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English is hard

Post by Tero » Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:57 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy1AS41e ... re=related[/youtube] at least in 1952
International disaster, gonna be a blaster
Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
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Re: English is hard

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:58 pm

It really are! :lay:
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Re: English is hard

Post by Tero » Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:59 pm

http://www.engrish.com/
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Re: English is hard

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:01 pm

Cue FBM.
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Re: English is hard

Post by FBM » Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:04 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:Cue FBM.
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Re: English is hard

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:08 pm

Oui oui!
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Re: English is hard

Post by Tero » Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:12 pm

There is only a very slight advance to 2010, but she does pronounce g's. You need to click watch on youtube.
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Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
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Post by Jason » Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:13 pm

I've worked with a lot of Slavic people and most of them (all of the ones who didn't learn Engrish as kids) speak English like that or worse. Mostly incomprehensible.

But then so are a lot of Americans. :hehe:
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Re: English is hard

Post by Tero » Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:14 pm

PF, they are completely 'comprehensible'. To each other in English. Indians especially do it really fast.
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International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
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Re: English is hard

Post by Tyrannical » Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:14 pm

Does any other language have the ability to create so many words with suffixes and prefixes, doesn't retire all but the most extreme archaic words, and allows such freedom for creating new or stealing foreign words?
A rational skeptic should be able to discuss and debate anything, no matter how much they may personally disagree with that point of view. Discussing a subject is not agreeing with it, but understanding it.
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Re: English is hard

Post by Jason » Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:18 pm

Tero wrote:PF, they are completely 'comprehensible'. To each other in English. Indians especially do it really fast.
Oh yeah I know. I've been in a conversation with two or more and they seem to understand each other fine. I'm like :what:
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Re: English is hard

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:21 pm

PordFrefect wrote:I've worked with a lot of Slavic people and most of them (all of the ones who didn't learn Engrish as kids) speak English like that or worse. Mostly incomprehensible.

But then so are a lot of Americans. :hehe:
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Re: English is hard

Post by Jason » Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:26 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
PordFrefect wrote:I've worked with a lot of Slavic people and most of them (all of the ones who didn't learn Engrish as kids) speak English like that or worse. Mostly incomprehensible.

But then so are a lot of Americans. :hehe:
:tup: Can you play the banjo? :ask:

My uncle in norther B.C. uses all these turns of phrases from the 1950s when he talks. Most of the time I have no idea what the hell he's saying. :?
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Re: English is hard

Post by Tero » Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:29 pm

That reminds me, for easy level 1 English, one can start with vocabulary suitable to race cars:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRIq3Uho ... re=related[/youtube]
International disaster, gonna be a blaster
Gonna rearrange our lives
International disaster, send for the master
Don't wait to see the white of his eyes
International disaster, international disaster
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Re: English is hard

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 06, 2011 1:31 pm

PordFrefect wrote::tup: Can you play the banjo? :ask:
Yeah, but I can't make music with it.
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