English - Second Language?

Discussion in 'About the Members' started by jinchilla, Apr 15, 2004.

  1. jadedflower observer Valued Senior Member

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    Ermm... Was die Hölle?

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    Try Babel Fish for translations... http://world.altavista.com/ - unfortunately, literal translations SUCK! mwahahahah... *sigh*

    E.g: That danish statment: Meeeen i could certainly cork that through bablefish , and get straight hva buff it is to fabler about.

    Makes no sense... and Danish isn't on the babel list!!!

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    Try: http://translation.langenberg.com/
     
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  3. Dreamwalker Whatever Valued Senior Member

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    Translated into English, the sentence means: Danish is an extreme dumb/stupid language...

    Just in case you do not get the "dämlich" part right.

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  5. curioucity Unbelievable and odd Registered Senior Member

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    I have to faint _-_
    And spurious...... ship

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    And I'm feeling so unfortunate here.... SOMEBODY FORK ME OVER TISSUE!!!!

    ^_^ EX _A_ XD
     
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  7. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Not to worry...the dutch also made slavery profitable again and invented the word apartheid.
     
  8. Kunax Sciforums:Reality not required Registered Senior Member

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    ROFL all i need to say is german gramma, and word position

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    Buuuut i could proberly stuff it true bablefish, and find out what the hell it is your are babling about.

    As you say bablefish sucks, it will always rearrange the word wrongly and there a many word it dosn't know or translater badly like, dämlich

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    spuriousmonkey that link was perfectly insane, i like.
     
  9. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Thank my bunny...
     
  10. Tereia Registered Member

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    This thread hasn't lost its purpose yet I hope. Still time for uno mas?

    ingleesh ees my secund langage. i know a smatter of other languages.

    So pardon me for any incoherency in future posts, because conciseness is not a quality I've acquired in english. But it's my best attribute in my own native tongue as there's only so many words, ya know?
     
  11. jadedflower observer Valued Senior Member

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    so what's your first? Spanish?
     
  12. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    baigi jokainais temats. tas nozīmē, ka es te latviski varu rakstīt?

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    ok: Latviešu valoda ir otra senākā* valoda Eiropā!
    *aiz lietuviešu
     
  13. Kunax Sciforums:Reality not required Registered Senior Member

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    lol give us a broadside Avatar, its something about latvia and europe.
    first part im guesing on you say "its good subject/topic"
     
  14. spuriousmonkey Banned Banned

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    Noi pes du arrimoeter, hich har har poetamorda.

    zhoua
     
  15. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    a very funny thread. that means I can write latvian here?

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    ok: Latvian language is the second most ancient language* in Europe.
    *after the lithuanian

    p.s. only because our's was later spoiled by german influence

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  16. LeoDV Obstinate idiot Registered Senior Member

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    Englisch be mine sekond langage.
     
  17. Kunax Sciforums:Reality not required Registered Senior Member

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    une bière s'il vous plaît
     
  18. Kunax Sciforums:Reality not required Registered Senior Member

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    Bobs barn bendes before bennys bunker burried back behind billys...

    anyway....

    Bob's = Bob is, and Bobs is for ownership, yes?
     
  19. Tereia Registered Member

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    Nah, origin lies in SE asia.
     
  20. curioucity Unbelievable and odd Registered Senior Member

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    SE Asia? Which part?
     
  21. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Dutch is a distinct language that evolved from Old German just as English, Frisian, and Modern German did.

    When the Romans conquered the Germanic Franks and made Gaul a Latin-speaking region, the Germanic tribes in what is now Holland were suddenly separated from the Germanic tribes in what is now Germany and Austria. So Dutch evolved independently of German.

    When the Roman Empire began to disintegrate and they abandoned their colonies in Britannia, the Angles and the Saxons, Germanic tribes from what is now Germany, sailed to Britannia, took it over, and ran the Celtic Britons out of their own country. Their Anglo-Saxon language "Old Anglisc" thus also evolved independently of both German and Dutch. When the Norman French invaded "Angle Land" in 1066 they brought hundreds of French words. Later on English scholars borrowed hundreds of words from Greek and Latin. That is why English has a very similar grammatical structure to German and Dutch but so many of the words are different.

    I don't know very much about the Frisians. Linguists say that Modern Frisian is more closely related to English than Dutch or German is.

    Many Scandinavians (the oldest Germanic tribes -- the later Germans migrated down into the European mainland from the north through Denmark) settled in England during the Anglo-Saxon period. Our language has a number of words that were borrowed from Old Norse, but I don't think Dutch has very many. Dutch is very much like German, with very few words borrowed from other languages -- compared to, say, English, Spanish, or Japanese.
     
  22. Tereia Registered Member

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    I thought SE Asia was a part of a part of a larger part...just kidding, Vietnam.
     
  23. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Só os espanhois e os portuguêses dizem isto. Nos, os estrangeiros, pensamos que o português e o espanhol são muito semelhantes, como o dinamarquês e o norueguês, ou o tcheco e o polonês. Tendo aprendido o espanhol, o português é muito fázil. No Novo Mundo, não ha muralha entre as pessoas que falam português e as que falam espanhol, como ha em Iberia. A tv toca videos musicais em ambas linguas. Quando eu viajava em Catalunha, meus amigos em Valencia me dizeram que em Portugal era muito fázil comunicar com a gente: no catalano! Aquela lingua é uma ponte entre o espanhol e o português. Eu compreendei cada palavra que eles falaram en catalano.
    Isto é verdade. Vcs dizen set, grand, estadz, alts. Os brasileiros dizem setchi, grandji, echtaduj, altuch. A sua pronunciacião de "R" é imposível.
    Como você diz, a mim não me importa isso. Eu aprendei chamar "o senhor" ou "a senhora" as pessoas mais velhas, mas hoje todo mundo é "você". Se diz "tu" somente na igreja. É interessante, que em México "usted" (vuestra merced) é formal. Mas em Brasil a misma palavra "você" (vossa mercê) é intimo.
     

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