Hi
I m curious to know how big (or small ;D ) is the french speaking community here.
don't seems to be a lot ;)
I speak french decently well, and understand it quite a bit better (but I'm not talking about France-french, I'm talking Quebec- and Atlantic Canada-French).
I'm only in my third year of french in school. I'm 1 1/2 lingual.
Mais oui.
Je suis un petit pomme de terre.
Voila... ma Francais est tres bien, non?
Hehehe... I work with a French girl at the cinema... you can imagine the difficulty she encountered when 'orton 'ears a 'oo came out not long ago.
Haha, you mean "Horton entend un qui!" ?
The most terribly-direct translation i've heard in a while
Also, for "French" members, from the very France, I can only remember "Pétaglair", who was quite good artist and funny, but a bit too enthusiastic. He left, I wonder where he is.
Apparently, French people still has a problem with "English" as the world lenguaje in spite of French, so, they tend not to come to lot of forums in English... I am glad when they come, though... :D
As I pointed out on my blog (http://ags-ssh.blogspot.com/search/label/Francais), there is actually a separate French-speaking AGS forum, and I think that's where most Frenchies hang out.
I speak French passably well. I am not, however, part of any French-speaking community.
I took a mandatory grade 8 French class, and passed by
1 percentage point. A fact I am not proud of, but gives me a severe case of the grins whenever I think of it. ;D
About all I get out of
QuoteMais oui.
Je suis un petit pomme de terre.
Voila... ma Francais est tres bien, non?
is
Mais yes
Je suis un small apple of earth. (potato?)
Voila... My French est tres bien, no?
We had a French exchange student one summer ...
I can now curse fluently in French.
I can call somebody a homosexual.
I can ask "what are you doing tonight?"
I can tell somebody to go f**k their mother.
I can ask a woman to f**k me.
So yeah ... all in all I think I'm going to be very successful when I'm in Paris this August. I can't forsee a problem. I just hope those lovely French women are ready for me!! But don't worry ladies, unlike most stupid Americans I don't start wars and carry guns with me.
edit to correct spelling
QuoteAs I pointed out on my blog, there is actually a separate French-speaking AGS forum, and I think that's where most Frenchies hang out.
Yes the french AGS forum is here http://adventuregamestudio.fr-bb.com/ feel free to visit us :)
The community is very small but active. We have few games realised.
QuoteApparently, French people still has a problem with "English"
Thats true, personnaly my reading and understanding is quite good but my writting is a pity
QuoteI can now curse fluently in French.
I can call somebody a homesexual.
I can ask "what are you doing tonight?"
I can tell somebody to go f**k their mother.
I can ask a woman to f**k me.
Iguess its a good beginning in every language to be able to say that, but you forget the main sentence " I want a beer " (or whatever is your favorite drink) ;D
Quote from: riseryn on Fri 18/04/2008 14:26:25
Iguess its a good beginning in every language to be able to say that, but you forget the main sentence " I want a beer " (or whatever is your favorite drink) ;D
That's for the men, women should learn "No thanks, I've already had breakfast".
(I can read easily enough and I write quite well, but my spoken French gets rustier by the moment. )
I can tell you everything about Arthur, the parrot, and Julie, Julien and Francois. That's pretty much all I remember from that blasted textbook.
Quote from: SSH on Fri 18/04/2008 10:24:33
As I pointed out on my blog (http://ags-ssh.blogspot.com/search/label/Francais), there is actually a separate French-speaking AGS forum, and I think that's where most Frenchies hang out.
Thinking about this, does it make sense that our community is segregated by having these main AGS forums, and then separate websites for the French and German speakers? Should we be providing foreign language forums here to try and provide a more inclusive community?
Marion, Monsieur OUXX, naamlock, creamy (and I) are french members, and if I recall correctly, Dorcan (awesome artist !) speaks french...
@ Pumaguy : I think it doesn't make a lot of sense... Well, as for the french community, everybody knows that our english is terrible (not to mention the accent). So, there's an explanation. But, for swedish people, for example, I don't know.
