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hayastan hayastan November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 1:22:42 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Hello everyone!
I'm back :)
Salut Sysko,Sacredceltic,ciaoooooooo caro guybrush :P
Olá Alexmarcelo :P Hola shishir :)
¿me extrañaron? lol

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Guybrush88 Guybrush88 November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 9:44:08 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

*hayastan

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سابق رکن سابق رکن November 17, 2011 November 17, 2011 at 10:54:54 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

*Հայաստան

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hayastan hayastan November 17, 2011 November 17, 2011 at 10:58:10 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Parece que boracasli me tiene entre ceja y ceja todavía :P

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sacredceltic sacredceltic November 17, 2011 November 17, 2011 at 11:28:45 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Borocasli est comme le phœnix, il renaît toujours de ses cendres !

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sysko sysko November 18, 2011 November 18, 2011 at 6:33:05 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

oui, quelque jours a relacher mon attention, et paf, j'ai blacklisté sa nouvelle adresse IP, on devrait être tranquille quelque jours. Va falloir que je me fasse un petit script pour supprimer de manière propre toutes traces d'un utilisateur, comme s'il n'avait jamais existé. Histoire de supprimer plus rapidement les avatars de l'ami bora et leurs contributions délétères

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sacredceltic sacredceltic November 18, 2011 November 18, 2011 at 6:36:37 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

il a encore des phrases en arménien http://tatoeba.org/fre/user/profile/hahaha

Scott Scott November 18, 2011 November 18, 2011 at 6:59:36 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Et tu n'as toujours pas sévi contre turkishdelight

Par exemple, http://tatoeba.org/fre/sentences/show/1223426

سابق رکن سابق رکن November 18, 2011 November 18, 2011 at 12:43:21 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Yes voch boracasli. I'm an Armenian guest.

Shishir Shishir November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 9:23:29 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

¡Hayastan! ^_^ Me alegro de que hayas vuelto :)

sacredceltic sacredceltic November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 9:33:11 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Bienvenue de retour parmi nous, hayastan ! Je me réjouis que tu reviennes ! Il y a encore plein de travail pour toi...

Guybrush88 Guybrush88 November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 9:39:51 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

ciao hayasan, bentornata

alexmarcelo alexmarcelo November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 5:38:18 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Bem-vinda de volta, hayastan! Como disse sacredceltic, ainda muito precisa ser feito!

saeb saeb November 14, 2011 November 14, 2011 at 2:18:22 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

kinda late to the party but....welcome back^^

yujin yujin November 14, 2011 November 14, 2011 at 11:45:55 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

How should I translate some recently added languages, such as Interlingue, Kalmyk and Occitan.
They appear OK when english interface in on but they have no russian translation. I tried the launchpad but I couldn't find these items.

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sacredceltic sacredceltic November 14, 2011 November 14, 2011 at 11:57:22 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

The admin must declare interface items as translatable items to be available for translation in Launchpad.

alexmarcelo alexmarcelo November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 5:15:23 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

We now have 50,000 Portuguese sentences!

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al_ex_an_der al_ex_an_der November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 5:37:25 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Meus parabéns!
Miajn gratulojn al tiuj, kiuj kontribuis!
My congratulations to those, who have contributed!

Shishir Shishir November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 5:47:42 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Parabéns!! :)

marcelostockle marcelostockle November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 6:34:08 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Felicitaciones!

sacredceltic sacredceltic November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 7:38:06 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Félicitations !

alexmarcelo alexmarcelo November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 7:44:08 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Il y a encore beaucoup de travail à faire...

terenia_kk terenia_kk November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 1:47:34 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Saluton! Cxion nonan al cxiuj cxe komputilo

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jakov jakov November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 7:22:16 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Saluton! Estu kore bonvena! Cxu vi jam scias kiel funkcias la retpagxo? Ne hezitu demandi cxi tie ion ajn! Bonvolu ankaux legi je la "oftaj demandoj" http://tatoeba.org/deu/faq kaj la gvido por bona kontribuado http://blog.tatoeba.org/2010/02...n-tatoeba.html

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al_ex_an_der al_ex_an_der November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 7:32:43 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

*********Übersetzung Traduko Translation***********

jakov: Hallo! Seid herzlich willkommen! Wisst ihr wie die Website funktioniert? Zögert nicht hier irgendwas zu fragen! Bitte lest auch die "häufigen Fragen" http://tatoeba.org/deu/faq und die Anleitung für gute Beiträge http://blog.tatoeba.org/2010/02...n-tatoeba.html

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jakov jakov November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 7:47:12 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

dankob pro via traduko. Tamen mi ja celis nur unu personon per "bonvena" ;)

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al_ex_an_der al_ex_an_der November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 8:34:51 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Tion vi bone rimarkis. Senpaga traduko ne ĉiam estas perfekta :)

jakov jakov November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 7:42:17 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Ankaux ne forgesu priskribi vian lingvan konon en via profilo.

