[Miriel Enfield]

Originally Posted by Chalice Yao

Or their mother language uses capital letters, if it's certain words having the capitals.

In German, this written Sentence would be correctly capitalized as Nouns get written like that here.

Of course, yes, if every word in a sentence has capitals, it makes no sense at all

I'm not even sure it makes sense even if it does follow the capitalization scheme of their native language. If you're fluent enough to be writing in comprehensible English, shouldn't you understand the language's capitalization rules? I mean, I barely remember any German from high school, but the rules about capitalization have still stayed in my head.

[Ingrid N]

^This.

That's one of the first things my students (re-)learn.

[Makoto]

i did german at school, never learnt any rules for caps?

I wish it was easier to learn japanese

[Chantal]

Originally Posted by Makoto

i did german at school, never learnt any rules for caps?

I wish it was easier to learn japanese

That profile isn't following the German system as they've capitalised more than nouns.

And how can you learn German without knowing that nouns are capitalised? Not attacking, just a little surprised. It's kinda basic (unless you were only doing conversation).

[Ingrid N]

Originally Posted by Makoto

i did german at school, never learnt any rules for caps?

I wish it was easier to learn japanese

Are you sure you didn't just forget?

It's... yeah. Pretty basic.

[Joshua Nightshade]

Ugh, Ingrid N, what would you know about the German language?

:smugmonkey:

[Makoto]

we were being taught the grammar first i am sure if i had continued on to do it for o level i would have learnt more.

[Ingrid N]

But how can you write anything at all in German if you don't know about basic capitalization? Did your teacher just look at your assignments and go "Oh I guess none of them know you capitalize nouns, well no hurry they'll learn it sometime"? It's not like it's something that takes too long, you just say "oh btw, nouns are capitalized in German, NOW WHO WANTS TO LEARN ABOUT GRAMMATICAL GENDER ???"

And then the kids are all "man I love grammatical gender, it's the best part of German!" and everyone is happy.

[Makoto]

lol
Well i guess i didnt learn it properly either, i mean we had an english speaking French teacher (and i mean plums in mouth speaking)
Scottish and Irish English teachers and South African German teacher

and a Welsh Woodwork teacher

[Chantal]

Originally Posted by Makoto

lol
Well i guess i didnt learn it properly either, i mean we had an english speaking French teacher (and i mean plums in mouth speaking)
Scottish and Irish English teachers and South African German teacher

and a Welsh Woodwork teacher

Not quite sure what's so wrong with an English-speaking French teacher. Sure, a native speaker is ideal but if she was a teacher, she should at least be able to teach basic French grammar. You can have plummy French too, actually

And Scottish and Irish English teachers seem perfectly normal to me.

But Welsh and woodwork? Oh everybody knows the Welsh should NEVER be allowed to do that.

[Arcady.Yue]

Originally Posted by Xiomara Mendes

In my experience, "x is my love and my world" and "sorry ladies Im taken" means "I hit the SL strip clubs the moment my girlfriend logs off".

Kitty gotta get her tips somehow.

I have trouble seeing the point of being 'committed' inside of SL, and I guess a lot of people who claim they are do as well. Not all of them, I see plenty of couples wherever I go to dance that stick to each other, but also plenty of women and men who have partners and coupled profiles that are 'working the scene' nonetheless.

[Joshua Nightshade]

I AM DEEPLY COMMITTED TO MY LOVE OF FIFTEEN MINUTES OUR WEDDING IS TOMORROW I AM SO HAPPY THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY SECOND LIFE AND NOTHING WILL EVER BREAK US APART.

[JourneyRocks]

The funniest one I saw is the one where the lover who is partnered misspelled the partner's name with a ; instead of an L in the name. And has all his picks for sex places and such. No pick for her. And her name is right there in his profile as his partner for gosh sakes.

[Joshua Nightshade]

I've never understood the current meme of using picks to describe ones' relationship status or family-who-you-can't-touch-or-you'll-deal-with-me or your various slaves or roleplay bio.

[Xiomara Mendes]

Actually I find it's an excellent way to keep up with friends relationships when they're constantly switching out partners. That way it saves me the embarrassment of asking "Hey how's Steve... I mean Bob... I mean sexyboy69... I mean JoeyJoJo doing these days?"

