Haha English isn't even my first language...it's Afrikaans! But since Afrikaans originated from dutch, doesn't necessarily mean my English sounds dutch...but I honestly don't know. I think there's little people in RSA that sounds proper British. I think only people that actually lived in England for a year or two, their RSA English accent will kinda gets transformed to a British accent, mostly just because they're surrounded by British sounding people.
One of my bro's friends went to Australia to make a bit of money for a year or so. When he returned, he sounded just like an Australian even though he was very Afrikaans. Don't know if you heard proper Afrikaans people talking English while you were in Cape Town, but his English was kinda like that.
Hahe, KFC is probably the only reason why people here know about Kentucky...but yeah tbh my first thought will also be like theirs when I hear someone is from Kentucky...oh and the Kentucky Derby! I only know about this from the movies!
LOL! I learned about 6 Afrikaans words while I was there. But all i remember is oop and pomp. (No Pomping in the hottub was a running gag at one point.) The friend I was there to visit had an accent that sounded almost english (to my American ears.) And Afrikaans speakers sounded.... different to me. I would describe it as a bit harsher. A bit more germainic? I've never heard Dutch spoken, but since Afrikaans was derived from it, I assumed I was hearing something more Dutch. So that's how I've always described it.
Oh, and of course you made me think of a story. I always do. I borrowed a car and I was on a major road in Cape Town. I turned where I was told, and there was a KFC there. I decided the KFC was a good land mark and commited that to memory instead of a road number. I went back by another route and when I hit that road, I knew I just had to drive til I say KFC. Turns out, there were two KFC's on this road, and one was several miles up from the other. I got completely lost. Ha!
Edit: My driving was generally confusing. I am used to driving an automatic transmission, on the left side of the car, on the right side of the road. So driving a manual transmission, sitting on the right side of the car, and driving on the left side of the road, was weird. First time I hit a traffic circle, or a turnabout, or whatever, it was a little car sized one. I couldnt decide which way to go so I paniced and ran over it. It's a good thing it was a little one, and traffic was light. LOL
1, 2, 3 START! No seriously, I would like to know? Do you know any? Can you recognize South Africans living in Australia, part from the not-Australian accent? My uncle and his fam immigrated to Australia sometime in the 90's. Don't hear much from him.
I sure do. I've mostly met all of them through uni. Its easy to recognise South Africans living in Australia because they have a notoriously bad attitude. Extremely arrogant. I know its bad to generalise to an entire population but when I see the same attitude in 90% of the South Africans it's hard not to. They portray a very strong 'fuck you' attitude to Australian society. It's really unlike any other migrant that comes to Australia which is why it is so easy to pick.
No hating on you though! I lurrrrvz youuuz!
Mmm, it's weird...cause where I'm from there's little douchy/arrogant people in general. But it might be that those who are in Aus are from other regions from South Africa...for instance Johannesburg/Pretoria in Gauteng. Gauteng is considered our economic hub. It has the most businesses and people for that matter even though it's our smallest province. Most of the upper-class/aristocrats resides there and tend to have a snooty attitude. AND the mentality of many people in Gauteng is exactly the opposite of ours down in Cape Town, which is very narrow minded.
Dunno if you're a fan of rugby or not, but the fans of the rugby team from Gauteng (The Blue Bulls) are totally mad in the head. They are to serious and narrow-minded will literally beat on you if you wear a "Stormers" (Cape Town) jersey and tell you to fuck off with that jersey.
This is also all kinda generalized, but that's how I experienced it.
So, they might be guys are from the upper-class society, since they can afford to study in Australia (or maybe they also got a scholarship, but it's hard to believe, unless they're like the best at whatever in RSA).
But please don't judge all South Africans based on the asses you're studying with! We are cool people where I'm from! :Thumbs Up:
Haha English isn't even my first language...it's Afrikaans! But since Afrikaans originated from dutch, doesn't necessarily mean my English sounds dutch...but I honestly don't know. I think there's little people in RSA that sounds proper British. I think only people that actually lived in England for a year or two, their RSA English accent will kinda gets transformed to a British accent, mostly just because they're surrounded by British sounding people.
One of my bro's friends went to Australia to make a bit of money for a year or so. When he returned, he sounded just like an Australian even though he was very Afrikaans. Don't know if you heard proper Afrikaans people talking English while you were in Cape Town, but his English was kinda like that.
