i realy dont know whats the point in this topic, anyway,hello. Options

[Yuka]

I'm going to have to question your reasoning behind that, Sturm. Care to enlighten me?

[Hayate]

It seems like English has too many shortcuts and exceptions. Also it's a vocabulary thief. Of course I'm no linguistics expert but that's my negative two cents.

[absolute0zero]

Y helo thar.
Don't sold your soul to the devil. Give it to us instead.
(oh okay here we go again)

[DustyHaru]

Welcome.
Make sure that your stay is enlightening.

This post has been edited by DustyHaru: Jul 20 2009, 03:22 PM

[Shiokazu]

english is way too simple. like i said,i just learned the grammar the wrong way.

btw thanks again for the greetings.

i already sold my soul to square enix,and,i regreet it.

[Dr Strum]

I'm going to have to question your reasoning behind that, Sturm. Care to enlighten me?

Read Nabokov's Lolita and you'll see just how beautiful English can be.

[aerozero]

Good tidings to thee

[H. Tsukiyono]

English is the language that lurks in dark alleys, mugs other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.

Greetings and salutations. Post lots, pick your fights carefully, enjoy your stay.

Also, don't forget that smoking in one's apartment may set off the smoke detector. And don't eat eggs if the white is neon green because that's probably unhealthy. Unless you dyed them that color yourself with food coloring, in which case it's probably okay.

[Dr Strum]

I really dislike that joke, as its completely false. The primary reason English has such a historically diverse lexicon is based on it's Germanic origins and the language's butchering by the French every time they decided to invade what is now known as England.

[H. Tsukiyono]

Shiokazu, here is a good example of not picking one's fights carefully. I am one of those people who continually shoves her foot in her mouth, and some days people wonder how I have not been shot. (I fully blame an instinctive avoidance of places I am not familiar with and my overwhelmingly hermit-like tendencies.) Although I kind of like that joke, as an English-speaker...

The moral of the story is think before you post, because sometimes what someone perceives as harmless will offend somebody else. (Of course, there are ways to take this to an extreme, but as this is hardly extreme one could use it as a textbook case.) Also, wandering around the LCN forums can occasionally prove to be educational.

Sorry, Sturm. (Also, this might annoy you further, but you've mixed up the "it is" contraction and "its" the possessive. :/)

One could say I have a lifelong grudge against the language for continually encouraging the butchering of a decent portion of my name despite being spelled in such a way that it should be easy to pronounce, but here I am not picking my fights carefully again. :/ It isn't the language's fault anyway.

[Dr Strum]

There's a difference between a confusion of grammar and a simple typo. If I had used it's when I should have used its it would have very likely been a confusion of case, whereas in this circumstance it's reasonable to give me the benefit of the doubt and assume that I merely failed to depress the ' key hard enough.

[Leyviur]

Hopefully you can learn more Engilsh by conversing with us, it seems to be the best way to learn a language.

[H. Tsukiyono]

There's a difference between a confusion of grammar and a simple typo. If I had used it's when I should have used its it would have very likely been a confusion of case, whereas in this circumstance it's reasonable to give me the benefit of the doubt and assume that I merely failed to depress the ' key hard enough.

The grammatical notes were just to help me distinguish between the two because I'm weird and need to make the distinctions a mile wide for myself. :/ Otherwise visually the difference is the mere presence or absence of an apostrophe. From what you said, then, I will assume that you didn't quite depress the apostrophe hard enough and then proceeded to make a confusion of case since you did both in the same line.

(Shiokazu, sorry for hijacking your intro thread! This is a rather bad habit of mine, I think I've done this to the past two newcomers too.)

[Raijinili]

Sturm makes that "its"/"it's" mistake a lot, so I call bull.

Also: Tsuki, if you don't act so insecure, you won't be so insecure.

[Dr Strum]

then proceeded to make a confusion of case since you did both in the same line.

I'll shut my mouth then because I didn't even see that one.