Vergiss auch nicht, deine Sprachkenntnisse in deinem Profil zu beschreiben.

tsayng tsayng November 12, 2011 November 12, 2011 at 4:27:02 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Hello, I am tsayng, a newcomer to this website. I have made some mistakes when translating or contributing sentences because of my carelessness. I am sorry about that.
However, I want to be ready instead of being sorry. Therefore, can someone provide me with the rules that I should obey? I'll be tremendously grateful.
Next, I am not sure if we should translate sentences into simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese (Mandarin). Can someone tell what I should do? Thanks.
(Traditional Chinese revives in China now. There is a steady increase in the number of schools teaching traditional Chinese.)

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Zifre Zifre November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 12:21:49 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

> Next, I am not sure if we should translate sentences into simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese (Mandarin).

I suggest using traditional characters, especially if you are more comfortable with them. The software automatically converts each sentence into both variants.

I think the majority of the sentences here are in simplified characters, but some users (such as me) have been using traditional characters.

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sysko sysko November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 4:38:20 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

but at the moment the search engine does not index this "automatically generated version", so for still some times searching 说 will not give you the sentences containing 說 .

In the absolute, it's up to you, as here it's only a script difference, as long as it's mandarin chinese when you add a sentence in mandarin Chinese:)

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tsayng tsayng November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 5:39:55 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Thanks.
It certainly helps.

Quazel Quazel November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 7:52:07 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Et 說 et 説 seront considérés comme des caractères différents ?

Quazel Quazel November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 7:52:49 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

( les variantes japonaises quoi... )

tsayng tsayng November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 1:52:15 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Good, thank you!

alexmarcelo alexmarcelo November 12, 2011 November 12, 2011 at 5:07:36 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Hi, tsayng! I'd suggest you to read:

1. The FAQ
http://tatoeba.org/eng/faq

2. The Contributor's Guide
http://blog.tatoeba.org/2010/02...n-tatoeba.html

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tsayng tsayng November 13, 2011 November 13, 2011 at 1:51:51 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Thanks a lot!

marcelostockle marcelostockle November 12, 2011 November 12, 2011 at 5:06:35 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

I'm sorry for the propaganda but:
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/1233133

CK CK November 11, 2011، ایڈت تھیا October 30, 2019 November 11, 2011 at 4:15:18 PM UTC، ایڈت تھیا October 30, 2019 at 5:30:35 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

[not needed anymore- removed by CK]

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al_ex_an_der al_ex_an_der November 11, 2011 November 11, 2011 at 8:41:50 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

May be it wouldn't be an mistake to add me for German and Esperanto.

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jakov jakov November 11, 2011 November 11, 2011 at 9:23:44 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Cxu vere vi estas denaskulo aux cxu nur vi vin konsideras suficxe bone kompare al denaska nacilingvulo?

sacredceltic sacredceltic November 11, 2011 November 11, 2011 at 6:10:39 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

You can add akvo to Croatian (hrv) http://tatoeba.org/epo/user/profile/akvo

sacredceltic sacredceltic November 11, 2011 November 11, 2011 at 6:11:49 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Very interesting info! Thank you!

sacredceltic sacredceltic November 11, 2011 November 11, 2011 at 6:15:02 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

You forgot Grizaleono and Martinod for Dutch (nld) http://tatoeba.org/epo/user/profile/GrizaLeono
http://tatoeba.org/epo/user/profile/martinod

sacredceltic sacredceltic November 11, 2011 November 11, 2011 at 6:16:35 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

You forgot Maksimo for Russian (rus) http://tatoeba.org/epo/user/profile/Maksimo

alexmarcelo alexmarcelo November 11, 2011 November 11, 2011 at 6:16:50 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Very interesting indeed! Thank you!

sacredceltic sacredceltic November 11, 2011 November 11, 2011 at 6:52:18 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

you also forgot:
arcticmonkey, jxan, lilygilder, Alois and esocom for German (deu)

JimBreen for English (eng)

hortusdei and pjer for French (fra)

rado and Tradukero for Italian (ita)

koosscharroo and slavneui for Dutch (nld)

pliiganto, behi, Esperantodan and EsperantoFarsi_Robot for Persian (pes)

esperanto for Polish (pol)

demetrius for Belarussian (bel)

