At 2/9/09 08:56 PM, Ismael92 wrote: Well, then I suppose that technically English is actually my third language. I've been to Brazil so many times (like 7 or 8) that I've learned some of it. And besides it's similar to Spanish due to both languages being based on Latin.

Well, Portuguese (what they speak in Brazil) is basically Spanish, but with a slight change in pronunciation, which leads to a slight change in spelling

you manage to talk to other people and start learning the language... A bit...

Getting thrown into the lake like that really makes you have to learn how to swim. You can kind of see how other people do it, and if you can't do the Butterfly, you can swim well enough to get by.

I really want to continue in Spanish, just so that I can go to other countries and not look like an ignorant tourist. In fact, I had to use some Spanish last year when I was working for Subway. A mom (older; 50's give or take) and a daughter (late 20's-early30's) came in. The mom apparently didn't know any English, because the daughter was making all of the orders, and asking what she wanted. But when the daughter got caught up with my co-worker on her order, I had to use my relatively basic Spanish knowledge to ask for her order. I apologized to start since my Spanish was "muy mal", but she knew I was trying my best to talk to her, and I could tell she was appreciating it.

At 2/9/09 11:05 PM, TheThing wrote:

At 2/9/09 08:56 PM, Ismael92 wrote: Well, then I suppose that technically English is actually my third language. I've been to Brazil so many times (like 7 or 8) that I've learned some of it. And besides it's similar to Spanish due to both languages being based on Latin.

Well, Portuguese (what they speak in Brazil) is basically Spanish, but with a slight change in pronunciation, which leads to a slight change in spelling

or course it's not.. i when to brasil and i didn't understood a single thing

even if Spanish and Portuguese comes from Latin, such a French, Italian and a lot others...
Portuguese is the most different of them
and Portuguese from brasil is not the same as the Portuguese from Portugal
as Spanish from Spain is not like any one from latinamerica, or Spanish between us

don't think that because we all come from Latin we can learn between each other very easy... compared to how easy it was to learn English, Portuguese was a pain in the ass
(ok, maybe i am exaggerating a little bit... but at least they were the same difficult to learn)

aldlv either you're exaggerating or Portuguese is just difficult for you.

Some words are so similar that you can barely tell the difference between two languages, but sometimes words have nothing to do however they have the same meaning.

I remember the first time I went to Brazil, in a restaurant in some place in the wall it said:

"Por favor não fumar
Obrigado"

There you can see similarities and differences between Spanish and Portuguese.

"Por favor não fumar" is obviously "Por favor no fumar" ("please don't smoke").
Then I thought the second line said something like "obligado", like it was a must. I was like WTF, first it says please and then it says that? But later I learned that "obrigado" means "gracias" ("thanks"), and in this case these words are really different.

Oh, so many good memories...

You all seem to be doing well, sorry I've been inactive for a bit. RL is a bitch. Work isn't fun and I have other shit to tend to. but I'll never forget to stop in here.

At 2/6/09 01:34 AM, aldlv wrote: i am not sure what to think... i don't think he is dead
but it is on his profile

he wouldn't do that if it was a joke...

It's a prank.

for being you... no... was normal, is cool

yay.

the NGDoD is the club were ppl told you that you were too rude... but here, we all love that style (we all, right guys?...)

Think of me as a drill sergeant; you don't have to like me, you just have to follow commands, because let's face it, I probably am smarter than you, behind a computer monitor or in real life

o.o, strange to see that from you, but it looks cool XD

there's a difference between newbs and noobs. we should help newbs, and ass rape noobs.

At 2/6/09 04:13 PM, evan210 wrote: I don't want to join this.
I only did that just to spite you :P

spite, the only people I have spite for is people who don't bother annoying me. you love me enough to try and get on my nerves. I'd have spite for you only if you never came back.

Win-win?

My problem with learning another language is that I feel like I've already got loads to do anyway without taking an extra subject (I know all the languages taught at school already, so I'd have to take an extra subject [can't complain]) Something I really struggle with in all languages is punctuation I just don't regard it as particularly important so I don't bother making an effort to do it right.

If I learn another language it'll be Italian, I like the language. Sometimes I translate Italian songs. I took it at school for two years but then stopped because I felt that I hadn't learned much in the second year (the first was great). I'm considering just joining some sort of Italian forum just to try and learn the language. What does everyone think of this idea.

Another thing about speaking Italian well, would be the fact that it would be cool know all the languages of the country apart from one (German, French, Italian and Rhetoromanic [but that doesn't count because about 100 people speak it]).

A pretty cool thing about Switzerland is that we have our own dialect which no one outside the country can understand. I often enjoy swearing at English policemen in it when I'm there.

At 2/9/09 11:41 PM, aldlv wrote: even if Spanish and Portuguese comes from Latin, such a French, Italian and a lot others...

