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Hi guys.
Friday, 14-Dec-12 14:16:20 UTC from web-
@nerthos does the term guys include females? My information on that is not consistent.
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@kamikaze Depends on the context, but most of the time (like right now): Yes.
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@kamikaze When referring to a group consistant of both males and females, the correct way to adress it is as a male group, because there's no gender-neutral words for it. If the explanation is confusing, it's due to my english not being good enough in some areas yet.
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@omni Yet it's not perfect, and I have only year and a half of real experience in it's use. It could be way better.
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@nerthos 1 and a half year is a lot! I spent 3 weeks hiking in GB with a couple of friends. The majority of my English vocabulary is from fantasy books.
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@kamikaze I mostly learned from games and fantasy books. I can't fluently speak, though. My experience is moslty from being on this site.
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@nerthos my speech isn't quite fluent either. Mostly because I have no opportunity to practice it. However I'm fluent in thinking in English. What I'm really bad in is translating between the languages. Often I want to say something in German that I really only can communicate in English.
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@kamikaze Well, that's not due to a lack of skill, but language limitations. Anyone who knows at least two languages will notice it.
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@nerthos I think English is special because it absorbs so many concepts and meanings from other cultures. Whereas German is limited to a German way of thinking about things.
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@kamikaze Yeah, modern English is kind of an hybrid language. I'm thinking about learning German, though.
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@nerthos A lot of people do. I never managed to figure out, why. It's so constrained.
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@kamikaze I particularly like how it sounds, and the fact that many words are just combinations of simpler ones.
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@nerthos It's a great language to be /assertive/ in.
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@kamikaze True, that's all it's really good, though. The rest of it is an utter grammatical mess. But hey, I do need to be able to talk to my partner's parents :P
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@kamikaze Haha, true. That's one of the reasons why it fits me. I'm half German too, so it's part of my heritage. My grandfather taught me a bit, but he died when I was 10 or so, so I didn't manage to learn much.
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