Comments by "DefaultFlame" (@DefaultFlame) on "NativLang" channel.

  1.  @newq  I've tried to reply to you three times, but certain algorithms don't like it, so make of that what you will.
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  2. Swedish has that in common with English.
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  3.  @aykarain  Yes.
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  4. Here's a sentence in a Swedish dialect: E ä e å, o i åa ä e ö. Proper Swedish: Det är en å, och i ån är det en ö. Translation: It is a stream, and in the stream is an island.
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  5. It helps when there so much media in English, and when it's mandatory and considered as inportant as your own language and math in schools, to the point that failing grades in any of those three subjects gets you held back a grade. Edit: I'm Swedish. I have a lot of sympathy for people learning Swedish. The viking hordes of suffixes would probably be overwhelming. I don't even know how many there are, I just know which ones to use because it's my native language.
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  6. I'm not sure if this counts or not, but I'm a Swede who is fluent in English and who learned Spanish in school (though I'm very, very rusty). Yet somehow I can read Africaans with moderate difficulty, though I can't understand it when spoken. I don't even know any Dutch and can't read it at all. I don't actually know a single word in Africaans, but from some weird combination of the languages I know and some minor exposure to German (which I can't understand or read beyond a few random words) somehow that results in me being able to (mostly) puzzle out the meaning of written Africaans.
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  7. Funnily enough, being Swedish and fluent in English (as well as really rusty Spanish, some long forgotten, one-sixth finished French lessons, and a smattering of random German words from satillite TV and games) I can actually read Dutch and especially Afrikaans. Dutch is about as hard as reading Old Norse or Icelandic (*really* hard) while Afrikaans is about as hard as reading Danish (somewhat difficult). Either one spoken is impossible ot understand, however. (Kinda like Danish. Take the potato out of your mouth, please.)
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  8.  @newq  Dolphins and humans are some of the few animals we can confirm as enjoying sex solely for pleasure. That's all you need to know about the experiment.
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  9.  @newq  Dolphin hand jobs.
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  10. Ah, dolphins. I wonder if he will mention IT. Edit: He didn't mention IT.
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  11. Fascinating stuff.
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  12. "Koka ru potäter?" and "kokar du potatis?" are the same words in the same language, and almost everyone in the country can read both though the second is the official spelling. "E ä e å o i åa ä e ö" is a perfectly clear and understandable sentence, it can also be written, and spoken, "Det är en å och det är en ö i ån." In one place a road sign might say "Nisses Gata", in another it would say "Nise Gatu." Let's not get started on the number of places named after genitalia or with suggestive names or placements on the map. You will be buried in a horde of suffixes that change completely from region to region. There is a dialect of the language, Älvdalska, that is considered a separate language, according to scholars. Personally I think it's perfectly understandable, much more than those damned half-danes in Scania. At least they boil the potatoes before jamming them into their gobs. Welcome to Sweden. Hejsan Danmark. Hur är det med er nu för tiden? Vi hör inte mycket om er här uppe.
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  13. Animals undoubtedly communicate. The question is if they speak, as well as if the difference matters. Note: I am very much in the "eat animals" camp. I am very much anthropocentric in my morality. Animals might be people, but they are tasty people that we in some degree need to eat, and tasty is better than non-tasty, to a degree. Nature is a horrifying, continual warcrime. The goal is not to avert this, but to subvert and exploit this in the most humane way possible.
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  14. . . . there is a person at my place of work that does this. This person is absolutely loathed by every single person there. Though there are other aspects that contribute to this dislike, for example that this person is not actually paying attention the majority of the time, that they have a tendency to spiral off into tangents of their own during these interjections, and that they do these interjections into conversations that they aren't a part of. However, the thing that every single person seems to dislike about them is the frequency that they do this, which seems to be similar to the frequency of the same in Japanese. This kind of "yes, I am listening" behaviour does exist in my language, Swedish, but it is rarer, not required to be polite, archaic to a degree, and limited to humms, nods, and "yes"es. Repeating what someone has said is mostly seen as annoying at best, very impolite or insulting at worst. If used very sparingly, repeating words can be done politely.
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