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[maidela]

Hey!

My name is Catherine, and I'm not really new to this forum, but I haven't really done anything on here so far either I currently live in Quebec but plan on Moving to Mississauga soon! Can't wait! I absolutely LOVE neopets! I've been a user for the past 9 and a half years Nearly 2 years ago I made a new account and made it my main because I couldn't get access to my old one (which I hadn't used in a while). So now, I'm trying to get back up to the point where I used to be. Stamp collection, reading books to my pets, food club and avatar collection! I'm sure to have a bunch of questions to ask with time because I'm so curious For example, I noticed that in certain forums I can't start a new topic... anyone know why?

[exclaim]

Hey Catherine! Firstly, welcome to the codex! Secondly, forums in codex?

[Junsu]

Welcome

Is your French super pro? XD

[maidela]

Welcome

Is your French super pro? XD

Yeah I'm super pro lol. Like University pro Finishing up a bachelor's in french lit...

[RWS]

Welcome! I never had enough patience for the stamp collection or food club, but good luck with those Hope to see you around the forums!

[Royce]

Yeah I'm super pro lol. Like University pro Finishing up a bachelor's in french lit...

thats legit. I live in Cali, tryin to learn spanish...pain in the ass. Still people who know french say spanish is a breeze. welcome to codex

[maidela]

thats legit. I live in Cali, tryin to learn spanish...pain in the ass. Still people who know french say spanish is a breeze. welcome to codex

yeah french and spanish are really close. Once you've learnt one you'll see it's really easy to learn the other one;)

[Royce]

yeah french and spanish are really close. Once you've learnt one you'll see it's really easy to learn the other one;)

ahaha alright, i letcha know when i learn spanish. I know how to ask to use the bathroom so far. Comes in handy in class.

[Tarabyte]

Bienvenue à Neocodex! Cinq ans de la class de français et j'ai une chance de l'utiliser!

(I apologize if that is awful French. It's been about 6 years.)

Edited by TaraTantrum, 30 March 2011 - 10:06 PM.

[maidela]

Bienvenue à Neocodex! Cinq ans de la class de français et j'ai une chance de l'utiliser!

Merci, merci! Cela fait drole de parler francais sur un site anglophone! hehe

[Tarabyte]

Merci, merci! Cela fait drole de parler francais sur un site anglophone! hehe

Il nous fait semblent de fantaisie, non?

[maidela]

Il nous fait semblent de fantaisie, non?

On pourrait parler de n'importe quoi sans que les autres ne comprennent haha!

[Ladida]

Je ne comprend pas

[maidela]

it means we could talk about pretty much anything and nobody would understand because the majority of people here don't talk french. It's a joke

[Ladida]

Google Translate ftw

I pretty much solidified your point right there hahah Welcome to Codex!

[maidela]

yeah google would make you understand anything in bigger strokes... Depends what kind of vocabulary I'd use (let's just say it doesn't translate slang or very high end vocabulary well at all)

[Ladida]

Definitely. We've already had a poor Spanish child using it to translate what he was saying.. And we ended up reading hilariously nonsensical stuff from him

[Tarabyte]

yeah google would make you understand anything in bigger strokes... Depends what kind of vocabulary I'd use (let's just say it doesn't translate slang or very high end vocabulary well at all)

I've heard "bordel" used to mean a whorehouse or a complicated situation. That would throw google translate off a bit.

[Royce]

I've heard "bordel" used to mean a whorehouse or a complicated situation. That would throw google translate off a bit.

many a time i have plugged in known swear words and gotten responses such as fence....

[maidela]

the funniest thing I ever got was when I tried to translate "fuck off"... they gave me "merde au loin" (that means shit in the distance) and then I retranslated to english to see if it would still give "fuck off" but it gave me "shit with far"! HAHAHAHA

[GeorgeBright]

Google translate plus knowing a bit of Spanish gives me the gist of a lot of European languages, as long as they are geographically close to Spain.
I don't think I'd able to make heads or tails of any Eastern European language.

Anyway, happy late welcome to the site.

Edited by GeorgeBright, 31 March 2011 - 12:57 AM.

[Tarabyte]

My freshman year of high school, a student got confused about how to say Tuesday and said "merde" instead.

I'm the only one who giggled other than the teacher until she explained. Apparently no one else bothered to learn French swear words over the summer.

[Gen]

Welcome to Codex xD. French is going to be my 4th language lol (I'd rather learn french before spanish, but since I know a little bit of spanish, it'll be easier to learn it than french.).
I lol'ed at the "merde" one, Tara =P

[exclaim]

Any russian? BTW... please no commie jokes! They are so old!

[ilovepolkadots]

Any russian? BTW... please no commie jokes! They are so old!

i speak some Russian :3!
if you are on tinychat sometime we can chat for ~3minutes (the phrases i know are limited ;p)



& welcome Catherine i am sure you will enjoy the site