You should watch to help alleviate your ignorance. :)
10% substance, 90% bickering and mud-slinging. It's like one of those shows on netflix about selling high end real-estate in LA. Most of the time and energy is spent on toejam-talking.
The O'Club should be monetized somehow. Maybe in the form of a cartoon.
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: -gg- on September 04, 2022, 02:52:33 PM
Is this the show that you saw?
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: sparky127 on September 04, 2022, 02:59:07 PM
10% substance, 90% bickering and mud-slinging. It's like one of those shows on netflix about selling high end real-estate in LA. Most of the time and energy is spent on toejam-talking.
The O'Club should be monetized somehow. Maybe in the form of a cartoon.
I've been told there's an ignore feature.
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: Gogolinius on September 04, 2022, 03:01:17 PM
Why would I want to ignore the best factor?
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: guncrasher on September 04, 2022, 04:10:13 PM
must be a slow day on Mars. or desperate to get more supporters.
semp
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: -gg- on September 04, 2022, 04:28:54 PM
Semp, don't you have anything to say about the alphabet and the subject of this thread?
What about the letter b Milo? What did Big Bird say about the letter b?
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: guncrasher on September 04, 2022, 04:53:05 PM
Semp, don't you have anything to say about the alphabet and the subject of this thread?
What about the letter b Milo? What did Big Bird say about the letter b?
Big Bird is your type of program. semp told you about 'B'.
This is more my type of program.
Discover how writing—and eventually printing—revolutionized the spread of information.
Writing and printing are perhaps the greatest inventions of all time, changing the course of human history through the spread of ideas. In this two-part series, NOVA explores how writing began and reveals the astonishing origins of our own alphabet. Then, researchers investigate the origins of the printing press, which kicked off the Industrial Revolution and led to swift technological advancement and the expansion of cultures.
Big Bird is your type of program. semp told you about 'B'.
This is more my type of program.
Discover how writing—and eventually printing—revolutionized the spread of information.
Writing and printing are perhaps the greatest inventions of all time, changing the course of human history through the spread of ideas. In this two-part series, NOVA explores how writing began and reveals the astonishing origins of our own alphabet. Then, researchers investigate the origins of the printing press, which kicked off the Industrial Revolution and led to swift technological advancement and the expansion of cultures.
That must be fake news! They don't even use it in the form as we know it! And their writing is based on Greek letters which coincidentally start by Alpha, Beta...
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: GasTeddy on September 05, 2022, 11:47:15 AM
That must be fake news! They don't even use it in the form as we know it! And their writing is based on Greek letters which coincidentally start by Alpha, Beta...
Russians use Cyrillic alphabets which were created by brothers Cyril and Methodius during the time of the First Bulgarian Empire. So those spare parts of an excavator are not Russian alphabets but have Bulgarian origin.
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: Bizman on September 05, 2022, 12:20:55 PM
Russians use Cyrillic alphabets which were created by brothers Cyril and Methodius during the time of the First Bulgarian Empire. So those spare parts of an excavator are not Russian alphabets but have Bulgarian origin.
Exactly. And the previous form of that was the Glacolitic Alphabet (also created by Cyril and Methodius) which in turns was based on Greek Alphabet. Apparently the Greek Alphabet didn't work too well with the Old Church Slavonic language - spoken Greek differs a lot from spoken Slavonic languages so obviously some alterations had to be done to tell the reader how to pronounce the words they read.
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: CptTrips on September 05, 2022, 12:38:00 PM
I'll check that out. I love stuff like that.
It gives a deeper appreciation of the world around you when you learn more about the how things got the way they are. The fact that we use the vestige of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in our written language today is just too awesome.
Another thing like that that intrigued me when I first learned it was the days of our week.
We have 7 day weeks from the Babylonians who based them on the 7 celestial bodies visible to their naked eye.
(Not the Babylonian names of course) Sun Moon Mars Venus Jupiter Mercury Saturn
Some of those were later Anglicized to:
Sun day = Sunday Moon day = Monday Saturn day Saturday
Others were replaced with Anglicized references to the Nordic pantheon: Tīw's Day = Tuesday Woden's Day = Wednesday Thor's Day = Thursday Frigg's Day = Friday
A full moon cycle became a moonth or month.
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: MiloMorai on September 05, 2022, 01:14:07 PM
Think Not what? Watch the program or the Russian alphabet.
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: guncrasher on September 05, 2022, 06:39:08 PM
not naming names but in some Scandinavian countries the only vowel is y. I guess they skip some letters. and the Russian alphabet looks like it was created in Australia, as it looks upside down.
semp
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: MiloMorai on September 05, 2022, 07:10:56 PM
not naming names but in some Scandinavian countries the only vowel is y. I guess they skip some letters. and the Russian alphabet looks like it was created in Australia, as it looks upside down.
semp
It is evolved from a preceding alphabet.
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: sparky127 on September 05, 2022, 07:40:11 PM
Russian alphabet was created so that drunk Russians would still be able to read/spell/and write
Well, so called Russian alphabets were created on the shores of Lake Ohrid which was on that time part of 1st Bulgarian Kingdom, as Russians were already at that time too drunk to create them by themselves.
My mother tongue uses Latin ones with Scandinavian additions and I live nowadays in Bulgaria, stone throw from Greek border so there are several alphabets and letters available here.
Btw, just noticed I'm again under the loop of Big Brother, watched by vigilant guardians of forums moderators and no clue why. Someone has really sensitive and sore seating platform.
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: Bizman on September 06, 2022, 01:58:49 AM
not naming names but in some Scandinavian countries the only vowel is y. I guess they skip some letters. and the Russian alphabet looks like it was created in Australia, as it looks upside down.
semp
I wonder which language that might be. My Swedish is almost as fluent as my English and on that basis I can read Norwegian and Danish to a degree - understanding spoken Danish is another thing! Even some Icelandic words make sense as well as Old Norse based names. They all have more than one vowel. Stricktly speaking Finland doesn't belong to Scandinavia but if you count us in, we have eight. And then there's Sami, or rather the three Sami languages spoken in all Lapland.
Speaking about pronunciation, to me it seems like English could do with the least amount of written vowels! I base that claim to the fact that a single vowel can be pronounced in several ways depending on the word - and as far as I know there's no other way to know the right pronunciation than learning by heart!
Title: Re: The Alphabet
Post by: Bizman on September 06, 2022, 02:00:11 AM