Outbreak tutorial...

[Techwright]

  On 4/13/2023 at 7:01 PM, PeregrineFalcon said:

When I was a child, my grandpa said to me "German language, beautiful language, German language, difficult language."

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Which is why I picked Spanish to learn.  It is much easier

 SO-C-K-S

😉

 

 

[Snarky]

  On 4/14/2023 at 3:13 AM, Techwright said:

Which is why I picked Spanish to learn.  It is much easier

 SO-C-K-S

😉

 

 

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I picked German for two reasons. (just learning any language as a brain exercise is my goal)

1) I liked the accent from movies

2) I did not want to have to "gender" inanimate objects.

 

Hmmmm.  I guess 1 out of 2 is about normal for me.  So... Hallo, ich bin Snarky.

[Techwright]

  On 4/14/2023 at 3:41 AM, Snarky said:

I picked German for two reasons. (just learning any language as a brain exercise is my goal)

1) I liked the accent from movies

2) I did not want to have to "gender" inanimate objects.

 

Hmmmm.  I guess 1 out of 2 is about normal for me.  So... Hallo, ich bin Snarky.

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Well at least you're not a berliner (donut) like a certain 1960s president.

 

"Accent from the movies" - you mean the Received Pronunciation British accent that seems to keep showing up with German officers?

 

I did a German survey course once under the tutelage of a friend of mine.  I was fascinated with the cultures, but didn't click with the language, unfortunately.  Ironic, seeing as English is largely a fusion descendant of Latin and Germanic languages.  Just a limitation of mine, sadly, or maybe I'm a "Latin lover". 😉

 

If I do ever learn another foreign language beyond Spanish, I think I'd like go all in and learn one of the lesser spoken ones, like Scots Gaelic, or Cherokee.  The idea of helping to preserve a language has a certain appeal to me.

[Snarky]

  On 4/14/2023 at 4:40 AM, Techwright said:

Well at least you're not a berliner (donut) like a certain 1960s president.

 

"Accent from the movies" - you mean the Received Pronunciation British accent that seems to keep showing up with German officers?

 

I did a German survey course once under the tutelage of a friend of mine.  I was fascinated with the cultures, but didn't click with the language, unfortunately.  Ironic, seeing as English is largely a fusion descendant of Latin and Germanic languages.  Just a limitation of mine, sadly, or maybe I'm a "Latin lover". 😉

 

If I do ever learn another foreign language beyond Spanish, I think I'd like go all in and learn one of the lesser spoken ones, like Scots Gaelic, or Cherokee.  The idea of helping to preserve a language has a certain appeal to me.

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Damned, any Garlic or Cherokee would be insanely hard.  Good luck with that

 

Funny enough in watching a LOT of German YouTube I learned the “Ich bin ein Berliner.” Is an acceptable and understandable way of saying you are from Berlin.  Yes, it is a donut. Also a city. 
 

The accent is tough.  About half of it (including the throat Rrrrrrr!) is pretty easy for me.  The other half is all tongue twisting madness.  I will keep at it.  Concentrating on umlaut right now.  I can say them, in an exaggerated fashion.  But hearing them, especially when they are short (which is a common natural thing) or the speaker is just going fast as a new york minute is a true bitch.   Well, it would not be a brain exercise if it were easy

[Gulbasaur]

  On 4/7/2020 at 8:20 PM, Peacemoon said:

Also, I never realised Peacebringers could be so tanky, so this really intrigued me. 

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... they are literally tanks! Back in the early game, peacebringers and warshades were the second-best tanks in the game!

[Paladin-6]

  On 4/14/2023 at 6:42 AM, Snarky said:

Damned, any Garlic or Cherokee would be insanely hard.  Good luck with that

 

Funny enough in watching a LOT of German YouTube I learned the “Ich bin ein Berliner.” Is an acceptable and understandable way of saying you are from Berlin.  Yes, it is a donut. Also a city. 
 

