That’s a great point, thank you.

Cool, I am finding this so fascinating. Thanks for helping and giving me a little window into a language I haven’t ever had a chance to examine.

Wow, thanks I didn’t realise there were regional differences in the script. I’m not sure if there any Pakistani or Indian students in the class so maybe I should stick to the Hindi version so that no one feels overlooked. Between the Hindi, Japanese and Cantonese it looks like I will be getting a lot of practise reproducing script I can’t read before I give them a go. I think I have enough people who can proof read my practise and let me know if I am close enough. This is seeming like it will be a bigger commitment (and more fun) than I expected. Wish me luck.

I first heard of it thanks to Red Dwarf if that counts for anything.

ありがとう

You answered 5 minutes before my sister in law. I am reasonably certain my friend has at least one Japanese student so I know this is one the class will be able to read.

Takk

Do you think I can read anything into the demographics of Lemmy that I have all the major Scandinavian countries represented so early?

I really appreciate you helping out with this. You rock!

多謝你

I was hoping for Cantonese, I’m almost certain there will be students in the class who will be able to read it, thank you for the translation and the interpretation.

Thank you, I should disclose that I am a Gen X Australian, we do self deprecation at a super advanced level. I absolutely get that language becomes so engrained that things just don’t sound/read as correct for reasons you would understand if you took the time to think about them, but you don’t really have to expend any effort to know it.

I promise I’m not being too hard on myself just accepting there’s things I don’t know and haven’t earnt a shortcut to bypass learning to understand.

धन्यवाद

This is exactly what I was after. Thank you. Other than being patient and careful any hints for writing Hindi or Punjabi on a whiteboard? If I make small mistakes am I likely to offend anyone? I would rather like to use Devanagari and Gurmukhi (I think those are the correct names for the scripts) if I can mange it.

And isn’t that amazing, a conciously constructed language having native speakers is just kind of amazing. So much of English is legacy cruft that has accumulated organically since it seperated from Old English, and so much of Old English was likewise accumulated from its antecedents. A language, any language with a clear dilineation has an opportunity to start with a clean slate that is informed but not slaved to the past. Things like vowel orders can be made as rules without having more exceptions than complying words. Brilliant.

You know the more I reflect on this the more sure I am that I am falling into a trap that I am sure a lot of English speakers fall into. I am trying to apply English rules to Spanish as there is a shared language root and a bunch of shared words and at some level syntax. I need to acknowledge that Spanish is a distinct mature language and trying to treat it as a different dialect of English is a wall I need to stop butting my head off.

Really appreciate you stepping in to clarify for someone with my calcified language abilities, the lack of comprehension is entirely my own.

I think I will go with “Por favor, apila las sillas al final del día. Gracias.” and save deeper understanding until I can devote more time and mental energy to understanding Spanish as Spanish.

You rock!

Awesome, you actually answered all the questions I had bubbling away in my head but didn’t want to be too presumptive in asking. More decades ago than I care admit, I did a 25 hour Latin course. Very little of it stuck with me but it seems like Esperanto could fill a similar niche to the one I was trying to fill by learning latin, as a bridging language to be more capable in the Romance languages. I’m sure there are studies out there on language as sociology, as the largest con-lan I am aware of I wonder how deep that research runs? Another thing for me to read up on I guess.

Thanks again!

I am a simple, brain addled, English as a first language speaker in a majority English speaking country. I am afraid I would need to actively seek to learn further languages and there never seems to be enough time or mental capacity. I have infinite respect for everyone than can learn more than one language, especially when the languages they know are widely divergent or don’t share the same language root. But I might have to give Czech a look and see if I can pick up a little pronunciation. Thanks again!

Köszönöm

It’s almost a suggestion more than a direct request so the first one sounds like what I will use. I really appreciate the context.

дякую

I have been hoping for a few different alphabets, so Cyrillic is perfect, just means I will have to work hard to copy it correctly.

May I ask is that a direct translation?

I love that! I mentioned elsewhere, but this is a frivolous kind of request, I am so grateful for people willing to indulge it. But I didn’t realise the cultural context would be so enjoyable. Thanks again!

Dankon

Esperanto seems like an interesting language to study, do you find my opportunities to use it?

I’ll keep that in mind, but to be honest, this has been so much fun. I love that there is a community of people willing to devote even a tiny fraction of their brain power to such a frivolous request. Plus I am getting all sorts of little fun side details. I would never ask anyone to give me more than a few seconds of their time, but this whole thing has already put a smile on my face.

In future I’ll check out DeepL though. Have a great day.

Tak

I am always fascinated by differences in sentence structure. Plus seeing the literal translatuon makes me think of the times I have talked with Danes who have found English sentence structure odd.

Go raibh maith agat

(I hope that’s even a little correct)

I love it, my family is Scottish so if I were any sort of descendant I would know Scots Gaelic and I believe that sentence would look fairly familiar. Alas I am too slack to have learnt anything other than English.

You rock!