Losing my native language

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dogenzakaminion

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Dags90 said:
dogenzakaminion said:
(Ta for eksempel "skadefryd"...hadde det blitt "damage happiness" på engelsk?)
We use "schadenfreude" in English, hooray loanwords. I'm sure there are some crazy Norwegian idioms though...crazy Norwegians. One of the reasons I love English is all the loanwords, spelling conventions are sort unconventional because if it though. :/
Interesting, shows my knowledge of the Englsih language...:p

Actually, me and my gf were talking about this today saying how german and norwegian were the only languages we knew of who had that expression (she's german, btw), although it makes sense that English would loan the expression when I think about it.

A different example would be how the native Sami language has 200 words for snow (describing its forms and conditions). Translate THAT!
 

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Blemontea said:
You should try to maintain your native language, whatever way you can you should keep speaking Norwegian to keep it alive and keep your individuality.

As for the world language i think we all should a world language, LATIN, because nobody fluently speaks it except for the people who have studied it for years so it would be equal hardship on everyone, it would be interesting to see what slang would be made from such an ancient language.
Problem here is that no one actually knows how Latin is spoken, since it esseintially died out and mutated into Spanish and French. Those who do speak it just speak it the way they THINK it was spoken many hundreds of years ago.
 

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dogenzakaminion said:
Blemontea said:
You should try to maintain your native language, whatever way you can you should keep speaking Norwegian to keep it alive and keep your individuality.

As for the world language i think we all should a world language, LATIN, because nobody fluently speaks it except for the people who have studied it for years so it would be equal hardship on everyone, it would be interesting to see what slang would be made from such an ancient language.
Problem here is that no one actually knows how Latin is spoken, since it esseintially died out and mutated into Spanish and French. Those who do speak it just speak it the way they THINK it was spoken many hundreds of years ago.
My point exactly since no one really speaks it learning it would mean the world would have to come together to decide how it is spoken, and if we don't then we get the different location styles other languages have like spanish
 

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According to my mum and grandparents I spoke fluent urdu until I was about 3 or 4, now I can just about get by using it. I completely understand it and can speak it conversationally but am no where near as good as I was before.
 

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Blemontea said:
My point exactly since no one really speaks it
Plenty of people speak Latin. People have been speaking Latin for hundreds of years within the Catholic Church. Latin was the language of the Catholic church until the 1960's.
 

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Welcome to the fold, first you learn our language, then you forget yours, MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
 

aLivingPheonix

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Nope, my native language is English. I really wish I could learn Italian, though. I would love to start thinking in Italian...
 

Blemontea

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Dags90 said:
Blemontea said:
HEY you cut some of my dailouge out... and besides your saying it WAS there language till the 60's so doesn't that sorta mean not many speak it there anymore AND even if they do speak it they will come in handy telling the world on how to speak Latin and the proper pronunciation. SO its not a dead language, SO WHAT, if we switch to it they would be ahead of the game already know it, But we wont have anyone complaining about the fact were forcing people to learn a certain regions language, we might have a few people complaining that were learning a religions language but if they say that then there just idiots. Latin is a language only certain people still speak but the rest of the majority of the world doesn't forcing them to learn it would mean equal hardships for everyone and not certain races and ethnic groups. Im just trying to think of a language that would piss of people the least.
 

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I use Swedish allot and I feel that I almost have the opposite problem. My english is getting worse and worse =P But that's probably because I've studied Swedish for 1,5 years at the university. So I've started to think about swedish allot.

I'm not worried about Sweden losing its native language. At least not at the moment According to a few studies swedish isn't in any danger in most areas. The only areas where swedish were threatened by english were in the natural sciences (like biology, physics and chemistry) and ecconomics where they hadn't translated most of the different terms and words they used in those areas into swedish. As long as swedish parents speak swedish to their children we won't lose our native language.

As for cultural identity. I think that allot of swedes believe themselves to be allot more international then they really are. We don't really feel allot of pride for our past, but most swedes feel pride in the country we have today. I'm pretty sure most swedes see sweden as a good role model for other countires to follow, even if it's not always considered "cool" to admit this (and bragging is generally frowned upon). Many of us are proud of our peacefulness, our neutrality, our socially just and free society and our effort to save the enviorment. And allot of swedes scratch their heads and wonder why other countries aren't like sweden. Don't they see how great we are? Are they insane? This pride has diminished alittle though since the welfare society that Sweden built during the 50's has started to be dismantled.

(and to answer the original question; no I don't think there will be a global language nor should there be).
 

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Demented Teddy said:
My native language is Irish and hardly anyone in the country can even speak it properly and most of the people that do speak it properly live in Irish speaking areas known as gealtachts.

Tá é sin uafasach....
Aonach go leor, tá sé ina teanga deas.
 

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Demented Teddy said:
viper3 said:
Demented Teddy said:
My native language is Irish and hardly anyone in the country can even speak it properly and most of the people that do speak it properly live in Irish speaking areas known as gealtachts.

Tá é sin uafasach....
Aonach go leor, tá sé ina teanga deas.
Go raibh maith agat
Tá tú an chuid is mó fáilte romhat.