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OhforfSake
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posted June 19, 2014 10:21 PM |
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It says most of us talks like black people. I'm not entirely sure how to do that without sounding Rastafarian, but I guess I should just speak normally?
Edit: @Stevie
Well because it's hilarious?
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artu
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posted June 19, 2014 10:25 PM |
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You speak Dutch, Stevie. Singaporean is your dialect in English.
Dagothgares will explain it to you, I cant speak Dutch.
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OhforfSake
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posted June 19, 2014 10:26 PM |
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I thought he was Serb?
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artu
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posted June 19, 2014 10:27 PM |
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Not according to the test.
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OhforfSake
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posted June 19, 2014 10:28 PM |
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You're right. Then he must be Dutch.
Oh man, does this mean I've to live in Norway now?
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artu
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posted June 19, 2014 10:30 PM |
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Did I misremember that? Were you not from Norway?
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Nitramar
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posted June 19, 2014 10:30 PM |
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Edited by Nitramar at 22:31, 19 Jun 2014.
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OhforfSake said: It says most of us talks like black people. I'm not entirely sure how to do that without sounding Rastafarian, but I guess I should just speak normally?
Looking at the wikipedia article on "Black Vernacular" it does seem to sound a bit Rastafarian. I'm surprised I got that at number one, since I definately did not check any of those "I be doing this" kind of sentences that are seemingly supposed to be part of it.
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OhforfSake
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posted June 19, 2014 10:31 PM |
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Yo mom. NoobX is contagious!
Nope @Artu I don't even understand the language ^^
Edit2: Buut I can't say for sure if I may have told you I was and forgot to tell you I wasn't.. I mean today I told some dude I was a volcano and I haven't told him I'm not yet.
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artu
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posted June 19, 2014 10:34 PM |
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But you were from a Nordic country, that I remember. Which one was it?
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Stevie
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posted June 19, 2014 10:35 PM |
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artu said: You speak Dutch, Stevie. Singaporean is your dialect in English.
Dagothgares will explain it to you, I cant speak Dutch.
I was clearly referring to the dialects, but seems it flew way over your turkish turban.
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Nitramar
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posted June 19, 2014 10:39 PM |
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artu said: But you were from a Nordic country, that I remember. Which one was it?
Well, he doesn't understand Norwegian so it can't be Norway or Sweden. There's three left... Iceland ? Even if you're Danish, shouldn't you understand some Norwegian?
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artu
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posted June 19, 2014 10:40 PM |
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Yes, it did. And I'd love to see it fly further, further, further away.
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DagothGares
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posted June 19, 2014 10:48 PM |
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South African and Dutch are closely related, feeble cursed one. So obviously our sentence structures should be very similar. And it keeps referring to the grammatical structures. You're using the grammatical structures of black americans, you're not necessarily speaking like a thug.
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fred79
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posted June 19, 2014 10:50 PM |
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DagothGares said: speaking like a thug.
what you mean, yo?
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Stevie
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posted June 19, 2014 10:53 PM |
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DagothGares said: South African and Dutch are closely related, you idiot.
Tell me how related is South African with Russian, Chinese and Italian.
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meroe
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posted June 19, 2014 10:55 PM |
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I would like to know what the grammatical structures of Singaporean English is, just so I can convince myself that I'm not a total imbecile.
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steyn
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posted June 19, 2014 11:03 PM |
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Had to look it up on my facebook, as I'd actually already taken this test.
Its top three guesses for my English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Canadian
Its top three guesses for my native language:
1. English
2. Dutch
3. German
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Minion
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posted June 19, 2014 11:10 PM |
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I did that some time ago, I just remember that my dialect is Singaporean and it guessed I am Finnish correctly.
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OhforfSake
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posted June 19, 2014 11:12 PM |
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meroe said: I would like to know what the grammatical structures of Singaporean English is, just so I can convince myself that I'm not a total imbecile.
It's just an internet test. If you ask me, minion is much worse off, I wonder if he ever got his pants back on again
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artu
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posted June 19, 2014 11:13 PM |
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meroe said: I would like to know what the grammatical structures of Singaporean English is, just so I can convince myself that I'm not a total imbecile.
How to speak Singlish
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