Spelling and Grammar

[AHB]

Fractionally more than normal

 

Gee, thanks for the support, Neil...  
You forgot this one:  

 

[Neil]

You're welcome

<ouch>

[andrea.from.roma]

Spelling and grammar? Well, english is not my mother tongue so every post is a bet. And yet it's an adventure full of fun and plot twists: for instance, how come the spell checker in Firefox is saying to me, just right now, that 'english' is wrong? I mean, how can it be wrong? It's the first english word you learn!

A.

[Gareth]

Spelling and grammar? Well, english is not my mother tongue so every post is a bet. And yet it's an adventure full of fun and plot twists: for instance, how come the spell checker in Firefox is saying to me, just right now, that 'english' is wrong? I mean, how can it be wrong? It's the first english word you learn!

A.

I think it's supposed to be English not english.

Honestly I'm amazed as to the level of English we get form non-native speakers.  I studied German at school and have never had to use it since, so now I can barely think of individual words let alone put down a sentence that would make any kind of sense.   

[AHB]

Honestly I'm amazed as to the level of English we get form non-native speakers.  I studied German at school and have never had to use it since, so now I can barely think of individual words let alone put down a sentence that would make any kind of sense.   

Don't worry Gareth, NOBODY remembers the German they learnt in school..    

Ich Heisse....   Yep, that's about it...

[Gareth]

Honestly I'm amazed as to the level of English we get form non-native speakers.  I studied German at school and have never had to use it since, so now I can barely think of individual words let alone put down a sentence that would make any kind of sense.   

Don't worry Gareth, NOBODY remembers the German they learnt in school..    

Ich Heisse....   Yep, that's about it...

Without any disrespect to the Germans, I'd have been so much better learning French or Spanish.  In my life I have been called on to try and speak German once, and once only (it was a long time ago so I just about managed). 

[nuphoria]

I actually found German a lot easier than French, probably because there's more of it in the current English language. However, Spanish was easier than both for me and I still understand it fairly well. This I put down to the phonetics - it looks like it sounds with the addition of a few fairly simple rules.

English is utterly horrible phonetically 

[AHB]

Honestly I'm amazed as to the level of English we get form non-native speakers.  I studied German at school and have never had to use it since, so now I can barely think of individual words let alone put down a sentence that would make any kind of sense.   

Don't worry Gareth, NOBODY remembers the German they learnt in school..    

Ich Heisse....   Yep, that's about it...

Without any disrespect to the Germans, I'd have been so much better learning French or Spanish.  In my life I have been called on to try and speak German once, and once only (it was a long time ago so I just about managed). 

I also took Spanish at Business school, but if you don't use it, it'll dissapear.. I probably still can ask you in spanish, what you got in your bag, though...  

[Spork, Lord of Lime Jello!]

Why are online translators so bad at translating? Example...

English: Help! Mike is looking at my Bratwurst!

Babelfish German: Hilfe! Mike betrachtet meine Bratwurst!

Back to English: Assistance! Mike regards my fried sausage! 

You would think you would get the same phrase back

[Neil]

Why are online translators so bad at translating? Example...

English: Help! Mike is looking at my Bratwurst!

Babelfish German: Hilfe! Mike betrachtet meine Bratwurst!

Back to English: Assistance! Mike regards my fried sausage! 

You would think you would get the same phrase back (Image removed from quote.)

 

True though 

[nuphoria]

 

Superb

[AHB]

Babelfish German: Hilfe! Mike betrachtet meine Bratwurst![/b]

It somehow sounds even more gross in german...  

 

[Neil]

Babelfish German: Hilfe! Mike betrachtet meine Bratwurst![/b]

It somehow sounds even more gross in german...  

 

Certainly more lurid

[Spork, Lord of Lime Jello!]

I'm thinking of making all my posts in Babelfish...

All your Bratwurst are belong to us! 

[AHB]

I'm thinking of making all my posts in Babelfish...

All your Bratwurst are belong to us! 

Where did I see this one..?  
"Die Unterhose Gnomen. Der kleine Jungs, die, die in Ihr Zimmer kommen zu spät, spät in der Nacht und stehlen Ihre Unterhosen." - Tweek

 

[Medic82]

I have a confession to make…….If I am going to be writing longer posts then I usually use MS Word and the spell check. In the beginning there where LOTS of words that I wrote wrong but now I have become MUCH better at writing English and I sucked at writing English in school, I could read and speak English perfectly but I was useless writing it…………………..So MT.O have helped me in more ways than one

I must say that I really want to learn German and the little German that I know is not everyday use German either, you can only come so far when the only German you have learned is from speeches by a little short man with a weird mustache and German porn movies