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Odd Fact About American Ego, and English/Spanish Language
In Spanish and German, they capitalize the word "you." In English, we
capitalize "I." - from the American Language section of www.odd-info.com |
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Odd Fact About American Ego, and English/Spanish Language
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:51:42 -0700, javawizard
wrote: In Spanish and German, they capitalize the word "you." In English, we capitalize "I." - from the American Language section of www.odd-info.com Another odd fact: they make you learn umpteen different forms of "you" in German and Spanish. -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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Odd Fact About American Ego, and English/Spanish Language
On Aug 1, 7:11 pm, Hatunen wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:51:42 -0700, javawizard wrote: In Spanish and German, they capitalize the word "you." In English, we capitalize "I." - from the American Language section ofwww.odd-info.com Another odd fact: they make you learn umpteen different forms of "you" in German and Spanish. Spanish as spoken in Spain has four: formal singular, informal singular, formal plural, and informal plural. In most of Latin America, there are three, since plural isn't broken down into formal and informal. It's not too difficult really - the only judgment call is whether you know someone well enough to use informal versus formal. Spanish is a much more straightforward language than English - Spanish words are always pronounced the way they are written, obviously unlike English, and there are very few irregularities in Spanish - English has a lot more exceptions to rules. |
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Odd Fact About American Ego, and English/Spanish Language
In article om,
Iceman wrote: Spanish as spoken in Spain has four: formal singular, informal singular, formal plural, and informal plural. In most of Latin America, there are three, since plural isn't broken down into formal and informal. It's not too difficult really - the only judgment call is whether you know someone well enough to use informal versus formal. English also has four, but three have fallen out of normal use. Vocative singular is "thou", accusative singular is "thee", vocative plural is "ye", accusative plural is "you". Modern English-speakers use "you" for all four cases. -- Randy Hudson |
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Odd Fact About American Ego, and English/Spanish Language
"Iceman" wrote in message
ps.com... Spanish as spoken in Spain has four: formal singular, informal singular, formal plural, and informal plural. In most of Latin America, there are three, since plural isn't broken down into formal and informal. It's not too difficult really - the only judgment call is whether you know someone well enough to use informal versus formal. German has Sie/Ihnen for formal singular and plural, du/dich/dir for informal singular, and ihr/euch for informal plural. If you *really* want umpteen second-person words for "you," there's Russian. Hungarian is loads of fun too. Spanish is a much more straightforward language than English - Spanish words are always pronounced the way they are written, obviously unlike English, and there are very few irregularities in Spanish - English has a lot more exceptions to rules. Same goes for German, as far as written language. Those genders and declensions, though... oy. -- dgs |
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Odd Fact About American Ego, and English/Spanish Language
Following up to Hatunen :
In Spanish and German, they capitalize the word "you." In German it's optional, at least in the familiar form (Du/du). -- Tim C. |
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Odd Fact About American Ego, and English/Spanish Language
Following up to Iceman wrote:
Spanish is a much more straightforward language than English - Spanish words are always pronounced the way they are written, obviously unlike English, and there are very few irregularities in Spanish - English has a lot more exceptions to rules. yes, even I can make some progress, I shudder at having to learn English. -- Mike (remove clothing to email) |
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Odd Fact About American Ego, and English/Spanish Language
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 17:43:45 -0700, "dgs" wrote:
If you *really* want umpteen second-person words for "you," there's Russian. Hungarian is loads of fun too. Also Korean, although I've been told most of them have fallen out of use. There were various grades of formal, depending how far above or below you the person was. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup |
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Odd Fact About American Ego, and English/Spanish Language
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:23:20 -0700, Iceman
wrote: On Aug 1, 7:11 pm, Hatunen wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:51:42 -0700, javawizard wrote: In Spanish and German, they capitalize the word "you." In English, we capitalize "I." - from the American Language section ofwww.odd-info.com Another odd fact: they make you learn umpteen different forms of "you" in German and Spanish. Spanish as spoken in Spain has four: formal singular, informal singular, formal plural, and informal plural. In most of Latin America, there are three, since plural isn't broken down into formal and informal. It's not too difficult really - the only judgment call is whether you know someone well enough to use informal versus formal. Spanish is a much more straightforward language than English - Spanish words are always pronounced the way they are written, obviously unlike English, and there are very few irregularities in Spanish - English has a lot more exceptions to rules. Having phonetic spelling doesn't make a language more straighferward, but it does make it more straightforward to read. -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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