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This is where you can discuss your homework, family, just about anything, make strange sounds and otherwise discuss things which are really not related to the Lancer-series. Yes that means you can discuss other games.

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Kendo THM

Post Tue Feb 17, 2004 6:07 am

#1: German
#2: German
#3: German
#4: German
#5-100000: German

(And no, I'm not being biased because I speak it...)
(And no, I'm not being biased because I'm german)
(And no, I'm not being biased at all)

Warlord Bob

Post Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:13 am

I'm getting a kick out of all the languages up there with "1" next to them.

English and American, close enough to be considered one language
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I hope you're joking.

Aren't they? In some cases quite different dialects but I would say everybody here, be they English, American, or Austrailian (or ______) are speaking the same language.

BlazeME

Post Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:14 pm

I'm sorry but I just have to say this:-
1. German
2. American
3. English <-- They messed up the language.

And no, I'm not German. Its a very logical and easy to learn language.

And on your list, you've missed out chinese (no, I'm not chinese. )


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Tawakalna

Post Tue Feb 17, 2004 12:32 pm

seriously, i say italian. a beautiful language of expression, even asking for a sandwich or filling up the car sounds good. And of course with the gestures it looks great too. And of course it's a direct development of latin, a language of clearness and decision.

so

Italian
Latin
Greek
Arabic
German (cos its easy and just like English)
Syriac
Aramaic
Coptic
Pashto
Urdu
Gujarati
Hindi

however, a language which should be banned and extirpated is Welsh, because as everyone knows, no-one in wales actually speaks Welsh at all, except when English people are about - its just a secret code to hide what youre saying from the English. Also it produces too much phlegm and spittle and sounds ridiculous.

The Evil Thing

Post Tue Feb 17, 2004 1:39 pm

I think voting for your own language has to be discounted.


How do you tell someone's native language by looking at their posts in a forum?


3. English <-- They messed up the language


You're right, we did - who came up with replacing z's with s's? etc.


latin, a language of clearness and decision


Yes, but it more than makes up for that by changing just about everything, making it so difficult, they 'invented' "vulgar latin" to be able to make articulate conversations about what the weather was like on the Ides, Nones and Kalends etc. (yes, it's sad, I can tell the date in Latin - ante diem quartum decimus Kaledas Martias )

Btw, I'm only counting your first 3, sorry


Edited by - The Evil Thing on 2/17/2004 2:01:43 PM

Esquilax

Post Tue Feb 17, 2004 1:48 pm

English and American, close enough to be considered one language

You sick, sick person! There is all the difference in the world between American English, Australian English, and British English! To say that the languages are the same in like stating that Japanese and Mandarin are the same! *shakes head* Some people! Can't even speaka da good English!

I guess there were no takers. Oh well, the English language is fantastic. I love it. But Klingon is also good for a laugh.

Taw - Italian, eh? I remember doing that for years at shcool! I'd say more, however Mi dispiace, ma non parlo Inglese!

Tawakalna

Post Tue Feb 17, 2004 4:11 pm

I'm sorry too. I've only ever known one fellow Italian speaker ever visit here, and bizarrely that was when I was in Italy.

Whadda mistaka da make!

I don't know what you're grinning at, Esq, for all i know you could be Joe Dolce.

Esquilax

Post Tue Feb 17, 2004 5:42 pm

Taw - Nah, I'm an Australian with no familial ties to Italy or Greece. I look more like a freakishly tall Scot that anything else. I was once asked if I was Jewish, though. How many Jews have red hair? Not that many I'd guess. As for being "Joe Dolce", I could say the same about you! You could be err, <insert stereotypical Asian name here> .

Indy11

Post Tue Feb 17, 2004 5:53 pm

@Evil,

For one thing, a super majority of posters here seem to be from the UK, Australia, the US, NZ and Canada. At least from my not so thorough checking up of profiles.


@Esqy,

You need to come to Brooklyn and walk around the Williamsburg district. You will find a large number of red-headed Jewish folks.

Edited by - Indy11 on 2/17/2004 5:55:00 PM

BlazeME

Post Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:39 am


English and American, close enough to be considered one language
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You sick, sick person! There is all the difference in the world between American English, Australian English, and British English! To say that the languages are the same in like stating that Japanese and Mandarin are the same! *shakes head* Some people! Can't even speaka da good English!

I think he means that they don't have to tanslate a movie when taking it to another english speaking country.


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Tawakalna

Post Wed Feb 18, 2004 1:11 pm

I always thought there was a large Dutch community here on TLR.

Esquilax

Post Wed Feb 18, 2004 1:50 pm

<Place tongue in cheek now>

Blaze - Perhaps, but maybe they should. I mean imagine Taw running around in a movie saying "Fings is gettin' pear-shaped me old scouser!". Most people in America and Australia would have no idea what was going on.

<Remove tongue from cheek now>

Tawakalna

Post Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:11 pm

and insert brick.

it's far more likely i'd say "ey up mar mayt, ast thay powt caytul on, arm spayting faythers ere.."

we aren't all Dick van bl**dy Dyke, you know

(must stop sending children out to work up chimneys)

freighter fighter

Post Wed Feb 18, 2004 5:52 pm

too bloody right *spoken in a true kentish farmers accent that no one understantds* and tha' be rioght true

Indy11

Post Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:52 pm

Aha! But that's not an English "language" your speaking. That's a dialect. It is a given that dialects are not understandable to those who don't speak it.

Besides, I thought everyone knew that the English, especially, don't speak English unless what is spoken is that "broadcast" stuff that the news readers tend to use.

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