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[Andreas]

You'd be surprised. Your written english is better than many Americans. I don't think letting people know that english isn't your first language is necessary. You're great. Americans seem to have greater difficulty with punctuation, which is what makes for more difficult reading than just an occasional misconjugated verb, or improper pronoun.

Thank you. I once used 'have' instead of 'has' in another game. They started shouting at me not to use gettho english. I wish I could have seen their faces when I said that Ive never used the word 'has' because I dont know where to use it. 'But youre english' they said. Oh, I wish I could have seen their faces that time.

[Donn]

You'd be surprised. Your written english is better than many Americans. I don't think letting people know that english isn't your first language is necessary. You're great. Americans seem to have greater difficulty with punctuation, which is what makes for more difficult reading than just an occasional misconjugated verb, or improper pronoun.

that is because when you learn english first, you are learning on the fly, so you do not get to learn all of the rules, so than when it is time to learn the rules of the language, people get bored and just ignore what is going on in the classroom.... when you are learning as a second, third, or later language, than they are learning the rules first, than how to speek, that and they actually care about learning because they want the knowledge.

Actually you are completely wrong when it comes to English as your secondary or third or whatever language.. Most people in my country learn the language at a very early age thanks to the internet, the television (we have subtitles here, no dubs), certain magazines (game magazines for example),..

I think the main reason why we learn english so fast is, that we "constantly" hear english speaking on the television and in the meanwhile see the translation below.

Its a very effective way of learning a language. Also the internet has had a serious influence: online gaming for example.

[Andreas]

No dubs... Are you scandinavian or dutch? Almost all other european countries have dubs. So does the american countries as well, I think. And people with a language not originating from the indoeuropean language have usually more trouble with languages originating from indoeuropean and vice versa so they should have dubs out of that reason.

Ps. Im just speculating and may be terribly wrong with the indoeuropean language. I only know it existed and not much more.

[jimmi33]

Wow even my contry which only consists of 5 mil people got dubs <.<

[Exousia]

English has rules?

I always thought of them more as exceptions.

[Succubus]

Donn, it looks like you're responding to me instead of gs 059. Darn the way the forums handles quotes. I wish it wouldn't quote the quote that the person you're quoting quoted.

 

[Exousia]

Nested quotes don't seem to work out well here. I usually manually separate them for clarity.

[Deavas]

English has rules?

I always thought of them more as exceptions.

Exactly , We like to make up our own rules , words and meanings. And hope it catches on in the mainstream.

[Andreas]

Well in Sweden we use many english words as mail, weed and... maybe something more. Pwn and the pronounciation of dot is very common in my school. Only problem is that they dont use 'pwned' as a misspellt 'owned' (which also is use frequently) but uses it instead of saying sex. A normal conversation in my class:
A: Did you pwn someone at the party?
B: For the last time NO!
A: Come on. Ive heard someone saw you pwning that girl.
B: But I didnt pwn that girl!
A: Did it feel good?
B: But I never pwned that girl!!!

Did I get offtopic on my own post? That must be a record.

[Donn]

Im dutch yes, from Belgium.

[Sin15698]

Haha, now that I'm talking about nationalities I'm not off topic anymore, see look ^^^