posted August 08, 2011 04:35 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by L0veLess:
lol yu do!? yay! That one always stuck with me :P

---

lol, yea, dexters laboratory used to be my fav show when i was a kid

------------------
I once saw a sign that said "sin is death" but if "all deaths are suicide (linda goodman)" and suicide is sin, then shouldnt "death is sin" be more appropriate?

posted August 08, 2011 04:36 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by NickiG:
i'm actually not that adept and i'm not really sure how the translations work just yet because when i became a translator nothing needed translating, lol

---

o.O hahah oh well yu'll figure it out ^^

------------------
I became insane, with long
intervals of horrible
sanity.-Poe

posted August 08, 2011 04:37 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by L0veLess:
o.O hahah oh well yu'll figure it out ^^

---

yea, lol and so far i'v only been able to complete japanese lesson 1...and the reason its taking me a while is that one of the excersizes is having to speak and i always feel weird when i do that

------------------
I once saw a sign that said "sin is death" but if "all deaths are suicide (linda goodman)" and suicide is sin, then shouldnt "death is sin" be more appropriate?

posted August 08, 2011 05:31 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by NickiG:
my 9th house is empty of planets XD NN is there, but thats it

---

posted August 08, 2011 05:32 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by eternallyoptimistic:
...forgot to add "and to Sagittarius."

---

oooooh, well, i definitely have something there....my mercury is a singleton there

------------------
I once saw a sign that said "sin is death" but if "all deaths are suicide (linda goodman)" and suicide is sin, then shouldnt "death is sin" be more appropriate?

posted August 08, 2011 05:44 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by lechien:
you're MY birthday neighbour. i was born on the 19th! where are you getting all that enthusiasm?? i get bored soooo easily! right now i should be focusing on German but i have to oscillate between that and French because of the boredom of being stuck with the same one.

---

posted August 08, 2011 06:11 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by NickiG:
oooooh, well, i definitely have something there....my mercury is a singleton there

---

posted August 08, 2011 06:14 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by eternallyoptimistic:
So you got 2. Maybe your 9th house ruler can tell you something. I have mine in 7th, which suggests I have or will have a significant relationship with a foreigner and it's true. Or check progressed planets. I had Sun progressed into Sagittarius but I already had too much to begin with.

---

whoa, my 9th ruler is in my 7th too!!!

------------------
I once saw a sign that said "sin is death" but if "all deaths are suicide (linda goodman)" and suicide is sin, then shouldnt "death is sin" be more appropriate?

posted August 08, 2011 06:30 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by lechien:
really, so do you sound like you'd cough up phlegm and spit it out into my face every 3 seconds too? (i'm so mean, i didn't have the best experience living in Holland actually! )

---

LOL! No, not that bad, but it is an awful sounding dialect, it always sounds like we're insulting everyone we talk to. Or at least that is what it sounds like to me ("What did you call me... Oh wait, it was a compliment, sorry.") And, in addition to that, Antwerp dialect does have the most imaginative curses and swears in existence! They always crack me up, even when someone hurls them at me We must have been a peace loving people back in the day, we Antwerpians, no wonder other Belgians don't like us

posted August 08, 2011 07:18 PM            

well, a friend once did say that German is the ugliest language though. and he said, "how can you call a butterfly SCHMETTERLING!?" but seriously, what the heck is "butter-fly" just as much!

posted August 08, 2011 09:29 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by L0veLess:
LOL ya I only know English and not even all of it. Not many people are fluent in English even if they speak it because not many can speak it and write it well! Doesn't J'aime poisson mean i like fish? lol That reminds me of Dexter's Laboratory when all he learned was Omelette du fromage! haha cheese omelette

---

hahaha! yeah!!

posted August 08, 2011 09:30 PM            

I will say ZIEG KEIMP MEIN VICHIEN

posted August 09, 2011 12:44 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by bethcarliseh:
I speak German to my mothers dog.

