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Old 07-11-2007, 04:24 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Re: Languages

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Originally Posted by Kalim View Post
You know, I've always had an interest to "understand" your native language but never really got round to it. I would like to just at least have an idea of what they talk about though.
I simply don't pick up any bits of it, yet.
If you want to translate anything from Russian (some phrase, maybe) then I'm at your service. Our language is tough Mainly because it has synthetic structure (grammatical meanings are displayed by inner altering of the form of the word) as opposed to analytical English (grammatical meanings are displayed by means of syntax - word order, auxiliaries, and so on). Synthetic languages have many irregular forms and exclusions (just like irregular verbs in English, that in fact are the remnants of synthetic-analytical Old English grammar)
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