Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6869 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language
| Message 49 of 60 25 February 2011 at 12:41pm | IP Logged |
Magdalla, although I often write about on this forum about languages related to colors, I also have often thought of them as differing personalities as well. I know exactly what you mean. :-)
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Meelämmchen Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5084 days ago 214 posts - 249 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Modern Hebrew
| Message 51 of 60 25 February 2011 at 4:10pm | IP Logged |
minaaret wrote:
By the way, I've noticed that many native speakers of English on these forums write clumsy English, full of spelling mistakes and not very logical. Why is it so? Is it not a language forum? |
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You mean on HTLAL?
Edited by Meelämmchen on 25 February 2011 at 4:11pm
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Meelämmchen Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5084 days ago 214 posts - 249 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Modern Hebrew
| Message 53 of 60 26 February 2011 at 4:58pm | IP Logged |
Do you really have this impression? I never spotted masses of spelling mistakes here, can't even imagine, when I saw the last one. And logic, I can't support this either, but I'm not reading every discussion here, I must add. Maybe you can give examples.
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Meelämmchen Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5084 days ago 214 posts - 249 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Modern Hebrew
| Message 55 of 60 27 February 2011 at 11:16am | IP Logged |
I would say these are exceptions. Maybe you should visit some other English forums. If you call that here clumsy I hope you still can find words for something like u for you, em for them, and other things. I always was the opinion of people here are having an eye on what they are writing. So I really was just wondering.
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LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 56 of 60 27 February 2011 at 11:49am | IP Logged |
I enjoy speaking German more than English or Welsh. English is my undisputed native language, whereas I grew up with Welsh until certain events made me stop speaking it for a couple of years, and because of that, it has fallen behind my English.
When I speak English, I am nervous, almost whoever I'm speaking to, whether it's my family or someone I have to deal with in some formal situation or other. When it's really bad, you can see me shaking and you can tell by my facial expressions that I am just generally not comfortable with the present situation at all. Conversations on the phone scare the life out of me - I will delay sorting out problems with bills or other really important things for as long as possible because speaking on the phone makes me that nervous. When I speak German, though, none of these nerves seem to be there, or if they are, they disappear pretty quickly. Obviously my English is quite a bit better than my German, but German is the language in which my confidence most shines through.
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