I will say ZIEG KEIMP MEIN VICHIEN

I don't know if this means anything but the dog always submits to me when I do this

---

hahaha I taught my dog sit in french. But the problem was I used what our teacher would tell us "assez-vous" which is too formal to say to a pet! Sooo I taught her the wrong way -_-

------------------
I became insane, with long
intervals of horrible
sanity.-Poe

posted August 09, 2011 02:43 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by L0veLess:
hahaha I taught my dog sit in french. But the problem was I used what our teacher would tell us "assez-vous" which is too formal to say to a pet! Sooo I taught her the wrong way -_-

---

LOL!!!

posted August 09, 2011 05:41 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by L0veLess:
LOL ya I only know English and not even all of it. Not many people are fluent in English even if they speak it because not many can speak it and write it well! Doesn't J'aime poisson mean i like fish? lol That reminds me of Dexter's Laboratory when all he learned was Omelette du fromage! haha cheese omelette

---

posted August 09, 2011 07:50 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by bethcarliseh:
I speak German to my mothers dog.

I will say ZIEG KEIMP MEIN VICHIEN

I don't know if this means anything but the dog always submits to me when I do this

---

Dogs listen to the tone of voice, not the contents of what is being said. So if you're going to sound stern, of course he's going to submit!

posted August 09, 2011 07:58 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by lechien:
well good one, though i've been to Antwerp several times i didn't pay particular attention to the accent. i was too busy hatin' on the Dutch. mmm i wish i had some fries right now. with mayonnaise. though it's possible to get that here too.

well, a friend once did say that German is the ugliest language though. and he said, "how can you call a butterfly SCHMETTERLING!?" but seriously, what the heck is "butter-fly" just as much!

German IS weird though.

---

Oh my god... Schmetterling? They never taught me that in school, I would have quit German after half a year instead of one year I had to quit anyway, every time I tried to pronounce "Vater", it sounded like I was talking about that man with the teapot over his head who had submitted to the dark side. I just couldn't manage to pronounce ANY German word correctly, no matter how hard my teacher tried to teach me! LOL!

Oh, and there are more Dutch in Antwerp than Antwerpians, especially on the weekends In fact, if you walk around in the city, you're probably more likely to hear people speaking Holland Dutch, polite or simply another language. The inner city houses mostly students or businesspeople (they can afford the high expenses of living smack bang in the centre of this city), and just outside of the old city centre, it is mostly foreign people who speak either French or English, or their own native language. On the outskirts of THOSE outskirts, is where you'll start to find people who actually talk the way I described

posted August 09, 2011 08:02 AM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by L0veLess:
hahaha I taught my dog sit in french. But the problem was I used what our teacher would tell us "assez-vous" which is too formal to say to a pet! Sooo I taught her the wrong way -_-

---

Assieds or assieds-toi? He'll still listen Hey, if I can teach a ten year old dog a completely different language altogether, you sure can make minor adjustments to what you have already taught a dog. And: what I wrote above, dogs only listen to the tone of voice, not what is being said gestures help too, by the way!

posted August 09, 2011 09:50 AM            

In Dutch, butterfly is "vlinder". It somehow does add more to the mysticalness of a butterfly. Besides, I think you can call it whatever you like, if you're used to it being called such-and-such in one language I think you automatically give it a more positive connotation anyway because you associate it with the image (which is positive), even if what you call it (hypothetically) does translate to something like "urinal insect".

Because after all, a fly itself is only named after the verb "to fly", but when we see one, we can only think about "god, imagine where that thing's legs and tongue have been! They sit in feces! Ewww!" Or at least I do. I don't want a fly near me

posted August 09, 2011 10:38 AM            

actually, i do quite like German. it has its weirdness too but i like it. my guy does tell me that i should focus on French because French is more widely spoken worldwide and German is not, but it doesn't have to be worldwide spoken to learn it, does it? and i'll be able to understand a little bit of written Dutch because of the similarities (at the moment my German is too lousy but i do feel more familiar to Dutch after i started learning German). beside i want to read this old Theodor Storm i picked out of the "give-away" box. i loved Storm as a teenager and i'd love to understand it written in the original language.

posted August 09, 2011 11:55 AM            

I knew this girl once, she's from the UK and worked in Germany for a while and learned the language there. Then she came to Antwerp to work and she had absolutely no problem picking up Dutch after knowing German.

There definitely are a lot of similarities but for some God-forsaken reason I just cannot manage to learn even the basic German I know a few basics though, but that's about it...

posted August 09, 2011 05:54 PM            

quote:

---

Originally posted by Aya_and_baby:
Vlinder just means butterfly

---

right...

i think i told you before, but my guy once went into a small deli in a small town in Holland, and asked them "do-you-sell-anything-vegetarian?" in German with a Dutch accent.