But of those languages you highlighted, Spanish and Portuguese have the most in common - larger borders, easy for the two cultures to blend and therefore for the regional dialects to mingle.

Portuguese is the most different of them

I would have to disagree here.

and Portuguese from brasil is not the same as the Portuguese from Portugal
as Spanish from Spain is not like any one from latinamerica, or Spanish between us

Yeah, I can understand that - try the comparison of English from England and English from the American mid-west. Some of the things they say you can barely understand because of a) the accent and b) a language shift that has happened since the two languages are less dependant upon one another.

Also, I've passed 33,000 Saves. Maybe I'll have 20k Blams as well in the next few weeks :)

At 2/9/09 11:41 PM, aldlv wrote: even if Spanish and Portuguese comes from Latin, such a French, Italian and a lot others...

But of those languages you highlighted, Spanish and Portuguese have the most in common - larger borders, easy for the two cultures to blend and therefore for the regional dialects to mingle.

Portuguese is the most different of them

I would have to disagree here.

and Portuguese from brasil is not the same as the Portuguese from Portugal
as Spanish from Spain is not like any one from latinamerica, or Spanish between us

Yeah, I can understand that - try the comparison of English from England and English from the American mid-west. Some of the things they say you can barely understand because of a) the accent and b) a language shift that has happened since the two languages are less dependant upon one another.

Also, I've passed 33,333 Saves. Maybe I'll have 20k Blams as well in the next few weeks :)

If this posted twice, spot the deliberate mistake ;)

At 2/10/09 02:12 PM, Coop83 wrote:

Also, I've passed 33,333 Saves. Maybe I'll have 20k Blams as well in the next few weeks :)

If this posted twice, spot the deliberate mistake ;)

Aww, for a moment there I was hoping you'd lost some 300 points :(

by invoking the wrath of the admins for some reason, definitely not from me begging them to reset your stats or anything...

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Stolen from here:

http://www.ultimatearcade.com/presidenti al-mega-hoops

The author signed up today and his email doesn't match with the website the game's from (the game says it's copyrighted and it's from "ultimate arcade empire"). And the name in-game doesn't much with the submission's name. Definitely it's stolen.

Good work Ismael92 I flagged that in time you were correct the author comments, were funny no other submissions from UltimteArcade also. When you seen lots of games from these websites you remember the names. I think its so cool how many people can speak more then one language, its so clever to here other versions of speech. I gained no b/p I was hoping that the deletion of the account FFF would get me so blams alas not so this time. Touch wood my sounds working again it was fucking not working again that really pisses me off. Well I have only posted one link to EGB own forum as it not very active there only 1 or so post per day, still I will post some more stuff.

Hah yes, the good thing is that I spotted the stolen submission when it was just submitted. Usually when I see something stolen it has already a lot of views and when I come here someone already posted (which is a good thing).

Also another extremely obvious stolen game was submitted. But it was so obvious that it hurt. I suppose many of you know that game "line rider", well, someone submitted it, and it got flagged quickly (I didn't even have time to post it here).

Also, the following is just a test. I want to see what happens when you use the "rich content linking" to something that is already flagged:

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Just for curiosity :)

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Back to the language topic, don't you find it funny when you find someone who is a tourist or something that speaks in another language? Do you feel as curious as I do about what they could be saying? That's one of the things I like about airports, listening to people speaking in foreign languages, especially if it's English because I can understand it. Also it's funny how people from other countries even laugh in a different way.

At 2/10/09 09:41 PM, Ismael92 wrote:

Back to the language topic, don't you find it funny when you find someone who is a tourist or something that speaks in another language? Do you feel as curious as I do about what they could be saying? That's one of the things I like about airports, listening to people speaking in foreign languages, especially if it's English because I can understand it. Also it's funny how people from other countries even laugh in a different way.

Different languages uses different parts of the mouth. That's basically it's kind of hard to learn to speak another language without an accent. So basically even when you laugh your not using the same parts of your mouth.

So I log in this morning, go to the Portal to deposit, and find this steaming load staring up at me. I mean come on, not one, not two, but ALL three of the weekly awards (excluding Weekly 1st-5th) are nabbed by the Duck Division, who then think it's oh-so-hilarious to synchronize the titles to spell out that message.

Hopefully Wade'll sort it out, as I can't imagine him being too pleased to see this either.

At 2/11/09 04:28 AM, RohantheBarbarian wrote:

Hopefully Wade'll sort it out, as I can't imagine him being too pleased to see this either.

Seems to me a set up, just hope Wade will stuff those shit right down their throats and make them choke on it.

Another thing, how long do you think it will be before they finally take out Chris Beer for good?

Someone will have to break into his house and plant illegal drug in there, then call cops on him.

At 2/10/09 03:36 PM, Sentio wrote: Aww, for a moment there I was hoping you'd lost some 300 points :(

by invoking the wrath of the admins for some reason, definitely not from me begging them to reset your stats or anything...

