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Keep Calm I am The Doctor

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:46 pm


Congrats.

What kind of words do you think we don't use?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:28 pm


Archeopteryx? mrgreen

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:23 pm


Ranu Blackheart
Congrats.

What kind of words do you think we don't use?


you dont use difficult words 3nodding dramallama
PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:55 am


I live in Britain, buddy. I'm willing to bet most of those words are used here.

No offence, Eirwyn, my dear.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 4:38 pm


Education in the US is getting so lousy I'd tend to agree with you. What's scary is, when I see all that horrible Noobspeak on Gaia, I usually figure that's REAL, not put-on. Kids aren't properly taught Grammar & Spelling, much less History & the rest. mad
PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 2:09 pm


Well done Kim...i would hate to learn English...it seems really hard 3nodding

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:38 pm


georgehippo
Well done Kim...i would hate to learn English...it seems really hard 3nodding


Compaired to Geordie, it is. xd
PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:26 am


georgehippo
Well done Kim...i would hate to learn English...it seems really hard 3nodding


thanks Geo xD
English isn't really hard
well, maybe at the beggining it is, when you have to learn all those tenses.. there's too many of them exclaim we've got only 3... past , present, future


p.s -> i passed all exams cool cool

@Ranu - dont be so sure exclaim THESE words are so difficult i wont even try to write them exclaim dramallama mrgreen

Kim Dzong


Eirwyn

PostPosted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:06 pm


Must be scientific & technical terminology.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:01 pm


Or complicated law largon maybe..it always amuses me when people who's native tongue is thoroughly complicated say that English is hard to learn..at least we don't spell words differently for males and females razz

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Kim Dzong

PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:05 pm


jellysundae
Or complicated law largon maybe..it always amuses me when people who's native tongue is thoroughly complicated say that English is hard to learn..at least we don't spell words differently for males and females razz


yea, technical and law terminology and some other stuff i dont really remember/want to rememeber xD

and we dont spell words differently for males and females domokun
we just have different endings... and that's one of the easiest things in Polish xD
differentiation [i think that's what it's called] is teh s**t gonk
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:30 pm


My Spanish teacher in High School said that we think other languages are complicated because we're so used to thinking in complicated ways in English. We have to gear down to much simpler forms of grammar when we learn other languages.

My friend from Laos was trying to explain how her native language worked & it sounded as if they scarcely even bother with tenses there. And she said that yes, English is very hard to learn.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:40 pm


but we have only one word for 'the' and only two for 'a' unlike le, la, les and der, die and das...or something

...and also one word for 'you'...in french that used to piss me off so much when u had to use a different word for addressing certain people....i once addressed the old hag of a french correspondent b***h as 'tu'...and i never heard the end of it...

i run
you run
he/she runs
we run
they run

see...they're all the same nearly...but in french its all different...stupid language
PostPosted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:21 pm


I've always been terrible at Grammar. I took a course in it at University & bombed badly. The prof was utterly bewildered that I could be so literate yet so clueless at Grammar. Ummm--it's called "I read tons of books all the time so I know how it's all done, just don't ask me HOW it's done"??? rolleyes

I wasn't very good in Spanish class either because I don't know all those words in Grammar, so on tests if it asked for some complicated tense or something I didn't have a clue what they wanted. They just didn't do well at all teaching us such things in English class. I remember that Spanish verbs all had different forms for first person, etc. (Voy, Vas, Va, Vamos, Van). And you pronounce "v" as "b".
I took a class on the History of the English Language at University that I thought was really fascinating, seeing how the language changed over the centuries. Apparently that is how very early English worked also, with different forms of verbs for different tenses, & words like "proven" and "spoken" are leftover examples of this old practice. I think they are trying to get rid of those old forms though--I've seen the word "proved" used a lot in recent times in place of "proven". If they get silly enough to try to make people write & say "speaked" instead of "spoken", they can forget it. I aint doing it. smile

Eirwyn


Kim Dzong

PostPosted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:16 am


georgehippo
but we have only one word for 'the' and only two for 'a' unlike le, la, les and der, die and das...or something

...and also one word for 'you'...in french that used to piss me off so much when u had to use a different word for addressing certain people....i once addressed the old hag of a french correspondent b***h as 'tu'...and i never heard the end of it...

i run
you run
he/she runs
we run
they run

see...they're all the same nearly...but in french its all different...stupid language


we dont have anything like "the" and "a" 3nodding xD

ja biegne
ty biegniesz
on/ona biegnie
my biegniemy
oni biegna

see - it's pretty much the same xD

it's harder when it comes to differentiation...

in english the answer is always the same , no matter what the question is
in Polish it's like

who/what - Pawel
to who/to what - Pawlowi
who/what [is not here] - Pawla
who [is not here]/what - Pawel
about who/about what - o Pawle
with who/whith what - z Pawlem

i know it doesnt make any sense to you , but notice how Pawel changes...
in English it would be "Pawel" all the time 3nodding [my name is used only as an example, this refers to all words !!but it's not that every word has a different ending.. there's a rule for that but i cant recale xD there are like 3 or more groups of endings bla bla bla boring things that i dont know myself xD ]
SIMPLE xD

@Eirwyn - it's the same with my English xD i dont know HOW it's done xD

Russian grammar works pretty much the same as Polish , so for me it was just a matter of learning all the different endings xD
as for Japanese.... no comments ninja gonk
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