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Just now, heywoodu said:

Woah hold on, our Jurassic Italian friend said 'Ladino' so I googled that one :d (and that one is Judaeo-Spanish)

 

Didn't know there's also Ladin.

 

yeah, I called it in Italian and it was my mistake, I should have written its name in English...:wall:

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1 minute ago, phelps said:

 

yeah, I called it in Italian and it was my mistake, I should have written its name in English...:wall:

Or in Ladin?

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1 hour ago, Dunadan said:

Some original Ladin surnames before they were Germanized and then partly Italianized- see the difference with their current version:

http://www.vejin.com/nomifamiglia.html

I can easily get how Ciampac went to Kompatscher, Larcenëi to Lardschneider (Irene Lardschneider is the one who crashed into a certain Brazilian biathlete at the IBU Cup in Ridnaun this month, sidenote) or Valacia to Flatscher....but Col to Pichler? :d 

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29 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I can easily get how Ciampac went to Kompatscher, Larcenëi to Lardschneider (Irene Lardschneider is the one who crashed into a certain Brazilian biathlete at the IBU Cup in Ridnaun this month, sidenote) or Valacia to Flatscher....but Col to Pichler? :d 

 

Col = hill (also in Italian), which apparently is the same meaning of Pichl in some form of German.

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8 hours ago, phelps said:

 

it means "Snow"...:p

An avid user of google translate I see. I’ve been interested in learning the language for a while. I have no native roots to the language obviously, but I’ve always thought it would be fun to learn. 

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20 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

An avid user of google translate I see. I’ve been interested in learning the language for a while. I have no native roots to the language obviously, but I’ve always thought it would be fun to learn. 

Swiss people are the only native German-speakers I'm afraid to talk in German with. Even the citizens of Berlin, who are said to be terrible in that matter, are not as scary for me as the SchwizerDütscher.

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2 minutes ago, Vojthas said:

Swiss people are the only native German-speakers I'm afraid to talk in German with. Even the citizens of Berlin, who are said to be terrible in that matter, are not as scary for me as the SchwizerDütscher.

The comment above was referring to Cherokee though :p

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8 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Good day being 'Bun di' in Romansh makes it already clear enough it's a Romance language by the way :d 


It could be a loaned expression too. I know it's considered a Romance language, but many langues take loan words as if there's no tomorrow, like Japanese, for example: iyaringu (ear ring), aisukuriimu (ice cream), both from English; arubaito (arbeit) from German; pan (pão), sarada (salada), both from Portuguese; resutoran (restaurant) from French.

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