One thing that I remembered from my class in ASL was having to learn ordinal numbers. Never thought of the fact that two and second had related, but different meanings. It seems that the two words could have easily been converted into one word, and a bit redundant. Do all languages use them?
Also, the numbers 10-19 seem to be irregular in how they are said. People do not say tenny-one, tenny-two, etc. is this common in other languages?
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Also, the numbers 10-19 seem to be irregular in how they are said. People do not say tenny-one, tenny-two, etc. is this common in other languages?
Yeah, this exists in other languages, too.
Don’t get me started on tree hundred and tirty tree…
Slan,
D.
Ever hear a Corkonian say “forty-third”?
all dough dere is love dere dough, dere is dough dere two dough
Ask any Cork Boy…
Slan,
D.
Are we speaking of ladies of negotiable affection?
Denny
April 2, 2009, 9:40pm
9
I’d think so…where is Cork when he’s needed???
What I want to know is, does he pronounce it “Cark”?
Denny
April 2, 2009, 9:45pm
11
Given his typing, I have no idea.
Yeah, things get a bit blandified in print. For example, I’d swear Dubhlinn speaks with a Minnesota accent.
Denny
April 2, 2009, 9:52pm
13
he might…what with that Bob thing
Kinda reminds me of a guy I knew in the late 60’s from Kansas, too
Money doesn’t talk it swears…as Bob said.
The earlier bit is a loose but literal translation of the Cork dialect..
Youse Yanks…
Latches,
D.
Yeah, I got that.
When I was a kid Mom used to get on my case about pronouncing my tee-aitches as dees and tees. Might be a Corcaíoch in the woodpile…
snort! Maybe he’s really from Dublin, MN.
Ye lost me on that’un..but you’ve got to remember, I talk like a hillbilly.
What part’s giving you the trouble?
Whoah. That does sound a lot like some of the thicker stuff you hear in northern Minnesota!