...what happened to Pages?

[Matze149]

Usually I would just go with "Use the one which doesn´t sound strange" - but that´s a bit hard to tell to somebody who doesn´t know the language ^^""""

 

[Matze149]

and by the way, "die" is another example for a false friend word... (not hard to tell why, right....? xD")

 

[Matze149]

well, I´m gonna go to bed~

 

[Matze149]

Good night~

 

[bladesworn]

Usually I would just go with "Use the one which doesn´t sound strange" - but that´s a bit hard to tell to somebody who doesn´t know the language ^^""""

I kinda get what you mean, it's kinda like figuring out whether to use "a" or "an" in sentences.

 

[megumi]

blade isn´t that wrong, I´ve felt the same when getting school english. Both languages have some similiar sounding words with the same meaning. The problem is that there are many "bad friend words" too... For example "still": Here that word means "silence"

Well...
"still" in English can be used in two ways.

Like, the show is still airing, as in it has not yet ended.

Or... the lion laid completely still, as in not moving.

@_@

But silence...? I can see some connections but yeah... Different, indeed.

 

[megumi]

OMG! HELP! THEY FOUND ME OUT!!!!!! D:

...I've known for a while? xD

 

[megumi]

Well, once you're past the Hiragana and Katakana, and you need to learn is the 1,001 Kanji and you're good to go.

There's more than that.

 

[megumi]

"Die" can also be used for "many things". In this case: "Der Hit" (1 hit(-song)) but "Die Hits" (all of them). It´s because there´re several of them on the CD

Single is male?
Plural is female?

?!

 

[megumi]

Usually I would just go with "Use the one which doesn´t sound strange" - but that´s a bit hard to tell to somebody who doesn´t know the language ^^""""

YEAH THAT WOULD BE HARD FOR SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T KNOW. lawls.

 

[bladesworn]

There's more than that.

I'm sorry, the 1,006 that are taught to elementary schoolers.

 

[megumi]

I kinda get what you mean, it's kinda like figuring out whether to use "a" or "an" in sentences.

But for a and an, the rules are pretty simple..

Except I never figured it if it's an hour or a hour. <_>

 

[megumi]

I'm sorry, the 1,006 that are taught to elementary schoolers.

Shit. Elementary schoolers know more kanji than I do--wait, duh. o_o I never got past the third grade Chinese textbook. Of course they know more kanji than I do.

(And I'm the person supposedly TLing MapleStory?)

 

[bladesworn]

But for a and an, the rules are pretty simple..

Except I never figured it if it's an hour or a hour. <_>

My Comp teacher just told us to use what sounded right to us, she didn't say anything about rules....

It's an, "it's in an hour" "it's an hour away". I think....

 

[megumi]

My Comp teacher just told us to use what sounded right to us, she didn't say anything about rules....

It's an, "it's in an hour" "it's an hour away". I think....

...wut.

The rules are... (minus the 9001 exceptions that exist in the English language)
if the word starts with a consonant, use a.
if the world starts with a vowel, use an.

However hour is one of those oddballs where though it starts with a consonant, its pronunciation starts with a vowel. But I never remember what it actually is used with.

 

[bladesworn]

Meh, blade's never been marked down because he's misused it, so he guesses his way works just as well.

 

[bladesworn]

"Turn off the light, And murder the dawn."

 

[megumi]

O_O?

 

[Kaitou_Yahiko]

You know, I just thought of something. Usually I wish I'd never heard some anime dubbed. But there's one anime I'm really glad I heard dubbed. Even if it was horrible.

 

[bladesworn]

You know, I just thought of something. Usually I wish I'd never heard some anime dubbed. But there's one anime I'm really glad I heard dubbed. Even if it was horrible.

And which one is that?