Don't read this. This is a test

[Serge]

Test

[barrk]

Whatcha testing???

[SteveCRM]

grrrrrr...you know these test post lure people in! oh well...

Originally posted by Serge
Test

Serge posted in Chit Chat!
Aww, it's cute, watchin' him take his first baby steps into the Chit Chat forums .

Maybe we could get Aaron to post in here now? Or Megatron to visit Chit Chat again?

Megatron and kedaman used to be the Chit Chat Masters. But...a new kid is in town <cough>me</cough> .

[zmerlinz]

damn i was sucked in to, i always fall for these, btw what are you testing ?

Merlin ?

Mathew,
I am the chitchat master,
no need trying to hide it,
you can't,
I rule and you suck, and thats the way it is.

I tested something here once. Got a quite a good response
on the migration patterns of the RockyMtn Squirrel.

DerFarm

[Serge]

I was testing the size of the TD in the post. And the reason I'm testing it here is because I didn't want my post count to be increased (remember people are being angry when someone posts crap and getting his post count go up).

Since this has already gone horribly off topic, I might as well help it out...

Serge, are you russian or german?

[Serge]

Russian.

Coooooooool,
right now I am learning German,
but after I get past all my german classes(currently in german 1, then 2,3,4) I am learning russian....
How hard is the Russain Language, BTW?

[Serge]

I don't know, I spoke it since I was born, but I think it is harder to learn then english.

what is the russian alphabet?

and are things pronounced as they are spelt?

like if you see

boooooooo

(for example)

is it pronounced like it is spelt, or is it pronounced a wierd way?

[HarryW]

It's a different alpahbet, like you use the Roman alphabet, Greeks use the Greek alphabet, and Russians use the Russian alphabet. Some of the letters are different, but I think mostly they're the same. The pronunciation is different for a lot of letters though, like 'p' is pronounced as 'r' or something like that. Maybe something to do with the Greek lower case letter rho? I'm talking complete crap now, so I'll stop

As soon as l see test just have to have a look.

Dennis and Matthew <- spelt correctly

I am the master.......the rest of you are just wannabes.

Dennis

So when are you going to learn Australian so we can communicate on a far more intellectual plain.....lol....

Serge

Start a real thread in chit chat and send Matthew into seventh heavan.

DerFarm

Sorry l missed that thread.....

Dennis -- I tried 3 times to learn Russian, and failed each
time.

Of course, I also failed French, Spanish, German,
Portugese, and Latin. I passed Greek.


DerFarm

My flatmate claimed it was an easy pass........bastard....still that Chekov (not sure of the spelling but he wrote the Seagull) was pretty interesting as well as the guy who wrote Dead Souls Have a major problem spelling Russian names.....even worst than English ones.

You suck derfarm....
german is sooooooo damn easy......
thats what the english language was modeled after....

BTW, incase you have no sense of humor, I didn't mean it when I said you suck...

[Dim]

Sweet!!! another russian on the forums...and he's a guru.

My god stalin was right, you will take over the world

........he knows more than the rest of us.

[HarryW]

The English language wasn't modelled after any particular language. There's a lot of words of Germanic origin, but there's also Anglo-Saxon stuff, Latin, Greek, Celtic, Gaelic, and any number of other things. German is closer to French in syntax than English. Or at least as far as I am aware it is.

[Yonatan]

Originally posted by Serge
I think it is harder to learn then english.

For some reason, I think otherwise...

[Serge]

Yonatan, in Israel third (or fourth) of the population is russian, so I would assume that you have resources to do so, or your parents came from Russia some time ago and you don't actually speak it on a daily basis, but do understand (like a lot of russian kids in US, who don't actually speak russian freaquently, but do understand and can speak a little)

[Yonatan]

Ist ed su?
Jaa, mu sprechen jezeal.

Note: The above is nothing but random words, I have no idea what they mean, I have no idea what language they're in - assuming they're in just one language, and - I'm not Russian, my parents aren't Russian and I don't even speak a little.
However, I speak Hebrew, English and Visual Basic.

[Serge]

Yonatan, then how do you know if it's easier to learn russian if you don't speak it? LoL

[Yonatan]

Look for bold words in the [quote] above.

Actually I think English is easier because, um, hmm, err, uhh, oh yeah, because, a friend told me, kthnx!

[HarryW]

I know a couple phrases, dunno if I've spelt them right:

Vot doskar
Vot miel
Tavari Stukin

If you can understand what I'm trying to write, you'll realise that they're pretty weird phrases to know

Anglo-Saxon stuff, Latin, Greek, Celtic, Gaelic

Anglo-Saxons, and the Celts were Germanic tribes before and during the middle ages....

Sorry, Dennis, you missed on this one. The Angles (the
Anglo part of Anglo-Saxons) were definitely Germanic in
language, culture and religion, as were the Saxons.

Celts, on the other hand, were most definitely NOT Germanic
in either culture OR language OR religion.


DerFarm

you sure??

my world history teacher said that the

franks
vandals
angles
saxons
anglo-saxons
celts
visigoths
ostrogoths
etc..

were all germanic...

Pretty sure:

The Celts (pronounced with a hard C like "Claymore") appear
in Europe as a group of peoples who spoke languages in the
Celtic branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
Other branches of the Indo-European family are Albanian,
Anatolian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic,

Germanic (includes English),

Greek, Indo-Iranian, Italic (Latin based) and Tocharian. Celtic is closest to the Italic group......


After the height of their power, the Celts (the first Indo-
European group to spread across Europe) were pushed north
and west by sucessive waves of Indo-European peoples,
notably Germanic and Latin based. The main migration was by
the Galli or Gauls into France, northern Italy and the
north of Europe.

http://www.ibiblio.org/gaelic/Celts/celtshistory.html


DerFarm

[barrk]

Interesting stuff!

[Wonder Woman]

.enips ym pu sllihc evig ynnatoY dna egreS .tsetuc eht era ecafpmihC dna orhteJ ?ssik a tnaw uoy oD .nem uoy fo lla evol I !namow tnecrep derdnuh eno ma I

[Sam Finch]

Don't say that 3 times in front of a mirror or the anti Jethro, Chimpface, Serge and Yonatan will appear.

I hope you know that yonatan is only 14.....

so you'll be committing a crime if you seduce him.....

well he may be 15 now... don't know....

[dimava]

yes le ve mosete pra-che-tat eta, takda ve pa-ne-may-a-te russki

[zmerlinz]

can you stop speaking russian, i only know one russian word, and it is mt favorite, "Vodka" (didn't take long fpr alcohol to get involved in the thread. lol

Merlin ? (really a good guy)

[parksie]

Smirnoff or Absolut?

[zmerlinz]

my favorite is Absolute blue label,mmmmmm vodka

Merlin ?