40     DA-NA-NAAAA-NAAAA DA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAAA
50  NEXT C
60  NA-NA-NAAAA
70  NA-NA NA-NA-NA-NA-NAAAA NAAA-NAAAAAAAAAAA
80  GOTO 10