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Outskirts => The Villa => Topic started by: grayvn on October 29, 2006, 10:07:20 AM

Title: Hi there!
Post by: grayvn on October 29, 2006, 10:07:20 AM
Hi everyone! Since I'm visiting DMFA everyday anyway, I thought I might as well drop in, too.

Beware though: I'm no native speaker, so the odds of gramatically humiliated sentences are high.
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: bill on October 29, 2006, 10:10:41 AM
Hello, and welcome to the land of the iPod smiley.

:ipod


Do have a good time, and read the rules.
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Stygian on October 29, 2006, 10:42:52 AM
îîî What he said. Well, rules are boring but yeah. Amber is nice, but don't expect all mods to be.

I think you'll find we have more grammatically challenged individuals than you here. So no worries. Have a hallucinogenic brownie though, and we can easily remedy that.
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Damaris on October 29, 2006, 11:41:07 AM
Thanks for letting us know that you're not a native speaker.  We're much more tolerant of incoherency from people who are not speaking their native language.

Now if only some of the English speakers would bother learning grammar ;)

Where are you from?
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: grayvn on October 29, 2006, 11:47:24 AM
Germany.
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on October 29, 2006, 11:53:20 AM
Surely you should only be visiting DMFA four times a week? I mean, it's not updated more frequently than that (at least at present) so...


Oh, and welcome to the funny farm. Have a jacket, they're wonderfully comfortable!
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Stygian on October 29, 2006, 12:10:59 PM
Ist das so? Ich, bin aber Schwedisch nicht Deutsch. Aber ich habe einen kleinen Deutschen studiert, und ich weiß die Sprache und Land lieber als ich denke, dass Sie diese Amerikaner dazu erwarten können. Ist gut Sie hier zu haben.

Was that grammatically correct? I seem to forget myself more frequently when speaking german than english.

*EDIT: here is the translation

Is that so? I am Swedish, not German. But I have studied some German, and I know the language and country better than I think you can expect these americans to. It's good to have you here.
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on October 29, 2006, 12:14:46 PM
Styg, read the rules. :-/

Cute though it is, no speaking in any languages that the mods can't read. Otherwise they can't check that you're keeping to the rules, and it excludes everyone who can't read that language from joining in.


... You *might* be able to get away with it if you post a translation in the same post, but I wouldn't push it, were I you. :-)

... just a friendly warning from your local overactive poster :-)
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Darkmoon on October 29, 2006, 12:17:02 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on October 29, 2006, 12:14:46 PM
Styg, read the rules. :-/

Cute though it is, no speaking in any languages that the mods can't read. Otherwise they can't check that you're keeping to the rules, and it excludes everyone who can't read that language from joining in.

... You *might* be able to get away with it if you post a translation in the same post, but I wouldn't push it, were I you. :-)

If he posts a translation in the same post, yes, it's fine. We just have to know what was said.
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: xHaZxMaTx on October 29, 2006, 12:18:36 PM
Hmm... I understood some of that, I think.

Is that so?  I am Swedish, not German.

Haha, German for Dummies, you have failed me! :dface
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Suwako on October 29, 2006, 12:18:52 PM
Hello, German mnan. *waves from the other side of the border*

I'm aiyno wolf, I'm dutch  >:3 My english is far from flawless so don't worry about it  :animesweat
I can't understand much german at all so messaging me in that language is practically useless.

btw: Stygian, you should but up the transelation for that. So damaris and such get a clue of what you where talking about. ( plus I can't make up what the last sentence means  :U)

Quote from: Stygian on October 29, 2006, 12:10:59 PM
Ist das so? Ich, bin aber Schwedisch nicht Deutsch. Aber ich habe einen kleinen Deutschen studiert, und ich weiß die Sprache und Land lieber als ich denke, dass Sie diese Amerikaner dazu erwarten können. Ist gut Sie hier zu haben.
Quote

Really? I speak swedish not german. I have learned german for a short period and I am able to speak and ..... when I think, that these americans ...........
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Stygian on October 29, 2006, 12:25:42 PM
Close one, Aiyno. The edit is up.
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on October 29, 2006, 12:31:33 PM
The concerning thing is... I almost understood most of it without the translation.

