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Whats funny about your language?

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Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:35 am

Whats funny about your language?

As the titel says, whats funny about your language?

In german, its obviously the long words ^^.

Words like "Warenbandseperator" for the thing that seperates the goods on the conveyor belt in the supermarket, are just plain funny...

Why this is like this?
Its because alot of german words can easily put together...
For example:
Bleistiftanspitzer is a pencil sharpener. A "Bleistift" is a pencil and an "Anspitzer" is a sharpener, just stuck together...

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Now that you're reading this, can you tell me what E=mc² means and make it at least 2,500 words...

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{Just remember me as the crazed up german who sometimes can't spell}

Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:41 am

well in austria, there is a place called F**king, and a sign underneath it reads: please slow down.

Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:50 am

thats not what I meant...post something about your LANGUAGE

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The next spam topic about my boredom will be posted on the Wednesday, 21st April. Yes, I'm really THAT bored...It will be posted at around inbetween 16.40 and 17.20...

Now that you're reading this, can you tell me what E=mc² means and make it at least 2,500 words...

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I will not tell you for what the THM stands for in my name.

{Just remember me as the crazed up german who sometimes can't spell}

Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 12:54 am

English is a horrible language.

For example "A soldier deserted his squad in the desert"

Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:06 am

English has a load of really odd spelling "rules", words like thought and laugh that make no phonetic sense. I do lots of other languages at school so I spot things like that

And on the German language, if memory serves there's a place in Germany (poss. Austria) called Uberhaffenpfaffen

"There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't"

Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:09 am

in german, hamburger is someone from hamburg, burnt is the german spelling for bernard, so it's possible to have a german called.....Burnt Hamburger

Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:28 am

Yea and then in English spelling rules there are always exceptions and then exceptions of exceptions end then again exceptions of exceptions and so I can go on 4eva

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Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:38 am

You know, english has very long words too. Such examples are....

Antidisestablishmentarianism
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Floccinaucinihilipilification

And one of the longest words in english, and perhaps in the world is...

Acetylseryltyrosylserylisol...serine/Acetyl­seryl­tyrosyl­seryl­isoleucyl­threonyl­seryl­prolyl­seryl­glutaminyl­phenyl­alanyl­valyl­phenyl­alanyl­leucyl­seryl­seryl­valyl­tryptophyl­alanyl­aspartyl­prolyl­isoleucyl­glutamyl­leucyl­leucyl­asparaginyl­valyl­cysteinyl­threonyl­seryl­seryl­leucyl­glycyl­asparaginyl­glutaminyl­phenyl­alanyl­glutaminyl­threonyl­glutaminyl­glutaminyl­alanyl­arginyl­threonyl­threonyl­glutaminyl­valyl­glutaminyl­glutaminyl­phenyl­alanyl­seryl­glutaminyl­valyl­tryptophyl­lysyl­prolyl­phenyl­alanyl­proly­lglutaminyl­seryl­threonyl­valyl­arginyl­phenyl­alanyl­prolyl­glycyl­aspartyl­valyl­tyrosyl­lysyl­valyl­tyrosyl­arginyl­tyrosyl­asparaginyl­alanyl­valyl­leucyl­aspartyl­prolyl­leucyl­isoleucyl­threonyl­alanyl­leucyl­leucyl­glycyl­threonyl­phenyl­alanyl­aspartyl­threonyl­arginyl­asparaginyl­arginyl­isoleucyl­isoleucyl­glutamyl­valyl­glutamyl­asparaginyl­glutaminyl­glutaminyl­seryl­prolyl­threonyl­threonyl­alanyl­glutamyl­threonyl­leucyl­aspartyl­alanyl­threonyl­arginyl­arginyl­valyl­aspartyl­aspartyl­alanyl­threonyl­valyl­alanyl­isoleucyl­arginyl­seryl­alanyl­asparaginyl­isoleucyl­asparaginyl­leucyl­valyl­asparaginyl­glutamyl­leucyl­valyl­arginyl­glycyl­threonyl­glycyl­leucyl­tyrosyl­asparaginyl­glutaminyl­asparaginyl­threonyl­phenyl­alanyl­glutamyl­seryl­methionyl­seryl­glycyl­leucyl­valyl­tryptophyl­threonyl­seryl­alanyl­prolyl­alanyl­serine


Which is the technical word for the tobacco mosaic virus.


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Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 2:40 am

And, of course, there is the ultimate in hypocritical words: the word for the fear of long words is hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

"There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't"

Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 4:15 am

@fish#### (sorry I keep forgetting the number)
That full name is actually just a list of amino groups in the virus, that's almost akin to calling an animal by it's full DNA sequence, I wouldn't count it as a word.
I thought this lovely sesquipedalian word was the longest word in the English language: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)
It's a lung disease that miners used to get from inhaling dust and dirt.

Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 4:33 am

I think it's funny that English is the only language that uses 3 tenses for the present, 3 tenses for the perfect plus a pluperfect and 2 future tenses. And thats just in the ACTIVE form.

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Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 7:55 am

What I've noticed about languages like German, English, and Japanese and such, is that when you grow up using that particular language, you take it for granted and don't realize that it's difficult for someone else to learn your language. If you're from any country that doesn't SPEAK English, than English would be really difficult to learn. Apparently English and Japanese are the two hardest languages to learn. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 8:03 am

Dutch: well, what can I say. Most words used in the Dutch laguage today are probably:

Computer
Toilet
Paraplu (umbrella)
Uberhaupt (uhm...)
Parachute
Manager (d*ckhead)

And many, many more.
My point is, the Dutch language has an enormous amount of "foreign" influenced words and grammar. The Grammar for instance is German, only simplyfied (thank god). A lot of words come from either French (Napoleon), English (Robbie Williams) or german (no, not Hitler) and Latin (Julius Ceasar, did I spell this correctly).

The best Dutch is spoken in Belgium actually, they say "valscherm" (fallscreen) where they mean Parachute.

The funniest Dutch is probably the G and the IJ which foreigners have a lot of troubles with.

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Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 8:08 am

Well. I was born Afrikaans and speak everyday, but I disnt find it difficult to learn English, some stuff is difficult to remember and I think all the tenses are stupid but I dont find it extremely difficult. Then again they say Afrikaans is very difficult to learn cus it has so many rules. In the end i guess it depends on who you are and your talents

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Post Sat Apr 24, 2004 10:35 am

there was a south african girl in the studio i was doing work experience in london, and she was saying south africa has something like 7 ? official languages, and you have to learn 3 of them?

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