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All joking aside, you are pretty good Metro.Originally Posted by edmorel
That's not what your mom said last night.
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That's not what your mom said last night.
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I wish my mechanics were even 1/100th of this, even if a linguistics prof could chew it up, and even if you're entirely wrong.Originally Posted by Huntsman
It's a lot simpler once the basic rules are understood. It just sounds complicated because it's hard to follow without knowing the nomenclature or the processes they refer to.
They seemed "off" to me, or suspicious.Originally Posted by rach2jlc
Me too, but there are patterns which are created either artifically through online translators or truly through understanding the grammars but not the idiomatic differences.
He also seems to have a "meme-literacy" (for lack of a better word) far out of whack with his writing competency. One might say he's just copying them, but they seem largely to be used correctly, in the right places, while the grammar or words around them are not. That's also a bit fishy, because despite his L1 or his competency therein, that kind of metalinguistic awareness won't come with somebody who is still at the level of "you must to vote."
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It sounds 'fishy', but most of the memes aren't structurally different from some of his mistranslations. Look at this post:
Poast moar possibility hier!Originally Posted by hws
He uses the memes of intentional mispellings in 'poast' and 'moar', then uses 'hier' from German. Phonetically, there are no 'memes'. It's phonetically identical to 'Post more possibility here'.
There is much possibility!Originally Posted by hws
Again, he misuses the idiomatic phrase 'there is' (Italian 'c'è', German 'Es gibt') by not conjugating the verb correctly for number (he keeps it singular). It corresponds with the singular 'possibility'. 'Much' and 'many' are both the same morphological and phonological stem in other languages ('molto', 'mucho', whatever it is in Romanian, etc.), so he keeps saying 'much' when he should be saying 'many' due to keeping everything singular; English uses a different stem to denote number, whereas Romance languages do not, so a direct translation will probably default to the singular 'much' and cause his common mistake.
Is not vague!Originally Posted by hws
This is another common mistake he makes: eliding the subject of the conjugated verb. In German and English, the subject isn't elided. This means unless he has knowledge to replicate these mistakes foreign speakers sometimes make, my guess is that his base language is French or Italian. It corresponds well with his trouble translating grammatical number into English since it's so irregular.
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It's a lot simpler once the basic rules are understood. It just sounds complicated because it's hard to follow without knowing the nomenclature or the processes they refer to.Originally Posted by why
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his base language is French.
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It sounds 'fishy', but most of the memes aren't structurally different from some of his mistranslations. Look at this post:Originally Posted by why
That's a good point... and I didn't think of that. I guess what got me was the metalinguistic function of the meme, or the misspelling (not just "poast" here but some others he used) seemed to require a higher awareness than his following writing would suggest. While metalinguistic awareness (which, for other readers on the thread who may not know, is sort of "thinking about language as language" beyond just using it) is often related to competency or awareness in L1, rather than specifically L2, nevertheless how could you "get" why "poast" or "moar" might be funny in English but then use German "hier?" Unless, of course, you're a Gypsy!!!1!!111!
his base language is French.Originally Posted by edmorel
Imagine yourself kissed at the New Year's Party... "I knew it was you, ed!"
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You can borrow one of mine.Originally Posted by iammatt
I can't believe that you've racked up over 4000 posts since you breached 20000.
I assume most of these are in the muffguessing thread.
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That's a good point... and I didn't think of that. I guess what got me was the metalinguistic function of the meme, or the misspelling (not just "poast" here but some others he used) seemed to require a higher metalinguistic awareness than his following writing would suggest. While metalinguistic awareness is often related to competency or awareness in L1, rather than specifically L2, nevertheless how could you "get" why "poast" or "moar" might be funny in English but then use German "hier?"Originally Posted by rach2jlc
I don't know if he thinks it's funny or not, but 'poast' and 'moar' are just mimetic. He sees it a lot, so he uses it.
My guess is he lives around Lyon or something. That's hard to pinpoint based on Internet posts though (would need to hear him talk, and even then that only tells of his origin).
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I can't believe that you've racked up over 4000 posts since you breached 20000.Originally Posted by voxsartoria
I assume most of these are in the muffguessing thread.
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I heard the CIA changed their IP address to kill KennedyOriginally Posted by Bhowie
The CIA was just Metrostyles shooting with a proxy IP.
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Sometimes they are funny. <----- what I look like while enjoying some well-done sockpuppetry.Originally Posted by j
When you change your avatar to a constipated Cloris Leachman, I hope you remember to edit this post.
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