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Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? .....Better Yet why do we ship cargo by ship ... and shipments by plane???
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:14:09 UTC from web-
@nlghtmaremoon I can answer some of those, if you're actually interested. :)
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:16:48 UTC from web-
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:22:19 UTC from web
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@nlghtmaremoon Do it! Words are awesome!
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@nlghtmaremoon @Nethros I can spend hours here: www.etymonline.com/
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:25:36 UTC from web-
@patch Thanks for that link xD I'm not very versed in the english language, but with spanish I'm a dictionary xD The best part of it, is arguing with idiots, and how they rage when you use proper and complex ways to speak.
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:28:24 UTC from web-
@nerthos Your English is better than many native speakers, which, given how craaazy this language is, is an accomplishment.
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:32:48 UTC from web-
@patch It is? Great :D I learned the language for myself mostly. At school, the level of english they teach is for 3-year olds. At the last year of ESB, 17 years if you started at six with the first grade as it should be, they're teaching "will" and "would".
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:36:21 UTC from web-
@nerthos you also have to learn english by videogaming?
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:37:16 UTC from web-
@mushi Videogaming, watching movies, reading books... When I started with real literature, the first two books I had to read with a dictionary at my side. I learned like 30 words, at least, with the first two.
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:38:51 UTC from web-
@nerthos ,y reading is broken, a lot of brazilians only know english because of games, but now that we're having some games in portuguese, i foresee a new generation that cant say a word in english
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:40:25 UTC from web-
@mushi Yes, obviously. Do you know how hard is it for me to find games in English, instead of translated?
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:43:49 UTC from web-
@nerthos no, all the games here are in english or japanese. Back than, in psx time, we had games in spanish and people qho didnt know english (like me XD) used to play in spanish because of the similar words.
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:50:41 UTC from web-
@mushi Yes, when games start being translated, knowledge of foreing languages drops. I started learning english when playing games like Gunmetal (1998, robot shooting game), but I like to play games in their original language, or with subtitles when I can't understand it xD The problem to find games in portuguese is because few countries speak it. Most games are released in japanese, english, or multi5 (english, spanish, italian, french and german)
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:54:57 UTC from web-
@nerthos yes, only a few games are in portugues and there is even less games in brazil portuguese and that portugal's sounds very weird and ugly. E even started studying japanese, but we missed the registration period of the second semester lol.
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:59:35 UTC from web-
@mushi Yup, Brazilian portuguese differs greatly from European portuguese. It's like with Argentinian spanish and Spanish spanish.
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 12:01:53 UTC from web-
@nerthos there a videos with some lines of dragon ball in portugal, and this is great for when we want laugh very hard, specially when Vegeta calls Cell a "jumping gecko". This is like wat
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 12:06:13 UTC from web-
@mushi Heh, exactly the same here sith motherland spanish xD It's always fun to listen to the orignal language
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 12:10:36 UTC from web-
@nerthos yep. Its fun how people think "jumping gecko" is an offence they'd be trauatized if they hear what Vegeta says here heheheh
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 12:16:57 UTC from web
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Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:38:49 UTC from web
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@patch #Brohoof to you too! I always liked to dwelve in the intricacies of languages xD I must use my CI for something, for it is a bless, and it would be blasphemy to neglect it and be an ignorant fool when I can use it to my benefit ^.^
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:42:40 UTC from web
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@nlghtmaremoon Practicity, mostly, at least for the last one. Planes are faster than ships. As for the first two, bad choices when naming them.
Thursday, 15-Dec-11 11:21:52 UTC from web
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