is english a first language??
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Warrior
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written Friday, February 27 2004 12:05
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Just a question, not to be mean or anything, but do most of you speak english as a first language or something else?? Because as i've been scanning all the boards i've been encountering some pretty lousy spelling out there. Not even slang or anything, just really terrible spelling of stuff. Or maybe some people here are just really young and are failing english class... who knows... -------------------- If your buddy is trying to hook up with a girl, you may sabotage him only in a manner that gives you no chances of getting any either. -The Code Pahk ya cah in hahvad yahd?? What ah ya? retahded?! http://www.unwind.com/jokes-funnies/locality/boston.shtml Posts: 114 | Registered: Wednesday, June 18 2003 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Friday, February 27 2004 12:12
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My first language is English, and I'm just one of several members around here who consistently write with impeccable spelling and grammar. -------------------- "Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain- at least in a poor country like Russia- and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect."- Leon Trotsky Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, February 27 2004 12:14
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We have a large population of Finns and assorted other non-native speakers (or typers, as the case may be). We also have members who don't spell impeccably and occasionally make grammatical errors. A third possibility is that you've been reading posts that include the time-honored Spiderweb tradition of mockery through syntax. The most egregious of errors, when committed by those who normally have no trouble with English, are generally recognized as intentional and humorous. —Alorael, who si not oposed to ocasionle speling hummor. It cna be very funney altho this signatore is just stupid. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Friday, February 27 2004 12:26
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I'm obsessed with my grammer and spelling, and will check it before posting. Some of the the people on this website are probably Canadian, and you know how they are  (no offense to Candadians, I'm just bored). Also, many of the people on boards are just stupid, or lazy.-------------------- All hail to me, for my best time in MineSweeper is 150 :) The Supreme Rule Posts: 46 | Registered: Monday, February 23 2004 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Friday, February 27 2004 12:39
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My first language is german, I abuse these boards to learn english. <turns of the pages of a bulky dictionary with regrets for the lack of vocabulary and sighs> It's a great place to learn, also the games. If I would be an english teacher, I'd gave my class Avernum for home work.  ( ^ "")) -------------------- site of the month: about an australian artist who is a real cyborg - supported by BURMA SHAVE Posts: 1420 | Registered: Wednesday, October 2 2002 07:00 |
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BANNED
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written Friday, February 27 2004 13:51
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Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Auf ein Deutsches Message Board* würde ich sprechen, aber weiß ich nicht wo sie sind, und mein Deutsch ist ganz schwach. (* Is there a German equivalent for the term Message Board?) -------------------- We're all amazed but not amused By all the things that you said you'd do. You're much concerned but not involved by Decisions that are made by you But we are sick and tired of hearing your song, Telling us how you are going to change right from wrong, 'Cause if you really want to hear our views, You haven't done nothin'. Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Master
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written Friday, February 27 2004 13:57
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my first language is Cantonese. -------------------- Urban wisdom is not actual wisdom. It's more like the seemingly philosophical statements that sometimes leak out of my strange mind through my mouth, or in the case of message boards, my hands. -------------------- Clan Xeon - Warcraft III clan Polaris - Weather Balloons YAY Undead Theories - Don't Ask, Don't Tell Posts: 3323 | Registered: Thursday, April 25 2002 07:00 |
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Babelicious
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written Friday, February 27 2004 13:58
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quote:You should talk. Har har. -------------------- You are my precious thing Thing of speed and beauty, You are my precious thing As long as you remain beneath me -- Big Black Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Friday, February 27 2004 14:58
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I'm not a native english speaker, but I've given up my mother tongue to help in the war against terrorism! -------------------- Contradictions get me everything I want. Love is all. Love is Evil. Posts: 148 | Registered: Tuesday, May 13 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, February 27 2004 15:10
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I'm english, but I can also be part BOOGEYMAN at times. -------------------- -TEH BOOGEYMAN STRIKES AGAIN -------------------- And then there's always a Chance nearby... Posts: 245 | Registered: Tuesday, February 17 2004 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Friday, February 27 2004 15:46
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English is my first language, but I'm fairly fluent in German (I'm part Austrian) and I'll be learning Japanese next year. -------------------- Chance Forums. Posts: 153 | Registered: Tuesday, December 2 2003 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Friday, February 27 2004 16:15
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TM, hab keine Ahnung, wo die deutschen Bretter sind, bin nie in irgendwelchen Diskussionsforen ausser hier, aber ich kann nachschauen. The correct translation would be "Anzeigenbrett", but nobody uses that term. We say message board too or "Diskussionsforum" or B-log or "Schwarzes Brett" (that's more for pinned slips of paper). I'll check it out for you, where they are. quote:Emtar Ihrno what ???? Is the point, that you spoke Arab?? Oh, Reality Corp. shows his **stars! Fortune favors the brave. -------------------- site of the month: about an australian artist who is a real cyborg - supported by BURMA SHAVE Posts: 1420 | Registered: Wednesday, October 2 2002 07:00 |
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Shake Before Using
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written Friday, February 27 2004 16:57
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My first language is English, and I spell correctly while awake.  Posts: 3234 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Bob's Big Date
