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[penelope]

I love the many facets this community has, I would not want to be missing any one part of it!:sunflower:


I totally agree with you. BTW I also write in both languages although my English isn´t that good.

[Moryarity]

I guess the most important thing, is that other people are able to understand what you want to say..maybe sometimes one needs to be creative to get the meaning of some sentences but I guess it works out well :gogo:

[karima]

Besides, I really enjoy the international atmosphere in here, it's also useful for practising English, and I always love to get congratulations on my birthday from people from countries I don't even exactly know where they are! :biggrin: But that's only because I don't have any idea about geography in general.

[Dschi-Rex]

...it's also useless for practising English... :biggrin: That's not what you wanted to say, is it? :biggrin:

[Dobber]

...it's also useless for practising English...

:biggrin:That's not what you wanted to say, is it? :biggrin:


I bet she meant "useful"!

[Dschi-Rex]

Yeah that's what I meant :biggrin:

[catt]

I think it does not matter if posts in another language are not 100% correct. That's the thing I've always missed at school: Somehow they put too much emphasis on not making mistakes, it's so bad that you get to a point where you don't really dare to use anything unfamiliar. The important thing is that people understand what you are trying to say.

When I went to school in Germany, I was always paranoid to use some phrases or certain grammar in English because I never knew if it was colloquial or not, although English is something like my second native language...:scratch:

[Dobber]

As long as it is understandable, I see no problems at all!

Which brings me to this!
Non-native English readers/speakers may have a problem with the following paragraph, but I read right through without even having to slow down to think!

Brain skills

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The
phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a
pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by
istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
slpeling was ipmorantt!

:xmas_go:

[Doux]

That's always surprising indeed! :xmas_smile: I knew it, but now I have verified that it works in other (non-native) languages too. The only word I didn't get, even had to work on, was "sgtrane" [strange].

[Flo]

Yes, it works also in other languages than in german :smile:
I never thought this. And it's almost (but only almost :wink: ) as easy as the german version :hello:

If you want the german text Dobber, say it. But the text is a bit different.

[Dobber]

That's always surprising indeed! :xmas_smile: I knew it, but now I have verified that it works in other (non-native) languages too. The only word I didn't get, even had to work on, was "sgtrane" [strange]. I will admit, I had to slow down momentarily on "strange", it took me just a moment! But the rest was a breeze!

[Angryminer]

I could read the text fluently too. Though I did mistake "rset" for "reset" in the first split second. :wink:
But we still need proper spelling, because reading a badly spelled text takes up a part of the concentration that is supposed to be spend on understanding what is being said.

Angryminer

[Dschi-Rex]

I think it does not matter if posts in another language are not 100% correct.
I just thought it was funny :sad: How wrong I was. :blush:

I'm sorry, can you ever forgive me, karima? :peace:

[Elvain]

taht's ralely cool!!

I colud raed it all almsot fulntely too!!

wow :hello:

I nveer reliased it even in my mohetr-tnouge, hhee :lol:

[karima]

Hey, sorry, guys, I changed my useless post :lol:

And I'm not angry or anything, Dschi-Rex. You were right, weren't you!?