Voodoodog

[niltrias]

I was mostly joking with you. I just recalled that because A) I do stuff like this for a living...noting errors in translation software and trying to find the patterns in them is how I pay my bills. And B) I remembered being surprised by that, because it was not something I had seen before.

Honestly, 8+ years of work has taught me that the average native English speaker actually has worse grammar in writing than in speaking, unless specifically trained. Your comment about "that not being a mistake I would make in conversation" is actually a testament to your Emglish skill...it is a mistake that native speakers would not make in conversation, and WOULD make in writing.

and BTW jorb, are you ever going to answer those 2 PMs? A simple "NO" would suffice.

[jorb]

and BTW jorb, are you ever going to answer those 2 PMs?

Of course. In one way or another.

[niltrias]

Gah! But honestly, thanks. As I hope I made clear, I'm not terribly concerned about which way the die rolls, but the lack of response was just sending me up a wall. "Did he get it? Was there some fail? Did I click the wrong button and send it to SF instead?" heh.
Nah, as long as you got them I am good with whatever. I've loved just about all you guys' game decisions so far.

[Atheuz]

I don't even know why they let you into IT-Administration when your comprehension of technical and reverse engineering is so little, and not to speak of obvious english abillities. In fact, I don't believe you actually do.

I find Voodoodog to be an annoying little prat as well dude, but seriously, your english there is pretty poor... You got all the spelling right, but fluent english speakers refer to comprehension as being high or low, good or poor, but rarely big or little... We also don't often change from third person past tense to second person present tense like that.

Well, look at it from this angle:
VoodooDog and me are from the same country. Atleast I'm better than him, right? I'm sure it counts for something.
I simply don't understand why such a young person has problems with english eventhough it's being teached to elementary kids nowadays.

I know that I have issues with english, that probably comes from the way I keep talking in msn to others recently. First I did it intentionally, then I made it a habit of mine.
But I'm trying to fix it, since you're not the first one that called my way to speak as sloppy.

[g1real]

I extremely had enjoyment reading this "post that was very interesting".

[delfink]

I don't even know why they let you into IT-Administration when your comprehension of technical and reverse engineering is so little, and not to speak of obvious english abillities. In fact, I don't believe you actually do.

I find Voodoodog to be an annoying little prat as well dude, but seriously, your english there is pretty poor... You got all the spelling right, but fluent english speakers refer to comprehension as being high or low, good or poor, but rarely big or little... We also don't often change from third person past tense to second person present tense like that.

Well, look at it from this angle:
VoodooDog and me are from the same country. Atleast I'm better than him, right? I'm sure it counts for something.
I simply don't understand why such a young person has problems with english eventhough it's being teached to elementary kids nowadays.

I know that I have issues with english, that probably comes from the way I keep talking in msn to others recently. First I did it intentionally, then I made it a habit of mine.
But I'm trying to fix it, since you're not the first one that called my way to speak as sloppy.

[drunken]if you come from germany and lived a normal life, you would know, that most germans can't speak english perfectly.

most people i know can't build a simple sentence in english. wer are not the netherlands and we are not sweden. they don't learn english only from school. in germany you normally learn english only at school. many people are not interested in the english language and many people have problems with the english language. some people can speak perfect english, but they suck at maths. where is the problem? if you have a problem with voodoo's english: learn the german language 6 years at school. if you don't speak perfect german after 6 yeras (4 hours a week/ maximum 40 weeks a year) you are a looser like voodoodog, because you are to stupid to speak another language!

es gibt auch ne menge leute die seit jahren aus der schule sind und deshalb jahrelang kein englisch mehr sprechen mussten.
man kann nicht erwarten, dass jeder perfekt englisch spricht. manche leute haben wie gesagt kein interesse dran, andere haben sprachprobleme und widerum andere habens einfach verlernt. ich läster auch nicht über menschen, die zu dumm sind lineare funktionen zu kapieren, die menschen können teilweise nichts dafür!

[g1real]

The main problem is is that english is a primary language in IT, and german isn't.
English is the main language of the internets, oh and did I forget thats its probably the most popular language to use in the real world.

Anyhow...


I have never bothered to learn german, just because I can generally understand what someone wrote since I'm dutch anyhow.

[jorb]

es gibt auch ne menge leute die seit jahren aus der schule sind und deshalb jahrelang kein englisch mehr sprechen mussten.
man kann nicht erwarten, dass jeder perfekt englisch spricht. manche leute haben wie gesagt kein interesse dran, andere haben sprachprobleme und widerum andere habens einfach verlernt. ich läster auch nicht über menschen, die zu dumm sind lineare funktionen zu kapieren, die menschen können teilweise nichts dafür!

Aaah. German.

[g1real]

Looks similair to swedish doesn't it?

Wait till you've seen the similarities between all languages deprived from the old german language.

I think even english got its base from it.

[DrStealth]

I was mostly joking with you. I just recalled that because A) I do stuff like this for a living...noting errors in translation software and trying to find the patterns in them is how I pay my bills. And B) I remembered being surprised by that, because it was not something I had seen before.

Honestly, 8+ years of work has taught me that the average native English speaker actually has worse grammar in writing than in speaking, unless specifically trained. Your comment about "that not being a mistake I would make in conversation" is actually a testament to your Emglish skill...it is a mistake that native speakers would not make in conversation, and WOULD make in writing.

Emglish