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Postby Val Halla » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:44 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Val Halla wrote:The most common words... Like words we use all the time, they just sound kinda boring when compared to most other languages


Like which words?

Words like and, it and the.
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:46 pm

Val Halla wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Like which words?

Words like and, it and the.


Articles and pronouns are or can be boring in most languages. But that doesn't make an entire language boring in and of itself.
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Postby The Serbian Empire » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:48 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Val Halla wrote:Words like and, it and the.


Articles and pronouns are or can be boring in most languages. But that doesn't make an entire language boring in and of itself.

The other thing is the lack of gender in objects. It's like English is bland.
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:50 pm

The Serbian Empire wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Articles and pronouns are or can be boring in most languages. But that doesn't make an entire language boring in and of itself.

The other thing is the lack of gender in objects. It's like English is bland.


I come from speaking a language that has gendered pronouns and articles for objects. Trust me when I say this, English is not bland in that. It just simplifies things.
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Postby Val Halla » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:51 pm

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Postby Kannap » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:51 pm

The Serbian Empire wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
Articles and pronouns are or can be boring in most languages. But that doesn't make an entire language boring in and of itself.

The other thing is the lack of gender in objects. It's like English is bland.


That's the good thing about English, we don't unnecessarily gender objects that don't have genders. I hated that when taking a year of French during high school.

The freaking pencil doesn't have a penis, it doesn't need to be referred to as male.
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Postby The Serbian Empire » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:52 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
The Serbian Empire wrote:The other thing is the lack of gender in objects. It's like English is bland.


I come from speaking a language that has gendered pronouns and articles for objects. Trust me when I say this, English is not bland in that. It just simplifies things.

It's just so simplified it has mystique to it. At least it's not German, where schmetterling is the word for butterfly.
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Postby Jute » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:54 pm

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The Serbian Empire wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
I come from speaking a language that has gendered pronouns and articles for objects. Trust me when I say this, English is not bland in that. It just simplifies things.

It's just so simplified it has mystique to it. At least it's not German, where schmetterling is the word for butterfly.

Which sounds less angry than "butterfly" depending on how you pronounce it :P
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Postby Jute » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:55 pm

Kannap wrote:
The Serbian Empire wrote:The other thing is the lack of gender in objects. It's like English is bland.


That's the good thing about English, we don't unnecessarily gender objects that don't have genders. I hated that when taking a year of French during high school.

The freaking pencil doesn't have a penis, it doesn't need to be referred to as male.

Grammatical gender isn't biological gender, geez. And let me guess, you didn't take any other foreign languages? Here nine years of one language and seven of another are compulsory. :P
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and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."
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Postby Liberonscien » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:56 pm

Kannap wrote:
The Serbian Empire wrote:The other thing is the lack of gender in objects. It's like English is bland.


That's the good thing about English, we don't unnecessarily gender objects that don't have genders. I hated that when taking a year of French during high school.

The freaking pencil doesn't have a penis, it doesn't need to be referred to as male.

It looks like a penis, somewhat.
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Postby The Serbian Empire » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:57 pm

Jute wrote:Wife Crashes Own Funeral After Husband Tried To Have Her Killed

The Serbian Empire wrote:It's just so simplified it has mystique to it. At least it's not German, where schmetterling is the word for butterfly.

Which sounds less angry than "butterfly" depending on how you pronounce it :P

But German sounds so angry.
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Postby Lipnitia » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:57 pm

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But explosions are cool. Looking away from them is uncool. Michael Bay understands this.

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Somehow I read "wraith" instead of "wife"
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Fri Feb 05, 2016 1:57 pm

The Serbian Empire wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
I come from speaking a language that has gendered pronouns and articles for objects. Trust me when I say this, English is not bland in that. It just simplifies things.

It's just so simplified it has mystique to it. At least it's not German, where schmetterling is the word for butterfly.


Do remember that English is not purely Germanic anymore.
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Postby Immoren » Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:03 pm

The Serbian Empire wrote:
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Which sounds less angry than "butterfly" depending on how you pronounce it :P

But German sounds so angry.


Muh stereotypes.
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Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:05 pm

Time to grind some fresh coffee for the Sith lord! \o/
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Postby Hetalia Dakota 2 II » Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:09 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Time to grind some fresh coffee for the Sith lord! \o/

Ooh save me some stale coffee!
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Postby Furry Alairia and Algeria » Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:09 pm

Kannap wrote:
The Serbian Empire wrote:The other thing is the lack of gender in objects. It's like English is bland.


That's the good thing about English, we don't unnecessarily gender objects that don't have genders. I hated that when taking a year of French during high school.

The freaking pencil doesn't have a penis, it doesn't need to be referred to as male.


Someone's getting mad over dicks.
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Postby The Serbian Empire » Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:11 pm

Hetalia Dakota 2 II wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Time to grind some fresh coffee for the Sith lord! \o/

Ooh save me some stale coffee!

The stalwart of stale coffee, the dergen, the shinybutt, it's Dakky-chan!
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The Serbian Empire wrote:
Hetalia Dakota 2 II wrote:Ooh save me some stale coffee!

The stalwart of stale coffee, the dergen, the shinybutt, it's Dakky-chan!

Stop giving me titles. >.>
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Postby The Serbian Empire » Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:12 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:
The Serbian Empire wrote:It's just so simplified it has mystique to it. At least it's not German, where schmetterling is the word for butterfly.


Do remember that English is not purely Germanic anymore.

Yet it's blander than any Germanic or Romance language imaginable.
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Postby Immoren » Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:12 pm

Furry Alairia and Algeria wrote:
Kannap wrote:
That's the good thing about English, we don't unnecessarily gender objects that don't have genders. I hated that when taking a year of French during high school.

The freaking pencil doesn't have a penis, it doesn't need to be referred to as male.


Someone's getting mad over dicks.


Poor Richard.
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Postby Immoren » Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:13 pm

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Time to grind some fresh coffee for the Sith lord! \o/


I thought you wrote "Time to grindr" at first.
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Postby Furry Alairia and Algeria » Fri Feb 05, 2016 2:13 pm

Immoren wrote:
Furry Alairia and Algeria wrote:
Someone's getting mad over dicks.


Poor Richard.


Very very poor richards.
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