VN Ren'Py My Dorm [v0.27.3 S3 Ch.7] [Tropecita Games]

[Dark Silence]

Your English is much better than my Spanish

All my languages suck. Including English.

 

[MarsUltor]

All my languages suck. Including English.

Me, too! I'm a "polyglot illiterate". . . (look in up).

 

[xapican]

Your English is much better than my Spanish

your Spanish is much better than my Arabic

 

[xapican]

All my languages suck. Including English.

and I suck in all Languages (or ask my ex girlfriends)

 

[TigerWolfe]

your Spanish is much better than my Arabic

Maybe, I am definitely rusty, don't have a lot of use for it in my day to day unfortunately.

 

[Dark Silence]

Me, too! I'm a "polyglot illiterate". . . (look in up).

That would make me a 'hyperpolyglot illiterate'.

 

[FatGiant]

There's an OLD joke in Portuguese (no clue if it exists anywhere else) that says: "I speak all the languages in the world, except Chinese.", so, when I encounter a language that I can't understand, that's obviously Chinese.

"Isso para mim é Chinês!" (For me that's Chinese) and all is solved.

Peace

 

[TigerWolfe]

There's an OLD joke in Portuguese (no clue if it exists anywhere else) that says: "I speak all the languages in the world, except Chinese.", so, when I encounter a language that I can't understand, that's obviously Chinese.

"Isso para mim é Chinês!" (For me that's Chinese) and all is solved.

Peace

English has "it's greek to me" which is basically the same thing, if I'm understanding.

 

[Satou Pendragon]

"it's greek to me"

It's "interesting", for lack of better word, at least to hear that as a Greek...

 

[xapican]

Maybe, I am definitely rusty,

Happens with my German too, only when I call my Mother I have oportunity to speak it.

 

[TigerWolfe]

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It's "interesting", for lack of better word, at least to hear that as a Greek...

Knowing the history of my country and the language I speak... it's probably rooted in something HORRIFICALLY racist. That's been the case with a lot of colloquialisms when I dug into the etymology of them.

 

[Dr. Mick]

There's an OLD joke in Portuguese (no clue if it exists anywhere else) that says: "I speak all the languages in the world, except Chinese.", so, when I encounter a language that I can't understand, that's obviously Chinese.

"Isso para mim é Chinês!" (For me that's Chinese) and all is solved.

Peace

There's a similar one in English. It changes Chinese to Greek, with the claim that "I can speak any language but Greek", then when asked about any other language, the punchline is "It's all Greek to me".

 

[TigerWolfe]

Happens with my German too, only when I call my Mother I have oportunity to speak it.

My wife is the only one I know who speaks Arabic, because she learned it at the same time/place as me... so it's kinda the blind leading the blind as far as maintaining fluency.

 

[xapican]

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It's "interesting", for lack of better word, at least to hear that as a Greek...

Well, figure out when the Germans said " That seems Spanish to me" how I felt

 

[Dr. Mick]

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It's "interesting", for lack of better word, at least to hear that as a Greek...

That was actually originally supposed to be a compliment.
Suggesting that Greeks were so advanced that other peoples couldn't understand them, alluding to how far ahead they were from other societies of the time.

 

[xapican]

The german equivalent to "Greek" comes from the time of the Habsburger King Charles V he was King of Germany and Spain, so there were allways Spanish Nobles on his court.

 

[MarsUltor]

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It's "interesting", for lack of better word, at least to hear that as a Greek...

For some strange reason, I just visualized an old guy spraying Windex on everything and claiming that all words have a greek origin (even kimono...)

 

[Satou Pendragon]

For some strange reason, I just visualized an old guy spraying Windex on everything and claiming that all words have a greek origin (even kimono...)

Yes...I know "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"...I was expecting someone to bring that up...-__-

 

[Dark Silence]

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It's "interesting", for lack of better word, at least to hear that as a Greek...

It's an OLD saying: "It's all Greek to me." Not sure if it's just an American saying, but even my dad, who was born in 1905 used to say it. But Greeks say: “Εμένα, αυτά μου φαίνονται Κινέζικα.” Go figure. lol

 

[MarsUltor]

Yes...I know "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"...I was expecting someone to bring that up...-__-

No offense intended... I figured (perhaps incorrectly) that, since Nia Vardalos (the originator of those running gags) is Greek, I would be okay posting that.