Hello, I restart this page because I think that it is so funny

Yes ! English is funny...sometimes !

Poussière d'Etoiles a écrit:

Hello, I restart this page because I think that it is so funny

When you want to bring a post back up to the front page, it is called a "bump" in English (Bring Up My Post).


English can be pretty funny. It seems kind of simplified at times, until you find all of the homonyms, homophones, and homographs that make certain phrases hard to read.

Like how you can polish your Polish furniture. Paint a plane plain white. Sow a sweater for a sow. Perform an amazing feat with your feet. Project an image for your project. They're throwing their stuff through there, etc.


You know, I have been considering the possibility of everyone here being incapable of understanding me if I spoke in an exteremely complex or eloquent manner. Well, is my vocabulary too expansive for you to understand with the utmost clarity?

...Okay, that wasn't a good example, but I don't feel like raping a thesaurus just for this joke...

you know what ? I hate my on-line translator !

Plume de Faucon a écrit:

...Okay, that wasn't a good example, but I don't feel like raping a thesaurus just for this joke...

Sorry ... but I don't see where is the joke

Plume de Faucon a écrit:

You know, I have been considering the possibility of everyone here being incapable of understanding me if I spoke in an exteremely complex or eloquent manner. Well, is my vocabulary too expansive for you to understand with the utmost clarity?

I understand only a quarter of your text ^^ (and nevertheless I always understand everything when it is written)

Poussière d'Etoiles a écrit:

you know what ? I hate my on-line translator !

Plume de Faucon a écrit:

...Okay, that wasn't a good example, but I don't feel like raping a thesaurus just for this joke...

Sorry ... but I don't see where is the joke

Plume de Faucon a écrit:

You know, I have been considering the possibility of everyone here being incapable of understanding me if I spoke in an exteremely complex or eloquent manner. Well, is my vocabulary too expansive for you to understand with the utmost clarity?

I understand only a quarter of your text ^^ (and nevertheless I always understand everything when it is written)

Ah, but that is the joke.

I was joking around by trying to write something so flowery and elaborate that no one could understand me. If you could only understand one quarter, than I guess it worked better than I thought.

Leopardshadow a écrit:

Plume de Faucon a écrit:

Ah, but that is the joke.

I was joking around by trying to write something so flowery and elaborate that no one could understand me. If you could only understand one quarter, than I guess it worked better than I thought.

So your joke failed for me, I understood a big part of your text.

Curses, foiled again!

Well, it didn't necessarily fail. I just means you can join me in being smug about it.

Leopardshadow a écrit:

Plume de Faucon a écrit:

Ah, but that is the joke.

I was joking around by trying to write something so flowery and elaborate that no one could understand me. If you could only understand one quarter, than I guess it worked better than I thought.

So your joke failed for me, I understood a big part of your text.

Yes, this joke wasn't a joke It's nasty for us

If Leopardshadow undertand only a big part, I have nothing in me to repprocher, because I have since 3 years a ... very very very very bad teacher ^^

Like Poussière d'Étoiles I understand only a part of your text. My english teacher of this year isn't a good teacher but isn't a bat it. So I have more vocabulary than last year.But not enouth to understand every world .
But I hope you understand me ^^

There is only one "p" in "hope", no ?

I don't know

Museau Balafré a écrit:

There is only one "p" in "hope", no ?

Yup, one "p" in "hope".

Oups, thanks Museau Balafré I edtite" immediately !

My new teacher is better than last year with she , we learn a lot of vocabulary and we learn a new subject. " j'espère" pogress this year .

J'espère >> I would like to (but it's more like ''je voudrais'').
I like my English teacher! He's very fun and he speaks very well. In primary school, I just have teachers who's teach anything! It was very bad... And bescause this, I'm not very good in English... ):

I've always thought of "J'espère" more like "I hope"...

There are only two French teachers in my school, since by High School pretty much everybody hates French for no reason.

I say it's their own fault if they're having problems, since they don't even try. I always try to speak French when in class, and I tell them that it gets a lot easier if they start to immerse themselves in the language instead of blurting out two word replies when the teacher calls on you and going right back to talking to your friends in English...

It really does get easier if you start listening to everything the teacher says, talking to others in French, trying to think in French... But everybody ignores me.

