Quote:In America it's basically the norm to drink juice/beer/milk/etc. instead of water. You're far from the only one.I meant the rest of the stuff being said. I don't drink anything but water, except maybe a couple times per year i'll have soda or juice.
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12-31-2013, 02:48 PM
NaturalViolence Wrote:It's really interesting but unfortunately I can't understand half of what you're saying because of the heavy french accent Sad. Well, given how difficult English is to master (even for some native speakers... ) I'm always impressed when anyone takes the time to learn it to any extent. delroth is just that much cooler in my eyes, especially since it was not a short talk by any means I didn't have much trouble with his accent after a minute or two of the talk, but the live stream kept getting interrupted on my end, unfortunately. I'll have to go to YouTube to rewatch it. 12-31-2013, 04:37 PM
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Naturalviolence Wrote:I watched it on youtube since I missed it. Link for anyone interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8YgVVtNRjg I was reading through the comments on the video.. OriginalBloodAce Wrote:I don't support hacking ANYTHING in gaming. So I find these hackers nothing more then disgusting swine. What a closed minded idiot. Why even bother watching and commenting on the video. If anyone is a disgusting swine it is this foo so kindly gtfo for those of us interested and supportive folksl. This is why I hate Youtube comments because it is mostly clueless morons, trolls and spammers polluting the comments. 12-31-2013, 04:40 PM
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Shonumi Wrote:Well, given how difficult English is to master (even for some native speakers... ) I'm always impressed when anyone takes the time to learn it to any extent. delroth is just that much cooler in my eyes, especially since it was not a short talk by any means Cool Mastering the language and changing accents are two different things. A language can have many different accents and it's impossible to determine which one is "correct". He has mastered the language just fine, in his accent. Unlearning an accent is really really hard (borderline impossible depending on where and how you grew up). Even more so when it's not your native language. I'm not trying to insult him, it's not something to be ashamed of. Here in the united states we have the hispanic accent and southern accent down here in the south. And both I have some trouble understanding even after being exposed to these people for most of my life to some degree. And since I'm in Florida I also have to deal with the Caribbean accents on a regular basis (Jamaica, Haiti, Bahamas). We're all speaking the same language but all have trouble understanding each other. Being American I have even less exposure to European accents so it makes sense that I would have a harder time understanding a French accent than any of the above. His accent is very strong though. He grew up in eastern Europe so that explains why. It would likely take many months of talking to people with a similar accent on a regular basis for me to be able to understand him easily. Xtreme2damax Wrote:I was reading through the comments on the video. Why would you do that!?! Have you not seen the current state of youtube comments? 50% are trolls. 40% are hopeless morons. 9% are less than 5 words.
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(12-31-2013, 04:37 PM)Xtreme2damax Wrote:People like him are why shutup.css exists.OriginalBloodAce Wrote:I don't support hacking ANYTHING in gaming. So I find these hackers nothing more then disgusting swine.What a closed minded idiot. Why even bother watching and commenting on the video, gtfo and go die in a fire. If anyone is a disgusting swine it is this fool.
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I just can't help myself, it's a habit or addiction to read through comments.
@NaturalViolence - You realize that when you learn a second language (or any language) you form your accent as part of the learning experience based on who teaches and your input sources for the language (and whatever phonetic idiosyncrasies inherent in your native language)? Learning a language (grammar, spelling, etc) and forming an accent are two aspects of the same process (fully mastering a language, verbal and written). Even if there are multiple accents within a language, all accents have distinct phonetic variations that can be pinpointed (look up the phonologies of few English accents on Wikipedia). We actually can determine how close someone adheres to recognized accents (and therefore how phonetically "correct" or at least accurate their speech is). As you know, one can stray far enough from linguistically recognized accents as to be difficult for native speakers to understand (or speakers of a different accent). Fully mastering a language involves more than just getting sentence structures down; you have to express it in a way that closely fits a language's "native" or established accents (General American English, for example). If getting a more accurate accent were not part of mastering a language, I should hardly think our colleges would emphasize it so heavily in foreign language classes; it was a big deal for all the Spanish majors I knew.
It's also not exactly impossible (or even thoroughly difficult for some people) to change accents as well, depending on how well he or she understands the differences in phonology and lexicon. Once you know the rules of how things are supposed to change, you make it a habit to forcefully change your speech. I'm equally at ease using Mexican Spanish or an accent from Spain or Cuba, since I was taught with teachers from there. For some people it's obviously going to be harder to wrap their heads around it, but it isn't insurmountable with the proper amount of focus and training. Perfection is a different story, but people can learn to get better, more accurate, and more convincing in the accent of their choice. Having said all that, English as a language grammatically is difficult, which is why I respect others that try to learn it. English is even harder to learn phonetically. Pronunciations are going to be a bitch for anyone coming from a pure-vowel language (Japanese, most "romance" languages). Most of the rules for pronunciation involve simply memorizing various oddities and discrepancies between the written and spoken form (e.g. "food" does not sound like "good", the h in honest is silent for whatever reason in most English accents). And some words have two accepted pronunciations to boot (mischievous is one such word). I respect anyone who even makes an attempt to navigate this minefield. Lastly, be careful with some of your examples. While we all do speak English, it's more accurate to say we speak specific yet differing dialects (essentially sub-forms of a language) to explain why many English speakers may have trouble understanding one another. A dialect itself can vary greatly from another, even when it falls under the same category of a given language. 01-01-2014, 12:58 AM
It would appear I'm older than the average age of this thread so I'm going to tell you everything in the 2000s suck.
01-01-2014, 07:16 AM
I have this cheap soldering iron I got from Frys.
(off-topic)I think they sell subpar stuff at relatively high prices, alongside the high-quality ones. For example, some things have horrible reviews on Amazon, including a cheap USB 3.0 hub that someone on Amazon reported to have fried his USB 3.0 chip on his motherboard. It was too good to be true. Luckily, I discovered the nasty trick before I bought it. (back on topic) Now I read online that cheap soldering irons tend to overheat and damage the coating on the tip. I don't know how to keep a soldering iron in working condition. I don't know whether to continue using it, buy an identical replacement, or drop more money for a higher-quality iron or kit. In earlier experiments attempting to cool down the iron after playing with molten solder, I tried pouring water on it, resulting in steam coming from the tube. Bad decision. When I took the iron apart, I discovered that the heating wires were rusted. I sometimes noticed the handle getting very hot. I traced it down to cheap insulating sleeves slipping within the iron and causing a short-circuit after I took it apart and put it back together without paying attention to the sleeves. (The power-line wire was twisted with the internal wire, with a sleeve to insulate them) I sealed it with electrical tape and hoped for the best. My tip is in horrible condition. After several somewhat successful solderings, along with the water mistake, the thing is highly oxidized. The tip is possibly solid iron or steel, as it is strongly attracted to a magnet. I tried sanding off the oxidation, which I read is a very bad idea, though I'm not sure if it applies to my tip. (Really, I have no clue whether it's solid or not.) In the end, I replaced it with a $12 Japanese-Chinese soldering iron that had no reviews. So far (five minutes) it's working fine. I still don't know how to take care if it. Picture attached (heavily modified to change green background to gray, make the overexposed sections slightly clearer, and wide-radius unsharp mask) 01-01-2014, 08:04 AM
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