Conversation Between Cherrim and Bianca Paragon
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  1. Bianca Paragon
    July 22nd, 2009 7:46 AM
    Bianca Paragon
    I find that, too! Like, especially Northern Europeans? I see some wonderful English from those guys, like..to them they actually CARE how their writing makes people perceive them :O Amazing stuff

    I'd make an awesome navel officer, or seaman or..grunt or whatever they're called! As long as I was in a submissive mood. The moment I got all dommy I'd be kicked out XD I was going to be an air safety inspector as a career for a while, got three months into the course they were PAYING me to take and got bored D: I regret my attention span at times.
  2. Cherrim
    July 22nd, 2009 7:43 AM
    Cherrim
    I knooow. x_x Like, the standard literacy tests we have here in grade... 10 I think. That was the easiest test I ever wrote and some 20% still managed to fail it that year. How do you even do that?? When I see someone who can't form a proper thought together if their life depended on it on the internet, I always try to just assume English is their second language but most of the time I'm proven wrong. (And why is it that half the time on the internet, the people with the best English grammar are never native speakers? XD)

    I think that's kind of how I am too. :| I rarely stick with things very long and thinking about big commitments (careers aaah) is scary. XD;

    but lol you in the navy.
  3. Bianca Paragon
    July 22nd, 2009 7:37 AM
    Bianca Paragon
    Same! But it's like that; it's like you don't realize how hard it is because it's *all* you know, right? How some people still can't get it right when it's their NATIVE tongue baffles me though.

    I think you'd have to commit your life to it, huh? I've always been too fluttery to commit to anything for a super-long-time. I considered joining the NAVY once, hah! Could you imagine? I think they'd make me use the mens showers :\ That's annoy me.
  4. Cherrim
    July 22nd, 2009 7:33 AM
    Cherrim
    I still don't understand that. XD; I mean, I guess I lucked out and learnt it naturally growing up but it's never seemed that difficult to me.

    That sounds so neat though. I find that sort of thing immensely interesting but I just... don't think I have the patience to get into something like that. XD;
  5. Bianca Paragon
    July 22nd, 2009 7:30 AM
    Bianca Paragon
    Apparently English is still *the* hardest language to learn from a linguistics point of view. I've a friend who's fluent in Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean and like..one other I think. She's a linguistics major, and it's interesting to see the way she deals with languages now; like I think she could probably understand a language after maybe a day of listening to other people talk it, you know? She's just that deep in it that she just understands the structure and the rules instead of the base words and grammar and..it's kinda amazing to watch XD
  6. Cherrim
    July 22nd, 2009 7:26 AM
    Cherrim
    XD; Yeah Chinese seems SO confusing. I wanna learn it one day but just... oh god aaah. So many complicated characters and I can be pretty dense so I'd never know if I was supposed to just sound out the word or extract the meaning or... or...

    how do they even do it omg. :( and to think some native-English speakers have issues stringing sentences together.
  7. Bianca Paragon
    July 22nd, 2009 7:24 AM
    Bianca Paragon
    Haha! It's one of those things like..uh..Coca Cola where even in China and Japan they have phonetically chosen characters that SOUND like Co-Ca-Cole-A; like..the chinese billboards for it which apparently translated to "Bite the wax tadpole" or something XD
  8. Cherrim
    July 22nd, 2009 7:21 AM
    Cherrim
    It is really weird. Especially when the changes are so useless half the time. I can't remember anything specific but I'm sure there were cases where an accent was added and the order of words was just switched around. Like... why even bother? XD

    We have no non-English street signs for the most part but when you get into areas with lots of immigrants, slooowly every storefront changes to their native language. Like I know there are a few banks in the area I'm in now that are in... Hindi, I think? It's very confusing but it's kind of interesting to see brand power--if you can recognize a company in another language, their marketing department is doing something right, haha.
  9. Bianca Paragon
    July 22nd, 2009 7:17 AM
    Bianca Paragon
    That's so weird! It's like..uhhh..there are entire regions in Queensland here where the street signs are in like..mandarin or cantonese or something, with English footnoots.
  10. Cherrim
    July 22nd, 2009 7:14 AM
    Cherrim
    It wouldn't surprise me. Quebec is crazy and I think law requires all signage and brands and whatnot to be in French. o_O
  11. Bianca Paragon
    July 22nd, 2009 7:09 AM
    Bianca Paragon
    I think even the French don't like the French. Is it true you have areas where they RENAMED KFC to have a french translation; even though they don't even do that in France?
  12. Cherrim
    July 22nd, 2009 7:08 AM
    Cherrim
    Oh. XD; Well we're pretty close to an American accent. :( The whole weekend Jeef and Audy were here, sometimes my friend and I would say something only to get a "whoa say that again!" But not often and that was just subtle pronunciation differences.

    On the whole I don't think we sound too different unless you live out West or out East in Canada. Or if you're French but nobody likes the French.
  13. Bianca Paragon
    July 22nd, 2009 7:06 AM
    Bianca Paragon
    Canadian's so do. You don't sound as nervous and nasally as American's, but there's subtleties. You actually sound alot like Kiwi's, except you know how to say the word "chips".
  14. Cherrim
    July 22nd, 2009 7:04 AM
    Cherrim
    Canadians... don't have an accent though. XD;

    Except newfies but nobody likes them.
  15. Bianca Paragon
    July 22nd, 2009 7:02 AM
    Bianca Paragon
    Is so too. I did months and months of voice therapy ;_; And that makes me an instant-expert, by logic only I understand. Therefore I diagnose you with a Level 3, Acute Canadian Accent.