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[bri193]

Just saw the live demo announcement ... lovely, it will be at 02:00 CET ...

Another smart move on Bioware's part to ******-off European customers .... Edmonton is in Mountain time-zone, so if they wanted to shift it why not go east instead of a time-zone further west??

[MaxQuartiroli]

@Lion36.. thank you very much...

Yes.. It's true.. When we speak it's always like as we are singing... I know it..

[Kenrae]

bri193 wrote...

Just saw the live demo announcement ... lovely, it will be at 02:00 CET ...
Another smart move on Bioware's part to ******-off European customers .... Edmonton is in Mountain time-zone, so if they wanted to shift it why not go east instead of a time-zone further west??

Ouch!

[Kenrae]

MaxQuartiroli wrote...

@Lion36.. thank you very much...
Yes.. It's true.. When we speak it's always like as we are singing... I know it..

To us*, Italians sound similar to ourselves but a lot faster. And moving the hands a lot:P.
The high volume talking and screaming, we share with them:D.


*On that sentence, by us I mean northeastern Spain. Those of use who also speak Catalan.

[Kenrae]

Listening to these guys:







I'm sure you don't know them. Metal with saxophone!

[MaxQuartiroli]

Kenrae wrote...

MaxQuartiroli wrote...

@Lion36.. thank you very much...
Yes.. It's true.. When we speak it's always like as we are singing... I know it..

To us*, Italians sound similar to ourselves but a lot faster. And moving the hands a lot:P.
The high volume talking and screaming, we share with them:D.


*On that sentence, by us I mean northeastern Spain. Those of use who also speak Catalan.

Yes.. It's typical and we are well known for our "high volume speaking".
When I travel out of Italy I understand immediately if there are some italians nearness because I can hear them from a long long distance...
and we have very similar language... when I went in Barcellona I had really no problem in talking with people.. I spoke italian and they spoke spanish and we had no problem in understanding each others...

[MaxQuartiroli]

Kenrae wrote...

Listening to these guys:



I'm sure you don't know them. Metal with saxophone!

wow !! awesome....

do you want to see another amazing thing? take a look at this video then..

Modifié par MaxQuartiroli, 05 mars 2010 - 11:21 .

[bri193]

Kenrae wrote...
To us*, Italians sound similar to ourselves but a lot faster. And moving the hands a lot:P.
The high volume talking and screaming, we share with them:D.
*On that sentence, by us I mean northeastern Spain. Those of use who also speak Catalan.

I used to be able to speak Spanish before I came to Italy. I did project work in Costa Rica and Colombia, and spent 4 months in Mexico many years ago ... The Spainsh I learned was South American, much differernt accent, some differernt words, and spoken amuch slower than in Spain, particularly in Madrid!
When I first arrived in Italy, I knew no Italian so I would use Spanish nouns for things, and 70% of the time people here understand what I meant. For verbs it was not so easy...
Now that I have been in Italy  for 12 years, my Spanish is gone!! If  I spend more than 2 days in Spain, it slowly begins to return, but I do not have all the vocabulary I used to have... I have had conversations with taxi drivers in Madrid, the driver speaking Spanish, and me speaking Italian ...
Btw, I like Spain, particularly Valencia  and the area along the coast....

[Kenrae]

bri193 wrote...
When I first arrived in Italy, I knew no Italian so I would use Spanish nouns for things, and 70% of the time people here understand what I meant. For verbs it was not so easy...

That's latin languages for you! We conjugate everything, and of course every language does it its own way .

And then here in Catalonia (where Barcelona is located) we speak two languages. You end up "assigning" a language to a person. People who come to visit are usually beffudled at how we can switch from one language to the other in the same conversation without noticing:P.

[bri193]

@Kenrae
I work at a large European international agency, with people from all over Europe and beyond ... Most people here know at least 2 languages (working language is English....) So, I am very used to hearing people switch between 2 or 3 languages in one conversation! I have knowledge of 4 languages, in order of competance: English (first), Italian, Spanish, and French ...

Modifié par bri193, 05 mars 2010 - 12:33 .

[BostonVamp]

bri193 wrote...

@Lion, you got to keep an eye out for BostonVamp, she stealths in for a wee bit, plants a few good ones, then stealths out ...I almost fell out of my chair over the neck-tie thing ...

I do my best.

[BostonVamp]

Good morning / afternoon if there's anyone out there.

[TheLion36]

BostonVamp wrote...
Good morning / afternoon if there's anyone out there.

Goodmorning BostonVamp... *Looks really hard if he can detect any neck-ties on BostonVamp*
How are you today?

[bri193]

BostonVamp wrote...

bri193 wrote...

@Lion, you got to keep an eye out for BostonVamp, she stealths in for a wee bit, plants a few good ones, then stealths out ...I almost fell out of my chair over the neck-tie thing ...

I do my best.

So it seems !!
Good morning BV !

[Liso66]

Good Morning / Afternoon everyone! *hands out breakfast and lunch cookies*

[TheLion36]

Liso66 wrote...
Good Morning / Afternoon everyone! *hands out breakfast and lunch cookies*

Goodmorning Liso66, thanks for the cookies! 

[bri193]

The East Coast awakes once again ....

We need a few asylum members from Pacific coasts and/or Oz ... this would keep it lively for the full 24hrs cycle ...

[Liso66]

bri193 wrote...

The East Coast awakes once again ....
We need a few asylum members from Pacific coasts and/or Oz ... this would keep it lively for the full 24hrs cycle ...

I am not east coast! er.. same time zone though. Assume that is what you meant.  hehe

[MaxQuartiroli]

Good morning to US section of topic !!!

[bri193]

Liso, good morning !! I listened to your podcast thingy ....

Clocked your accent straight off, also that Skunk lad is from California ,,, and the other bloke is Canadian ... You have a good 'on-air' presence, I am impressed!



I used to do a live radio show on a campus/community radio station in Halifax for every week for 2.5 years ... I have an old air-check tape booting around, but not in digital, only cassette-tape ..

[BostonVamp]

TheLion36 wrote...

BostonVamp wrote...
Good morning / afternoon if there's anyone out there.

Goodmorning BostonVamp... *Looks really hard if he can detect any neck-ties on BostonVamp*
How are you today?

I'm well.  Neck-ties, see after they're put to their "special" use, if you're the type that needs to wear neckties to work, you can wear one and then you'll have a pleasant reminder of the event all day at work - should help to make the day be more pleasant as there would be "other" thoughts to occupy your mind. And then, of course, you'll have something to look forward to... It's a type of torture, but delicious torture...

[BostonVamp]

bri193 wrote...

BostonVamp wrote...

bri193 wrote...

@Lion, you got to keep an eye out for BostonVamp, she stealths in for a wee bit, plants a few good ones, then stealths out ...I almost fell out of my chair over the neck-tie thing ...

I do my best.

So it seems !!
Good morning BV !

Hello!

[BostonVamp]

Liso66 wrote...

Good Morning / Afternoon everyone! *hands out breakfast and lunch cookies*

Treats!  One of the reasons I love coming here.  Good morning, Liso!

[BostonVamp]

MaxQuartiroli wrote...

Good morning to US section of topic !!!

Hi, Max!

Did everyone get enough sleep last night?

[bri193]

Liso66 wrote...

bri193 wrote...

The East Coast awakes once again ....
We need a few asylum members from Pacific coasts and/or Oz ... this would keep it lively for the full 24hrs cycle ...

I am not east coast! er.. same time zone though. Assume that is what you meant.  hehe

Yep, I know ... Mistake on the Lake, and all that ...