Tellyn Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 In French, Holland is Pays-Bas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergrunch Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 In French, Holland is Pays-Bas. And America is merd. or not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ford Prefect Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 do they not have schools where you come from then? or did something so simple just escape the attention of your entire nation........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue_Ninja0 Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 And America is merd. or not... lawlz, merda = shit, in portuguese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 And America is merd. or not... You probably mean merde. And even then it just sounds stupid to say that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 do they not have schools where you come from then? or did something so simple just escape the attention of your entire nation........ Do you think they learn Western European Geography and languages on the other side of the world? Did you learn about Australian geography, study Cantonese or memorise Eastern Russian names of countries? Probably not. Not every country's schools teach the same things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergrunch Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 You probably mean merde. And even then it just sounds stupid to say that. It was only a joke, hence the "or not..." in white underneath... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 It was only a joke, hence the "or not..." in white underneath... I know it was. Personally though, I'm just getting more than tired of the bashing of America/Americans. *shrugs* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arragaun Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 Fact is that the majority of people who hate America have never been there and don't really have a right to judge. Which is probably the same for most all snap judgements and uninformed viewpoints. Edit: When I said America I meant the United States of. Not the rest of those two conintents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shino Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 Do you think they learn Western European Geography and languages on the other side of the world? Yes, I think. They do learn geography, and there are alot more countries than U.S's 50 states, also they already speak english so they need a 2nd language to learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ford Prefect Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 Do you think they learn Western European Geography and languages on the other side of the world? Did you learn about Australian geography, study Cantonese or memorise Eastern Russian names of countries? Probably not. Not every country's schools teach the same things. its fairly well known stuff wherever you go, i've met unschooled africans and iraqis who knew that kind of thing. plus you'd expect them to learn at least something about it, going on the number of important world events that have occured in europe, like 2 fucking world wars.... ask for cantonese, i believe "peedio" or something like that = beer and i've got the numbers 1 to 10 written down somewhere. my father is currently in an area of southern china where they speak cantonese. just along the river from him they still speak portugese apparently..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haden Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 The thing is though ask the general public or a chav about it and they might not know. And if they don't should we go you godamn idiot slap slap or go ah ok heres what your missing out on something hope you learnt something cool today. This guy came here in the spirit of learning something and admitted he didn't know somehting so lets cut him some slack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogbas Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 I actually have some mp3's that have the letters and numbers in chinese. And some basic sentences. But I have no idea what they are saying as I don't have any translations of them. And I have nothing against americans. I just have something against people that won't learn a second language because they think that they can use english pretty much everywhere (And this doesn't go just for americans, I think that there are brits who think this way also). And they get pissed off in europe because someone doesn't understand them. Oh and for some reason we did learn the states of north america on geography lessons. And I think that we learned some of Australias history too . But now I only remember that the brits went over there and took over the land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shino Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 just along the river from him they still speak portugese apparently..... Macau? The thing is though ask the general public or a chav about it and they might not know. And if they don't should we go you godamn idiot slap slap or go ah ok heres what your missing out on something hope you learnt something cool today. This guy came here in the spirit of learning something and admitted he didn't know somehting so lets cut him some slack. Yes, gotta give him that, it's just weird he never tough of that before, I mean, hasn't he noticed that not all people from other countries say USA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ford Prefect Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 Macau? that would be it if i recall right, couldn't remember when i made the earlier post, on night shifts at the moment so i'm a little tired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergrunch Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 I know it was. Personally though, I'm just getting more than tired of the bashing of America/Americans. *shrugs* I don't hate America, I was merely implying that French people did... (And yes, I know many of them don't...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shino Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 Actually, to correct you, Spain in spanish is "España". You just did one of the worse insults you could do to a portuguese, you see, we do not talk spanish, and in portuguese Spain is indeed Espanha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCK Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 Don't. Ever. Correct. A. Portugese. With. Spanish. Ever. It could be the last thing you'd ever say. Like correcting a Dutchman with German Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ford Prefect Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 Don't. Ever. Correct. A. Portugese. With. Spanish. Ever. It could be the last thing you'd ever say. Like correcting a Dutchman with German or calling a greek man a "malaka" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arragaun Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 I like aliti personally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roostophe Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 I know that the name England came from the Angles tribes who settled here. They named the country Angle-land. Which transformed into England, the Angle is the reason why the French call it Angleterre. Some names of countries in other places derive from what the country itself is called, for example; Sverige is Sweden in English, or Suecia in Spanish. Scotland in German is called Schottland, in Italian it is Scozia. Russia is called Rossija in Russian. Portugal is called Portogallo in Italian. But there are countries that have meanings in their names are translated: Crna Gora is what we call Montenegro, and both mean "Black Mountain". Plus, bear in mind every language goes through changes. English went through a massive change about 700 years ago. After the change the language at the time is what is known as Olde English. It was like today's English only with extra letters or spelt differently. Of course English is changing today because people are removing letters and adding numbers. I've gone on a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ford Prefect Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 engles actually, they came from an area of europe which today lies within germany i believe. its why the norwegians here still call english men engelsmen. norge = norway frankrike = france tyskland = germany russland = russia olde english was sorta "sung" more than spoken, that singy songy way welsh or some swedish is spoken now gives a hint at how it would have sounded. while being the same language, we wouldn't be able to make head nor tail of it if we heard it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roostophe Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 engles actually, they came from an area of europe which today lies within germany i believe. its why the norwegians here still call english men engelsmen. I learnt it as Angles. Hence the term Anglo-Saxon. That's why you could call me Anglo-Scottish rather than Englo-Scottish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ford Prefect Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 I learnt it as Angles. Hence the term Anglo-Saxon. That's why you could call me Anglo-Scottish rather than Englo-Scottish. variation on the spelling thru time maybe? but it certainly isn't said "angles" when refering to the tribe themselves. never seen it spelt that way either myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabookerman Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 In poland England = Anglia Scotland = Scotsia France = Francee (franc-eee) Japan = Yaponia Germany = Niemce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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