[Ned Easterwood]

Originally Posted by Joshua Nightshade

I've never understood the current meme of using picks to describe ones' relationship status or family-who-you-can't-touch-or-you'll-deal-with-me or your various slaves or roleplay bio.

It can be handy for RP notes. Saying "See my picks for RP info" in the SL box directs interested parties there, while other folks can avoid it.

For other stuff I guess it depends on what is important in your SL.

[Rhonda Huntress]

Originally Posted by Ned Easterwood

It can be handy for RP notes. Saying "See my picks for RP info" in the SL box directs interested parties there, while other folks can avoid it.

For other stuff I guess it depends on what is important in your SL.

My profile is woefully out of date, but picks are for friends. I would much rather write about them anyway.

[Arcady.Yue]

Originally Posted by Joshua Nightshade

I've never understood the current meme of using picks to describe ones' relationship status or family-who-you-can't-touch-or-you'll-deal-with-me or your various slaves or roleplay bio.

Me either. Friends and contacts go in friends and contacts. No people in picks, that's for places I want to TP to regularly. The landmarks folder is for spam... sadly...

[Beezle Warburton]

Originally Posted by Arcady.Yue

Me either. Friends and contacts go in friends and contacts. No people in picks, that's for places I want to TP to regularly. The landmarks folder is for spam... sadly...

I gave up on trying to make sense of my landmarks folder and wiped it out.

Given SL, two thirds of the LM's aren't any good any more anyways.

[Darkley]

I use my picks for people/shenanigans/quotes. The only threat I have on there is a CAPSLOCK warning I have in my first life section ;P

[Ayumi]

Originally Posted by Makoto

i did german at school, never learnt any rules for caps?

I wish it was easier to learn japanese

:X Japanese is REALLY easy to learn if English is your first language.

[Rhonda Huntress]

Originally Posted by Beezle Warburton

I gave up on trying to make sense of my landmarks folder and wiped it out.

Given SL, two thirds of the LM's aren't any good any more anyways.

They die to a great inventory purge every month or so. LM's I use often get put into my Mysti.

[Lewis Luminos]

Originally Posted by Ayumi

:X Japanese is REALLY easy to learn if English is your first language.

Really? I was under the impression that Japanese was one of the hardest languages for English-speakers to learn.

Also having visited the Czech Republic, I'm pretty sure that Czech is another one.

[Beezle Warburton]

Originally Posted by Lewis Luminos

Really? I was under the impression that Japanese was one of the hardest languages for English-speakers to learn.

Some of the Native American languages are pretty brutal to learn.

[Arcady.Yue]

Originally Posted by Lewis Luminos

Really? I was under the impression that Japanese was one of the hardest languages for English-speakers to learn.

There are approx 40 sounds possible in the Japanese language. Each of them matches a letter in their alphabet. ALL of them are properly pronounceable using sounds common to American English speakers with a west-coast accent (if you can speak CNN, you can act like a parrot on the streets of Tokyo).

Japanese grammar is 100% consistent - there are simple rules for conjugating verbs, gender, and so on, and they don't break them.

The grammar issue and the sound issue is why Japanese adoptions of foreign words always get localized into a different, only vaguely similar sound. But it also makes the language extremely easy to learn.

It is possibly the easiest language on the planet to pick up, right before learning HTML...

It suffers though, as a result of following such a consistent set of rules, of not being as expressive as English. There is simply a less expansive range of concepts that can be conveyed, and as the Japanese have become a global culture they have had to add a lot of new words, and alter them into their sound and grammar system - and in the end also often subtly changing their meaning and usage to local norms.

But as a foreigner, that just serves to make it remain easy to learn. As an added bonus, the structure and rules of it make the language sound almost musical - even when spoken by a gruff construction worker with a sore throat smoking a cigar. Compare that to Cantonese - which can be physically painful to hear if you don't understand it, as the altering tones hit on sensitive cavities in the brain... :ack:

By contrast English is the most complex language on the planet - with the largest vocabulary, it can handle the greatest range of concepts. But it has all of zero consistency, and routinely breaks its own rules as a matter of pride...

English happily takes in new foreign words, and fails to adopt them to local spelling or grammar rules, resulting in a 2000 year old simmering stew of just about everything the cook could get her hands on, and everything the kids could toss in when she wasn't looking, plus a few things the cat slipped through on the sly...