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Satire Site

If you need a little humor and have ever spent time clothes shopping with a picky female, check out my new small satire site. Pardon the language in the url, but it was born out of frustration.
Take It B**** Inc.

Don't they also deliver Pocket PCs to your home? :lol:

I've always been impressed/jealous...

of people who dont speak english naturally, yet have the patience to learn such a difficult language. im always impressed and flattered by foreigners who speak incredible english with great grammar and sentence structure, especially when people like me who have trouble getting the rules straight when we already should know them. what makes learning english even more incredible is that there are over 1,000,000 words in the english language (most arent used anymore but they still can be). german comes in at a very distant second place with just over 300,000 words. and most english words have at least five other words that mean the exact same thing. random english words fact: there is no single word in english for "the back of the knee". anyways, its great to hear people speak english as their second language. so, kudos (slang for "congrats") to all you non english speaking people who have the incredible patience to learn something that does not come naturally to you. i do hope to learn german one day, because i have family in germany; and maybe even learn russian too. again, thanks to all aspiring linguists around the globe.
p.s. sorry if i use words that are big/fancy. i have a bad habit of doing that.

Thank you, I feel flattered as a foreigner and I think my decent english is due to watching a lot of television. Like talk shows and movies. Actually imo english is easier to learn than dutch or french etc. because most foreigners grow up with hearing english stuff around them. This almost never the case in England nor America. It's just the universal language, so there's less need to learn extra languages.
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I´ve learned as a second language due to my mother is teacher/translator English/French.
Remember when I was a kid watching the movies in English, even if I did not understood a single word.
I consider I speak quite well (much better than my writing skills)

shoemeistah said:
Thank you, I feel flattered as a foreigner and I think my decent english is due to watching a lot of television. Like talk shows and movies. Actually imo english is easier to learn than dutch or french etc. because most foreigners grow up with hearing english stuff around them. This almost never the case in England nor America. It's just the universal language, so there's less need to learn extra languages.
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Dude, there are absolutely no errors in your English. God I wish I was that linguistically skilled. English is that common in other countries? I never would have guessed that. By the way, I absolutely love Europeans. I think they are the most pleasant people to be around (at least I think they are). I've only been to Europe once, but my dream is to visit every country in Europe. There is just something so wonderful about Europe. Anyways, you Europeans keep being awesome!!!

For example my mother moved to the US from the Czech Republic in the 80's, she grew up around many other languages and now speaks 9 (I cant name em all if i tried). And All 3 of her children (myself included) speak English to her, English for her is a second language but we speak to each other easily and she even thinks in multiple languages now. I have a lot of respect for her

It's not just in Europe and the US where English is the 'universal' language! Don't forget us down under (eg. Australia and New Zealand). I never realised how hard English would have been to learn until I did French in Year 12, especially given that English technically my equal first language. I speak Cantonese at home, for those who are interested. It's a real shame that, in Australia, another language isn't something that it required to graduate from high school (college in British and American English?) though. It's amazing how some people can speak so many languages. I wish I had that ability... And or patience.

winmofreak said:
kudos (slang for "congrats") to all you non english speaking people who have the incredible patience to learn something that does not come naturally to you.
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Thank you. It's not so hard if you're using it for some 30+ years...
And you must remember that main language used in computers is english... so anyway I had to learn it better when I selected my profession... which originally was computer programming.

For me English in my 3. language. We have our own language in the Faroe Islands that is only spoken by some 60-70.000 people in the whole world. Our 2. language is Danish. But TV is the main reason that mostly everyone in the Faroe Islands speaks English quite good. My son is 3 years old now and has already started learning some English. All the cartoons he gets to watch are in English.

M_T_M said:
I had to learn English fast 'cause saying "Yo quiero job" only took me so far in this country
Thanks for the motivation and kind words anyway
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I'm not even going to touch that issue... BIG hot button issue... But yeah, you've got a good point, when you need to learn something in order to survive, you're going to learn it fast.

I was forced to learn Engrish, at gun point.

Titiz

Hello,
my nickname is Titiz and my first name is Thierry,
I am from France in the Alsace region, I am 41 years old and I am a fan of cars and computers. (Windows mainly)
I join you because I want to improve an asus tf201 tablet, for diagnostic and logging use.
Thank you in advance for your welcome and advice.
Have a nice day and hello from France.
Ps: I hope that other enthusiasts can feed off my investigations.

Heya!

Hello, how's it going?
I'm k1tsunee, a C/C++ developer from Brazil.
I like manga, JRPG and Japanese culture in general, and I also like studying game development, computer graphics, Japanese language, and adaptative/evolutive computing.

k1tsunee said:
Hello, how's it going?
I'm k1tsunee, a C/C++ developer from Brazil.
I like manga, JRPG and Japanese culture in general, and I also like studying game development, computer graphics, Japanese language, and adaptative/evolutive computing.
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Heya! What would be harder if we had to do it from scratch, learning C(++) or learning Japanese?

Timmmmaaahh! said:
Heya! What would be harder if we had to do it from scratch, learning C(++) or learning Japanese?
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I'd say Japanese, for sure ahahahaha
But that depends if you already speak Chinese, Korean, or some other Chinese-derivated language.
C++ is like any other language, it has the good, the bad, and the ugly. I personally love C++, but I do understand when people say that it's too hard or something like that XD

An Introduction

Hi XDA folk,
it's a pleasure to be here and I look forward to my time with you all. Thank you, Tom and Andrew, for your itervening message.
I am a mature hobbyist who was once a computer hardware engineer. I still have an interest in technology (hence, my joining the forum) and I like to tinker. I had minimal exposure to software engineering; the software department worked in Basic, Pascal and Fortran - all very foreign languages to me. I am, however, picking up on coding skills, albeit, slowly; I am a musician.
I am (even at this late stage) looking to make in-roads to cybersecurity, but progress is painfully slow (so much to learn!).
This is me, in a nutshell. Thnks for your time and we'll chat soon, no doubt.

Nice skills set Introduction!
Welcome to XDA and enjoy the forums information!
Cheers

@galaxys
Thank you.
I feel ancient, what with the pace of techonological advancement - including languages and scripts. I did dabble in machine code (burning EPROMs to correct BIOS issues), but that was four decades ago; don't ask me now!