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Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Gronagor on July 20, 2005, 08:14:28 AM What is your Home Language?
---- After a few seconds of insanity I decided NOT to make a poll out of this subject. Most adventure games use English. We've seen a few German, Deutch and French games, but does it really represent all the players out there?? ---- Well... me first: Afrikaans Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Jafar on July 20, 2005, 12:14:54 PM Just plain old english for me.
Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Swift on July 20, 2005, 12:17:54 PM In my country, we have four official languages - English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil. We also have an unofficial language - Singlish (mixture of mainly English, Malay and Hokkien [Chinese dialect]). Most of us can switch between English and Singlish, and these two are pretty much my home languages.
Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Striker on July 20, 2005, 03:45:28 PM l337
Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: EvilSandwich on July 20, 2005, 04:58:57 PM English mostly, but thanks to a Brazilian father, I can speak a little portugese.
Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Corsair5 on July 20, 2005, 07:16:13 PM I speak English, but I know a few words in German and Spanish. Schnel! Schnel!
Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: lazygamer on July 20, 2005, 09:11:57 PM English is my language.
Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Pwincess on July 21, 2005, 06:09:04 AM English with Australian slang :cheerygrin:
Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Insider on July 21, 2005, 11:09:09 PM Guys, my home language is Russian. Yeah, there are adventure fans in Russia and there are fans of Quest for Glory!
Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Corsair5 on July 22, 2005, 03:19:09 AM Well, yeah. We have Cain.
Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Rosella on July 23, 2005, 01:59:06 AM I'm boring old English, as well. Though I speak French as much as I can. :P
Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: aragorn256 on July 25, 2005, 03:33:10 PM What about something original here?
Very old(yet modernised) Greek Language. Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Silverbolt on July 25, 2005, 07:11:41 PM Romanian. And contrarily to what most people think, we do not have a russian accent, nor do we use the chirilic alphabet. Romanian is a Romance language. Probably the reason why I understand quite few Latin and Spanish words. I also speak English fluently and French...not so fluently. And those few Japanese phrases I learned reading "Shogun".
I also type fluent l33t. W00t 4 m3!!!111one Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Corsair5 on July 26, 2005, 05:24:50 AM Out of curiosity, why are they referred to as Romance languages? I don't think it has to do with being romantic, so I'm assuming it has to do with Rome.
Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Silverbolt on July 26, 2005, 07:15:01 AM You assume correctly. And I suspect "Romance language" is a term invented by some American. OMG, you guys rock! <_<
Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Striker on July 26, 2005, 02:44:39 PM romance
c.1300, "story of a hero's adventures," also (c.1330), "vernacular language of France" (as opposed to Latin), from O.Fr. romanz "verse narrative," originally an adverb, "in the vernacular language," from V.L. *romanice scribere "to write in a Romance language" (one developed from Latin instead of Frankish), from L. Romanicus "of or in the Roman style," from Romanus "Roman" (see Roman). The connecting notion is that medieval vernacular tales were usually about chivalric adventure. Literary sense extended by 1667 to "a love story." Extended 1612 to other modern languages derived from Latin (Spanish, Italian, etc.). Meaning "adventurous quality" first recorded 1801; that of "love affair, idealistic quality" is from 1916. The verb meaning "court as a lover" is from 1942. Looks like you got the origin backwards. Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Silverbolt on July 26, 2005, 04:49:25 PM Smartass...<_<
Title: Adventure Fans: Home Languages Post by: Corsair5 on July 26, 2005, 07:29:54 PM I've been saying that for years, under my breath.
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