Hellerick, Aleksej, joulin and Arkadeko for Russian (rus)

Aleksandro40 and debian2007 for Hungarian (hun)

minshirui for Hindi (hin)

Gyuri and une_monica for Portugese (por)

Ignatius881, chinopinyin and Andranik for Spanish (spa)

ziggsmith for Kataluna (cat)

jakov jakov November 11, 2011 November 11, 2011 at 8:09:46 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

I think this also is some kind of feature request: It should be able to set ones languages in the profile. Not only could it be some more easily readable to those who don't speak the profiles language, but also does it add extra possibilities for the possible statisticians and researchers that work on the data.

wallebot wallebot November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 7:11:47 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Sugerencia para el buscador de frases

Se puede buscar por idioma de origen y frases con traducciones en cierto idioma.

Pero seria muy util para los colaboradores poder encontrar frases que NO Tengan una traduccion en un idioma, para poder añadirla.

Seria muy util los casos en los que solo se habla bien la lengua materna y el resto se entiende mas o menos.

Que os parece?

Digest:
Sugest: New option for searching. Find sentences without NO translation in a language(ej: User native language)

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sacredceltic sacredceltic November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 7:18:23 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

>Pero seria muy util para los colaboradores poder encontrar frases que NO Tengan una traduccion en un idioma, para poder añadirla.

http://tatoeba.org/epo/sentence...or/indifferent

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wallebot wallebot November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 7:35:16 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Estaria bien poder acceder desde contribute>>Translate sentences.

Sometime is dificult remember a URL.

Many thanks Sacredceltic. :)

sacredceltic sacredceltic November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 11:23:29 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...layer_embedded

HuShiwei HuShiwei November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 7:05:07 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Hello everyone! 大家好!I'm here to learn and help add sentences to the Chinese/English sections of the project. Hope to be of some use!

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HuShiwei HuShiwei November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 7:06:51 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

on a side note, is it too late to change "Chinese" to Mandarin? This seems a bit strange to me, thanks.

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sacredceltic sacredceltic November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 11:25:29 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

+1

"Chinese" doesn't exist but in the mind of senile communist party leaders...

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al_ex_an_der al_ex_an_der November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 12:15:36 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

I hope you don't consider me a senile communist party leader, when I use the word "chinese". Maybe I should go more deeper into the topic of the lingusitic landscape of China, to understand the fervour of your discussion better.

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slomox slomox November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 12:54:17 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Just for the records: Pretty much everybody agrees that "Chinese" is not a single language, but a family of languages comparable to the Romance languages. Unlike the Romance languages however Chinese languages are connected by a common script that's not sound-based but in its core etymon-based. So while English, Dutch, German and Low Saxon have the related but different words "sun", "zon", "Sonne" and "Sünn" respectively, Chinese script has only one sign for it (let's represent it for our purposes with the Unicode sign for "sun": ☼). The different languages all write ☼, but pronounce it according to their own phonological rules (this however fails if different Chinese languges use unrelated words, similar to how English uses "horse" while the other languages use "paard", "Pferd", "Peerd". Chinese would have two different signs in a case like this). That's why the Chinese always considered themselves members of one culture despite all the differences. Among the Chinese languages Mandarin is the most widely spoken one. Therefore it dominates official contexts and the media and if the West speaks about "Chinese" it almost always means Mandarin.

If you ask me, it would be useful to rename cmn to "Mandarin" in the Tatoeba localization repositories. I however do find it funny, how Sacredceltic starts to grouse when somebody just innocently used the common and widespread term "Chinese" when referring to Mandarin. The reference to "senile communist party leaders" is especially funny because both "Chinese" and "Mandarin" are western terms without any direct correspondence in Chinese. Chinese has its own separate terms to differentiate between the varieties. "Senile communist party leaders" are well able to discern them and probably don't worry much about the English terms. It's even more funny that Sacredceltic suspects the worst political motives if you can find the exact same methods of "everybody who I reign over just speaks a dialect of what I speak, which is a language, not a dialect" all over Europe.

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al_ex_an_der al_ex_an_der November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 1:42:45 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

A very revealing discussion! I could imagine You (plural) as authors of a book on this topic.

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fengli fengli November 12, 2011 November 12, 2011 at 12:59:21 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

It is fascinating, most of the different naming conventions are politically motivated, with one country not wanting to call their language the name that the other country uses.

In my experience the usage of the word chinese, i.e. "Do you speak Chinese?" is perfectly legitimate, it is simply contextual. If a cantonese speaker says "Do you speak chinese?" they mean cantonese, if a mainland chinese speaker says "Do you speak Chinese?" they mean Mandarin, etc...