Je parle francais, et anglais aussi :D
Quote from: Stupot on Fri 18/04/2008 03:10:44
Mais oui.
Je suis un petit pomme de terre.
Voila... ma Francais est tres bien, non?
Hehehe... I work with a French girl at the cinema... you can imagine the difficulty she encountered when 'orton 'ears a 'oo came out not long ago.
Stupot, why do you say you're a potato? ??? As for Horton Hears a Who, here they released it as just "Horton" ;D
Quote from: Pumaman on Fri 18/04/2008 20:31:26
Thinking about this, does it make sense that our community is segregated by having these main AGS forums, and then separate websites for the French and German speakers? Should we be providing foreign language forums here to try and provide a more inclusive community?
Now that you mention it, yes. It would make more sense, in terms of community and mailflow, to have all forums here at adventuregamestudio.co.uk, by duplicating some of the forums in French and German (I'm thinking, beginner's questions, adventure chat, and general chat, based on the activity logs on the French forum; things like "finished games" would be interesting to everybody).
Consider how silly it is that we're having a Mittens in France this summer and the French community may well be unaware of that!
In the past I've generally steered away from having non-English forums because of the need to moderate them, and because as I'm responsible for the site here I'd prefer to be able to understand all the content posted on it.
But if some of you multi-lingual guys would be happy to keep an eye on the foreign language forums it might make more sense to try and integrate them here?
Quote from: brokenbutterfly on Fri 18/04/2008 22:03:07
Stupot, why do you say you're a potato? ??? As for Horton Hears a Who, here they released it as just "Horton" ;D
Hehe, because I don't know the French word for 'couch'.
Where's "here"? Paris, Hong Kong or Frisco?
Quote from: Radiant on Sat 19/04/2008 10:25:01
Consider how silly it is that we're having a Mittens in France this summer and the French community may well be unaware of that!
Silly... but blamed to who? To us, people from English countries or people from the rest of the World who makes the effort of speaking a lenguaje that commonly recognised as global, or can that be blamed to them, who stupidly still refuse to learn English like if we were still living 2 centuries ago? It annoyes me deeply, I can go almost every part of the world and understand and make me to be understood pretty well with English, except in France.
My deepest congratulations to those French mates who did the effort to look further the boarders of "La France" and speak English, though...
Quote from: Radiant on Sat 19/04/2008 10:25:01
Consider how silly it is that we're having a Mittens in France this summer and the French community may well be unaware of that!
No, you're having it in Belgium, and even though it's close, it's too far for me :'( no time and no money.
Quote from: Pumaman on Sat 19/04/2008 12:13:36
But if some of you multi-lingual guys would be happy to keep an eye on the foreign language forums it might make more sense to try and integrate them here?
ryanlandry whose French seems top notch could do it :D but if you integrate France-French speakers here, you'd need someone fluent in it to moderate them or something? I'd be willing to do it, but only as a secondary mod because I'm not online that much.
Quote from: Stupot on Sat 19/04/2008 12:22:53
Hehe, because I don't know the French word for 'couch'.
Where's "here"? Paris, Hong Kong or Frisco?
"Couch" would be "canapé" or "divan". Here we don't use the expression "couch potato" often. The only time I've seen it was in a Donald Duck comic, and they referred to him as "patate de divan". I'm sure you know "patate" is another word for "potato" ;)
Here is Paris. I live there 24/7, I'm only in HK or SF during the holidays. So maybe in May or this summer.
QuoteIn the past I've generally steered away from having non-English forums because of the need to moderate them, and because as I'm responsible for the site here I'd prefer to be able to understand all the content posted on it.
But if some of you multi-lingual guys would be happy to keep an eye on the foreign language forums it might make more sense to try and integrate them here?
IMHO it would be better to have a section in the forum which give the links to the national community forum.
Peoples who wants to know whats happen in other AGS community may be able to find this forum easily and there ll be no problems with moderation in this forums being outside the official forum here.
Quote from: Nacho on Sat 19/04/2008 12:43:07
Silly... but blamed to who?
