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thewaitersitsondown
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| Him wrote: | | Ich kan verstehen ein bissche deutsch. But the grammar usually gets me. |
hehe. You use English grammar for German. |
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Cap'n Lazarus
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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Definitely NOT just pretty faces!
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Him
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| thewaitersitsondown wrote: | | Him wrote: | | Ich kan verstehen ein bissche deutsch. But the grammar usually gets me. |
hehe. You use English grammar for German. |
Oh damn. the verb at the end of the snetence, right? That always gets me because I think what I write in swedish before I write it in german (when I write in english however I think in english) and using taht kind of grammar has a very...uh archaic feel to it, nonetheless swedish and german has much in common as far as words are concerned. i wish they wouldn't have such a fucked up grammar, I mean shit, i can't say big numbers because they throw the numbers around eins unt zweinzig, i mean, really? |
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davrieb
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| thewaitersitsondown wrote: | | Him wrote: | | Ich kan verstehen ein bissche deutsch. But the grammar usually gets me. |
hehe. You use English grammar for German. |
hehe, I use German grammar for English. |
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thewaitersitsondown
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heehee. I believe it's zwanzig, actually.
Yes, German grammar does feel a bit archaic in English as well. That's a bit of an advantage I find, though--I just imagine I'm speaking in Elizabethan English and a lot of the grammar feels more natural.
See? Reading Shakespeare is good for all apsects of life. |
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DarkSouled
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Location: Berlin
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:14 am Post subject: |
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| Es ist doch immer wieder interessant zu sehen, wohin meine Faulheit führen kann. Jetzt wird hier schon in den verschiedensten Sprachen, über die verschiedensten Sprachen gesprochen. |
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Halen
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| cuishanying wrote: | | 但是我还是会说中文。我是中国人！ |
我也会说一下儿普通话. 但是我不是中国人! |
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Rosie Bee
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Halen wrote: | | cuishanying wrote: | | 但是我还是会说中文。我是中国人！ |
我也会说一下儿普通话. 但是我不是中国人! |
Get a room, you filthy pair!
(No, I can't read this, but this is the internet AND the Sinfest forum. If it's not filthy, then quite frankly I'm disappointed in both of you and you're letting the side down). |
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bun bun
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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dangit, i know the meanings of some of the kanji.
i assume this is either cantonese or mandarin, which is why i can't read it?
(dang nihonjins speakin only japanese) |
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Halen
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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| bun bun wrote: | | i assume this is either cantonese or mandarin, which is why i can't read it? |
They're both written exactly the same  Cantonese is really a dialect of mandarin, albeit a very far-removed one.
| Quote: | | (dang nihonjins speakin only japanese) |
でもほんとに日本人じゃありません！ (But I'm not japanese, honest!). |
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bun bun
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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dooooooooshte?
doshte kono forum wa watashi ni kanji to hiragana o dekiraremasen ka?!??!?
i wanna post in pretty script... |
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Uncle Taylorbell
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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| i don't understand the current trend of talking in punctuation. |
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Halen
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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Try this link:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/recommended/ime/default.mspx
You need to install an IME, which allows you to switch between languages in windows. For Japanese, I then use hiragana input - you type the pinyin so you type "watashi", it comes out as わたし, you press the space bar and it automatically converts it to 私. Fabulous  |
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bun bun
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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*grunt**grunt*
me artist type.
me use mac.
*grunt**grunt*
OK, actually mac is usually much more useful for this stuff than PC because there's a li'l menu on the upper right-hand side that allows you to list your fav. scripts and dictionaries and you just have to pick from the list.
useful for me because my list goes as follows:
British flag (for spellings)
American flag (when I'm writing a paper for my Vassar profs)
French flag (so's I don't get a "wtf???" from the spellchecker when I'm typin' in French and use an accent egut, etc.)
Romaji
Hiragana (which converts to Kanji with the spacebar, like yours)
Katakana
Russian flag (for cyrillic chars. and Russian spellings)
however, this lovely convenient format means that the characters are encoded in a way some websites don't understand. o woe is me. |
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Halen
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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Ahhh, a mac eh? I have a picture of one of those:
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