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MathOnNapkins Math n' Hacks Level: 67  Posts: 59/2189 EXP: 2495887 For next: 96985 Since: 03-18-04 From: Base Tourian Since last post: 1 hour Last activity: 32 min. |
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| Every time I look at this forum title "General Chat," I think of a cat that's a general. I say to myself, "Oh, jaynayrall shaa.... d'oh!" Has anyone else had other languages they know mess with their reading of normal words? |
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Apocalypse Red Cheep-cheep Level: 24  Posts: 25/203 EXP: 69055 For next: 9070 Since: 04-11-04 From: Australia Since last post: 482 days Last activity: 339 days |
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That used to happen to me when I used to study French. Doesn't happen anymore though. I can see how you would get that out of General Chat.  (edited by LostAuzzie on 04-12-04 12:50 AM) |
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Old Zem Level: 27 Posts: 123/260 EXP: 102369 For next: 13790 Since: 03-16-04 Since last post: 213 days Last activity: 203 days |
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| You discovered the secret: this forum is an undercover tribute to Rydain. | |||
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tinzeee Permaban Repeated warnings and bannings about stupidity Level: 38  Posts: 191/618 EXP: 369695 For next: 752 Since: 04-02-04 From: Australia - Sydney Since last post: 553 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| It happens to me all the time I think one thing when it means something completely different  |
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Steak Zora Level: 35  Posts: 305/507 EXP: 278751 For next: 1185 Since: 03-16-04 From: Ohio University Since last post: 195 days Last activity: 195 days |
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| For a second I was worried I was about to read a bunch of nationalistic b.s. I sometimes have that trouble with German...seeing something in English, and reading it in German. Other times, I trying answering something in English, and some of it comes out auf Deutsch. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35  Posts: 28/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Do you ever with German syntax speak? | |||
Uncle Elmo Hammer Brother Partly Sweet, Helpful, good at advice and a half decent writer. Also modest. Level: 49 Posts: 198/1062 EXP: 845899 For next: 37984 Since: 03-15-04 From: Prestatyn, Uk Since last post: 23 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| It's not just German Syntax, BTW, almost 90% of languages have their syntax that way, excluding English, which is a F-d up language, honestly, if you had to learn it after a perfectly sensible language like Welsh, you'd see how messed up it was. Oh and back on topic, nope, not really, my Dad does though all the time. Spells Englsh words as Welsh. | |||
Jarukoth  IRRATIONAL EXUBERENCE!!1! Level: 79  Posts: 442/3194 EXP: 4402011 For next: 177456 Since: 03-17-04 From: New Jersey, U.S.A. Shoes: Yes. Since last post: 8 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| I used to, after I finished French class, but eventually I stopped. But, thanks to this thread, I'll probably start again. Congratulations. |
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MathOnNapkins Math n' Hacks Level: 67 Posts: 64/2189 EXP: 2495887 For next: 96985 Since: 03-18-04 From: Base Tourian Since last post: 1 hour Last activity: 32 min. |
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Originally posted by Uncle Elmo Um, no... Most languages are SOV or SVO (other orderings are rare) S = subject V = verb O = object Even these designations are dubious considering the amount of scrambling that can occur in most languages. If anything English tends to have a more rigid syntax than some languages, making it less F-d up. Take Latin or Japanese for example, you shift noun phrases and and adverbials all over the place. But in general, Syntax is a complicated subject for any language, it's just that the complexity may lie in different areas. |
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16BT Ninji Level: 25  Posts: 111/233 EXP: 86850 For next: 2770 Since: 03-16-04 Since last post: 26 days Last activity: 8 days |
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I do not regret to inform you I never mix up words in other languages with english.  I do regret to inform you that I sometimes mix up words in english with other ones.  (edited by 16BT on 04-12-04 09:01 AM) |
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alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99  Posts: 487/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Everynow and then my mind will connect German, Latin, French, Cantonese, etc. words with English and I'll end up saying those words outloud |
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hhallahh Bob-Omb Level: 38  Posts: 71/607 EXP: 365476 For next: 4971 Since: 03-15-04 From: Portland, OR Since last post: 73 days Last activity: 60 days |
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Originally posted by Uncle Elmo Hey, you know what's fucked up? Gendered objects. Know what's more fucked up? 6 different conjugations depending on 1st person / 2nd person / 3rd person (not to mention different tenses.) Welsh: "Awadhsakdhawiduhraskjfsohgkjnlvderwieuawejv." "What did you say?" "I said, 'hello'." Damn Welsh. |
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MathOnNapkins Math n' Hacks Level: 67 Posts: 67/2189 EXP: 2495887 For next: 96985 Since: 03-18-04 From: Base Tourian Since last post: 1 hour Last activity: 32 min. |
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| ha ha. That reminds me of some of the very polite Japanese expressions I spotted in my textbook when I was still taking it. They'd be these long phrases meant to say something like "please come in," except they literally translate to "I thank you for allowing me to be trampled and spat upon as you desecrate my house and deflower my children." I'm exaggerating, but not by much I think. |
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KP9000 Flurry Level: 27  Posts: 46/261 EXP: 102741 For next: 13418 Since: 03-18-04 From: Wherever you saw me last... Since last post: 22 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| I can't type right... My keyboard is set to use the finnish charset... So whenever I type an apostraphe, it comes out like this " |
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Uncle Elmo Hammer Brother Partly Sweet, Helpful, good at advice and a half decent writer. Also modest. Level: 49 Posts: 201/1062 EXP: 845899 For next: 37984 Since: 03-15-04 From: Prestatyn, Uk Since last post: 23 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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hhallahh - I'm impressed you know so much about my language  The reason there are sk many different conjugations is to merely make it sound nice. we ARE a nation of poets you know Oh and "hello" in Welsh is actually "Helo!" Next you're going to tell me that Englland actually has it's own inherent culture though, so oif you want to defend your mother tongue, try harder |
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The SomerZ Summer, yay! Level: 45  Posts: 148/862 EXP: 618182 For next: 41982 Since: 03-15-04 From: Norway Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 3 hours |
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| I do that when speaking Norwegian. I take English words, and Norwegianize them. This is because Norwegian is a very inadequate language, we lack a lot of good English words and expressions. E.g. we don't have no good word for "procrastinate", so if I want to say that, I'll say "prokrastinere", but that will only cause most people to look at me as if I am stupid... |
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KP9000 Flurry Level: 27 Posts: 48/261 EXP: 102741 For next: 13418 Since: 03-18-04 From: Wherever you saw me last... Since last post: 22 days Last activity: 2 days |
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Originally posted by Uncle Elmo You speak french? Thats pretty cool! Do you know a little Welsh also? |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 876/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Elmo knows MORE than a little Welsh...  There might be a few words I read that seem a little odd in French, but for the most part I don't get tripped up or confuse languages. I likes me English, yes I do. |
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Blades Paratroopa I hack rom; me admin Level: 21  Posts: 43/151 EXP: 45354 For next: 4589 Since: 03-15-04 From: Pr�vost, Qu�bec, Canada Since last post: 31 days Last activity: 5 days |
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Originally posted by Steak: Prince of Darkness If it would have been, it'd be already closed. At one point in time, half the admins had french as their native language. Today ... well, there's user 1 and user 13 |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 1045/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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Originally posted by KP9000 @fter$hokYou can change that in the control panel.  For me I don't read English words as Swedish sometimes. But I do in the other way around. Sometimes I write Swedish with English grammar without thinking on it... |
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