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 Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:25 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 9:29 am
These are really funny! Thanks for linking it!
"Japanese is essentially tone-deaf ancient Chinese spoken backwards.
--Matthew Faupel
Japanese is essentially phonetic heaven.
--Nik Taylor
Japanese is (of course) essentially Turkish as spoken by Hawaiians.
--David Eddyshaw
Japanese is essentially the linguistic equivalent of kicking someone's butt.
--Danny Wier"
LOL
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:58 am
Vietnamese is essentially Chinese spoken as fast as you can.
--Alex Stanich
Spoken Vietnamese is essentially Chinese with 6 tones, unpronounceable consonants, and sounds you have to say while inhaling.
--Jonathan Walton
Vietnamese is essentially Thai with a Chinese vocabulary.
--Danny Wier
English is essentially a language that uses vowels no other language would accept.
--Luís Henrique
Klingon is essentially Arabic spoken by a German with a tribble caught in the back of his throat and a turtle on his head
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 12:51 pm
English is essentially Pictish that was attacked out of nowhere by Angles cohabiting with Teutons who were done in by a drunk bunch of Vikings masquerading as Frenchmen who insisted they spoke Latin and Greek but lacked the Arabic in which to convey that.
--Bill Hammel
Ah what a great language to have XD
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:04 pm
wow, I really laughed at those....
here's one for German:
German is essentially English as spoken by a drunken, slurring nuclear-plant technician desperately trying, and failing, to get a date by expounding on "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and, then, logically enough, committing suicide.
--Thomas Wier
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:59 pm
lil_princess_007 wow, I really laughed at those.... here's one for German: German is essentially English as spoken by a drunken, slurring nuclear-plant technician desperately trying, and failing, to get a date by expounding on "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and, then, logically enough, committing suicide. --Thomas Wier LOL that's a good one.
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Henneth Annun Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 12:36 am
How did you find this amazing site? XD
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Chinese is essentially German, only more so.
--John Cowan
Korean is essentially being caught in a syllable-diagraming exercise gone horribly, horribly wrong.
--David Boshko
Francophones are essentially Germans speaking the bad Latin they were taught by Gauls.
--Daniel von Brighoff
Belgian is essentially French spoken as a tonal language.
--Zoe Mulford
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I recognize some of these names from a mailing list I'm on. eek
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 2:22 am
Henneth Annun How did you find this amazing site? XD A class mate of mine sent it to me... I don't know where he'd found it.
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 7:28 am
Haha, this is hilarious!
French is essentially the first syllables of Latin words spoken with a headcold.
--Eugene Holman
All Romance languages are essentially the same. Except French.
--Andreas Johansson
French is essentially the linguistic equivalent of a really bad tailgating accident in which all the final consonants either are lost or stuck on the windshield of the next car.
--Hanbing Feng
French is what happened when Germans tried to learn Latin and said "screw it."
--Charles Lavergne
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:38 am
Japanese is essentially a language that adopted the world's most complicated writing system, and then made it worse.
--Peter Bleackley
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:31 pm
English is essentially bad Dutch with outrageously pronounced French and Latin vocabulary.
--Eugene Holman
Futhark is essentially Latin formed from carefully engineered trees.
--Danny Wier
Portuguese is essentially Spanish as spoken by a Russian.
--Peter Clark
(the second one is from the writing systems section).
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Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 3:39 pm
Germänn ist eßëntiälly Ënglisch mit ein few Tschängen und das käpitäal Lëtteren und Lötten von Dötten.
--Nik Taylor
German essentially Gothic with Latin syntax is.
--John Hudson
American is essentially achieved by simplifying and complexifying English at once.
--Greg Johnston
American grammar is essentially not essential
--Ivan C. Amaya
I'm going to be reading these all night.
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:20 pm
this one wasnt on the list so far... (theres a lot to read! wink ) but its one of my favourite quotes on the english language: Quote: "We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." --James D. Nicoll these are all quite funny!
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:05 pm
WraythRose Darkthorn this one wasnt on the list so far... (theres a lot to read! wink ) but its one of my favourite quotes on the english language: Quote: "We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." --James D. Nicoll these are all quite funny! Hehehe so true.
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 1:19 am
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I lol'd at Farsi.
Urdu is essentially Hindi as spoken by Muslims.
--John Cowan
Pashto is as essentially Persian as Icelandic is essentially English.
--John Cowan
Punjabi is essentially Hindi for pop music.
--Amber Adams
Farsi is essentially Classical Latin as spoken by an Arab first-year student.
--Amber Adams
Punjabi is essentially Indo-Iranian that stayed at home.
--Jörg Rhiemeier
Eastern Punjabi is essentially Western Punjabi that has been pwned by Hindi.
--John Cowan
Urdu writing is essentially Arabo-Persian writing, done in a hurry.
--Danny Wier
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