Hahe, KFC is probably the only reason why people here know about Kentucky...but yeah tbh my first thought will also be like theirs when I hear someone is from Kentucky...oh and the Kentucky Derby! I only know about this from the movies!
LOL! I learned about 6 Afrikaans words while I was there. But all i remember is oop and pomp. (No Pomping in the hottub was a running gag at one point.) The friend I was there to visit had an accent that sounded almost english (to my American ears.) And Afrikaans speakers sounded.... different to me. I would describe it as a bit harsher. A bit more germainic? I've never heard Dutch spoken, but since Afrikaans was derived from it, I assumed I was hearing something more Dutch. So that's how I've always described it.
Haha yeah pomping! I'm surprized they didn't teach you: "Jou ma se p**s!" That's probably the worst curse word we have in our language and the most recognized (I can't even get myself to type it on an US gaming forum... ). Anyway, dunno if you know either of the following: "Jimmy Car" (British Comedian) and "The Used" (US rock band). But both times they were here last year, someone taught them: "Jou ma se p**s!", cause we as South Africans find it hilarious to hear foreign people say it!
Yeah, Afrikaans speakers's English isn't as delicate/soothing/flowing as natural English speaking people.
I have to cut back on Skyping, Facebooking, and Diablofans. Had some slow work days, and got used to being able to type all day. Now that's over and I just can't stop!
as i see now number of online users approaching to 3000 for beta key event but site had a record of 3609. if i remember correctly that was in september can everybody remember what happened that day ??
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I have major difficulty understanding someone with Irish or Scottish accent.
If it's via the phone, I'm doomed. I will list a series of suggestions on what I *think* they just told me in the hope they will pick one out. It works most of the time.
Also, French is by far the sexiest language spoken. And everything with a French accent.
EDIT: When I say I had trouble being taken sesiously. It was mainly with callers from two very particular regions, but I'm not going to start a war by getting into details.
Also, worked away from here for a while. Never will forget, my first night in Colombus Ohio, I asked someone at a store for a bag of ice, and he looked completely shocked. After a very long and confusing conversation, I found out he thought I asked for a bag of ass.
Please do go into details about those regions, i don't think any forum wars will break out. People on this forum are from all over the world, and the bag of ass made me laugh.
The company I was with just served US clients. Boston ad New York City metro area people tended to take a really superior attitude with me. I don't mean to generalize, because not everyone from those places was that way, but if I had taken statistics, the results would ahve been staggering. I always took their attitude as something like "Aww, that's cute, but you couldn't possibly know what the hell you're talking about."
I have major difficulty understanding someone with Irish or Scottish accent.
When I lived in the South of England me and a friend were in a taxi. The Glaswegian taxi driver was doing his damndest to pick my friend up, his chat up lines were pure gold. Only problem is that my friend couldn't understand a word he was saying and I had to translate everything; no chat up line has ever sounded good second hand from a female. He gave up in the end, but the whole thing was funny as feck.
He dinae git his hole, nae chance. Which reminds me:
I have a awesome scottish accent when I drink... even though I've never been there and I can only do it when I'm drunk.
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im so sorry im about to go all racist, as frankie boyle said " the racist door is now open"
well the scots and the canadians do say ABOOT!!
im going down the shops, be back in ABOOT an hour
im so so sorry
If I think about it... it would probably sound like ABOOT to other people... like how Americans say RUF instead of Roof
What do you think of that Freddy.. eh?
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Link is pissed. T-Mobile doesn't have service where I live, AT&T and Verizon are both expensive enough that I'd have to sell one organ a month to pay it off, and Sprint's prepaid networks (Virgin Mobile and Boost) have a very small number of good smartphones. (Like, three smartphones between them both.)
So... LG Marquee, Motorola Triumph, or ZTE Warp... -.-
I had thought, at first, I could get an AT&T or T-Mobile phone (Both are GSM networks) and use a Straight Talk sim card (GSM Network) but low and behold, while that is completely possible, WALMART'S BRAND ISN'T AVAILABLE HERE! Fucking shoot me now...
So, which of these three crap phones do you guys suggest?
Link is pissed. T-Mobile doesn't have service where I live, AT&T and Verizon are both expensive enough that I'd have to sell one organ a month to pay it off, and Sprint's prepaid networks (Virgin Mobile and Boost) have a very small number of good smartphones. (Like, three smartphones between them both.)
