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Kann þǭ fōlingǭ tō wela.
I know that feeling too well.

(Ni kann hwat dǭ ik.
I don't know what I'm doing.)
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Ég er nokkuð viss um að kunnaną sé ekki rétta orðið. Heldur ætti það nóg að vera knēaną í fyrstu setningunni en witaną í hinni.
I'm quite sure that kunnaną is not the right word. Rather, it should probably be knēaną in the first sentence and witaną in the other one.

En samt er kannski hægt að kunnaną væri í lagi í fyrstu setningunni; ég veit ekki hvað þýðing eða notkun hafa breyst mikið á milli forngermönsku og nútíma mála.
But perhaps it's still possible that kunnaną would be all right in the first sentence; I don't know how much the meaning or usage have changed between Proto-Germanic and modern languages.
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Bilaubijō þiz. Ni wait hwō kinþō wurdō brūkaindau.
I believe you. I don't know how the descendant words work. (English generally only really makes usage of <know>, outside of some dialects.)
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你们向那里学习原始日耳曼语?
你們向那裏學習原始日耳曼語?
Nǐmen xiàng nǎlǐ xuéxí Yuánshǐ Rì'ěrmànyǔ?
[ni˨˩mə̆n ɕjɑŋ˥˩ nä˧˥li˨˩ ɕɥœ̜˧˥ɕi˧˥ ɥɛn˧˥ʂʐ̩˨˩ ɻʐ̩˥˩ɑɻ˨˩man˥˩y˨˩˦]
Where did you guys learn Proto-Germanic?
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在维基多语词典里有原始日耳曼语的词。
There are Proto-Germanic words on Wiktionary.
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Znex wrote:在维基多语词典里有原生日耳曼的词。
There are Proto-Germanic words on Wiktionary.
けれど、言葉の使い方をどう習う?
But how do you learn how to use the words?
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我猜想,也依赖知道古希腊语和日耳曼语。
I guess, and also rely on knowing Ancient Greek and the Germanic languages. (The ancient IE languages should be similar to each other, and the Germanic languages should collectively be similar to PG.)
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Znex wrote:我猜想,也依赖知道古希腊语和日耳曼语。
I guess, and also rely on knowing Ancient Greek and the Germanic languages. (The ancient IE languages should be similar to each other, and the Germanic languages should collectively be similar to PG.)
你会哪些日耳曼语?
你會哪些日耳曼語?
Nǐ huì nǎ xiē Rì'ěrmànyǔ?
[ni˨˩ xweɪ̯˥˩ nä˨˩ ɕjɛ˥ ɻʐ̩˥˩ɑɻ˨˩man˥˩y˨˩˦]
2 can which CL Germanic.language
Which Germanic languages do you know?
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kanejam wrote:
Thakowsaizmu wrote:Mimi na shoga langu tumeangalia sinema nyingi juma hili
Me and my Girlfriend have seen a lot of movies this week.
Ko ēhea ngā kiriata i tirohia e kōrua?
EQ PL/which DEF.PL movie PST look.at-PASS AGT 2DU
Which movies did you two watch?

He aha 'whaiāipo' i pūmatuahia ai?
INDEF what beloved PST capitalise-PASS ANAPH
Why did you capitalise girlfriend?
我們看了《Pitch Perfect 2》、還看《Unfriended》。兩部電影都是美國電影。
We saw Pitch Perfect 2 and Unfriended. Both are American movies.

Na niliandika shoga kwa mtaji kwa sababu nilitaka kuandika sasa hivi
And I capitalized Girlfriend because I wanted to.
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GrandPiano wrote:
Znex wrote:我猜想,也依赖知道古希腊语和日耳曼语。
I guess, and also rely on knowing Ancient Greek and the Germanic languages. (The ancient IE languages should be similar to each other, and the Germanic languages should collectively be similar to PG.)
你会哪些日耳曼语?
你會哪些日耳曼語?
Nǐ huì nǎ xiē Rì'ěrmànyǔ?
[ni˨˩ xweɪ̯˥˩ nä˨˩ ɕjɛ˥ ɻʐ̩˥˩ɑɻ˨˩man˥˩y˨˩˦]
2 can which CL Germanic.language
Which Germanic languages do you know?
(Well, English, but I look up what the other Germanic languages use when I'm looking to see what the PG equivalent would be.)
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Kunnum allai unseranz furafadrǫ̂ tungōnų sprekaną!
We can all speak the tongue of our forefathers!

He Hakihona ētahi anake i ōku tīpuna - he Kereti ētahi.
Only some of my forefathers were Germanic (lit. Saxon, couldn't find a better word) - some were Celtic.

