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by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Nov 06, 2011 7:30 pm
Callan wrote:Pffft.
English is a doddle.
All those foreigners speak it at home, when they think no-one's listening.
I overheard a conversation on a bus in Germany once. Two students, books and all, sitting ahead of me and complaining about their English class and both speaking in passable English.
"Can you believe this? It's so hard!"
"Yeah, can you believe they teach this stuff to children?!"
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by Tero » Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:27 am
Hidden letters that must be put in when typing:
b in subtle
first e in interesting
vowels that change:
wear definitely has an e
were has some other vowel when you pronounce it
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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by Svartalf » Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:17 pm
PordFrefect wrote:Omat ilmatyynyaluksella on runsaasti ankeriasta
My hovercraft is plenty of eels
That's what you really meant?
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by Svartalf » Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:19 pm
FBM wrote:
그러치. 대부분 한국 오랫동안 사는 외국인도 놈 게우르워서 안 배워. 정말 안 돼지...
Google translate doesn't make sense of that
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by Svartalf » Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:21 pm
Callan wrote:Pffft.
English is a doddle.
All those foreigners speak it at home, when they think no-one's listening.
Foreigners like me?
Because even among cultured people, English skills are... scarce in this country.
(and yet my ability with it could not get me a job, because everybody learns it at school and nobody wants to admit that it still takes specialists to use English)Embrace the Darkness, it needs a hug
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by FBM » Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:25 pm
Svartalf wrote:FBM wrote:
그러치. 대부분 한국 오랫동안 사는 외국인도 놈 게우르워서 안 배워. 정말 안 돼지...
Google translate doesn't make sense of that
Some of it is text message spelling and some in dialect.
For example, the first set would normally be 그렇습니다 (honorific) or 그래요 or the informal 그래.
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by klr » Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:26 pm
If you think English is hard, try Irish.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:34 pm
klr wrote:If you think English is hard, try Irish.
Any language that requires that the speaker be drunk in order to express it properly is fine by me.
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by Svartalf » Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:15 pm
klr wrote:If you think English is hard, try Irish.
Is féidir liom, is breà.
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by borealis » Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:32 pm
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by FBM » Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:44 pm
I gotta learn how to troll someday...
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by klr » Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:36 pm
Svartalf wrote:klr wrote:If you think English is hard, try Irish.
Is féidir liom, is breà.
One of those fadas is going in the wrong direction. You've been too long in Frenchy land my boy.
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by Svartalf » Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:41 pm
I know, but we don't have a proper fada signs for letters other than é on French keyboards.
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by klr » Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:42 pm
Svartalf wrote:I know, but we don't have a proper fada signs for letters other than é on French keyboards.
French keyboards? Wait until Clinton sees this.
"AZERTY"
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by Jason » Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:51 pm
klr wrote:If you think English is hard, try Irish.
Ya mean Gaelic? My grandmother spoke it, but she was Scottish.
All I know is 'Alba gu bràth!'
Scotland > Ireland
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