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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...

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 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.

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...

Thanks Nik

I still don' t get what is net neutrality, ISPs, etc...

What I think I understand is that "The THING is bad".

What I don't understand is Akatosh' post:

"I hope Virgin does it, so the rest of the world will be able to say "We don' t have that evil thing that the americans do have"

But... Ain' t Virgin British?

I don' t get a word... 

Lol... A big loss. Sorry for the goofe.

As usual, I won' t edit the post for joy of further generations... 

Has anyone seen the documetary "Frank and Ollie"? It was great to see videos of them using a mirror to put live into the cartoons, to dance, to jump... They were more actors and directos than animators, actually. And Ollie still kept the pencil which was Bamby and Baloo "father".

Still, long life and great legacy... More an aspect and live than a tragedy, but death still sucks. 

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... 

It seems it is allways me who gives the bad news... 

Ollie Johnson, the last of the magnificent group of 9 Disney's animators, died on April 14th, aged 95. His death is a great failure for the world of the cartoon and also the end of an era.

Some of you won't probably care, but I liked the guy... the relation he kept with Frank Thomas till his death in 2004 was funny... A good person and a great artist leaves us. At least he had a long and productive live!

Rest in peace, Ollie!

Funny, but some of my bests mates here are sun and moon... DM and Helm.

Some others are Francisco, Petter (Andail), Petteri, Jet, SSH, Quintaros, Laya, Gold (& wife), M0ds... Lots of people, I am probably missing some others...

And La Lore, of course...

And Ah! I count "The brits" as a whole entity, so, CJ, Tom, etc... are also in the list...

What I can say is that I never meet someone (personally) that I really dislike. (Well... maybe AGA).

Nobody likes me...  :'(

Hey Scummbuddy! That makes me feel very happy for you both! Congratulations... Is this going to be the first wedding between two AGS members? (Ok, I know there are some couples of AGS members, and some of the wifes joined AGS AFTER the wedding...)

Anyway, congrats... Too bad Lore and me aren' t going to win this race, apparently we are still two or 3 years away of visiting the church...   

Not only the shoulders... everything should move a pixel up and down...

Remember (S stands for "Same heigh as the idle static frame", H stands for "one higher", and B stands for "one below")

Contact S
Recoil B
Passing S
High Point H

Why do catholic church (and/or many of its stupid followers) deny theory of evolution I don't know. Why couldn't it be also part of God's plan?

Because Darwin says that humans evolved from monkeys, while the Bible thinks that people were created independantly from animals.

Darwin does not say that.

Yes, it is sad... I really liked his work. Well, at least he had 90 years to enjoy, I don' t see it as a tragedy, but as a unaviodable effect of time.  

Hey, if it' s cheating, tell to me ASAP, I am allways copying somebody else' s (specially from the profis) palletes. 

Has anyone seen American History X?

I' ve seen it.

Do we go on with some interesting/helpfull or funny thread?

He is free to go to G4.

First one to visit! I can't calm my excitement, really!!11!