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Re: The Well - Part XXV: LSP unleashes the fury (and the furries) by poisoning the We
Seriously, I hate that map. It's actually cool but why people only play that hellish map all the time is beyond me. At least play the modified versions, please!
In all truth I don't care about what map I'm playing as long as I'm playing Gun Game maps, but sometimes you have to play with friends and one questions the value of democracy at those times... lol
I actually posted the ad in my sig cause I knew you'd see the pics LOL
I love tormenting you :laugh2: It feels great and having added Furries to the Well, it's as poisoned as it will ever be.
Laudable: from the Latin verb laudare, to praise. IIRC
I learned English from watching too much TV. My dad worked long hours, my mom had to work around the house and there weren't a lot of kids around where I lived so TV really was an educator. Sure, I played with kids and spent time with my folks but you know how it is.
My dad would take me out every Sunday and we'd rent a movie for the week. I'd pick a cartoon tape and they'd pick something we could all watch.
Problem was, at that age (before 6) I didn't know how to read and no one would read them for me, so subtitles were pointless. Eventually I started to piece together words and expressions.
I was the guy in charge over everything electronic around the house so I'd record all kinds of stuff on TV and play it back till the tapes died out and I could recite movie lines.
By the time I started school I could understand a simple conversation and by the time I finished my fourth year I could actually carry one.
When I was 14 I started going online at school. There wasn't a whole lot of stuff back then as far as I was concerned but it was fun going over to some sites (I loved going over to the NBA and Nasa's websites) and just read. The computers weren't really open to everybody but they'd let me mess around with them as I was pretty careful.
Never really had a good teacher till I started high school. The ones before felt insecure with me around or just weren't good teachers. When I got a real teacher... I started to feel some difficulties but I learned from them. That was about the time I got some books in English. Well, they were photocopies but it was good. I remember reading Huckleberry Finn and loving it.
That was about the same time I took Latin. While I sucked at it initially I started to get a feel for it and began applying it to Portuguese and English. If you know how a word was formed and where it came from it's a lot easier to use it to express yourself.
Eventually I figured that I knew my way around the language and I was always asked to explain some things to my colleagues. When the time came for me to choose what I would do after high school as soon as I saw my University had a course in English I knew that was really the only option for me.
Didn't really learn a whole lot there as far as English is concerned. The only things that I actually made use of were Phonetic writing as it helps you pronounce some words and explain to others how they are pronounced and Literature. Some of my most average marks in Uni were in English Lit classes but I loved them. Melville, Poe, even Whitman... That was what I was there for, reading good books and talking about them.
This year I'm giving classes as a trainee teacher. I teach English and Portuguese to high school kids and I must say I've learned a more about the language and about my limitations in this year than in the last decade. I'm also improving it and the forum is actually one of my benchmarks. I love to check out old threads that get resurrected and I'll notice mistakes I made.
I have to admit that in the last few weeks I've installed a spell checker in my browser so a lot of my mistakes are not even showing but the cool thing about a spell checker is that you learn what your standard mistakes are (as opposed to the kind of stuff you do out of a momentary lapse) and correct them even if just so you don't have to be annoyed by the little red line LOL
If you find any mistake, please let me know, I take that well, not as an offense.
One word: headshot.
Seriously, I hate that map. It's actually cool but why people only play that hellish map all the time is beyond me. At least play the modified versions, please!
In all truth I don't care about what map I'm playing as long as I'm playing Gun Game maps, but sometimes you have to play with friends and one questions the value of democracy at those times... lol
...want the Cyclone. Mostly as it'd be a great place for my loaned Stag Mag
How does it feel to have stolen my great "poisoning the well" line that I had made up all in my head? But you added Furries, which I never could have done, so it's ok...
Anyway, your English has always been laudable (even moreso if you know what that means), how did you learn? I've wanted to learn Portuguese, I'm a language afficionado (pun averted), but the more Japanese I learn the more German gets pushed out...
I actually posted the ad in my sig cause I knew you'd see the pics LOL
I love tormenting you :laugh2: It feels great and having added Furries to the Well, it's as poisoned as it will ever be.
Laudable: from the Latin verb laudare, to praise. IIRC
I learned English from watching too much TV. My dad worked long hours, my mom had to work around the house and there weren't a lot of kids around where I lived so TV really was an educator. Sure, I played with kids and spent time with my folks but you know how it is.
My dad would take me out every Sunday and we'd rent a movie for the week. I'd pick a cartoon tape and they'd pick something we could all watch.
Problem was, at that age (before 6) I didn't know how to read and no one would read them for me, so subtitles were pointless. Eventually I started to piece together words and expressions.
I was the guy in charge over everything electronic around the house so I'd record all kinds of stuff on TV and play it back till the tapes died out and I could recite movie lines.
By the time I started school I could understand a simple conversation and by the time I finished my fourth year I could actually carry one.
When I was 14 I started going online at school. There wasn't a whole lot of stuff back then as far as I was concerned but it was fun going over to some sites (I loved going over to the NBA and Nasa's websites) and just read. The computers weren't really open to everybody but they'd let me mess around with them as I was pretty careful.
Never really had a good teacher till I started high school. The ones before felt insecure with me around or just weren't good teachers. When I got a real teacher... I started to feel some difficulties but I learned from them. That was about the time I got some books in English. Well, they were photocopies but it was good. I remember reading Huckleberry Finn and loving it.
That was about the same time I took Latin. While I sucked at it initially I started to get a feel for it and began applying it to Portuguese and English. If you know how a word was formed and where it came from it's a lot easier to use it to express yourself.
Eventually I figured that I knew my way around the language and I was always asked to explain some things to my colleagues. When the time came for me to choose what I would do after high school as soon as I saw my University had a course in English I knew that was really the only option for me.
Didn't really learn a whole lot there as far as English is concerned. The only things that I actually made use of were Phonetic writing as it helps you pronounce some words and explain to others how they are pronounced and Literature. Some of my most average marks in Uni were in English Lit classes but I loved them. Melville, Poe, even Whitman... That was what I was there for, reading good books and talking about them.
This year I'm giving classes as a trainee teacher. I teach English and Portuguese to high school kids and I must say I've learned a more about the language and about my limitations in this year than in the last decade. I'm also improving it and the forum is actually one of my benchmarks. I love to check out old threads that get resurrected and I'll notice mistakes I made.
I have to admit that in the last few weeks I've installed a spell checker in my browser so a lot of my mistakes are not even showing but the cool thing about a spell checker is that you learn what your standard mistakes are (as opposed to the kind of stuff you do out of a momentary lapse) and correct them even if just so you don't have to be annoyed by the little red line LOL
If you find any mistake, please let me know, I take that well, not as an offense.
