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I'm glad you've solved the problem. 
Anyway I found here a tutorial about loops...

http://www.agsforums.com/acintro.htm
http://www.agsforums.com/acintro7.htm

Hi!

JClarke, I won't laugh, but will warn you that

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the chainsaw is a red herring: I've never needed it, and also never found any gas for it.
Also there are only two rooms where you can't go - without performing some tasks before -, or you'll be got: the boy and the nurse rooms.

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I suppose the best is a wt: there are alot if you "google".

Hi!

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Congratulations, Skio! 

Now please give a look here 
http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?topic=14853.0

Hi!

Congratulations for the victory, Greece. It seems Portugal will have to work alot harder (read better) against you if we don't want to be defeated again!Ã,  as we were the first one:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/euro_2004/3787343.stm

By the way, I found BBC's reports here. Check them out!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/euro_2004/results/default.stm

Farlander, I am sad when a person comes mad just due to football.
And it was a biggest surprise for me when we won against Spain: I was sure we would lose, as almost (first win over Spain since 1981!).
But having the actual world champion couch (Luiz Felipe Scolari) leading Portugal made the difference...

Thanks for your kind words, Igor!Ã, 

About the great winner of this Euro, I hope the best wins - whatever it is - without "robberies"Ã, 

[[Spielberg]]

A Mexican friend of mine who speaks both Spanish and Portugese told me that Portugese is basically Spanish with a wierd accent, which seems to be backed up by a multilingual dictionary I have.Ã,  This leads me to believe that, not being fluent in either language myself and observing the wide variety of accents found in Latin America, I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference from a random TV broadcast or music video.Ã,  Just because *you* know what language is spoken in Brasil doesn't mean that information has ever been available to me from a reliable source before now.

Ryukage, that Mexican friend of yours shows he didn't know what he is saying. Knowing a few Portuguese words isn't enough: it's necessary knowing its origin.
An old theory is all languages came from a first original one, the Sanscipt. Now that Spanish was in the basis of Portuguese..., is the same that telling Welsh is in the basis of English: no, they're two different languages!
Let me try to explain you a thing: In Romanic speaking countries, the languages were basically a mix of the Latin with the local speaking dialects and languages. So they have been talked differently in each region, forming the five main Romanic languages: French; Italian; Portuguese; Roumenian; Spanish. Of course there are other languages (as the Basque, one of the oldest European languages, and has nothing with Latin, so it isn't an Indo-European language, but older than that). So, also according to your Mexican mate, Spanish could be Italian with a weird accent...
Farland won't let me lie here. Galicia and Portugal have had a dialect called Galaico-Portuguese, mostly used for poetry and literary works, but that one was forbidden by Castilla after 1385.
Now if you tell me Galician was in the origin of Portuguese (but not Spanish), maybe I agree: it's one of the theories. If you say to a Galician his/her language came from Castilian/Spanish/whatever, you are also wrong.
http://www.applet-magic.com/spport.htm

That said, I do know some fragments of Spanish and a few Spanish grammar rules, and I find most of the latter to be unnecessary complications with no effect on the meaning of the sentence.Ã,  As an anime fan, I've also studied Japanese and Chinese a bit, and being a medieval folklore buff I've studied some German as well.Ã,  I've found that as much as I enjoy learning *about* other languages, actually learning to speak them is beyond my abilities.Ã,  So I'm far from ignorant of other languages, I'm just not fluent in any of them.

It's the prize we must pay for having a so theoretical and complicated language (Latin) as our mother-tongue: every "specialist" had something to say, forming the most complicated grammar and ortographic rules ever. The "Arts Grammaticae" were studied throughout the Middle Ages and are still being studied nowadays, although Latin is already a dead language, now only spoken eg in Vatican between church ministers of different countries.

And of course, the only true ignorance is believing one knows everything.Ã,  Such a one asks no questions, because he believes he has all the answers already.Ã,  I know enough to know that I know very little of all there is to know, so I ask questions in a continual attempt to fill in the dreadful gaps, and dispense freely of the knowledge I already have to help others do the same.Ã,  You learn something every time you objectively consider another's point of view with an open mind, even if you ultimately determine it to be foolish.

I must repeat, nobody knows everything. And must add I personally am Socratic: "All I know is that I know less every day".

He [Spielberg]reveals his ignorance...

Yeah, I was too rude, and I've apologised for that yet. But still think Spielberg could have done a few researches (eg he could have paid a university team for a serious history research), as a movie is seen worldwide, so its historical mistakes too.

All the art is done... The scripting is advancing... slowly...

I'd love to beta testing your game, as I love MI!!!

... the stupid Portugal
... the bastardsÃ, 
has to face the stupidity itself

I've got a question for the amarican people. Is it true that there is a sign on every microwave oven that you should'nt put a cat in it, because a woman once did that and sued the companie? It sounds really stupied to me but I heard of this once.