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written Friday, February 27 2004 17:00
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Je ne parlerai que le français. Je peux parler l'anglais, mais pour vous? Avares, tous la sorte. -------------------- In a word, gay. --Bob the Impaler Posts: 2367 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Friday, February 27 2004 17:17
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In order to be taken seriously by anyone worth being taken serious by, one must pay at least some attention to decent syntax and grammar. Typos are understandable as we are all human, but the there are people out there who refuse to type out the "yo" in you and are similarly lazy with other words that need not be mentioned. As tolerant as I try to be, half the time I want to crush these people under a crate full of Webster's hard-covered wrath. The other half I just remind myself that the English language in its own rules is more contradictory than any religion and shrug it off. As to the question at hand, yes, English is my first language and I try to at least appear to know what I'm doing with it. I'll make mention that I took a two-year study of the German language, but the amount I know of it is laughable in the utmost ---Your American accented maniac, Necris Omega -------------------- Sanity is a relative concept. And like most my relatives, I rarely see it. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." ~ Albert Einstein Posts: 168 | Registered: Saturday, October 26 2002 07:00 |
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Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
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written Friday, February 27 2004 17:25
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I speak English, un peu de français, and enough Japanese to yell "Iyé, wakarimasu ka?!" at those who annoy me. Not really fitting, but who's going to know that? Chandrew, you're not really the one to cast the first stone, with those lowercase i's and imperfect grammar... EDIT: Neither am I. Well, now I am. [ Friday, February 27, 2004 17:28: Message edited by: Sir David ] -------------------- And though the musicians would die, the music would live on in the imaginations of all who heard it. -The Last Pendragon TEH CONSPIRACY IZ ALL Les forum de la chance. Incaseofemergency,breakglass. Posts: 3351 | Registered: Saturday, April 6 2002 08:00 |
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Master
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written Friday, February 27 2004 18:08
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hey don't steal my throne, Dave. -------------------- Urban wisdom is not actual wisdom. It's more like the seemingly philosophical statements that sometimes leak out of my strange mind through my mouth, or in the case of message boards, my hands. -------------------- Clan Xeon - Warcraft III clan Polaris - Weather Balloons YAY Undead Theories - Don't Ask, Don't Tell Posts: 3323 | Registered: Thursday, April 25 2002 07:00 |
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BANNED
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written Friday, February 27 2004 18:27
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Um, which characters are you using for "ye"? As far as I know (rhetorical statement), there is no ye character in Japanese. You're better off saying "Omoi wa ahou aru", or something. -------------------- We're all amazed but not amused By all the things that you said you'd do. You're much concerned but not involved by Decisions that are made by you But we are sick and tired of hearing your song, Telling us how you are going to change right from wrong, 'Cause if you really want to hear our views, You haven't done nothin'. Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, February 27 2004 18:31
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English is my first and only language. I can claim a smattering of knowledge in Indonesian and French -- just enough to recognise a few words and phrases. -------------------- From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumbered and enormous polypi Winnow with giant fins the slumbering green. Posts: 356 | Registered: Saturday, August 23 2003 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, February 27 2004 22:54
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I speak only English. Efforts to learn other languages have so far come to naught, though I took five years of languages in high school. Three years of French and two years of Latin. -------------------- But I have never known or heard of anyone in real life who has said, "Yes! My goal in life is to be a brainless follower of obnoxious people!" Posts: 437 | Registered: Sunday, July 13 2003 07:00 |
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This Side Towards Enemy
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written Saturday, February 28 2004 06:00
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I'm an English speaker. My proficiency at French is not what it was, but still just about at conversational level and I don't get much further than hello in any other spoken tongue. -------------------- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned I'll tell you my story, man Though I wish I'd never been born I'm loose at the seams, I've broken my dreams And my hand it shakes the pen Come on, come on now baby, Let the good times roll again Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Saturday, February 28 2004 07:03
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My first language is Spanish. I studied French and Latin at school, and a little German later. English is just something I use to read in my spare time, and I've only heard it at Oxford English cassettes and a few movies. But I've noticed the worst in grammar in these boards are we non English speakers, while the worst spelling is that of some native speakers ("Your soilders, wanna a mesion?") Posts: 253 | Registered: Tuesday, October 9 2001 07:00 |
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Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
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written Saturday, February 28 2004 08:06
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TM, I learned all of my Japanese from Shogun by James Clavell (other than the first ten numbers, which I learned in school). I just assumed that it was all right, partially because the numbers were right and partially because it's all I have to go by. -------------------- And though the musicians would die, the music would live on in the imaginations of all who heard it. -The Last Pendragon TEH CONSPIRACY IZ ALL Les forum de la chance. Incaseofemergency,breakglass. Posts: 3351 | Registered: Saturday, April 6 2002 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Saturday, February 28 2004 09:09
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Finnish is first language, but I having good ability of english swedish and german all ready. -------------------- - The Great Mister Posts: 972 | Registered: Tuesday, October 28 2003 08:00 |