THE QUESTION of the 7th November...

[Jeb]

As an American who understood the German in your message even before I got down to your translation, I'm amazed that you say (in flawless English) that German is hard to learn. German grammar and pronunciation is complicated, but works according to rules with relatively few exceptions, while English grammar and pronunciation is all over the map. Learning any language as an adult is hard, but as I understand it, the international consensus is that English is one of the worst. So *I'm* glad I learned my English on my mother's knee and didn't have to pick it up later. Almost everyone on the internet speaks pretty good English, a fact that most native English speakers don't properly appreciate.

[greghacke]

Languages are generally rated in catagories for difficulty. English and Mandrin Chinese are Catagory 5 (the highest.) Russian is Cat4, German is a 3+(usually rated as a 4 now.) English, Russian and German are the Languages I know. IMHO, English has the largest deviation in rules and structure, Russian has the most difficult grammatical conventions and German has the hardest vocabulary (try the official word for speed limit in German...) I don't consider English the hardest, though. Because of the incredably large acceptable rules, you can say nearly anything and be understood

[Psitticine]

People say Gaelic is hard, and I admit the pronunciation is tricky for people who haven't grown up around the sounds, but compared to English and its wonky rules, Gaelic's a breeze!

Oh, and I'm getting my copy of SEIV on FRIDAY!!!! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HOO!!!

[Ferendra]

speed limit is

Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung or sometimes even
Höchstgeschwindikeitsbegrenzug.

Because the word is so long, we don´t have
any Gesch.. erh speed limits!

(Guys, this is not true. Only 40% of our
Autobahnen are left without speed limits).

Greetings
Ferendra

[Ferendra]

Hallo Herr Schmidt,

are you a Schwabe ? If it is like that, we
won´t have any fun, ´cause I am a Churpfälzer! ;-)

Alla
Ferendra

[greghacke]

Hey! I'm a Schwabe! Ich komme aus Sindelfingen...

[Seawolf]

Nice to see such a large international showing here! Maybe after we finish fixing SE IV We can have an International PBEM game!


Joshen the game is worth every single DM or EU that you spent on it.



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Seawolf on the prowl

[Instar]

Hahah, I know what I said with the schnell thing. I know a little german, little bit of russian (how to curse that is), and I know a good deal of french.
IMO, Europeans must know at least 3 Languages! An exchange student from France knows english, french (DUH!) and german!
Us americans only know english (and that is a stretch! Our grammar is terrible!)

[Repo Man]

Most people don’t realize how close some dialects of English are to German. For example, the Brooklyn dialect produces new words the exact same way the Germans do … lots of tiny little words all strung together to make one big new one. IfyaevalivedinBrooklyndenyaknowwhatImean

[Jochen Schmidt]

Hui, nice discussion here!

Ehrm...., yes i am a Schwabe. But i don´t live, talk and behave like a schwabe. So, even if some people here Kurpfälzer (giggle, giggle) it would be no problem for me. (hehehehehehe).

It was said, that SE4 is worth every DM/EU/$, please give me more information.

Another question - i did a mistake by ordering the game, by giving a wrong e-mail-adress, i mailed Shrapnelgames, they fixed my mistake. In the answer by sg was a sentence, that i will be informed when my credit-card is charged. I didn´t get such a message yet. Did you get such an e-mail???? Perhaps i got something wrong, but i´m in panic now, that i would get this game delayed.

It would be very kind, if somebody could tell me, how his case by ordering and getting mails was! (huh, my english is really bad today, but i hope that you folks know what i mean).

Thanks for your answers.


Jochen