Why do you have to blame anybody? It's just silly.
Quote from: Nacho on Sat 19/04/2008 12:43:07
I can go almost every part of the world and understand and make me to be understood pretty well with English, except in France.
Meh, if you make an effort to communicate in French, they'll usually give you a break.
quote from nacho
Quotewho stupidly still refuse to learn English like if we were still living 2 centuries
Is it really stupidity?
If I hadnt the chance to be sent by my parents in scotland during my summer hollidays when i was 15 I probably dont be able to speak english (even this bad english of mine) only with my school lessons.
Quote from: Pumaman on Fri 18/04/2008 20:31:26
Should we be providing foreign language forums here to try and provide a more inclusive community?
I think it would be difficult to maintain, difficult to keep tidy and it's still a barrier. I agree there should be one community only, but as AGS fans exist all over the world, it makes sense to have their own place. They may even ignore teh very existence of this forum.
QuoteI can go almost every part of the world and understand and make me to be understood pretty well with English, except in France.
Maybe are you from these few peoples whose when in another country never ask politely if you speak their language.
When im talken in France directly in english without an hello or "excuse me, do you speak english?" my english seems to vanished.
When im travelling in another country the first thing i learn is how to say hello and be polite.
Or you have no chance :).
I have to say that the majority of english peoples i meet in paris are quite polite. I only have problem once with australian peoples , not because their manners but with their pronunciation which makes difficult for me to understand what they were looking for.
But after some humorous talk between us we manage to communicate :)
I try to express myself in the lenguaje of the place I am in.
If you politelly ask people to speak slowly and you make the attempt to speak their lenguaje, they appreciate it, even if you speak worse than the indians in the old Far West movies... For example, last time I was in Paris I was able to speak in French with taxi drivers and shop clercks. Nothing really solid, but nobody has to ask me twice what was I talking about.
I worked in a reception in a Hotel; English people tried to communicate with me, at least "Hola, gracias, hasta luego, por favor, gracias por el pescado..."
French never tried.
Even when I knew that they were able to speak English (You do manage quite well in English when it comes the time to raise some brit girl skirt, I can tell...) Realising of that, I politelly ask them to try to speak to me in English...
"Sivuplé, je ne parlé francé tré bién, pouvévu parlé en Anglé, o parlé duzment?"
Nothing... they went speaking french, without slowing down, like machine guns.
That happened to me not once, or twice... happened to me most than half of the times I had to deal with french people. The other half of the times, they simply ignored me and spoke with the chef receptionist, who spoke french.
Yes, you French, (not you, as an individual, but France, as a country) have a real problem of inferiority complex with English. You never accepted that it became the "world languaje" in front of French, and you still go on talking in French even when it is 0 as an international lenguaje.
***CLARIFICATION***When I said "French are stupids for go on been stubborn with their lenguaje when it is obvious that English is the answer" I am not referring to anybody in particular, or wanting to insult a nation telling that THEY are STUPIDS. I am telling that this specific decission of not doing the necessary effort to give English a chance is stupid. There' s no need to get deffensive. I am sure that my country, Spain, is taking LOADS of institutional decissions that are stupid (Heh, we voted Zapatero again, need to say more?) ***END OF CLARIFICATION***
Riseryn; I never said I was not able to communicate myself in France. I did... In French, and in a mix of catalan and sloooowly Spanish. I was extremelly polite, not "one of those few unpolites" as you said.
Still, I keep saying: Whereas I can go to Osaka, Kandahar or Pakistan and communicate in English, in France I can' t. Don' t you want to go on being the ass of Europe as for learning the most important vehicle of communication in the World? CONGRATULATIONS! I sallute you. It is admirable that still are being the resistance in front of a global Anglosaxon world... But don' t accuse the rest of the world of being "unpolite", when it is you, the French, who are taking (as a County), and under my humble point of view, a bad institutional decission.
