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FUCK SHIT CUNT No not that sort of language.. I'm talking about multilingual threads.. They've been popping up recently, and I, even as someone deeply interested in language, believe people should refrain from posting in any language other than English. This isn't because I think English is superior to other languages; it's that it's the primary language of the board. However, when there's a thread, and someone starts writing in another language to English, it completely obstructs the flow of conversation in the thread. I myself find it interesting, but annoying at the same time. And before anyone jumps the gun and shouts at me for another anti-tridenti rant -- this isn't one. It's not about tridenti, regardless of the fact that most of these posts of late are in Italian and are due to himself and Woofer (and one or two other users with incredible bablefish skillz) This is just about keeping the quality of threads high by letting conversation flow.. |
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We should talk NewSpeak |
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Nah, I think English would do just fine. |
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jag håller helt med dig. det är väldigt irriterande när någon skriver här på forumet på något språk man själv inte förstår... |
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shouldn't you be speaking gaelic |
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we should all learn esperanto. |
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teh language of luv. |
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haha "gaelic" you sound like an american tourist just there. heh. :/ |
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I'd be happy to offer my translating and teaching services :) Estaria encantado en traducir y ensenarles :) Sarebbe un piacere traducire e insignarte tutto lo che so :) |
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You just trying to get rid us nigas suka, cuz we be speak ebonikz n shit. sombudy BUS dis foo in the fukin THROTE. |
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I hear you brother, I do. I wouldn't say out and out nothing other than English because this board does enjoy the patronage of an international clientele, and that's one of the reasons that makes it enjoyable. That said, when threads are derailed by persistent toings and froings of grammatical correction of another language, probably off topic in nature, then that sort of thing could be done elsewhere. It's all about consideration, gracias por su atencion. |
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i think we can all agree that is a fucking riot! |
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i understand what you mean and also sympathise with you, but when I "speak" in another language i'm usually directing a personal comment or question to somebody. In future i'll try to keep it to a minimum and i'll also do a english translation underneath for when i do use another language. :) |
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it's difficult for tridenti and to some extent woofer, as they also want to increase their grasp of english. Wouldn't it be better for the mb to have an increased quality of english, i'm sorry but bablefish just doesn't cut it. |
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xltronic helped me a lot to improve my english! really! THANKS at all! ;-) |
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to all |
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How old are you mister Nintendo? |
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17 pf :) |
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the question is, do you actually care to know what xerdenti is saying? who cares what they say? here's what you're missing: "I'm fucking great because i know more than one language i love woofer tridenti." |
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oh dog_belch, you do know how to rip the piss out of a pedantic oirishman don't you :D |
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Ja, du har nemlig helt ret. Jeg vil både skyde, hænge og voldtage de personer der er skyldige i sådan noget!!! |
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your just jealous, i bet that the fact your monolingual eats you up inside. If you were a little bit more perceptive you'd see that I only speak in another language when i'm talking directly to the person ie. 1:1. You'd also have seen that redrum finds it sometimes interesting As for me being arrogant, that's just a load of crap. If you don't care Why make such a fuss, sort your lingual insecurities before you spout that crap out to me again. Maricon! |
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hah. yeah but as i said, sincerely, this isn't about tridenti.. it's about threads getting derailed.. and the thing is, they never get back on the rails after 2 people have a mutual italian-wankfest, and one other person complains once or twice "erm can we please go back to english?" it kills threads. plus it means we get less of tridenti's unique english literature, which i must say is often comedy GOLD... |
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its really just Bablefish or Google Translator, nothing to do with tridenti "unique" english skills. |
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Doesn't matter whether it's 1:1 (it's not, EVERYTHING posted on a messageboard is there for EVERYONE to see.. you're never just talking to one person, even if you're just directing your comments at them) or whether I find it interesting. The point is it derails and impairs conversation. And r40f is absolutely right about it being a show-off thing with yourself. |
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you called it! i am so jealous of you! oh, i wish i was you instead of me! :'( arrogant twat. |
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i don't do it to show off, I do it to help tridenti out, as you say Tridenti's "english" isn't exactly the most workable. I've seen you talk italian before aswell. |
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yeah let's drop the crappy languages. The whole world should be speaking English anyway, what's with this tower of Babel "different languages" nonsense anyway? |
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unsubtle Xenophobe. Like you said who cares what they say Practise what you preach. Stop caring. |
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We should make up our OWN language.....or if anyone Speaks german.....I now a leeelte bit. |
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How is writing Italian to him going to help him with his english? and yes, I did that after he started writing Italian to Woofer. |
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no, it helps him understand what others say, by sort of matching up the words he can also increase his vocabulary. |
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Can you say "tüte" |
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I'm studying german in college. Didn't think they taught it over in the US. |
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xltronic has helped me a lot to improve my english! really! THANKS |
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zgadzam sie, masz racje Redrum |
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I'll cut back on the foreigness if that is what you want. Not totally though. |
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I just want people who keep speaking foreign languages to understand that it destroys the flow of conversation in threads... ps I <3 you, language. |
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Yeah, they teach it here. But I'm self teaching myself German, along with Icelandic. I'm also trying to brush up on my 7 years of Japanese (in which I payed attention in class for exactly 7 minutes of that duration) so she'll shut her azn pride ass up. |
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you what language? explain...... I'll try not to destroy threads again. By the way which threads have been derailed or destroyed, i'm just curious. |
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ich habe auch deutsch im high school gelernt... |
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mujhe hindi aati he, ich kann auch ein bisschien Deutsch sprechen, oczywiscie po polsku, and in English, which I consider as the most beautiful of languages. |
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let's just ban tridenti and be done |
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jeg tror jeg er enig med dere to, ja. forbanna irriterende når folk begynner med alle andre slags språk! La oss voldta og henge dem etter rompehullet! |
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oh, yeah.. you were doing linguistics weren't you? I concur: I <3 language |
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i agree with all you guys, even though you contradict one another |
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Dwi'n ddim yn hoffi nac saeneg threadiau. |
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yup! Computational Linguistics und meine liebste Sprache, Deutsch.. |
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ja, deutsch ist spaß. es hat viele wörter wie klingt lustig I'm not really too good at speaking it, though. germans understand me with some good will, but it's not good by far! |
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hehe yeah but sure that's all you need. Continental Europeans' knowledge of European languages are really quite something, from my experience.. Your german sounds pretty good, how much did you learn it? |
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