On November 19 2008 13:52 waterGHOSTCLAWdragon wrote:
english is a romance language, but it's a lot farther removed than most european languages, such as italian, french, or spanish.

English is not a romance language

lilsusie

3861 Posts

November 19 2008 05:31 GMT

#22

hmm i have to agree with most people, I think the Spanish I know really helped a lot in reading this. Anyone who has no background of Romance languages and only English... can you read it?

Falcynn

United States3597 Posts

November 19 2008 05:33 GMT

#23

On November 19 2008 13:58 inlagdsil wrote:
It reads so much like Spanish I can understand the whole thing (with just one word here and there that escapes me). I'm curious to see how everyone fares at this. If you just speak English, is it understandable?

I barely got a sentence here and there. I can't speak Spanish, but since my dad's side of the family speaks it all the time I've picked up on some basic structures, honestly if it wasn't for that I probably wouldn't understand any of it.

IzzyCraft

United States4487 Posts

November 19 2008 05:48 GMT

#24

On November 19 2008 14:28 NoobsOfWrath wrote:

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English is not a romance language

It's much for fun then any other language also i find most asian languages shouldn't rap it's cheating when outright all your words end with vowels. All langs are romantic when said right by the right person also

village_idiot

2436 Posts

November 19 2008 05:49 GMT

#25

CJ falls to a BO loss

Flakes

United States3125 Posts

November 19 2008 06:03 GMT

#26

On November 19 2008 14:49 village_idiot wrote:
CJ falls to a BO loss

I can't understand this

3clipse

Canada2555 Posts

November 19 2008 06:03 GMT

#27

On November 19 2008 14:31 lilsusie wrote:
hmm i have to agree with most people, I think the Spanish I know really helped a lot in reading this. Anyone who has no background of Romance languages and only English... can you read it?

I'm only fluent in English (took some French when I was younger but remember almost nothing) and I can't understand very much. The first sentence is very clear, but I hardly understand any of the rest. I really think it's the close relation to Spanish that makes it so accessible for some people.

Edit: Wow, Korean, English and some Spanish? How many languages do you know??? :O

I'm also impressed with your commentating, it's really coming along. Keep up the good work.

Daigomi

South Africa4316 Posts

November 19 2008 06:05 GMT

#28

On November 19 2008 11:57 Xeofreestyler wrote:
okay okay maybe I'm biased because of my languages but you should still understand a lot of it

XFS, are you a french or flemish belge?

EDIT: and it was fairly comfortable to read.

Mastermind

Canada7096 Posts

November 19 2008 06:20 GMT

#29

Some words are understandable, but I cant follow it.

OrderlyChaos

United States1115 Posts

November 19 2008 06:37 GMT

#30

My limited knowledge of French helped me get through it, though probably not as smoothly as those who know spanish.

Dagor

Germany64 Posts

November 19 2008 06:46 GMT

#31

I can read it, but i speak french and learned latin in school. Especially latin can be quite usefull if you want to read italien. But spoken italien is just a mess for me, i can't understand a single word

Enrique

United States377 Posts

November 19 2008 06:58 GMT

#32

yeah, three years of Spanish makes that not a terribly difficult read. Also, English is absolutely not a romance language--it's Germanic in nature.

GHOSTCLAW

United States17042 Posts

November 19 2008 07:03 GMT

#33

On November 19 2008 14:28 NoobsOfWrath wrote:

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English is not a romance language

Huh. I always though that it was, but you are correct. It is a germanic language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

That being said, english borrows shamelessly from everywhere.

Kau

Canada3500 Posts

November 19 2008 07:23 GMT

#34

Only English doesn't help very much in reading it. You can get some of it, but definitely not 90%.

nemY

United States3119 Posts

November 19 2008 07:24 GMT

#35

So my question for you guys is, did you read it in English or did you read it verbatim in Italian?

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read it in English, the parts of it I could understand at least

Ludrik

Australia523 Posts

November 19 2008 07:28 GMT

#36

I get the gist of most of it. My only language apart from english is Indonesian so yeah... Invented languages fail 99% of the time.

azndsh

United States4447 Posts

November 19 2008 07:29 GMT

#37

holy shit that's awesome

MasterReY

Germany2708 Posts

November 19 2008 07:47 GMT

#38

sounds like spanish to me.

i dont like it.

distant_voice

Germany2521 Posts

November 19 2008 08:33 GMT

#39

On November 19 2008 16:03 waterGHOSTCLAWdragon wrote:

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Huh. I always though that it was, but you are correct. It is a germanic language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

That being said, english borrows shamelessly from everywhere.

the origin of the english vocabulary is like 50% from romance languages. English borrowed extensively after 1066 from french, before that a little from latin and much later again from latin.

English is a western germanic language (as are german and dutch).

Scorch

Austria3371 Posts

November 19 2008 09:35 GMT

#40

Most people know Spanish, French or Latin, so it should be easy to at least understand the general message in Interlingua, if not every single word.
That's similar with any Romanic language though. I only speak Italian as a third language, and still I have no major problems reading French or Spanish (or Interlingua). Listening comprehension, active writing or speaking are another story of course.

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