My Thread

[Conager]

Hash smokes a pipe?

Why do you suppose it's called a Hashpipe?

 

[Emerson40]

Fine, organic rock tune, Weezer's Hash Pipe, about a cross-dressing prostitute.

 

[Lancecastor]

Does tag have a newalt?

S/he hasnt been posting much.

Should we worry?

 

[Lancecastor]

Who takes in the most immigrants?

USA!

 

[jezzilee]

Careful Lance. Your thread may not be #yours much longer.

 

[Debbie]

So you don't want to.
Gotcha.

He's nice like that.

 

[Lancecastor]

went to a friend's wedding, his third.

In the vows, he got her last name wrong.

I laughed, because it was funny.

Nobody else laughed, they all gave me the death glare.

Hey, it was funny!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I predict you will get a shot at attending his fourth...

 

[Lancecastor]

And the food wasn't very good.

But the bridesmaid was.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Probably because she was no maiden...

 

[Lancecastor]

I kept calling her Ivanka, which turned her on, bigly.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I think the word you should have used is y-u-u-u-u-gely...

 

[Lancecastor]

Steve Bannon's new movie starring duck dynasty dude.

https://youtu.be/WPnlkbHvkmU

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Uncle SyKoKo?

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[Lancecastor]

Phil's protestant theology is sound.

Interestingly, it is a view very similar to that of islamic theocracies like Iran.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Get back to me when his clan begins cutting off heads and stoning gays...

 

[Lancecastor]

Should I send flowers to Wings' uterus?

I'm thinking we got off on the wrong foot.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Should I send flowers to Wings' uterus?

I'm thinking we got off on the wrong foot.

I don't know but flowers are always good.
I am imagining a flower filled uterus now.

The womb like a vase for flowers.

 

[silver gurl]

Does tag have a newalt?

S/he hasnt been posting much.

Should we worry?

What I want to know, is how did her English improve...bigly?

 

[hashtag46]

What I want to know, is how did her English improve...bigly?

Are you pulling my leg?

Anyone who uses a second language knows that they often revert to thinking in their own language when tired or emotional, so their fluency is likely to fluctuate acvordingly.
Plus after posting as much as I did, one is bound to pick up a few skills.

My vocabulary was always complex, and my verbal skills are pretty good.
I always struggled with written language (syntax), as someone whose english is second and has a moderate reading and writing disorder would be expected to.

 

[silver gurl]

We have spoken in the past and I never troll you. BUT, a year ago you written English was broken and now it is pretty close to perfect. I am just curious how you did it? I am learning a second language myself.

 

[Adre]

Are you pulling my leg?

Anyone who runs as many alts as I do is bound to get confused and fuck up constantly. That's why Smoove sometimes sounds like a Princeton prof and other times like Snoop Dogg. Or Dishrag goes from Andy Kauffman on Taxi to William F. Buckley, Jr.

Plus after posting as much as I do I hardly know who the fuck I am or where I'm at.

Fixed.

 

[hashtag46]

We have spoken in the past and I never troll you. BUT, a year ago you written English was broken and now it is pretty close to perfect. I am just curious how you did it? I am learning a second language myself.

French? (Given that you live in Canada)

I guess in my case practice and the hands on experience were much more useful than theoretical learning.

I struggled with foreign languages in school, despite the fact that I worked hard and my school and parents poured a lot in me. After I emmigrated however my verbal skills improved significantly after just one year, probably because I had to speak in english most of the time.

As to the written part:
I got by at work because I copied some templates with standard professional phrasing for the line of work that I was in. But I never got to practice my "layterm" writing skills, because I never posted on english social media or so on.
Things changed however after I joined the forum almost two years ago, because I've been posting regularly and reading regulatly what others wrote. So I guess I learned through omosis.

So in a nutshell, I think in my case being 'forced' to practice (conversing either orally or in written english with other english speakers) made a huge difference.
-- Because I tried several times over the years to improve my written english by studying books on gramnar and syntax, but I either didn't have the motivation to carry that through or those theoretical concepts didn't stick without a chance to apply them.

 

[hashtag46]

So for someone who's trying to learn a foreign language (french) but has the disadvantage of not being surrounded by french speakers:

Drawing from my own experience, I would recommend that they also join a french speaking forum or bulletin board focused on topics that interest them.
Much more effective than trying to learn through reading books or articles in french, or trying to use those audiotapes.

 

[hashtag46]

We have spoken in the past and I never troll you. BUT, a year ago you written English was broken and now it is pretty close to perfect. I am just curious how you did it? I am learning a second language myself.

It's an exaggeration, but I certainly appreciated the compliment.
Thanks.