From: snuhwolf@netscape.net   
      
   On 07/02/2018 09:13 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:   
   > On Monday, July 2, 2018 at 12:40:41 PM UTC-5, Snuhwolf wrote:   
   >> On 06/07/2018 09:58 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:   
   >>> On Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 3:41:12 PM UTC-5, Snuhwolf wrote:   
   >>>> On 6/5/2018 6:28 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:   
   >>>>> On Monday, June 4, 2018 at 8:45:17 PM UTC-5, Snuhwolf wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 06/02/2018 11:55 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On Thursday, May 31, 2018 at 2:29:37 AM UTC-5, tom   
   >>>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> I have noticed that alt.fan.furry can sometimes look   
   >>>>>>>> different depending on what server i dial into. If you   
   >>>>>>>> can read this message, what server are you coming in   
   >>>>>>>> from? Right now i am coming form AIOE.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> I'm on Google Groups these days, but at one point I   
   >>>>>>> actually ran my own newsserver.  Been here about 21   
   >>>>>>> years.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>> OMG! Yer still alive! Hey...um..Baloo I think it was?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yup, that's right!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> Do you know any Russian speakers? I'm learning that in my spare   
   >>>> time.   
   >>>   
   >>> Nope, I'm more interested in learning (casually since I don't get   
   >>> much contact with them) Spanish, French, Muscogee and Cherokee,   
   >>> which are local minor vernacular languages to me.   
   >>>   
   >> Cherokee's gotta be hard.   
   >   
   > It's got 86 syllables and a diacritic in it's syllabary (not letters   
   > and alphabet), in two cases, for a total of 344 characters,   
   > originally derived from spoken Cherokee.  One syllable (four   
   > character combinations and old Cherokee typewriters have a stupid   
   > number of shift keys) fell out of use over time on it's own.  Then   
   > the 1990s happened and technology had an indelible effect on the   
   > language thanks to the limitations of computers and phones after   
   > that:  Lowercase, and the diacritic for tongue click fell out of use   
   > (and many people, especially those who didn't learn it in school   
   > growing up, simply don't even recognize lowercase Cherokee at this   
   > point).  So currently, down to 85 syllables, monocase, used   
   > presently.   
   >   
   > Plus my exposure to seeing it is limited to public buildings and   
   > traffic signs, so it's *usually* clear by context (like, it's pretty   
   > easy to tell what a North American speed limit sign or stop sign is,   
   > and getting lost AF is a good way to pick up some vocab just to   
   > figure out the street names).  Though I did have an embarrassing   
   > incident involving a full bladder and a pair of restrooms, the signs   
   > only had Cherokee legends and no pictographs.  So I decided to go for   
   > the 50/50 and picked wrong, and it was busy.  Whoops.  And lately I   
   > don't even get that since I live in the Muscogee Nation (*way*   
   > easier, they use an 18 character truncation of the English alphabet   
   > with easy-enough-to-figure out pronunciation (like, for example,   
   > Mvskoke is the tribe's name in that language, pronounced almost   
   > identically as it is in English) and I don't end up in predominantly   
   > indian towns anymore given my field service job now is limited to   
   > about a three block radius, so I walk to almost all of my service   
   > calls instead of putting hundreds of thousands of kilometers on my   
   > car every year.   
   >   
      
   That makes Russian sound easy. Its only got 36 letters to the alphabet.   
   And the "soft sign" which softens preceding consonants and the "hard   
   sign" which makes them "hard". After two years of study I can talk   
   russian baby talk :)   
      
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