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Tell a gentleman from Britian, Americans speak English and see how he feels about it.
Ask an Englishman how he is going to celebrate the 4th of July while you are at it. No seriously, when I was in Air Force Tech School we had a British guy in our flight and his boss back in Oregan once asked him how he was going to celebrate the 4th. He said "I'm going to sit around getting drunk and mourning the fact that you kicked our ass."

Michael Johnson 66 |

Kolokotroni wrote:Mostly the difficulty of learning English is that we use similar sounding words to mean highly different things. To a non-native speaker a sentence such as "I went to the store to buy two tomatoes and she was there too," would be gibberish. Like wise the sentence "I read Redbook to see what Oprah says I should read." Most other languages that I am familiar with have very few if any homophones in them.Loopy wrote:I spent 2 years studying japanese in college. And i would say amusingly enough, japanese is far simpler then English.
Yeah, I love it when Japanese/Manga/Anime Fanbois go on and on about how great and complex the Japanese language is compared to English. LOL. English is just as complex and lively as any other language. And hilaaarious.
Lies (to lay down, or tell a mistruth)
Which (sounds like you could be referring to one of the APG classes)
Write (or right? or rite?)
English descended from German, which is imo actually alot more straightforward because of the use of compound words (a bat is a fledermaus, or "flying mouse", a desk is a schreibtische, or "writing table", a map is a landkarte, or "land chart", etc.) instead of making up entirely new words to describe things.

Loopy |

Loopy wrote:Urizen wrote:I'm having Beserker flashbacks from Clerks. \m//refrains from actually quotingAck! dice rolling Nat 1!
"Did he say 'making f&!~?'"
Now imagine three or four nerds in oh-so-edgy black trench-coats marching through the shopping mall singing that song and you'll pretty much get a good idea of my teenage/college years.
/shudder

Michael Johnson 66 |

I still find it amusing that Madchen in the Germanic language is classified as neuter instead of a feminine word.
Yeah, das madchen instead of die madchen. Odd, isn't it? I am glad though that we dropped genitives (except when speaking of ships, and perhaps cities) for English. What a pain to try to remember if a fork is a he or a she!

Urizen |

Urizen wrote:Okay, who's the equal now? We've managed to push the DM's fiat over the cliff. Should've bought a real car, pal. MUAHAHAHA!Whoa, careful there pal. Someone might think you are being a troll.
Well, I was trying out this template on me this morning. Gotta love PFRPG's rules on regeneration.

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David Fryer wrote:Well, I was trying out this template on me this morning. Gotta love PFRPG's rules on regeneration.Urizen wrote:Okay, who's the equal now? We've managed to push the DM's fiat over the cliff. Should've bought a real car, pal. MUAHAHAHA!Whoa, careful there pal. Someone might think you are being a troll.
The DM will never allow it.

Loopy |

Loopy wrote:I have a player whose butt keeps casting cloudkills -- we try to keep the place well-ventilated.Urizen wrote:..or we could always go back to grunting, scratching, farting, and belching.Sounds like my Friday game group! XD
I have a player who's only joy in life is making other people gag with his evil anus. I have found a solution:
Matches.
The smell of a match is usually just a bit better than smelling someone's butt gas AND somehow it chemically neutralizes the actual fart smell. It's like a Christmas miracle.
Best of all, that player HATES the hell out of it. Double bonus!

Michael Johnson 66 |

I have a player who's only joy in life is making other people gag with his evil anus. I have found a solution:
Matches.
The smell of a match is usually just a bit better than smelling someone's butt gas AND somehow it chemically neutralizes the actual fart smell. It's like a Christmas miracle.
Best of all, that player HATES the hell out of it. Double bonus!
LOL! Thanks, I'll be picking up some matches for my next game.

Urizen |

Urizen wrote:The DM will never allow it.David Fryer wrote:Well, I was trying out this template on me this morning. Gotta love PFRPG's rules on regeneration.Urizen wrote:Okay, who's the equal now? We've managed to push the DM's fiat over the cliff. Should've bought a real car, pal. MUAHAHAHA!Whoa, careful there pal. Someone might think you are being a troll.
Well, then the DM just needs a course correction. My way, or ...
<points at the Fiat went over the cliff>
... the highway.

Urizen |

I have a player who's only joy in life is making other people gag with his evil anus. I have found a solution:
Matches.
The smell of a match is usually just a bit better than smelling someone's butt gas AND somehow it chemically neutralizes the actual fart smell. It's like a Christmas miracle.
Best of all, that player HATES the hell out of it. Double bonus!
We actually keep matches at home in the bathroom for precisely that reason.

Kolokotroni |

The smell of a match is usually just a bit better than smelling someone's butt gas AND somehow it chemically neutralizes the actual fart smell. It's like a Christmas miracle.
Best of all, that player HATES the hell out of it. Double bonus!
methane (primary gas in farts) is flamable. Lighting a match burns off the methane, removing much of the unpleasant smell.

Loopy |

Loopy wrote:LOL! Thanks, I'll be picking up some matches for my next game.
I have a player who's only joy in life is making other people gag with his evil anus. I have found a solution:
Matches.
The smell of a match is usually just a bit better than smelling someone's butt gas AND somehow it chemically neutralizes the actual fart smell. It's like a Christmas miracle.
Best of all, that player HATES the hell out of it. Double bonus!
We keep a box of Diamond matches at each end of the table... he can't hope to steal both of them.