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sacredceltic sacredceltic November 12, 2011 November 12, 2011 at 4:21:02 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

http://tatoeba.org/epo/sentences/show/547040

sacredceltic sacredceltic November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 1:16:53 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

>Unlike the Romance languages however Chinese languages are connected by a common script

Errr...we all use the same letters, more or less...
It's like you would consider two different texts in the same language and call them different scripts because the 2 texts are different...
Everything is a matter of scale.
Western's writing scale is the letter, and it's common to many languages european.
"Chinese"'s writing scale is the ideogramm.
That doesn't make the languages closer...

>Mandarin" are western terms without any direct correspondence in Chinese.

Yes they do: official Mandarin is Putonghua

>Sacredceltic suspects the worst political motives if you can find the exact same methods of "everybody who I reign over just speaks a dialect of what I speak, which is a language, not a dialect" all over Europe.

Could you please elaborate on this? I just don't understand this sentence.

By the way, why did you forget German and English in your list?
German as a concept applying to both a nationality and a language is but a century old, and many Germans, such as you, are actually bilingual in their own country...

You're denying that the current PRC's regime is exterminating and levelling cultures and languages? Do you sometimes read the news? People go as far as to immolate themselves in order to avoid assimilation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6qlVVbmEbo

Why aren't Wuu or Yue official regional languages in the PRC, in your view?

Catalan, Occitan and Sicilian are in their respective countries, although they're spoken by less than a 20th of speakers of Wuu or Yue...

I'll tell you why: Because the senile "communists" leaders of the PRC are terrified by break-up!

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fengli fengli November 11, 2011 November 11, 2011 at 8:52:08 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Mandarin is also a purely english speaking construct. The terms for it vary from region to region.

In the Peoples republic of china, "Mandarin" would map to "putonghua".
In the Republic of China, "Mandarin" would map to the term "huayu".

I bet Hong Kong, Singapore, and other places have different names for "Mandarin" a well.

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sacredceltic sacredceltic November 11, 2011 November 11, 2011 at 11:37:24 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Languages names, at the international level, are clearly defined by an international body and norm which is the ISO 639-3.
According to this norm, "Chinese" is a macrolanguage with code "zho", but not a "language" with code "cmn".
The official name corresponding to ISO 639-3 code "cmn" is "Mandarin Chinese" http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/cod...639_3&letter=c

I strongly support following international standards and thus, applying ISO 639-3 languages names in Tatoeba.

BraveSentry BraveSentry November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 6:43:09 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

>many Germans, such as you, are actually bilingual in their own country...

was genau meinst du damit?


zum thema: namen sind schall und rauch. es ist völlig unerheblich, wie man eine s(pr)ache nennt, solange man weiß, was gemeint ist. genau genommen müsste deutsch hier übrigens hochdeutsch (standard German/High German) heißen.

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sacredceltic sacredceltic November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 6:57:44 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

>was genau meinst du damit?

I mean that many Germans speak a local dialect + Hochdeutsch.

>es ist völlig unerheblich

Not at all. Maybe in your generation only, but you represent but a fraction of an ageing German population...
According to my experience, many Germans speak dialects, at least in part, in their everyday conversations, and I have seen from my own eyes and heard with my own ears, Germans from different regions of Germany who didn't understand each other AT ALL, although they were supposed to speak the same German language...
I have daily testimonies, including on Tatoeba, that German speakers mix their dialect with Hochdeutsch all the time and stand subsequently corrected. I bet you were a few times yourself, I'll dig into your history when I have some time to check it...
Of course, each individual is convinced he/she speaks a standard language...until others debate that...
A certain friend of mine who just moved from one part of Germany to another, and who ascertained before, the same way you do, that she spoke perfectly standard German, had the honesty to acknowledge that she just discovered that a few words she uses in her home region are just not understood or mean something different in her new home...
Unlike in France, where television and most radio networks are national, German networks are regional, and I think this is instrumental in giving Germans the feeling that their regional way of speaking is the norm...

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BraveSentry BraveSentry November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 7:26:26 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

ich glaube, die meisten deutschen wissen, ob sie gerade hochdeutsch oder dialekt sprechen/hören, da hochdeutsch nun einmal das ist, was an den schulen gelehrt, von allen größeren (meist auch den regionalen) rundfunk- und fernsehsendern, ämtern, behörden und in fast aller schriftichen kommunikation benutzt wird. zwar finden sich auch hier gelegentlich dialektale einsprengsel, aber die gängigsten einsprengsel fremder dialekte sollten allen deutschen mit ein wenig sprachlichem bewusstsein genauso bekannt sein wie die hochdeutsche version. das einzige mir bekannte element, das eine wirkliche spaltung und gröbere missverständnisse hervorruft, ist das hier angedeutete: http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/1229607

ich bleibe übrigens dabei, dass namen schall und rauch sind.