And I don't speak german at all. Just English, a touch of French, and a dash of Maori...
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Suwako on October 29, 2006, 12:33:07 PM
Woohoo! half a year of studying german payed of!  :U

really It wasn't even half a year and I s*cked at german, my average grade was 54/100  :< Thank god for the single word tests. 10! woohoo *dance* average is a acceptable!

:erk That always happens when I think of german...
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: xHaZxMaTx on October 29, 2006, 12:48:50 PM
I got the first two sentences right. :3
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Miaka on October 29, 2006, 12:53:42 PM
I wish I remembered German.

...Oh. right. I haven't spoken it in 6 years.
......And I've been shoving it out of my head with French.

riiiiiiight.

Welcommen! *gives an acorn*
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Nikki on October 29, 2006, 02:55:45 PM
*delivers the first trick/smite*

Welcome... :mwaha
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: God-Beast on October 29, 2006, 03:39:42 PM
Quote from: grayvn on October 29, 2006, 10:07:20 AM
Hi everyone! Since I'm visiting DMFA everyday anyway, I thought I might as well drop in, too.

Beware though: I'm no native speaker, so the odds of gramatically humiliated sentences are high.

same here... :p

and we are welcome...i guess! :p
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: ITOS on October 29, 2006, 03:41:00 PM
Greetings. I am the Monitor of installation 00. I am 7 Itos Atio.

Please be aware of the mows --> :mowcookie and other dangerous stuff --> :rj But if you have been lurking around you probably know this already. :paranoid

Be safe, enjoy your stay. :)
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Tiger_T on October 29, 2006, 04:22:56 PM
Wilkommen! Du bist nicht der/die Einzige hier.
Welcome! You're not the only one here.
:mowwink
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: grayvn on October 29, 2006, 06:03:57 PM
Well, thxy for all the nice welcome wishes/smites/jackets/acorns.
I'll try to fit in. Somehow. Maybe.

QuoteWas that grammatically correct? I seem to forget myself more frequently when speaking german than english.
Err...no. Several smaller mistakes but overall quite ok.
But the fact that you've been studying a small German somehow confuses me. (http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/c/confuse.gif) :rolleyes

QuoteSurely you should only be visiting DMFA four times a week?
I probably should, but its part of my daily online routine. That and my terrible insomnia of course.
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: RJ on October 29, 2006, 09:19:24 PM
Welcome to the forum! Oh! You're missing muffins! *passes over a basket* :rj

Enjoy!
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Gareeku on October 29, 2006, 09:52:01 PM
Hey there, welcome to the forums!
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Cogidubnus on October 30, 2006, 12:01:22 AM
Ich Shlogen dich mich mienen fisch.
(I will beat you with my fish)

Sorry, it's all the german I know. Welcome to the fourm! :3
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: grayvn on October 30, 2006, 06:57:06 AM
*looks terrified on the muffins* I'm scared.
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on October 30, 2006, 08:38:22 AM
So you should be.

RJ's muffins are legendary and infamous. :-)
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Roureem Egas on October 30, 2006, 11:20:03 AM
Darn myself for being late. :<

Whatever. Hi and welcome!
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Jim Halisstrad on October 30, 2006, 08:24:36 PM
Yo, welcome to the forums.
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: TheGreyRonin on October 31, 2006, 12:09:01 AM
Welcome to the insanity, Gravyn! Come on in, pull up a couch!

And I'd speak German with you, but like most of the languages I know I'm only fluent in basic survival German (ordering food, where is the restroom?, where can I sleep?) and the ever-popular swearing-like-a-sailor German.

(Funny how many swearwords I have to look up on a daily basis... Funnier if they weren't directed at me...)
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Anara on October 31, 2006, 12:54:18 AM
I'm visiting Germany next year with a friend who has forbidden me to speak any of the language since the only words I know would probably get me kicked out of the country :B   The joys of having foreign friends...

Welcome to the forum. I wouldn't eat the muffins if I were you...
Title: Re: Hi there!
Post by: Zedd on October 31, 2006, 01:23:59 AM
*gets the broom and pokes Ana in the ear* How many times I said stop lying to new people