@moonbus
Thank you for sharing, as someone who learned English as second language I now and then get confused when hearing people speak (I like to think I am doing ok in reading).
@Ponderable
You do very well, Pondy. Your entries in the annual prose contest are proof of that.
@Ponderable saidI've seen and heard you operate in both English and German environments, and I would say you're doing just fine in both verbal and written communication, apart from the occasional idiom of course. Your fat fingers and autocorrect don't help your keyboarding though. 😉
@moonbus
Thank you for sharing, as someone who learned English as second language I now and then get confused when hearing people speak (I like to think I am doing ok in reading).
As a monolingual Australian I can only stand in awe.
@rookie54 saidReminds me of that weird word: GHOTI.
i once learned a language
the strangest you ever did hear
babylonian the tongue was named
sweet vibrations without peer
GHOTI, according to the bizarre pronunciation of the English language, can be pronounced ‘Fish’,
Cough = F
women = I
Station = SH
There are similarities in Swedish:
13 Sch-sounds like in she:
sk: skära, skäl, sköta, skina, sked, sky
sj: själ, sjö, sju, sjuk, sjå, hässja, ässja
sch: schal, schema, brosch, pascha, punsch
stj: stjärna, stjälk, stjäla, stjärt, stjälpa
skj: skjorta, skjuta, skjul, skjutsa, skjuva
ch: champinjon, chaufför, choklad, lunch
ti: station, situation, auktion, koalition, pretantiös
si: television, version, aversion, fusion, pension
ge: garage, bagage, camouflage, generös, generad
gi: giraff,
giö: religiös
rs: Lars, mars, fars, Kramfors, ters
ts: hurts
@Kewpie saidI second this. Well said.
I've seen and heard you operate in both English and German environments, and I would say you're doing just fine in both verbal and written communication, apart from the occasional idiom of course. Your fat fingers and autocorrect don't help your keyboarding though. 😉
As a monolingual Australian I can only stand in awe.
Every time I want to say something about one of his typos, I remind myself that he is bilingual and I just keep it to myself. 🙂
@Ponderable saidug said og and og said ug
@moonbus
Thank you for sharing, as someone who learned English as second language I now and then get confused when hearing people speak (I like to think I am doing ok in reading).
and language then was born
they tried to write a dictionary
but it read more like a sermon
neither understood a single word
they had written it in german....sorry pondy
@Pianoman1 saidNice observation.
And the letter C pronounced 3 different ways in ‘Pacific Ocean’.