Number Of Civilizations!

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Devil of Truth
Good guess. Regtig = werkelijk.

Yeah, that's not hard to guess. Afrikaans is just regular Dutch only with loads and loads of typos
90% of Afrikaans can be understood by Dutch people without too much effort (in this case 'regtig' comes from the German/Medieval Dutch word 'richtig' which means the same thing).

You said I sound Flemish, why? How is the spelling or grammar different? (Excuse my ignorance)

Flemish is officially identical to Dutch, but Flemish people formulate their sentences a little more... cumbersome, roundabout ('woorden gebruiken' instead of 'spreken') and it's a bit more formal (you used 'u' instead of 'jullie', Dutch people are rude and only use 'u' if it's absolutely necessary ). Also, you used 'erkent' where you meant to say 'herkent' (erkennen = recognize as in acknowledge, herkennen = recognize as in identify), which would be a typical Flemish mistake as they tend to use the French silent h sometimes in spoken language. Finally, the Flemish usage of words is sometimes slightly differently from Dutch, which could theoretically apply to 'erkennen' as well, though I doubt it actually does.

Flemish is a bit more poetic, I suppose (which probably explains why there are far more native-speaking Flemish poets/song-writers/singers/etc than Dutch ones ), while Dutch is more to the point. A Dutch person would have simply said 'Dan zal ik een taal spreken die jullie ook niet kennen.'

But that's probably a lot more than you wanted to know



Bah! I wanna go to Brazil too!

[Devil of Truth]

Originally posted by Locutus
But that's probably a lot more than you wanted to know

Helemaal niet. Eigenlijk zeer interessant. Dank u.

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Devil of Truth
Helemaal niet. Eigenlijk zeer interessant. Dank u.

I agree. Thanks Locutus.

[Pedrunn]

[Gunnar Thor]

Originally posted by ískallin
Iss ég hef flottasta leynimálið hitt er bara eitthvað meiningarlaust bull, ekki satt allir íslendingar sem ekki segja orð?

Jújú, nákvæmlega.

[Tamerlin]

Quel charabia!


I guess even Locutus doesn't know what it means.

[Devil of Truth]

Originally posted by Tamerlin
Quel charabia! I guess even Locutus doesn't know what it means.

Oui. What nonsense, hey ? You don’t know how right you actually are. I think that was basically what ískallin was saying, and Gunnar Thor agreed.

[Zacharov]

Sy sprekken allegear har eigen bargedútsk. Ik ferstea dêr neat mear fan. It is allegear sljochtweihinne. Ik tocht dat dit oer CTP2 gie, mar blykbar ha ik mysels fersint. Kinne wy werom nei it tema gean. Oars wurdst it neat mei dizze thread. It is net komysk mear.

"bûter, brea en griene tsiis, wa dat net sizze kin is gjin oprjochte Frys." Grutte Pier

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Devil of Truth
Oui. What nonsense, hey ? You don’t know how right you actually are. I think that was basically what ískallin was saying, and Gunnar Thor agreed.

Ca n'est pas juste !

Yes, it is not fair, everybody understands when I speak french...

I don't want to play with you anymore...

[Devil of Truth]

C'est un petit monde, Tamerlin.

[Pedrunn]

even more

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Devil of Truth
C'est un petit monde, Tamerlin.

[Immortal Wombat]

Ceci n'est pas un monde

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Tamerlin


Ca n'est pas juste !

Yes, it is not fair, everybody understands when I speak french...

I don't want to play with you anymore...

Nous tous parlons le français couramment.

[Dauphin]

BTW All this foreign talk is against forum rules.