And again, I repeat, those rants go directed to those French who doesn't care to give English a chance because, for pride or stupidity, they believe French is going to be enough for going through the world with guarantees. This rants are not directed to you Riseryn, you WHO SPEAK ENGLISH. This rants go for the rest...
And thanks for thinking I went to Scotland when I was 15 to learn English. I didn' t... And you can notice it in my posts. My English is faaaaar from being perfect (Actually, I think it is not even good...) Yours is better. Congratulations for making the effort, and welcome to the forums.
I think we french people are not just good with foreign language :)
maybe its different with the new generation for i know more younger speaking english than people of my generation.
There's the French Eurovision entry in English, too! Mon Dieu!
Mis juenes filles estudio Ingles, French et Anglais...
And you must agree with me that it' s a pitty Riseryn. I think that it has more of that response on front of the anglosaxon globalization than a cultural issue, but it' s ok...
My country is not good with languajes either... But if someone tells that to me I would rather agree with him and tell it' s a pitty than getting deffensive, I think...
i hope i dont sound too defensive.? ;D
Cause im not.
I agree its a pity.
To come back to the topic it seems there is not a lot of french speaking people around there( whatever the reason).
I expected more french speaking canadian too.
CJ, perhaps you can make it so all the forums are combined and you select which languages, in your profile options, you want to be visible to you.
Or make it even more specific by each forum category you can choose which languages you'd like to be visible.
Hypothetically, I may understand in French someone asking "tell me what's wrong with this image" (in the critics lounge), and I can offer my help. But I don't know enough to even attempt to understand what someone is asking in the Technical or Beginners Technical threads (or maybe even the rest of the categories) so I disable French in those thread categories except the critics lounge.
This way it won't be mind blowing looking through the forums, skipping all the languages you don't know to find the ones you do.
But I think if the thread started in English, it must remain English. You'd also of course have to select with a drop-down which language is of the thread you're starting.
It's pretty much the same as what you're doing with separate forums for each language, but all accessible in one.
Quote from: Nacho on Sat 19/04/2008 18:33:44
Yes, you French, (not you, as an individual, but France, as a country) have a real problem of inferiority complex with English. You never accepted that it became the "world languaje" in front of French, and you still go on talking in French even when it is 0 as an international lenguaje.
I don't think it's so much that Frenchmen can't speak English, it's that they wont. They're a very proud people (especially around Paris - Southern France isn't as bad) and, like you say, they're not fond of anglo-saxon globalisation.
I remember I asked a French girl if she spoke English, and she said "Sorry, my English is very limited." I mean, most native english-speakers wouldn't speak so eloquently.
Also, I'm pretty sure Ivy speaks French
I speak French. I still have some trouble understanding it, especially in Quebec, but I can read and write just fine. I'd probably call myself "fluent" if I wasn't so shy about speaking. Ah well, that's what red wine was invented for, right?
Initially this post wasnt intended to know if AGS forum must have a french section or if "frenchies" are "not fond of anglo-saxon globalisation" but if there are many speaking french people around here :)
concerning the forum i just suggest (i already said that above) a special board with just links to "official" forums in other language about AGS.
Hey Riseryn
QuoteMarion, Monsieur OUXX, naamlock, creamy (and I) are french members, and if I recall correctly, Dorcan (awesome artist !) speaks french...
To that list, add Nightfable, 2 others old posters I remember from Quebec, + 3 others who started the now defunct triple A french AGS ressources site.
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The fact is that Marion never really wanted to push the french forum here, and it's her choice ( I followed the forum discussion here for more than a year before I found the french one by pure mistake.) The download section have a lot of lil' jewels with a french track. (like the Dorcan ones).
Hey luniquedan ;)
QuoteThe download section have a lot of lil' jewels with a french trans
It could be a good idea to systematically add in a game description the availables languages
Quote from: Nacho on Sat 19/04/2008 18:33:44
I worked in a reception in a Hotel; English people tried to communicate with me, at least "Hola, gracias, hasta luego, por favor, gracias por el pescado..."
French never tried.