So... LG Marquee, Motorola Triumph, or ZTE Warp... -.-
I had thought, at first, I could get an AT&T or T-Mobile phone (Both are GSM networks) and use a Straight Talk sim card (GSM Network) but low and behold, while that is completely possible, WALMART'S BRAND ISN'T AVAILABLE HERE! Fucking shoot me now...
So, which of these three crap phones do you guys suggest?
I never even heard of two of those.... so Motorola?
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I have major difficulty understanding someone with Irish or Scottish accent.
When I lived in the South of England me and a friend were in a taxi. The Glaswegian taxi driver was doing his damndest to pick my friend up, his chat up lines were pure gold. Only problem is that my friend couldn't understand a word he was saying and I had to translate everything; no chat up line has ever sounded good second hand from a female. He gave up in the end, but the whole thing was funny as feck.
He dinae git his hole, nae chance. Which reminds me:
I have a awesome scottish accent when I drink... even though I've never been there and I can only do it when I'm drunk.
im so sorry im about to go all racist, as frankie boyle said " the racist door is now open"
Link is pissed. T-Mobile doesn't have service where I live, AT&T and Verizon are both expensive enough that I'd have to sell one organ a month to pay it off, and Sprint's prepaid networks (Virgin Mobile and Boost) have a very small number of good smartphones. (Like, three smartphones between them both.)
So... LG Marquee, Motorola Triumph, or ZTE Warp... -.-
I had thought, at first, I could get an AT&T or T-Mobile phone (Both are GSM networks) and use a Straight Talk sim card (GSM Network) but low and behold, while that is completely possible, WALMART'S BRAND ISN'T AVAILABLE HERE! Fucking shoot me now...
So, which of these three crap phones do you guys suggest?
I never even heard of two of those.... so Motorola?
Well, I have Motorola Triumph, but it has so many problems. From what I understand, they used old and faulty hardware when they were putting the device together. -.-
Not sure if I wanna get a replacement phone or switch to one of Boost Mobile's phones.
You should stop living in such beautiful remote area's
Believe me, I'm tempted to gtfo.
I heard Cali is nice. Too bad I ain't got the money to move.
Could be worse I'm sure... I don't know the exact town you live in but where I'm originally from is an evil place that sucks your life away and you suddenly become a lifer with no job or education pumping gas because all the jobs have gone to other countries. I got my dad to move me (i.e. uhaul cube with what little possessions I owned), I found the first labour job I could find (asbestos removal for the win >_< ) enrolled to a school and it made work haha. Now I have an office job where I post on Diablofans when I'm bored
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as i see now number of online users approaching to 3000 for beta key event but site had a record of 3609. if i remember correctly that was in september can everybody remember what happened that day ??
The 3609 was on Feb 21, when the contests started. The record before that was a couple of hundred less than that and happened Sep 6, when the Chineses hackers got access to the beta client. At that time you could download the client, but only walk around Act 1 (?) with no NPC's, no nothing. Now however there are patches for it. Those runed skills was done on the beta client.
LOL! I learned about 6 Afrikaans words while I was there. But all i remember is oop and pomp. (No Pomping in the hottub was a running gag at one point.) The friend I was there to visit had an accent that sounded almost english (to my American ears.) And Afrikaans speakers sounded.... different to me. I would describe it as a bit harsher. A bit more germainic? I've never heard Dutch spoken, but since Afrikaans was derived from it, I assumed I was hearing something more Dutch. So that's how I've always described it.
Oh, and of course you made me think of a story. I always do. I borrowed a car and I was on a major road in Cape Town. I turned where I was told, and there was a KFC there. I decided the KFC was a good land mark and commited that to memory instead of a road number. I went back by another route and when I hit that road, I knew I just had to drive til I say KFC. Turns out, there were two KFC's on this road, and one was several miles up from the other. I got completely lost. Ha!
