Question to the non native speakers

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-29 11:03am

do you think that the quality of the english you speak and type varies from day to day?
on some days i´m able to create decent english posts, but on others it seems difficult to even write down single, understandable sentances.

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2003-01-29 11:04am

Im sorry, I didn't understand a word of that...

Are you Foreign or something?

Cpt_Frank · Post by **Cpt_Frank** » 2003-01-29 11:06am

salm wrote:do you think that the quality of the english you speak and type varies from day to day?
on some days i´m able to create decent english posts, but on others it seems difficult to even write down single, understandable sentances.

I can't say this about english but I do have this kind of problem with french.

pezcollectorguy · Post by **pezcollectorguy** » 2003-01-29 11:17am

It's hard to find words sometimes when your mind is working faster than you can type. I find it's easier when you've got a little time on your hands. I'm ok with deadlines I guess but the setting and time of day do dictate how well I write and respond. Brilliant observation, I must say.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-29 11:20am

DocHorror wrote:Im sorry, I didn't understand a word of that...

Are you Foreign or something?

MAHOK! MAHOK!

foreign to you in any way. i´m german/american. that means i´ve got dual citizenship but i´ve never lived in the us so my american citizenship is rather formal. i´ve never considered voting in the us (the next time i´ll go though, just to get rid of satan himself) for example.

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2003-01-29 11:25am

What does MAHOK mean?

Well Im not American & don't even live there, so most people on this board are foreign to me...

Where are you live at the moment?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-29 11:30am

I thought the US didn't recognise dual-citizenship.

You know, I was thinking of asking a question similar to this...

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-29 11:31am

DocHorror wrote:What does MAHOK mean?

Well Im not American & don't even live there, so most people on this board are foreign to me...

i´m not sure what MAHOK! means. a friend of mine started to use it permanently and for everything. he said it´s part of the greeting in this one simpsons episode in which homer is in this iluminati organization.
it sounds pretty cool.

Where are you live at the moment?

Stuttgart/Deutschland

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-29 11:33am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I thought the US didn't recognise dual-citizenship.

You know, I was thinking of asking a question similar to this...

there already was a long, long thread about this some thime ago.

http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic. ... itizenship

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2003-01-29 11:34am

I have a good friend from Essen in Germany.

Im living in Ireland at the moment...

Its.........interesting.....to say the least.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-01-29 11:40am

Hell, I'm a native speaker and my ability to speak English varies.

My syntax gets very fucked up sometimes.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-01-29 11:40am

I think my english is pretty good and it doesn't vary from day to day.

I'm also positive that everyone in this board is foreign to me.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-01-29 11:42am

Native speaker, but I sometime tend to be over-articulate.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-01-29 11:44am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I thought the US didn't recognise dual-citizenship.

You know, I was thinking of asking a question similar to this...

The US recognizes dual citizenship. It's the idiots at immigration in the airports that get confused like hell and then make a big mess about it.

Technically, there *isn't* such thing as dual/triple citizenship. Either you have country X citizenship or not. You can have more than one, and only a handful of countries actually require you to officially renounce your old nationality. (and no, the Oath of US Immigration or whatever it's called doesn't count as renouncing, even if it's part of the "lyrics". if you tell your old country that you "renounced" it in the Oath, they'll tell you that they couldn't care less about what you said in some braindead speech outside)

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-29 11:51am

Slartibartfast wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I thought the US didn't recognise dual-citizenship.

You know, I was thinking of asking a question similar to this...
The US recognizes dual citizenship. It's the idiots at immigration in the airports that get confused like hell and then make a big mess about it.

Technically, there *isn't* such thing as dual/triple citizenship. Either you have country X citizenship or not. You can have more than one, and only a handful of countries actually require you to officially renounce your old nationality. (and no, the Oath of US Immigration or whatever it's called doesn't count as renouncing, even if it's part of the "lyrics". if you tell your old country that you "renounced" it in the Oath, they'll tell you that they couldn't care less about what you said in some braindead speech outside)

actually you dont have problems at airports. you just show the americans your american passport and within the EU (or possibly in Iran) the german passport. that way everybody is happy and you can take the short line.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-01-29 11:54am

Depends, English is always hard for me I think in Swedish and build sentences in Swedish so when it gets typed out in English strange things happens...

Also my posts are much shorter in English compared to what they would have been if I would start a topic in Swedish or repying.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-01-29 12:09pm

salm wrote:
Where are you live at the moment?
Stuttgart/Deutschland

So do I...

How funny

As for English: My English is usually in the same league every day, except of course when I'm drunk. My English gets better then

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-29 12:15pm

Dahak wrote:
salm wrote:
Where are you live at the moment?
Stuttgart/Deutschland
So do I...

How funny

As for English: My English is usually in the same league every day, except of course when I'm drunk. My English gets better then

hey, cool, another stuttgarter!

i agree with you on the fact that alcohol improves the ability of speaking the english language. that is "speaking" not "writing".

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-01-29 12:29pm

salm wrote:
Dahak wrote:
salm wrote: Stuttgart/Deutschland
So do I...

How funny

As for English: My English is usually in the same league every day, except of course when I'm drunk. My English gets better then
hey, cool, another stuttgarter!

i agree with you on the fact that alcohol improves the ability of speaking the english language. that is "speaking" not "writing".

Of course, as a native Swabian, the correct term would be "Schtuageter" *g*

Well, writing drunk is difficult, even if it's only German.
Whereas speaking... My already quite British accent develops another leap of Britishness whenever I'm drunk...

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-29 12:44pm

Dahak wrote:
salm wrote:
Dahak wrote: So do I...

How funny

As for English: My English is usually in the same league every day, except of course when I'm drunk. My English gets better then
hey, cool, another stuttgarter!

i agree with you on the fact that alcohol improves the ability of speaking the english language. that is "speaking" not "writing".
Of course, as a native Swabian, the correct term would be "Schtuageter" *g*

Well, writing drunk is difficult, even if it's only German.
Whereas speaking... My already quite British accent develops another leap of Britishness whenever I'm drunk...

hmm... Stukkateur

btw, you dont happen to have seen (is that proper grammar? it sounds good) the kassierer concert last week? i think it was in the universum.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-01-29 12:50pm

salm wrote: hmm... Stukkateur

Bah, no respect for Schwäbisch

btw, you dont happen to have seen (is that proper grammar? it sounds good) the kassierer concert last week? i think it was in the universum.

Nope.
I usually don't go to in discos, and certainly not in Vaihingen. I have enough of that damned university all day long, without going up there at weekends

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-01-29 12:54pm

Dahak wrote:
salm wrote: hmm... Stukkateur
Bah, no respect for Schwäbisch

hey, i´m a real schwabe, not only that but a real oberschwabe!

Nope.
I usually don't go to in discos, and certainly not in Vaihingen. I have enough of that damned university all day long, without going up there at weekends

that wasnt a disco thing. it was a concert.

what do you study?

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2003-01-29 12:57pm

salm wrote: that wasnt a disco thing. it was a concert.

what do you study?

I'm studying Software engineering. Beats doing nothing

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2003-01-29 01:00pm

I often wonder if my Japanese is getting worse each week...

But I was a lowsy student of it in my 4th and a half year. I ought to go watch Record of Lodoss war subtitled again and freshed up...

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