Even when I knew that they were able to speak English (You do manage quite well in English when it comes the time to raise some brit girl skirt, I can tell...) Realising of that, I politelly ask them to try to speak to me in English...
"Sivuplé, je ne parlé francé tré bién, pouvévu parlé en Anglé, o parlé duzment?"
Nothing... they went speaking french, without slowing down, like machine guns.
That happened to me not once, or twice... happened to me most than half of the times I had to deal with french people. The other half of the times, they simply ignored me and spoke with the chef receptionist, who spoke french.
I don't know why they did that. Usually when you go to a foreign country, you will try to learn about their language. Buy one of those phrase books or something. If I travel to Spain, I would try to speak Spanish, English, but certainly not French! Maybe like riseryn said, you had no luck and met people who think they are the only ones on the planet, and that everybody speaks French. It happens!
Quote from: Emerald on Sat 19/04/2008 20:17:39
I don't think it's so much that Frenchmen can't speak English, it's that they wont. They're a very proud people (especially around Paris - Southern France isn't as bad) and, like you say, they're not fond of anglo-saxon globalisation.
I remember I asked a French girl if she spoke English, and she said "Sorry, my English is very limited." I mean, most native english-speakers wouldn't speak so eloquently.
It's true some of them aren't willing to help. But others are just ashamed of their accent. Or, they don't trust their speaking ability. They can't speak fluently, give them 1 hour to write an essay in English, they would. But they wouldn't be able to have a conversation with you right here, right now.
Quote from: SSH on Sat 19/04/2008 18:48:24
Mis juenes filles estudio Ingles, French et Anglais...
They study English, French and English? ??? ;D
Before today I thought there were no french members at all.
Quote from: Pumaman on Fri 18/04/2008 20:31:26
Quote from: SSH on Fri 18/04/2008 10:24:33
As I pointed out on my blog (http://ags-ssh.blogspot.com/search/label/Francais), there is actually a separate French-speaking AGS forum, and I think that's where most Frenchies hang out.
Thinking about this, does it make sense that our community is segregated by having these main AGS forums, and then separate websites for the French and German speakers? Should we be providing foreign language forums here to try and provide a more inclusive community?
Oddly enough it sounds more like seperation to me. It forces german and french members to check those forums as much as the main forum. But people only become active members when they think a forum is worth of coming back again and again. Language has nothing to do about it. Well, maybe a little.
I'm a little embarrasssed by the British attitude that everyone should speak English and we shouldn't bother. I love languages and it's only because I was a lazy teenager that my French is poor. I've been slowly picking up Japanese, and am going to uni to study it properly, soon, which is going to be great. But in all truth, Chinese would have been a more practical option... I think in a few years time it would benefit us all to learn Chinese, you mark my words.
QuoteI'm a little embarrasssed by the British attitude that everyone should speak English
Don't be embarassed, id rather like speak english than eat english food :D
QuoteI think in a few years time it would benefit us all to learn Chinese, you mark my words
I hope that this will not become true, asian languages are so difficult (especially pronunciation).
Hey Stupot, I've seen a high percentage of English people that is a little bit embarrassed to of "just speaking English". As I said, they try to say some words in other languajes, and I think that Spanish is quite popular in the US... As I mentioned before, that shy attempts are really appreciated by the locals.
Brokenbutterfly: I don' t like to use a certain event for generalising, I usually hate it when people does that in threads... But as I mentioned, it happened to me enough to consider that there was a pattern. Thinking it again, probably I treated with people over 30 years... maybe that is changing slowly. That would be IMHO good news.
And yeah, accent can be a problem. For example, Swiss guys do manage quite well, because they also study French, and English, they "learn" how to forget their "natural" accent when speaking in English. That also happens with Dutch, Denish... When some other people speaking germanic languajes has to speak in English without having "learned" to forget their accent the result is terrible (Example, people from Austria...) See episodes of "Alló Alló" to know what I am talking about. Same with french... I recently had a guest who tried to speak to me in English (I did with him in my poor French, and the result was quite funny, with a person talking shitty English and the other talking shitty french...) And he pronounced "Think" in the way an English person should pronounce "sink". It was difficult... But when two people want to know what the other person thinks, it' s done in the end...
