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Khaelo
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posted October 28, 2003 08:21 PM |
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Babel Fish to the rescue!
Bien, ceux de nous qui sont langue altérée pourraient toujours employer des poissons de Babel pour participer aux conversations de langue étrangère, parce que, comme nous le savons, les traducteurs automatisés sont grammaire ou vocabulaire tellement efficace et jamais d'essoreuse. 
Pardon mon Français de poissons de Babel. 
(and I just put this back into Babel Fish to see what it really says...oh dear...)
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posted October 28, 2003 09:15 PM |
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il khaelo è awsome!
(italian)
I am viewing the entire HC in spanish right now!  altho i cant read it lol
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Lord_Woock
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posted October 28, 2003 09:33 PM |
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Oczywiœcie
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draco
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posted October 28, 2003 09:46 PM |
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bable fish doesnt work so well if you dont know the language there talking. (although it doesnt work well even if you do know the language)
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Lich_King
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posted October 28, 2003 09:49 PM |
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You don wanna seeing me, talking in my native language...
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posted October 28, 2003 10:09 PM |
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Americans are one of the poorest people when it comes to multi-language speaking
and that was demonstrated not once
Boy is that ever the truth. Isn't it nice hearing that from an American? That's right. I speak English...that's it. I tried to learn Spanish but gave up when I saw their alphabet. Only those Americans who are required to or have nothing better to do learn a different lanuage besides English. Hell, about 30 to 40% of us can't even speak proper English. That's why those damn Brits are always laughing at us.
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My speak not first language english. I speak english much good. Know see problem talk wrong speaked. We friends understasnd all. No is problem say I am.
A good example from RMS on how "well" some Americans talk. Although that sounds more like Yoda, It is not too far off.
Not trying to be racist or anything but a good majority of Black-Americans really screw up the English language and make us all look bad (as if we didn't already have enough problems).
So go ahead and keep blamming those poor foriners. Just remember that not everyone can speak every language in existance. Learning a new language can be quite difficult somtimes. Take my word for it.
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silx87
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posted October 28, 2003 10:12 PM |
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right....
I typed in
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at the fork turn left a store,but on the right stay free from sight,cause ninety six quite bitter beings like to stack the bodies high
then translated around into some languages,and when I put it back to english,heres what I got
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with the revolution of fork however the memory, on which, put out of box a cause for ninety rather bitter natures six of the piles of the bodies leaves with the good stay, which is strongly free of the sight
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silx87
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posted October 28, 2003 10:17 PM |
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btw,MM,learning english,german and russian is in the school program here in estonia!also,some ppl can choose some other languages to learn...I think I'm gonna start learning french next year...
its actualy easy to learn if ur learning 5 languages...
and since french german and english are already quite similar,its gonna be quite simple...
also,russian and estonian share some similar words...
so its actualy no challenge to learn to speak quite many languages properly...
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MightyMage
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posted October 28, 2003 10:18 PM |
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What the hell is that supposed to mean?
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draco
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posted October 28, 2003 10:36 PM |
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What the hell is that supposed to mean?
he is saying the more languages you know the easier it gets to learn new ones.
french/english are so similar its easy, also he said german (i dont know much german only a few words my buddy taught me), i find spanish to be alot like french.
basicaly it gets easier and easier the more languages you know.
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Lord_Woock
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posted October 28, 2003 10:42 PM |
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I am good at learning languages, but am too lazy to use the talent
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Khaelo
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posted October 29, 2003 12:37 AM |
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Edited By: Khaelo on 28 Oct 2003
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I tried to learn Spanish but gave up when I saw their alphabet.
You gave up on Spanish because of the alphabet? Spanish uses the Roman alphabet, just like English. It just includes an extra N and some marks for the vowels. Heaven help you if you'd tried to learn Greek...or Arabic...or Chinese...!
My school forced us to learn either French or Spanish. I took Spanish because I had a background in French (hey, it made sense at the time). Silx is right -- the more languages you learn, the easier they become, especially if they're in the same family. Unfortunately, the older you are before you take on a new langauge, the harder it is to learn one. If you were trying to first tackle Spanish in high school, it's no surprise that you found it intimidating, new alphabet or no.
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Not trying to be racist or anything but a good majority of Black-Americans really screw up the English language and make us all look bad (as if we didn't already have enough problems).
Actually, the language as spoken by many African-Americans is a dialect. People who speak it aren't "screwing up" the English language; they're just speaking a different version of it.
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My speak not first language english. I speak english much good. Know see problem talk wrong speaked. We friends understasnd all. No is problem say I am.
Here we have some bona fide Screwed Up English. The funniest thing is that, poorly composed as it is (or carefully composed to look poor, as the case may be), the main idea is still discernible. This should be comforting to anyone who's concerned about the quality of their English.
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posted October 29, 2003 03:47 AM |
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I don't care abou the foriegners here at HC. And if you do not like foreigners, you are not a racist. Some people here think that it seems, but the term is xenophobe. Xenophobia is the fear of foriegners.
One of my pet peeves is little spelling mistakes and use of wrong words but I don't care where you're from, it's still wrong.
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posted October 29, 2003 03:51 AM |
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Not trying to be racist or anything but a good majority of Black-Americans really screw up the English language and make us all look bad (as if we didn't already have enough problems).
It always amaze me how some people can succeed without even trying.
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posted October 29, 2003 04:44 AM |
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why should we care about foreigners at HC? I don't have a problem with americans and their crazy spelling.
I was wondering if there are any spanish speaking people here that could help me out. Bumble Bee Man from the simpsons always says Mosus Suerno (sp) and I want to know what that actually means.
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posted October 29, 2003 10:36 AM |
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btw,MM,learning english,german and russian is in the school program here in estonia!also,some ppl can choose some other languages to learn...I think I'm gonna start learning french next year...
its actualy easy to learn if ur learning 5 languages...
and since french german and english are already quite similar,its gonna be quite simple...
also,russian and estonian share some similar words...
so its actualy no challenge to learn to speak quite many languages properly...
Your´re so right in what you´re posting here.
Italian, french and spanish are all one family-language--> romanic. So if you can speak one of them, it´s really very easy to learn the others.
I don´t know the school-system in the USA very well, but isn´t there a possibility to learn other languages?
Here in Germany, you learn english in EVERY kind of school and in the higher qualified schools you will have to learn ONE more language at least (mostly french or latin, sometimes spanish). But more languages are possible, if you like to.....
So when you leave school with 18 or 19 and start your life as a student, normally you are able to speak at least 2 other languages plus german.
The new system here lets the children beeing able to learn english with an age of 8 years (third level in school) and i think that is very important, ´cause the internet is mostly written in english and it´s a main institution in our life now, and in future, i think. So without english, you won´t have any chance in future to get a quite good job.
For an 8 or 9 year old children, it´s very easy to learn other languages. For us, the older ones, it´s getting harder with every year. Use your chance to learn, when you´re brain is young and "hungry" for knowledge 
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barb
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posted October 29, 2003 10:41 AM |
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english is my native language i live in australia but it may look like i dont know much english but it just my spelling but it does get annoying sometimes i get what you are saying about other ppl
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