Oh, and apparently over the summer, the majority of the class forgot that "aller" is conjugated with être in the past tense, so when we were talking about our summer, I heard a lot of "J'ai allé" and "J'ai allée". The teacher even pointed it out afterwards.

Souffle du Crépuscule a écrit:

| I admire you, Hawkfrost, because French is a very difficult language to learn... It is way more difficult for an English to learn French than for a French to learn English. x)

Thanks!

The thing that gets me with French is that everything has a gender, and that the gender of a noun affects all of the adjectives and such that apply to it... I sometimes forget if a word is masculine or feminine, or to add extra 'e's accordingly...

Your English is pretty good. The only thing I would change would be "a French" and "an English" to "French-speakers" and "English-speakers". Although you are French, you are not a French.

Souffle du Crépuscule a écrit:

| I admire you, Hawkfrost, because French is a very difficult language to learn... It is way more difficult for an English to learn French than for a French to learn English. x)

I agree with you, it's more difficult for an English/ American, because French has a lot of irregular things, and the "conjugaison" is also difficult for frenchs, so it's very difficult for an English.

Plume de Faucon, can you correct me please ? because I try to very aprove my english, and the best experience for that is to speak with a poeple who it's the native language

Poussière d'Etoiles a écrit:

I agree with you, it's more difficult for an Englishman/ American (The US and the UK aren't the only place where English is spoken. I'd say "English-speakers" to be more general), because French has a lot of irregular things, and the conjugation is also difficult for French-speakers (oddly enough, now that I think about it, French is the only nationality you can't use like this. You can't say Frenchs, but you can say Germans, Russians, Koreans, etc.), so it's very difficult for an English-speaker.

Plume de Faucon, can you correct me please ? because I try to improve my english very much, and the best experience for that is to speak with a person who speaks it as their native language

There, I've thrown in a few corrections.

It is indeed a great experience, just like posting here (well, not this thread) is for me.

Souffle du Crépuscule a écrit:

| Thank you too. ^^ Just like you, I try to learn English beside school, watching American series in VOSTFR, going on English websites,... I can just imagine how difficult it could be for you to learn each word's genders. You've got not even a clue to guess if it is masculine or feminine... I have compassion on you.

| I believe you often laugh when you read this topic, don't you, Hawkfrost? I assume you have excellent reasons to. We must seem funny to you... x)

I remember my teacher made us do a little test online where we had to guess a a bunch of words' genders. I nearly failed...

It certainly is difficult, but thankfully, since I can't do accents otherwise, I type all of my posts in Word Perfect, and it points out whenever I use the wrong gender. I'm getting better.

Also, "I have compassion on you" isn't right. I'm thinking more like "I feel for you" or "I feel sorry of you".

I've seen lots of tiny mistakes here, but nothing laugh-worthy yet... Leopardshadow's occasional, erm... "colourful" vocabulary amuses me sometimes. It just makes sense to me that he would go and learn... certain words.

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I've always thought of "J'espère" more like "I hope"...

Oh! Yes, it's ''I hope''. ^^ But, Plume de Faucon, you live in Canada? I thought that you live in U.S.A! I live in Canada, but in Quebec, and it's where people speak French.

Patte de feu a écrit:

Oh! Yes, it's ''I hope''. ^^ But, Plume de Faucon, you live in Canada? I thought that you live in U.S.A! I live in Canada, but in Quebec, and it's where people speak French.

Yup, I'm Canadian.

My Dad actually grew up in Montréal. He actually doesn't speak French, but he seems to have an ear for it.

Plume de Faucon a écrit:

Poussière d'Etoiles a écrit:

I agree with you, it's more difficult for an Englishman/ American (The US and the UK aren't the only place where English is spoken. I'd say "English-speakers" to be more general), because French has a lot of irregular things, and the conjugation is also difficult for French-speakers (oddly enough, now that I think about it, French is the only nationality you can't use like this. You can't say Frenchs, but you can say Germans, Russians, Koreans, etc.), so it's very difficult for an English-speaker.

Plume de Faucon, can you correct me please ? because I try to improve my english very much, and the best experience for that is to speak with a person who speaks it as their native language

There, I've thrown in a few corrections.

thanks

Plume de Faucon a écrit:

Leopardshadow's occasional, erm... "colourful" vocabulary amuses me sometimes. .

mouhaha, i love Leopardshadow's vocabulary