QuoteBut when two people want to know what the other person thinks, it' s done in the end...
Maybe its one advantage of english language, even if you re talking a kind of pidgin you may be able to communicate much more easily than with another language.
Someone said once (I think its Catherine the Great but im not sure and im looking for the exact citation) something like that :
"speak italian for love, french for diplomacy and german for war"
and maybe english for trade?
Non conjugating, no need to add particles in the verb since the subject, direct object and indirect object have to be mentioned... Yes, English is a good languaje for being able to speak soon with not much studying...
I guess we have about ten french speaking people around there on 3942 members.
hourra the french community is very big here and im proud to be part of it :)
Quote from: jetxl on Sun 20/04/2008 02:37:48
Oddly enough it sounds more like seperation to me. It forces german and french members to check those forums as much as the main forum.
Effectively, the present system
also forces german and french members to check these forums in addition to their "own". With the added problem that there's a lot of redundancy and not a lot of mailflow in several of their "own", and that people might not know of the alternative.
Centralization = added community value.
Im not for centralization.
I think if forum here have different section regarding the language its much more segregation than centralisation.
One official forum one language is better.
I just wish it would be great to have a special section with links to non english community
Just add a section in community with a list maintened by moderators of non english ags community.
Quote from: Nacho on Sun 20/04/2008 12:43:43
Brokenbutterfly: I don' t like to use a certain event for generalising, I usually hate it when people does that in threads... But as I mentioned, it happened to me enough to consider that there was a pattern. Thinking it again, probably I treated with people over 30 years... maybe that is changing slowly. That would be IMHO good news.
Yes I understand that you came to your conclusion after encountering the same situation so many times. But I'm really surprised how rude those people are. If my friends and I came to your hotel, you would be proud of us because we would try our best to speak Spanish (even if it's not good ;D). I'm really glad if you say the situation is changing! :)
Quote from: riseryn on Sun 20/04/2008 21:35:26
I guess we have about ten french speaking people around there on 3942 members.
hourra the french community is very big here and I'm proud to be part of it :)
Only ten? I think we are more than that :)
As said, I probably made the mistake of stablishing that pattern based on people above 30 years... I think it's changing in the younger generations.
Don't put in the equation the Swiss please.
Apart from not being exactly nice, as we talked about earlier (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=33007.0), it's also that they already NEED to know 3 languages, or at least two very well. French, German and a bit of Italian. There's no way these people will even attempt to learn English unless open minded, etc.
I've been in Germany and France/Swizterland, and I do know a tiny bit of French and German, so my attempts to at least communicate were taken very nicely I think. Of course trying to do something else than order food or a glass of water (like buying an expensive watch, for example), were done in English. but I always started off in German or French. No harm there.
When I went in Syria, there was absolutley no chance to speak Syrian (Arabic that is), but, again, Syrians spoke French rather than English. And they loved us unans! :D
Going to a country it does make sense to try and communicate on their terms. When the tourists come over though, it is a different issue, isn't it? I always get pissed at French in Greece going "Mais, Je ne parle pas Engles (or however it's spelled :P)". Well sorry mate, me neither! I won't even bother trying to remember so hard. What about body language?
This thread is slowly ( or not?) begining to evolve into a debate about "are french evil"? :)
I noticed that peoples who travels for hollidays in foreign countries tends to acts differently than they ll normally do in their own country.
Its true that generally im not very proud of french tourist behavior in other country , but it seems that this behavior is common to a lot of tourists whatever the nationality.
As if humans, when oustide their countries, becomes a new alien nation :the "evil tourist". :)
English is not the universal language (always surprised in sf movies when strange lifeforms in a far away galaxy speaks english ;) ) but a very common one.
By example if one would travel in florida, spanish would be more accurate to communicate than english (I remember in the center of miami to have seen shops with the "english spoken here" panel on the front door).
