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Hahaha, I did not expect that song to turn out to be Take Me Home, Country Roads. Takes me back. I guess that means video games were mainstream when I was little, driving through [redacted] with my family...

[Yoink]

Je m'en fiche.

[scourge728]

Re: Languages. I dunno if it's because I'm a native English speaker or an Etymology nerd but I find having the worlds most bastard language is pretty amazing for Europe travel.

3am speel:
I've been learning (very, very basic) Indian and Chinese languages like Punjabi and Cantonese and as soon as someone speaks Hindi or Mandarin I have no clue what the heck they've just said. Native speakers say they can generally fossick out the meanings of someone's sentences if they're speaking a different regional language, but I'd originally thought the only western equivalent was the Scandinavians, and as an EFL I was doomed to a life of opulent simplicity.
Until basically the first time I had someone slowly and clearly speak German at me. It's definitely got a whole crapton of different words, but boy did we steal quite a few of the basics- especially the simple nouns.
"Wo Ist De Shadenhaus"? Never been easier.

It's almost as if English is a Germanic language....

[Magistrum]

[...]now I want to learn an asian language (Japanese). That makes it incredibly difficult, even though people have been telling me that Japanese is relatively easy.[...]

Nice! I am also a native Portuguese speaker that learned English, is learning Japanese and loves Dwarf Fortress! We should totally, like, hang out or something m8.

[Tack]

It's almost as if English is a Germanic language....

Except it also folds into the post-latin languages, so some things like Spanish and French are surprisingly intuitive as well.
... Further east it all starts to fall apart though.

[Teneb]

Brazil's education system is such a wonder! Here, people (I'm surely not taking me as an example) get a beautiful 10/10 in English and even more beautiful 4/10 in Portuguese!


Another wonderful thing is how we get into college/university. Instead of getting our High School grades and stuff. The system simply ignores EVERYTHING that you ever done in school, and instead, throws at you a Big test of 180 questions and an essay, to be done in 2 days. Then, how you perform in this test, is what decides if you are approved or not in a college. The only condition though, is that you either has already finished high school, or you're on the last year of it.

To be honest, some schools can really screw you over. Either because the staff doesn't care, because of bullying, because you didn't care, or a host of other factors. Locking university education behind your time in basic education is baaaad juju.

[Reelya]

I don't think I can fully express the level of stare-glare I am giving the screen right now.

Meanwhile I'm just happy someone had the same reaction I did! I actually stopped on the street and stared. Felt like I'd lost my marbles.

Uh, I think Kagus' reaction is for a different reason to yours. (We're assuming you mean the song from the Fallout 76 trailer).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Home,_Country_Roads

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Take Me Home, Country Roads", also known as "Country Roads, Take Me Home" or "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number 2 on Billboard's US Hot 100 singles for the week ending August 28, 1971.

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" received an enthusiastic response from West Virginians. The song is the theme song of West Virginia University and it has been performed during every home football pregame show since 1972.

The popularity of the song has inspired resolutions in the West Virginia Legislature to adopt "Take Me Home, Country Roads" as an official state song. On March 7, 2014, the West Virginia Legislature approved a resolution to make "Take Me Home, Country Roads" an official state song of West Virginia

This song was played at the funeral memorial for Senator Robert Byrd at the state capitol in Charleston on July 2, 2010.

People singing that song have nothing to do with Fallout 76. It's just a really popular song.

[Loud Whispers]

Or Kingsman

[hector13]

Or Kingsman

 

[heydude6]

Or Kingsman

 

Quoi?

I think I’m a bit out of the loop here.

[hector13]

It’s too beautiful to spoil.

[Yoink]

Apparently the UK is at it again, arresting people for making jokes. -_-

[pikachu17]

What kind of joke did they arrest someone for?

[scriver]

I don't think I can fully express the level of stare-glare I am giving the screen right now.

Meanwhile I'm just happy someone had the same reaction I did! I actually stopped on the street and stared. Felt like I'd lost my marbles.

Uh, I think Kagus' reaction is for a different reason to yours. (We're assuming you mean the song from the Fallout 76 trailer).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Home,_Country_Roads

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Take Me Home, Country Roads", also known as "Country Roads, Take Me Home" or "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert, and John Denver. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number 2 on Billboard's US Hot 100 singles for the week ending August 28, 1971.

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" received an enthusiastic response from West Virginians. The song is the theme song of West Virginia University and it has been performed during every home football pregame show since 1972.

The popularity of the song has inspired resolutions in the West Virginia Legislature to adopt "Take Me Home, Country Roads" as an official state song. On March 7, 2014, the West Virginia Legislature approved a resolution to make "Take Me Home, Country Roads" an official state song of West Virginia

This song was played at the funeral memorial for Senator Robert Byrd at the state capitol in Charleston on July 2, 2010.

People singing that song have nothing to do with Fallout 76. It's just a really popular song.

Take me home country roads is like literally the most famous song in the world. You could start singing it in public and somebody else will finish it for you in goddamn Sweden.

It's almost as if English is a Germanic language....

Except it also folds into the post-latin languages, so some things like Spanish and French are surprisingly intuitive as well.
... Further east it all starts to fall apart though.

The difference is that English borrowed from French and Latin (or was forced upon it by the French conquerors). It didn't steal anything from German. It's a Germanic language. It's another branch on the same tree.

[CABL]

Apparently the UK is at it again, arresting people for making jokes. -_-

So why you are annoyed about it? Didn't you call Putin "total bro", considering there were numerous arrests in Russia for simply liking stuff on the social networks?