The accent is tough.  About half of it (including the throat Rrrrrrr!) is pretty easy for me.  The other half is all tongue twisting madness.  I will keep at it.  Concentrating on umlaut right now.  I can say them, in an exaggerated fashion.  But hearing them, especially when they are short (which is a common natural thing) or the speaker is just going fast as a new york minute is a true bitch.   Well, it would not be a brain exercise if it were easy

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Speaking "Garlic?" is that a slight against Italians? (I can be "snarky" too! Or, should that be "Snarky Two"?

[Scarlet Shocker]

  On 4/14/2023 at 8:44 AM, Paladin-6 said:

Speaking "Garlic?" is that a slight against Italians? (I can be "snarky" too! Or, should that be "Snarky Two"?

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probably a typo

 

http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/gallery/dwm-447-every-dalek-ever.jpg

Edited April 14, 2023 by Scarlet Shocker

[Paladin-6]

  On 4/14/2023 at 9:59 AM, Scarlet Shocker said:

probably a typo

 

http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/gallery/dwm-447-every-dalek-ever.jpg

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Yep, almost certainly a typo. Thus my comment(s) about being "Snarky too/Two"

[Snarky]

  On 4/14/2023 at 10:01 AM, Paladin-6 said:

Yep, almost certainly a typo. Thus my comment(s) about being "Snarky too/Two"

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Gaelic.  Lets blame autocorrect 

[Scarlet Shocker]

  On 4/14/2023 at 2:10 PM, Snarky said:

Gaelic.  Lets blame autocorrect 

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now I'm disappoint. I quite like the idea of an undead vampire conversant in Dalek

[Spaghetti Betty]

  On 4/14/2023 at 3:13 AM, Techwright said:

Which is why I picked Spanish to learn.  It is much easier

 SO-C-K-S

😉

 

 

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  On 4/14/2023 at 3:41 AM, Snarky said:

I picked German for two reasons. (just learning any language as a brain exercise is my goal)

1) I liked the accent from movies

2) I did not want to have to "gender" inanimate objects.

 

Hmmmm.  I guess 1 out of 2 is about normal for me.  So... Hallo, ich bin Snarky.

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Spanish vampire you say?

 

 

He's Cuban but ssshhh

[Snarky]

  On 4/15/2023 at 5:50 PM, Spaghetti Betty said:

 

Spanish vampire you say?

 

 

He's Cuban but ssshhh

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Edited April 15, 2023 by Snarky

[Luminara]

  On 4/14/2023 at 8:44 AM, Paladin-6 said:

Speaking "Garlic?"

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Ah, Garlic.  First spoken by the Halitosians thousands of years ago.  Believed to originate in the Middle East.  It's a flavorful language, bursting with spicy words and phrases, but some people turn their noses up at it.

[Techwright]

  On 4/14/2023 at 6:42 AM, Snarky said:

Damned, any Garlic or Cherokee would be insanely hard. 

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  On 4/14/2023 at 2:10 PM, Snarky said:

Gaelic.  Lets blame autocorrect 

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I choose to see it as a Freudian slip.  Garlic would indeed be insanely hard for you.

[Snarky]

  On 4/17/2023 at 5:21 AM, Techwright said:

 

 

I choose to see it as a Freudian slip.  Garlic would indeed be insanely hard for you.

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Why was Pink Freud so proud of his slip anyways?

[Scarlet Shocker]

  On 4/17/2023 at 7:33 AM, Snarky said:

Why was Pink Freud so proud of his slip anyways?

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If you'd seen Emily splay you'd be proud too

[High_Beam]

A Tale from Outbreak

 

The Doctors soft smile and warm tone disappeared.  “Don’t you please me.  When the Fury Virus struck back in 02, and that whole section of the city was quarantined, I was in there doing everything I could both as a medical doctor and with the powers that I was given to save them, to cure them.  And I couldn’t, none of us could.  And once they completely turned and got to that out-of-control state we couldn’t do anything, but we still tried, and many of us died in there trying until the military was called in, normal people like you and their solution was to open fire to stop them from breaking out and when that failed, they freaking napalmed the place.  And all we could do was soothe their pain until they died.”