I know a former teacher (ancient greek and latin) who always manage to communicate with this two old languages when he travels :)
Communication is not about the language used (well, its part of it) but mainly about the will to communicate.
Im sure you have many examples in your own life not be able to communicate with someone speaking the same language than you :).
Language is not a simple thing, its connected to the way a nation perceive life.
I recommand you to read this book "the languages of Pao" by Jack Vance to understand exactly what I mean.
Concerning the fact that french are not fond of english maybe history can give us some lights.
france and uk were the best ennemies for centuries.
same thing for germany and france.
france and uk have good relationship for less than a century, france and germany for 50 years.
30 years ago, when I was learning english in Edimburgh ,one of my teacher ( a scotsman) said to me that scottish were fond of french because france was at war with england for centuries :)
Nowadays things changes and evolves throughout the world and in 50 years what seems to be important today will be negligible as the difference in languages.
In Poland, Jade Goody is teaching people how to speak English. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/12/realitytv.television)
Who (or what) is jade goody?
I still believe there should be one forum only, but the other ones are more like communities, I think, so I don't mind. It's like forums about Harry Potter (or whatever you choose). There's the official site and there's a million of relative webpages and forums.
When you say french speaking, you mean natives, I suppose.
Quote from: Nacho on Sun 20/04/2008 12:43:43
But when two people want to know what the other person thinks, it' s done in the end...
Definitely.
I moved in Germany 8 months ago. I only knew 'hello' and numbers. I 've met germans who tried to use really poor english to help me, I 've met germans who double check if I got what they said in german because they "leider" (unfortunately)can't speak enlgish. I've made a mobile phone contract speaking french, I am guilty of delaying city trains for the driver wanted to help but could only speak german. I understand a bit italian and very little spanish. Clients at work keep teaching me the expressions I need. English, German, whatever...Did I mention I'm greek?
Quote from: passer-by on Mon 21/04/2008 21:00:26
Did I mention I'm greek?
Well, no, but we should've known... Chirstina you also changed your nick, and it took me a while to figure out who you are. ;)
QuoteWhen you say french speaking, you mean natives, I suppose.
No i mean what i wrote, no more no less .
If we're having French and German forums, why not Italian and Polish?
Or an Irish-speaking one. That would be funny...
Quote from: riseryn on Mon 21/04/2008 21:20:07
QuoteWhen you say french speaking, you mean natives, I suppose.
No i mean what i wrote, no more no less .
Oh, then I'm included
(reading and some writing, because, speaking, forget it!! And that's because I have to use english all the time... )
Quote from: Emerald on Mon 21/04/2008 21:22:29
If we're having French and German forums, why not Italian and Polish?
Or an Irish-speaking one. That would be funny...
So, you can see for yourself where it's headed... This forum being just the original, not the main one.
It's bloody discrimination! The Irish community is as important as any other!
Rise, my brothers, for the revolution is at hand!
The primary language of this community is English.
On rare occasions, people will post threads in their native tongue, but it generally not the done thing. It alienates a large number of forum members and casual visitors, and serves little purpose beyond that fact.
As far as I know, people are welcome to set up their own, unofficial, AGS-related boards or websites in whatever language they please.
But as Pumaman, and the people who maintain this community in their various capacities, would probably tell you, it's time consuming enough as it is, without having the added nuisance of conducting "Official AGS business" in multiple languages.
Emerald, the Irish contingency of this community, regardless of our awesomeness, currently stands at about half a dozen.
Quote from: LimpingFish on Mon 21/04/2008 21:37:42
Emerald, the Irish contingency of this community, regardless of our awesomeness, currently stands at about half a dozen.
Yeah, but what we lack in numbers, we make up for in pure willpower and determination. It's only a few weeks after the 92nd anniversary... Sine fianna fail... Come out you Black and Tans... et cetera...
Why not start a thread
"fight to know from english speaking communities which is the be(a)st"?
This thread is about french speaking people in the AGS community, not knowing which language is the best or if this forum has to be multingual and so on..
So please lets go back to the meaning of this topic.