Ni kann mīnaizǫ̂ wēdaizǫ̂ furafadrǫ̂ tungōnų sprekaną... Wiktionariz ni ist gōdaz ganōgaz [xP]
I can't speak the language of my Celtic forefathers... Wiktionary isn't good enough [xP]

Ka marea tino ngā tohutō nā.
So many macrons.
Thakowsaizmu wrote:我們看了《Pitch Perfect 2》、還看《Unfriended》。兩部電影都是美國電影。
We saw Pitch Perfect 2 and Unfriended. Both are American movies.
Est-ce que Unfriended est aussi nulle qu'il semble?
Is Unfriended as crap as it looks?
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kanejam wrote:Kunnum allai unseranz furafadrǫ̂ tungōnų sprekaną!
We can all speak the tongue of our forefathers!

Ni kann mīnaizǫ̂ wēdaizǫ̂ furafadrǫ̂ tungōnų sprekaną... Wiktionariz ni ist gōdaz ganōgaz [xP]
I can't speak the language of my Celtic forefathers... Wiktionary isn't good enough [xP]
Ma io non conosco lo Slavo Commune. [:(]
But I don't know Common Slavic.

Io vorrei fare un successore del Gallico - per cui non funzionerà.
I'd like to make a successor to Gaulish - it won't work because of that.
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kanejam wrote:Est-ce que Unfriended est aussi nulle qu'il semble?
Is Unfriended as crap as it looks?
Mi amigo la vio y él dijo que fue terrible. Yo vi parte de la película y no me gustó.
My friend saw it and said it was terrible. I saw part of the movie and I didn't like it.
I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
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Znex wrote:
GrandPiano wrote:
Znex wrote:我猜想,也依赖知道古希腊语和日耳曼语。
I guess, and also rely on knowing Ancient Greek and the Germanic languages. (The ancient IE languages should be similar to each other, and the Germanic languages should collectively be similar to PG.)
你会哪些日耳曼语?
你會哪些日耳曼語?
Nǐ huì nǎ xiē Rì'ěrmànyǔ?
[ni˨˩ xweɪ̯˥˩ nä˨˩ ɕjɛ˥ ɻʐ̩˥˩ɑɻ˨˩man˥˩y˨˩˦]
2 can which CL Germanic.language
Which Germanic languages do you know?
(Well, English, but I look up what the other Germanic languages use when I'm looking to see what the PG equivalent would be.)
我本来觉得“PG”的意思是“Parental Guidance”,不是“Proto-Germanic”……
我本來覺得“PG”的意思是“Parental Guidance”,不是“Proto-Germanic”……
Wǒ běnlái juéde "PG" de yìsi shì "Parental Guidance", bù shì "Proto-Germanic"...
[wɔ˧˥ pən˨˩laɪ̯˧˥ t͡ɕɥœ̜˧˥tə̯ ˈpʰiˈd͡ʒi tə̯ i˥˩sz̩̆ ʂʐ̩˥˩ pʰəˈɹʷɛntʰɫ̩ ˈgaɪ̯ɾəns | pu˧˥ ʂʐ̩˥˩ ˈpʰɹʷəʊɾəʊ d͡ʒɚˈmeə̯nɪk]
1 initially think "PG" POS meaning be "Parental Guidance", NEG be "Proto-Germanic"...
At first, I thought that "PG" meant "Parental Guiance" rather than "Proto-Germanic"...
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Pft, PG ei tarkoita mitään muuta kun Proto-Germanic.
Pft, PG doesn't mean anything else but Proto-Germanic.
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Ahem....
:us-pa: :deu:

Pennsylfawnisch Deitsch (PG)

Machscht du Gschpuchde?

Are you kidding?
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kanejam wrote:
Thakowsaizmu wrote:我們看了《Pitch Perfect 2》、還看《Unfriended》。兩部電影都是美國電影。
We saw Pitch Perfect 2 and Unfriended. Both are American movies.
Est-ce que Unfriended est aussi nulle qu'il semble?
Is Unfriended as crap as it looks?
奇怪,不過有意思的概念。我們覺得那部電影一點兒可怕。
Dhana ilikuwa geni lakini poa kidogo. Tuliwaza sinema hii ilitisha vidogo.
Strange, but interesting idea. We thought it was a bit scary.
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Lambuzhao wrote:Gschpuchde
Das sieht ein Wort aus, Linda Richman würde in »Coffee Talk« verwendet haben. [xP]
That looks like a word Linda Richman would have used in "Coffee Talk".
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@ Lao Kou

Posiblemente. Pudo haber sido un sustrato de bajo alemán que se le influyera. Parece ¿no?
Possibly. There could have been a Low German substratum that might've influenced it. It seems so, innit?

No tengo la menor idea si habría una palabra afin en alemán moderno.
I have no idea if there may be a cognate in :deu: .
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Sabes, puede ser que tiene cognato con :deu: spuken 'encantar' (?!)
Y'know, it can be that it has a cognate with Modern German spuken 'to haunt'

Horne's Pennsylvania German Manual (p. 280)
https://books.google.com/books?id=C4RBA ... ok&f=false

*Gespukte = aparición => cazaría de gamusinos => inocentada, broma, burla = Gschpuchde
*Gespukte = haunting [->] snipe hunt [->] prank, joke, jape = Gschpuchde

Véase :dan: spøg 'chiste'.

cazaría de gamusinos = Elbedritsche

[}:D]
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