05-31-2006, 10:09 AM | #21 | |
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05-31-2006, 10:16 AM | #22 | |
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You have been waiting for the day I would not capitalise the names of languages for once, have you? It truly is a bad day for Grammar Foo'! Shui, if I even forget to remember that one can only write "it's" if it is "it is", and in no other instance. -
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05-31-2006, 10:28 AM | #23 |
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One thing with German that I find annoying: all the verbs come last in the sentences so you really don't know what it's about until the very last word.
Ah, I know that was stupid!
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05-31-2006, 10:45 AM | #24 |
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I'll go with Binary. What do you mean, there's no Binary accent? Have you ever heard a computer speaking casually (in the real world) without clearly sounding like a computer? There you have it, then. Picture a guy wandering around with a gun clearly pronouncing his ones and zeros (and not pronouncing anything else), and there you have terror.
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05-31-2006, 12:33 PM | #25 |
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Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons both make good villains so I'd have to go with us Brits.
Of course, in the Die Hard movies they were both technically Germans but yoiu needed British aplomb to carry it off properly. If you prefer your English as cads (gentleman but acting in an ungentlemanly way) may I recommend the British garrison (especially the Captain) in Lagaan. Bounders to a man, what ho. EDIT Probably should have said. Bring lots of popcorn. Lagaan is 224 minutes long.
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05-31-2006, 01:08 PM | #26 | |
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Umm...it's mostly the same with English, you know. And that sentence just disproved its message. But in German it would be: "Im Englischen ist es das Gleiche.", where the verb is not last. Or did I misunderstand something? (Grammar is something I do automatically. I do not think about it. I was never good at remembering the different names of the word types, or sentence types, even if I was able to use them correctly without problem. But I am unable to produce a specific type of sentence on request without at least having to think a little what that sentence is.) -
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05-31-2006, 04:17 PM | #27 | |
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05-31-2006, 06:29 PM | #28 | |
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And Jaz, I've heard from someone who occasionally does simultaneous translation of German that yes, you do leave - erm, some important part of speech - to the end of sentences. Very annoying for the translator, because they have to stop, memorise the rest of the sentence, then translate the key word and reel the rest of the sentence off while listening to the next! I was told this while trying to learn German, and the fact I can't remember what "important part of speech" I'm talking about probably tells you how well that went. |
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I'll agree with Jazhara that German is a naturally 'evil' sounding language. Many sharp sounds and an instinctive harsh way of speaking. Of course, I've been in Germany for a few months last summer so I know it can also sound normal and smooth in everyday life, but the fact remains it can so easily be transferred to EVILLLL.
Dutch, on the other hand, sounds genuinely pathetic in English. It's only good for playing the loser or someone who really doesn't have a clue in the world. Ug.
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I don't think that any specific accent sounds necessarily "good" or "bad." Intonation has more of an effect, though in certain respects an accent may be related to the character.
As far as the sub-topic goes, I can definitely relate to that. It isn't just accent that I pick up. I've also noticed that I will shift my dialect, vocabulary, and sentence structure depending on my environment and the person I am speaking to. It isn't a process that I am aware of initially, but there have been a few times when I honestly had no idea what was going to come out of my mouth, whether it would be one accent or another, or even a mixture of accents. There have even been times when I've shifted unconsciously from one to another within the course of a single day. It made me very self-conscious to think of that, and on those occasions I avoided speaking for a while. |
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I wonder to what extent the person I'm parroting discoveres what's going on.
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06-01-2006, 03:27 AM | #34 |
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German is evil. Just look at me.
Okay, bad example. c.c But I need my badguys to be British. And my goodguys. And everyone else with any wit whatsoever. No, I'm not biased in the least! ;,
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