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Posted March 02, 2015
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Khadgar42: I'm an exception sadly, but I do enjoy that my fellow Germans here are having quite a grasp of English as well. There are a lot of reasons why English is (becoming) the world language and I wouldn't count colonialism as a reason for that.
You can also use the word "transculturism", just in case people find you saying the word "colonialism" too marxist ;D
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rtcvb32: And i thought perhaps it was sub-languages that are more likely in the US that showed up...
sub-languages aren't accents dependadnt of region?, it would be awesome, having a correcter that would translate to hillbilly writing, or ebony XD
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Khadgar42: In a rather ironic way, the many times Britain has been conquered by foreign powers helped English to become the most prominent language in the world. A late victory against the Normans and their French court, I dare say...
And taking the french have won so many wars (130 or more)...well that adds salt to the injury
Post edited March 02, 2015 by GioVio123
Posted March 02, 2015
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Posted March 03, 2015
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Khadgar42: In a rather ironic way, the many times Britain has been conquered by foreign powers helped English to become the most prominent language in the world. A late victory against the Normans and their French court, I dare say...
Didn't exactly work out that way for the Polish. The great many times they've been conquered has just left them all the more resilient to foreign influence. Now they have one of the worst languages in the world. (If not the worst.)

But yeah, we just assimilate everything. That practically is our culture right there. I don't think being conquered or conquering has so much to do with it. It's purely our outlook on things. Simply coming into contact with other cultures - having extensive trade agreements and alliances could have had the same effect. Conflict was but a catalyst.
Posted March 03, 2015
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tinyE: You're lucky. My menu just keeps saying "fuck off, no one likes you".
not piss off you wanker ?
Posted March 03, 2015
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Khadgar42: In a rather ironic way, the many times Britain has been conquered by foreign powers helped English to become the most prominent language in the world. A late victory against the Normans and their French court, I dare say...
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Navagon: Now they have one of the worst languages in the world. (If not the worst.)
How does that work?
Posted March 03, 2015
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tinyE: You're lucky. My menu just keeps saying "fuck off, no one likes you".
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snowkatt: not piss off you wanker ?
NO. Must be a slow day.
Posted March 03, 2015
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snowkatt: not piss off you wanker ?
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tinyE: NO. Must be a slow day.
maybe its busy
or drunk
Posted March 03, 2015
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realkman666: How does that work?
You know how French has two noun genders? Everything is either male or female. Polish has three main genders and as if that wasn't enough, about 14 others besides.

So there's that for starters.
Posted March 03, 2015
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realkman666: How does that work?
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Navagon: You know how French has two noun genders? Everything is either male or female. Polish has three main genders and as if that wasn't enough, about 14 others besides.

So there's that for starters.
Three genders and 14 cases?
Posted March 03, 2015
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Navagon: You know how French has two noun genders? Everything is either male or female. Polish has three main genders and as if that wasn't enough, about 14 others besides.

So there's that for starters.
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realkman666: Three genders and 14 cases?
Three main ones. Male, Female and Neutral. But then there are sub-genders of these. Including things like male static, male kinetic, and then there are other things entirely which aren't even used but exist anyway. I'm not really any kind of expert on this. I just heard someone give a very detailed explanation of why Polish is the worst language there is and some of it stuck.
Posted March 03, 2015
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realkman666: Three genders and 14 cases?
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Navagon: Three main ones. Male, Female and Neutral. But then there are sub-genders of these. Including things like male static, male kinetic, and then there are other things entirely which aren't even used but exist anyway. I'm not really any kind of expert on this. I just heard someone give a very detailed explanation of why Polish is the worst language there is and some of it stuck.
Oh, that's a different story. Pretty cool. I believe some Amerindian languages are similar, and Arabic has some traits of that.
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