04-30-2001, 12:47 PM | #41 |
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you are so right!
I mean that you know.... esp. after seeing the way people treat eachother on other Forums, I couldn't agree with you more. It's the only way to keep this Board up to its reputation as friendliest and most mature board of all. ------------------ Melusine, Archbabe of the OHF and the LH Your voice is ambrosia |
04-30-2001, 01:17 PM | #42 | |
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04-30-2001, 02:05 PM | #43 | |
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04-30-2001, 02:24 PM | #44 |
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Actually, English not being my native language, I find it funny to read now and again an expression that I don't know (like 'red herring' ), and trying to guess what it means by the context (much more fun than with a dictionary ! ). Especially as English expressions sometimes conjure bizarre images in my French mind (the 'red herring' gave me a good laugh, as a picture of the guy who said it with a red herring head popped in my poor head ! ).
Some Internet expressions also had me wonder - LMAO, I knew, but what the hell could be ROTFLMAO ??? Sometimes however, I can only look stupid, 'give my tongue to the cat' as the French expression goes, and ask ... ------------------ The world is my oyster ! |
04-30-2001, 02:45 PM | #45 |
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Well, I am a polyglot. My language teachers always said it was a good sign if you start dreaming in another language. I guess that it has really gotten down into your subconcious. I remember being so thrilled the first time I dreamed in another lanuage. I think Sir T maybe said the thing about translating back and forth. You have to get beyond that, you have to start actually thinking in the language. What frustrates me sometimes is that I can think of a word in two or three languages, but not the one I'm needing at the time. It was interesting what Rudi said about counting and doing numbers still in Spanish. Most people no matter how fluent still think of numbers in their first language regardless. I find that very interesting.
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04-30-2001, 02:48 PM | #46 | |
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04-30-2001, 02:57 PM | #47 | |
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04-30-2001, 02:58 PM | #48 |
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Hi All,
the mighty Sir T is back, Just about thinking about numbers, I once knew a guy who thought about numbers in a way that crosses internationally boundaries and should be appropriate for us RPGers. He always thought of numbers as spots on dice. Don't know what he di for big numbers though. ------------------ Holy Avenger of the OHF and part time Pinguindiebjäger HATS for sale baby! Sponsored by Yorick Your ad here? Call 112 -221 -123 |
04-30-2001, 03:15 PM | #49 | |
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Yes, Reeka. But English is my first language. I just feel more comfortable with the Spanish language cuz it's what my folks spoke to me when we were relaxed. I feel comfortable speaking both languages, and understand several other Latin-based ones, but numbers, for some reason, always are in Spanish. One last note: My friends laugh at the way I switch between English and Spanish. While talking to a mixed group, I slide back and forth between the two. Sometimes at the wrong time Now ACCENTS. That's a topic. Does anyone else adopt the accent of the person they are speaking to? I do it, without thinking, in a matter of minutes. weird. I need more coffe. ------------------ The RudeDawg Known in these Forgotten Realms as Perin LightEyes |
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04-30-2001, 03:19 PM | #50 | |
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BIG DICE !!! I used to have a 100 sided one. Looked liked a globe, but had ball-bearings inside to make it stop. ------------------ The RudeDawg Known in these Forgotten Realms as Perin LightEyes |
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