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LuthienTinuviel
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Welcome to OS! 
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rohanion
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Hi, welcome to OSA Robinka 
I am sure you will find a warm welcome from everyone here, I know I did! |
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Texasgirl
Joined: 18 Oct 2004
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Location: Texas (no shit, sherlock)
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too true...i did as well!
you know, to put things into perspective, it feels like i've been coming here for year, but it's only been about 6 months and some odd days.
WOW.
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RobinKa
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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Location: Wherever I may roam
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| Texasgirl wrote: | | you know, to put things into perspective, it feels like i've been coming here for year, but it's only been about 6 months and some odd days. |
Very true! And visiting OSA has become my daily habit so quickly I can't exactly say when.
Thank you all
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Texasgirl
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robin - quick polish question. is the language written using the english alphabet, or is it a whole other alphabet?
sorry guys - 
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RobinKa
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Texasgirl wrote: | | robin - quick polish question. is the language written using the english alphabet, or is it a whole other alphabet? |
TG:
English alphabet, but there are some letters with extra marks.
Below is the same sentence translated to Polish, just for example:
Polski używa tego samego alfabetu co angielski, ale ma kilka dodatkowych znaków.
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Alassante
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Joined: 10 Dec 2004
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Location: Hitchhiking to Rivendell
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Welcome RobinKa!
I am impressed with your English! You people with English as a second language usually are better at writing and speaking it than I am as my first and only language!
'Course I am from the South and we have our own language down here. We even make up our own words with their own meanings. Just try to find 'over yonder' or 'up the ways a bit' on a map - they are right beside 'down in the hollar' or 'across the crick'.
Don't worry ya'll, I tried to make sure my elves don't use Southerisms. Can you all imagine Legolas telling Aragorn to go up the ways a bit while he waited right cher for him and to let out a whoop when he got thar? 
Ya'll come back now, ya hear? (sorry, I just couldn't resist it)
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NancyBrooke
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Joined: 11 May 2003
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Location: In a motel 6 by the airport
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An aside on language - I find I use more regionalisms and idiomatic phrases now that I'm talking to a 4-yr-old all day; things like "kick up a fuss" and "reach me down ..." It's my mother talking out my mouth, I'm pretty sure!
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Rocheron
Joined: 03 Dec 2004
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Location: Seeking the fellowship of Men, Hobbits, Elves, and Dwarves.
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Welcome RobinKa!
Howdy is short for "How Do You Do" one of my favorite southern phases.
And don't let the madness scare you off. and
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Ya'll come back now, ya hear? (sorry, I just couldn't resist it) |
Coundn't resist either
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Alassante
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Oh and how could I ever forget - "Bless your heart."
In the south (at least here in the Carolinas) if something bad happens, someone always says "bless your heart." However, my yankee friends that I worked for at one time decided that it was a way for southerners to be sneaky and say "you stupid idiot" in a polite code.
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Person A says: "I was driving up the ways a bit and a cat ran in front of me. A black cat! So I swerved to miss it and ran right into a pole." 
Person B says: "Oh, bless your heart!"
Person C (who is a yankee) hears: "You stupid idiot."  |
Ever since I was told that I have to stop myself from getting offended when someone says bless your heart to me. Luckily for me, I wasn't one who said that phrase. 'Course now, I say it when I want to say you stupid idiot.
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ellisk
Joined: 23 Jan 2004
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Location: Icon by Alassante! Wow!
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| Alassante wrote: |
Don't worry ya'll, I tried to make sure my elves don't use Southerisms. Can you all imagine Legolas telling Aragorn to go up the ways a bit while he waited right cher for him and to let out a whoop when he got thar?
Ya'll come back now, ya hear? (sorry, I just couldn't resist it) |
Having lived a good portion of my life in the southern USA, I have to say I think I would fall over laughing if I saw an elf doing this. The mental image really messed with my head.
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