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Points: 24382 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2013 at 03:12
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

What are everyone's thoughts on the pan-Earth language theory, or that there is some evidence of what may've been a universal dialect ?


The pan-Earth language theory ended with Genesis 11. Since then, there are groups of languages (Indo-European, Afro-Asiatc, etc). Within subdivisions of these groups, some languages are more closely related than others.
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Points: 34069 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2013 at 05:47
Norwegian is one spoken language, two written languages, 4 (or 5) regional dialect regions, and 200-300 variations of the dialacts , and there is 5 million Norwegians, and various urban sociolects in all the big citys.
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 16 2013 at 14:50
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Very nice input Dean, and yes you make me a little dizzy tooLOL 

The whole etymology of languages and how it all fits together from waaaaaaaaaaaay back is very interesting to me. What initially struck me funny bone was the direct translation of words though. It's also what sometimes makes me cry with laughter, when I come across reviews done through a Google translator. 
Yes, erm... well... Embarrassed I do seem to have gone all toponym-ological on your hinten. LOL I just couldn't come up with any transliterations that were funny, though we do have many placenames that are funny in themselves such as the Piddle Valley in Dorset, Rimswell in Yorkshire and Cockermouth in Cumbria
 
The pale blue painted building to the right in this picture is a furniture shop in Shrewsbury that belongs to my Mother-in-law:

It is situated in Grope Lane ... that is the cleaned-up family friendly googleAd-safe version of the name which I'll have to convert to a TinyURL to get past the PA autocensor-bot: http://tinyurl.com/6ytegr Wink


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Wow I can just imagine having to work there..... Yeah, like I said: wowLOL I gather you choose your words wisely around her, when the subject of work comes up? Boy I would find it difficult not throwing bad jokes her way - that is unless she's like a female take on Rambo, then I'd just save em up for when the ammo's down on the missusTongue 
I think I've heard about Cockermouth before, maybe on TopGear. Seems likely.

In Denmark we have a lovely town called Lem, which translates into member... Lem can also mean hatch though, but I gather people mostly forget about that.
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