Edit: My driving was generally confusing. I am used to driving an automatic transmission, on the left side of the car, on the right side of the road. So driving a manual transmission, sitting on the right side of the car, and driving on the left side of the road, was weird. First time I hit a traffic circle, or a turnabout, or whatever, it was a little car sized one. I couldnt decide which way to go so I paniced and ran over it. It's a good thing it was a little one, and traffic was light. LOL
Mmm, it's weird...cause where I'm from there's little douchy/arrogant people in general. But it might be that those who are in Aus are from other regions from South Africa...for instance Johannesburg/Pretoria in Gauteng. Gauteng is considered our economic hub. It has the most businesses and people for that matter even though it's our smallest province. Most of the upper-class/aristocrats resides there and tend to have a snooty attitude. AND the mentality of many people in Gauteng is exactly the opposite of ours down in Cape Town, which is very narrow minded.
Dunno if you're a fan of rugby or not, but the fans of the rugby team from Gauteng (The Blue Bulls) are totally mad in the head. They are to serious and narrow-minded will literally beat on you if you wear a "Stormers" (Cape Town) jersey and tell you to fuck off with that jersey.
This is also all kinda generalized, but that's how I experienced it.
So, they might be guys are from the upper-class society, since they can afford to study in Australia (or maybe they also got a scholarship, but it's hard to believe, unless they're like the best at whatever in RSA).
But please don't judge all South Africans based on the asses you're studying with! We are cool people where I'm from! :Thumbs Up:
Haha yeah pomping! I'm surprized they didn't teach you: "Jou ma se p**s!" That's probably the worst curse word we have in our language and the most recognized (I can't even get myself to type it on an US gaming forum...
Yeah, Afrikaans speakers's English isn't as delicate/soothing/flowing as natural English speaking people.
It seems to be North and South America against the world on that. Makes me wonder it ended up that way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgOIEGz7o_s
If it's via the phone, I'm doomed. I will list a series of suggestions on what I *think* they just told me in the hope they will pick one out. It works most of the time.
Also, French is by far the sexiest language spoken. And everything with a French accent.
The company I was with just served US clients. Boston ad New York City metro area people tended to take a really superior attitude with me. I don't mean to generalize, because not everyone from those places was that way, but if I had taken statistics, the results would ahve been staggering. I always took their attitude as something like "Aww, that's cute, but you couldn't possibly know what the hell you're talking about."
Vant to zee my pearogies!
On a side note damn work so busy I haven't been around for awhile... ugh
EDIT: I'm not saying that, it was on a radio contest here for hooking up a lucky guy with a trip to Russia for love.
I have a awesome scottish accent when I drink... even though I've never been there and I can only do it when I'm drunk.
If I think about it... it would probably sound like ABOOT to other people... like how Americans say RUF instead of Roof
What do you think of that Freddy.. eh?
So... LG Marquee, Motorola Triumph, or ZTE Warp... -.-
I had thought, at first, I could get an AT&T or T-Mobile phone (Both are GSM networks) and use a Straight Talk sim card (GSM Network) but low and behold, while that is completely possible, WALMART'S BRAND ISN'T AVAILABLE HERE! Fucking shoot me now...
So, which of these three crap phones do you guys suggest?
I never even heard of two of those.... so Motorola?
Don't forget dwarves and gnomes. They say aboot.
Well, I have Motorola Triumph, but it has so many problems. From what I understand, they used old and faulty hardware when they were putting the device together. -.-
Not sure if I wanna get a replacement phone or switch to one of Boost Mobile's phones.
Believe me, I'm tempted to gtfo.
I heard Cali is nice. Too bad I ain't got the money to move.
Could be worse I'm sure... I don't know the exact town you live in but where I'm originally from is an evil place that sucks your life away and you suddenly become a lifer with no job or education pumping gas because all the jobs have gone to other countries. I got my dad to move me (i.e. uhaul cube with what little possessions I owned), I found the first labour job I could find (asbestos removal for the win >_< ) enrolled to a school and it made work haha. Now I have an office job where I post on Diablofans when I'm bored
It sounds kinda like dutch. Is there anything you'll like me to translate to Afrikaans? :Thumbs Up:
I dare not write it in English either. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poes
The 3609 was on Feb 21, when the contests started. The record before that was a couple of hundred less than that and happened Sep 6, when the Chineses hackers got access to the beta client. At that time you could download the client, but only walk around Act 1 (?) with no NPC's, no nothing. Now however there are patches for it. Those runed skills was done on the beta client.
http://www.diablofans.com/topic/28042-download-link-of-the-beta-no-virus-not-fake/page__hl__client