Yes?!...Ã,  :o I didn't know that one, but a little googling gave me this interesting link about that "urban legend":
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/micropet.htmÃ,  http://www.genmay.net/archive/index.php/t-102587.html

About that cat warning, didn't get anything...
EDIT Wait, I found something...
http://www.fccps.k12.va.us/gm/lasso/Archive/2002-2003/commentary/12-28-02-Warning.htm

And regarding language; if you claim that English is easy to learn because of its linguistic qualities, you're simply wrong.
I've studied language and English in particular for several years on university level, and one thing I know is how irregular English is in comparison to other languages, how big discrepancy there is between pronunciation and spelling, and how vast the vocabulary is.
The reason why people tend to pick it up easily is purely cultural; the enormous input from TV and the Internet, etc.

I must agree with you in the part you say English is difficult. When I studied phrasal verbs, I started climbing walls.
When you say English has too much vocabulary, I must also agree: an old teacher of mine in Portugal, Peter Hall, Ph D, told us his parents were always telling him: "- Don't be snobbish! Only snobs use more than two syllable words! [read: coming from French].
While a COMPLETE Portuguese dictionary has barely 120,000-150,000 words, an English one would have ca. 700,000.
But if we included all verb conjugations, wow, ti would appear aÃ,  few million words in that Portuguese Dictionary.

And the easy way I can create a new word in English, eg by adding two existing ones: cow+boy cow+girl. Eg in Portuguese: vaca - vaqueiro, vaqueira.

I've studied French for many years (ca. twelve, also on university level), more even then English, and I still need a dictionary for every word I write in French.

But now, what makes things too complicated is our grammar, our concordancies between subject and complements, our verb conjugations, too far much more complicated than the English grammar.

I've studied Latin for two years (started climbing walls there), and know there were "conjugations" even for nouns, according to its morphological and sintactical place in any expression. German still has that, and Italian too.

Thank you very much, Privateer Puddin': your fair play is a great joy for me, even more than the victory.

That's life. In Brazil usually say that if "Macumba" (white and black magic) won games, all would finish "tied"Ã, 

Thanks a lot, Privateer, for your sympathy, and Gord10,

By the way, CONGRATULATIONS PORTUGAL !
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Thank you very much!Ã, 

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out again on penalties

Thanks. Ok, the best was both of our teams could have won... Soccer is just too umprevisible. Damn, those $$$ chitters are a mess... Look at our Figo...

Above average England should beat mediocre Portugal.

Hold your horses, please, Barcik! Pls don't insult MY team...Ã,  er... MY country... :'(

You're welcome, Privateer Puddin': besides we are old mates (since the 12th century), for me, any attempt against a human life should be paid with the same coin: it seems too radical, but that's how I feel it: "olho por olho, dente por dente" ("an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth").

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By the way, what was the final result between Portugal and England? It seems incredible, but I didn't see the match, I was too occupied with my adventure game hooliganismÃ,  ... and I'm too young for dying from an earth attack... yeah, I smoke too much...Ã, 

Oh, I'm hearing now who won: the firemen's siren is playing..., alotta noise on the streets...

I know you have something against us but, he's a human being and you laugh when he suffers an injury? it's almost as bad (imo) as no one replying when i posted news about the england fan being killed..

I'll do it then. Sorry, didn't see this thread before. It was done by an Ukranian who has been already arrested and did so just to rob him. My condolences for his family and all British in general.

Why not making one between 2 and 3, or between 3 and 4?
By the way, MI4 is out now!!! WOW!!!

http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?topic=14892.msg182144#msg182144

Heck, we *did* it by ourselves, we don't need no stinking NATO!

Well, personally I'd prefer alot the US didn't have needed the NATO. When the War agains Afghanistan first, then Iraq began, I was really affraid Azores would be attacked, as there's a US base there. I don't mean we don't help our friends, just THEY MUST HAVE HELPED US when we needed (Timor), and that has happen due to sharp and strong international ass kicks.

I also know ifÃ,  the Southern Europe had been occupied by the Russians it would have been a real chit. If I can call something to myself, I always was a 200% "anti-old URSS" government. I read eg Soljenitsine's "The Gulag Archipelago" at least twice, besides other books.

I know Roosevelt's "New Deal" helped Europe a lot. But let's not cover gross mistakes with very good things made before: each government is a case. And, in foreign affairs, I always "phewww" when there's a Democrat President running the "Police of the Free World". When there's a Republican there, I almost tremble of fear about what can happen - and that much, much before the 911.

Primus: But English isn't a Romantic language- it's Germanic with random bits of Romantic thrown in after the Norman invasion of England.

The reason I used verb examples is because Ryukage mentioned our basic forms of conjugation.

Thanks for your info, DragonRose, you're true. The main reason English is simpler (in Grammar) than other languages is because English was barely written during the Normand period (ca 11th-15th centuries, wasn't it?), so French was the most used language. And now, of each five English words, ca. three have Latin origin (directly from Latin, but mostly from French itself).

Ok, Blackthrone519, I needed to write that anyway, I was too rude to Spielberg - and a few American fellows could not like that too much Before loving each others, we LOVE and defend our own countries and mates!Ã,