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Vesna · Post by **Vesna** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:23 pm

ad askdfw dalnew asld asdnfwe dkjs s ke asdle.

(My fifth language: gibberish)

Lord Sheogorath · Post by **Lord Sheogorath** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 5:37 pm

Yes I did find one for FireFox
FoxLingo

The Tourist · Post by **The Tourist** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:25 pm

Hey, Lord Sheogorath, I expect Signature Rent for that! The going rate is £50 per post. That's without tax..

Firefox? That would mean changing from IE7.. my PC runs badly as it is, I don't want even more things that aren't spiritually compatible with Vista.

Lord Sheogorath · Post by **Lord Sheogorath** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:50 pm

Uh mm... Sorry I don't use pound sterlings.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:54 pm

Actually, since Lord Sheo is advertising for you, you should be paying him...

Lord Sheogorath · Post by **Lord Sheogorath** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:56 pm

Yeah! Wait... What?

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:09 pm

To be quoted in someones sig, earns quite a few Fame points, shows that you have made it. ...or maybe Infamy, depending on the actual qoute.

Тeatime · Post by **Тeatime** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:15 pm

Speaking of languages...
Någon annan som förstår svenska?
Inte för att det är så relevant men det är ju alltid kul att skriva sådant som andra inte förstår, så om jag petar inte lite namn som Jeff och möjligtvis Weka här så kommer de nog allt undra vad jag skrivit

Mwehehe, I have the almighty letters ö ä and å on my keyboard

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:24 pm

Saddly, as I work for SAAB (a US Military Office), I should be able to translate that. I do have a few notes of common technical terms though.

Although there is some similar words to German, which I haven't used in about 11 years. I used to be moderately fluent in speaking, and reading, just never got the writing down very well.

Codex · Post by **Codex** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 9:58 pm

Hehey, mrs Teatime, jag pratar svenska

Hur det går?

weka · Post by **weka** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 10:25 pm

I was wondering how long it would take the yeti-squad to get here!!

ace62394 · Post by **ace62394** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:24 am

Tylko samo dupki tuta som.

Vesna · Post by **Vesna** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:37 am

Совсем все с ума сошли.

I have the almighty Cyrillic alphabet on my keyboard!

okiphia · Post by **okiphia** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:17 am

Vesna wrote:Совсем все с ума сошли.

I have the almighty Cyrillic alphabet on my keyboard!

i want o.o

eep, me bein stupid.. Was thinking the alphabet of Cyrodiil, not the Slavic Cyrillic alphabet ><

Ayoub · Post by **Ayoub** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:36 pm

Firefox has spell-checker.

IE doesn't.

Switch to Firefox.

Simple.

Anfauglith126 · Post by **Anfauglith126** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:27 pm

the Council of Death translates El consejo de la Muerte, the the doent matter.

ragged-gothic · Post by **ragged-gothic** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:51 am

Lord Sheogorath wrote:Uh mm... Sorry I don't use pound sterlings.

Not that I’m the King’s English official spelling-and-usage-nazi or anything, but the term is pluralized as “Pounds Sterling”, not “Pound Sterlings”.

Lord Sheogorath · Post by **Lord Sheogorath** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:55 am

Sorry I didn't know. I didn't even know that they were had the word "Sterling" after pounds until I looked it up.

ragged-gothic · Post by **ragged-gothic** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:13 am

Actually, a lot of the special characters, like ö ä å and even £ can be used from the standard QWERTY keyboard. All you do is hold down the ALT key and type the four digit code for the character on the number keypad. It’s not even as complicated as it sounds. All the accented lowercase vowels, for instance, can be pretty much found between Alt + 0224 and Alt + 0255 and are in alphabetical order. The Alt + 01XX numbers is where you find special characters like £ (or ¥ or €) as well as fractions and “smart” quotation marks. There are even more characters available with the Unicode numbering system, but I don’t know the keyboard short cut to accessing them.

For those who don’t know, on Windows OSs, you can get all these characters by pasting them from a little program included with the OS called Character Map, so you don't need to memorize the Alt + 0XXX shortcuts for characters that you rarely use.

I hope someone out there finds this useful.

Vesna · Post by **Vesna** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:22 am

So how in the world will we memorize all these codes?

ace62394 · Post by **ace62394** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:06 am

Normalnie!!!

weka · Post by **weka** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:33 am

ragged-gothic wrote:....Not that I’m the King’s English official spelling-and-usage-nazi or anything....

I believe that you'll find that that is actually the Queen's English currently....

Vesna wrote:So how in the world will we memorize all these codes?

With your pretty-near photographic memory that you've mentioned?

Muthsera · Post by **Muthsera** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:37 pm

masser wrote:
Muthsera wrote:
masser wrote:I should learn Spanish,but If you guys keep this up I might have to break out some Hebrew just to feel special.
Daber ivrit? (transliteration makes me ache, and I'm not really that good...)

Ich spreche auch ein bisschen Deutsch.

Et je parle un peu francais.

And so on...
Cen. Ani yisraeli.

Cool. I went to a Jewish summer camp for a few years. I know enough to get into a mess.

ragged-gothic · Post by **ragged-gothic** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:29 pm

weka wrote:
ragged-gothic wrote:....Not that I’m the King’s English official spelling-and-usage-nazi or anything....
I believe that you'll find that that is actually the Queen's English currently....

That depends on how you use the term. “The king’s English” is often used here as a generic term for the language as properly used, regardless of the sêx of the current monarch. “The queen’s English” is also used though, as well. It rather seems to depend on the personal style of the speaker. Since I have never lived at a time when there was a reigning king, I don’t know whether “the queen’s English” disappears entirely as an expression under that condition or not. I certainly hear both versions used now, though, when the expression is used at all.

P.S. as a note to whoever administers the boards, can the censorship be reduced in any way? The word “sêx” is a legitimate English word, and is not intrinsically prurient in any way. It seems to be rather puritanical to deny posters the use of such words in legitimate contexts, forcing us to resort to such transparent devices as adding spurious accents to make our sentences clear. Thanks.

weka · Post by **weka** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:36 pm

I presume by "here" you mean the UK? That's also where I live and I've pretty much never heard it called the King's English (I think once I have). As far as I know, like all other things that reference the monarch like that, it does change as the gender (which is the word I think you're looking for to avoid the censor filters) of the currently reigning monarch changes.

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