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[unknown]

Generic Australian stereotype!

 

[King Richard]

Crikey! That zingah nearly took me arm owf!

 

[Blind Guardian]

Put another shrimp on the Barbie?

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Wallaby darned!

 

[Dak]

Wallaby darned!

 

[King Richard]

...and zabu lands the deathstrike. fuck that was a good one

 

[Vimana]

Hey Vimana, how do you pronouce your username?

...Vih-mah-nuh.

 

[Cronopio]

Put another shrimp on the Barbie?

I'd like to put my shrimp in Barbie.

 

[Chanakya]

...Vih-mah-nuh.

Ta-doosh!

Vih-maah-naah

Americans tend to pronounce the same syllable differently, perhaps to make it sound more "authentic".

For eg. Raj, or my name for that matter.

 

[Episteme]

Most languages have a specific way of pronouncing syllables, and if it's differently pronounced there are different accents on the vowel. It's only English that makes it so difficult to properly pronounce words.

 

[Vimana]

Everything is an image within an image.

 

[Vecks]

Does anyone here do sports? I do...
Rugby, Long distance running, Hockey, Rowing, Weightlifting, Tennis and kickboxing.

 

[waif]

I can see what strategy you've decided to take on your college apps.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Everything is an image within an image.

...no?

 

[Vimana]

>_>

 

[cookiecutter]

Most languages have a specific way of pronouncing syllables, and if it's differently pronounced there are different accents on the vowel. It's only English that makes it so difficult to properly pronounce words.

I'd imagine tonal languages like Chinese are much worse for that than English

 

[Vilden]

So got back from Tokyo yesterday, Japan is weird. x)

 

[Episteme]

I'd imagine tonal languages like Chinese are much worse for that than English

Yeah, I think so too. I think languages like Chinese as such are pictogram based (or used to be anyway). We're just not used to it because of the completely different alphabet. I still think it'll be hard as hell.

I've got a friend who picks up languages easily, he speaks Japanese and Chinese fluently and in the proper accent and he can speak other Asian languages and some European, as well as Afrikaans and Swahili (he's South African). No idea how the fuck he does it.

 

[cookiecutter]

That sounds like Zeph. Probably has something to do with how young children have that period of time where it's easy for them to learn languages. Maybe it fades less in some people.

 

[Vimana]

I think that the period can be extended with repeated exposure to new languages.