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sacredceltic sacredceltic November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 7:39:37 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

>ich glaube, die meisten deutschen wissen, ob sie gerade hochdeutsch oder dialekt sprechen/hören

So you eventually admit that they do speak/hear dialects as well as hochdeutsch...
That was my very point ! ("many Germans, such as you, are actually bilingual in their own country."/"was genau meinst du damit?"...)

sacredceltic sacredceltic November 10, 2011 November 10, 2011 at 7:40:35 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

http://tatoeba.org/epo/sentences/show/734038

slomox slomox November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 3:04:38 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

>>Unlike the Romance languages however Chinese languages are connected by a common script

You cut the most important part from the quote. The script is etymon-based and can therefore overarch much more variety than a sound-based script.

>Yes they do: official Mandarin is Putonghua

And that's a different term.

>By the way, why did you forget German and English in your list?

Because if I had decided to make the list encompass every language that ever did that, it would probably be a list of all the languages ever adopted as official language of any territory.

>You're denying that the current PRC's regime is exterminating and levelling cultures and languages?

Where does this conclusion come from? I do not and I don't think that I said anything that would allow this conclusion.

I don't want to engage in an argument with you, Sacredceltic. That would be pointless, because our opinions are basically the same. We could only battle about the semantic subtleties or minor ambiguities of our sentences.

Politically I'm on your side, I just disagree about some methods. Like calling people senile because you disagree with their supposed opinions. Or denying the existence of an overarching superidentity to protect the overarched subidentities.

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sacredceltic sacredceltic November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 3:29:50 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

>Like calling people senile because you disagree with their supposed opinions.

That's not why I call them senile. The Central Committee of The People's Republic Of China's Communist party's members average age revolves around 75. They're all senile. The cling to power and understand nothing of the modern world, and tremble at any dissent: they imprison artists, pacifists and bloggers, have nuns raped and monks tortured when they do not inoculate tubercolosis to Uyghur prisoners. And why are they so violent? Because they're scared. They are scared of Internet, they are scared of their own old shadows of fighting Kingdoms because they themselves created a society that is on the verge of explosion with such dramatic rifts between North and South, rural and urban, poor and rich, Han and not Han.
They resort to the most disgusting nationalism to make their people forget that they are just inept rulers, just good at poisoning their own grand children in the name of productivity, and spare on the concrete of new school buildings in seismic areas that collapsed on the pupils, while the money to make them earthquake-proof went into their deep pockets...
Chinese rulers make me sick, indeed, and I am not being fooled by their nationalistic propaganda that goes down to languages, in a very effective way. They go as far as to falsify statistics about ethnicities and spoken languages. The actual number of speakers of Mandarin as first language is completely over-estimated.

>Or denying the existence of an overarching superidentity to protect the overarched subidentities.

Well, there's nothing to prove or deny. "Chinese" speakers do not understand each other as French speakers do. They don't speak the same languages in everyday life. It's a fact.

sacredceltic sacredceltic November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 12:41:35 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi...nguages-en.svg

sacredceltic sacredceltic November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 12:42:32 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Wuu, alone, has more speakers than Italian...

sacredceltic sacredceltic November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 12:52:42 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

>I hope you don't consider me a senile communist party leader, when I use the word "chinese"

If you apply it to refer to an imaginary language, then you're a victim of nationalistic propaganda by the senile so-called "communists" with deep pockets.
If you apply it to the nationality, then you're somewhat right...except two distinct nations claim the name...at the moment...so we don't know what you're refering to, exactly...
If you apply it to History or Art, then we more or less see what you mean, but it remains nevertheless about as vague as "European"...

slomox slomox November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 11:35:35 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

+1

Just like "Spanish" or "French" or "Italian".

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sacredceltic sacredceltic November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 11:46:29 AM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Wuu, for example, has nothing to do with Mandarin, apart from the writing...they call the whole thing "Chinese" which doesn't make sense at all. It's like we would bundle the 400+ languages of India and call it "Indian"...It's completely ludicrous...

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slomox slomox November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 12:03:25 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

Like Catalan or Occitan or Sicilian.

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sacredceltic sacredceltic November 9, 2011 November 9, 2011 at 12:13:57 PM UTC flag Report link پرمالنک

good propaganda, slomox!