Marvel's Black & Minority Characters: Roundtable Discussion

[Specter313]

It should. It's complexity is rather large, and requires an immense amount of skill to wield. I almost envy people who have learned it naturally, as it was definitely not an easy path to take.

I love how it's so...structured. I can say "how are you doing?" three different ways in French using the same exact words. So if I get off tangent, I can easily just recover. English just demands so much more dedication and effort! It's pure awesome.

I always let out a little chuckle when I read something like this. Growing up as a native english speaker, I'm always "meh" when people talk about it being hard to learn. Never totally looked at the huge differences that are out there.

 

[Xofenroht]

English to me is my primary language, but not even I can trace back to when I really learned how to read. Reading, writing and understanding English is such a gradual change. People decide to get clever, certain words catch on then all the meanings change. I haven't really noticed that in other languages, usually is the sound of the word/sentence itself (if that makes any sense).

 

[Zoken]

Mistress, I do believe you are a romantic.


the joke goes...

a Panda walks into a fancy restaraunt, sits down, and orders. his food comes and the Panda eats his meal quietly. he gets up and starts to walk out. as the waiter tries to stop him to get him to pay for his meal, the panda pulls out a gun and shoots the waitor.

the owner comes out and yells "what going on here? Why did you do that?"

The Panda turns around and growls, "I'm a Panda, look it up!"

later on, the owner looks Panda's up in an encyclopedia and reads, "Panda: Eats, Shoots, and Leaves."

 

[Specter313]

Mistress, I do believe you are a romantic.


the joke goes...

a Panda walks into a fancy restaraunt, sits down, and orders. his food comes and the Panda eats his meal quietly. he gets up and starts to walk out. as the waiter tries to stop him to get him to pay for his meal, the panda pulls out a gun and shoots the waitor.

the owner comes out and yells "what going on here? Why did you do that?"

The Panda turns around and growls, "I'm a Panda, look it up!"

later on, the owner looks Panda's up in an encyclopedia and reads, "Panda: Eats, Shoots, and Leaves."

Took me a sec there at the end, but I got it, lol.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Mistress, I do believe you are a romantic.

Quite so. But given my heritage, should it come as a suprise?

 

[Specter313]

Quite so. But given my heritage, should it come as a suprise?

Well, given your heritage, some could also say you're stuck up and snotty and hate all Americans, but that's not true.

 

[Zoken]

Quite so. But given my heritage, should it come as a suprise?

Ah, the Romantic French angle... enticing and alluring.

did you like the joke?

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

It was pretty good. Simple jokes tend to be amongst the best.

 

[Zoken]

Two fish are swiming along and run into a concrete wall. one fish turns to the other and says "Damn"

 

[Tropico]

It should. It's complexity is rather large, and requires an immense amount of skill to wield. I almost envy people who have learned it naturally, as it was definitely not an easy path to take.

I love how it's so...structured. I can say "how are you doing?" three different ways in French using the same exact words. So if I get off tangent, I can easily just recover. English just demands so much more dedication and effort! It's pure awesome.

I totally disagree. Spanish, to me, is way harder than English; and it's my primary language. The written part of it, especially, is harder than English. You probably had more trouble with it because it's from a different root as French while Italian is from the same. I only lived in the US the four years of my life and I've never had to study for English class, English is one of the required classes you have to take from elementary all the way to high school (and even college, if you go) in this lil' island that I live. Where's Corp? He's the linguistics expert......

 

[Harlekin]

In my experiences with languages, English was the easiest language to learn. The English language came so natural to me, it's crazy. I had a harder time learning German (which resembles Dutch, my native language, in many ways) than I ever had learning English.

I think it's kind of funny actually. Mistress hates it when people butcher the English language because she loves its complexity. I hate it when people butcher the English language because it's such an easy language.

 

[Shockdingo]

Oh man I loved the panda joke, I say it should be our duty as human beings to arm pandas and send them out into space or other parts of the world.

 

[Anubis]

I just know a few curse words in Spanish.

 

[Darthphere]

I just know a few curse words in Spanish.

Puta.

 

[kainedamo]

Vie geht es Inehn?

 

[Anubis]

besa me cula

 

[Harlekin]

Vie geht es Inehn?

I know the accent often gives of the idea that it's a V, but it's still a W dude.

 

[kainedamo]

Oh yeah, you're right.

 

[Varient]

Two fish are swiming along and run into a concrete wall. one fish turns to the other and says "Damn"

oh.




that was awful,... hand over your punning license.

Zoken,....

 

[hippy fascist]

Faut péter dans l'eau pour faire des bulles

 

[Varient]

Faut péter dans l'eau pour faire des bulles

????

"Péter in water is necessary to make bubbles"???

nope,.. sticking with english circa 1945 or so,....

 

[Anubis]

This immigrant from Mexico and his family were struggling to survive here in the states. The father could find no work, and his family was going hungry. One day he was walking down the street, near the bottom of a hill, where a black man was trying to push a big cheese wheel up it. The Father was praying to God to deliver him some food to feed his family when the black guy lost control of it and the father got run over by the cheese wheel. He praised the lord and ran home immediately with the cheese and told his wife, "Wife! I have brought food. God has delivered us this cheese from heaven! But we have to make Nachos out of it." His wife said "Nachos? Why Nachos?" "Because as I was wheeling the cheese home God screamed down at me: THAT'S NOT CHO CHEESE! THAT'S NOT CHO CHEESE!"

It's a tad racist, and it shows you the difficulties of English slang on forigen ears.

 

[Varient]

This immigrant from Mexico and his family were struggling to survive here in the states. The father could find no work, and his family was going hungry. One day he was walking down the street, near the bottom of a hill, where a black man was trying to push a big cheese wheel up it. The Father was praying to God to deliver him some food to feed his family when the black guy lost control of it and the father got run over by the cheese wheel. He praised the lord and ran home immediately with the cheese and told his wife, "Wife! I have brought food. God gave has delivered us this cheese from heaven! But we have to make Nachos out of it." His wife said "Nachos? Why Nachos?" "Because as I was wheeling the cheese home God screamed down at me: THAT'S NOT CHO CHEESE! THAT'S NOT CHO CHEESE!"

It's a tad racist, and it shows you the difficulties of English slang on forigen ears.

oh,..

(handing Zoken his permit to pun.)

"You're in good company Zoken,... Pun in peace."

 

[La The Darkman]

This immigrant from Mexico and his family were struggling to survive here in the states. The father could find no work, and his family was going hungry. One day he was walking down the street, near the bottom of a hill, where a black man was trying to push a big cheese wheel up it. The Father was praying to God to deliver him some food to feed his family when the black guy lost control of it and the father got run over by the cheese wheel. He praised the lord and ran home immediately with the cheese and told his wife, "Wife! I have brought food. God has delivered us this cheese from heaven! But we have to make Nachos out of it." His wife said "Nachos? Why Nachos?" "Because as I was wheeling the cheese home God screamed down at me: THAT'S NOT CHO CHEESE! THAT'S NOT CHO CHEESE!"

It's a tad racist, and it shows you the difficulties of English slang on forigen ears.

I've heard this joke before from a commedian by the name of Michael Colyer...

 

[Xofenroht]

I know a good one myself about a man, an ostrich and a cat.