No, but this thing got me thinking that I'd missed something - and it was right, as I'd forgetton to report to the nice people of the LUL that I'd reached 53,000 B/P

Fuck, they're stealing every award and they even make it like that, I'm sure Wade will delete that shit as soon as he sees it.

And I hope Wade doesn't only delete this submissions, hopefully he'll delete several spammers accounts too, and then Chris Beer may be deleted.
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At 2/10/09 10:03 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:

At 2/10/09 09:41 PM, Ismael92 wrote:

Back to the language topic, don't you find it funny when you find someone who is a tourist or something that speaks in another language? Do you feel as curious as I do about what they could be saying? That's one of the things I like about airports, listening to people speaking in foreign languages, especially if it's English because I can understand it. Also it's funny how people from other countries even laugh in a different way.

Different languages uses different parts of the mouth. That's basically it's kind of hard to learn to speak another language without an accent. So basically even when you laugh your not using the same parts of your mouth.

I see, that makes sense.

Also, I became a Staff Sergeant after passing 6,000 B/P.

At 2/11/09 07:17 AM, Idiot-Finder wrote: Another thing, how long do you think it will be before they finally take out Chris Beer for good?

Someone will have to break into his house and plant illegal drug in there, then call cops on him.

So, do you want to borrow the van tonight?

At 2/11/09 11:01 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/11/09 07:17 AM, Idiot-Finder wrote: Another thing, how long do you think it will be before they finally take out Chris Beer for good?

Someone will have to break into his house and plant illegal drug in there, then call cops on him.

So, do you want to borrow the van tonight?

Yeah, all I need is several bags of marijuana and couple of plants.

May plant some on his garden.

At 2/11/09 11:01 AM, Coop83 wrote:

At 2/11/09 07:17 AM, Idiot-Finder wrote: Another thing, how long do you think it will be before they finally take out Chris Beer for good?

Someone will have to break into his house and plant illegal drug in there, then call cops on him.

So, do you want to borrow the van tonight?

My guess is that the drugs are already there. All we need is the phone call! I'd also check his PC and DVD collection for kiddy porn, beastiality, and pirated Pokemon videos...

At 2/11/09 11:56 AM, byteslinger wrote: and pirated Pokemon videos...

Fuck! Why the hell do you have to be so damn funny?

That Duck Division setup is interesting indeed. Their movies are steaming piles of shit but you gotta at least give them some points for creativity on that one.

At 2/11/09 01:54 PM, Shoopufzilla wrote: That Duck Division setup is interesting indeed. Their movies are steaming piles of shit but you gotta at least give them some points for creativity on that one.

Points for creativity given, however the points will be removed as soon as Wade notices this particular act of mass-fuckery and deletes the Flashes and possibly the users who submitted them (as he most likely will: he gets annoyed whenever RCP is stolen).

I don't know why, but lately I've been in a very Newgroundsy mood, for the first time in a long time. I've even done some B/P'ing, though I'm not getting many points, lol.

With all the spam shit going on, I think it's important to let confused people know how awards are stolen, and why everyone needs to take a level in maturity if they want to do anything about it. Wrote a long and blunt mini-essay on the issue in my latest news post. Give it a read and give any newbies still confused a good talking-to if they start screaming about the evil award-stealing flash and how they're going to zero it every day and write angry reviews for it and how that'll show them.

Also good idea for EGB members: scanning the latest blog page and looking for any Newgrounders that have questions about the site, whether they be questions the FAQ can answer or questions regarding spam groups and the like. Talking to these people sets a good example, educates new Newgrounders, and can even help us find future prospects for the NGPD/EGB.

That's all for now. Keep up the fight, everyone.

Excellent well though out post I have just read it ,and i agree with you the latest saga of the spammers stealing all the awards makes me angry. Its got reviews which are suspect but I don't tend to flag the 10 out of 10 very often, as I don't know for sure if its alts giving them high scores, although I do have my doubts. Lovely to see you on here more SlashFirestorm you do a grand job. I have just posted some abusive reviews on EGB forums, so anyone may want to hurry before they are gone. Someone had some abusive reviews all written in a short space of time, I reported it to Malachy. On the subject of spammers I think your right voting 0 when it passes will only make it worse. Talking of Chris Beer another two blammed flashes are here again, one racist and the other just pure fucking spam

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Hopefully it will not pass.

Gained around 6 b/p points today few from the deletions of those spam flashes. Well looks like the awards ones are still there but its annoying . Been looking at few submissions which may or not be stolen, not to sure though don't like to say for sure without definite proof.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/482810Oh wait it got removed I don't think I have ever seen the word Removed before, but it had stolen reviews and I thought it looked funny UJ, but was not sure so I did not link to it. Pleased about the deletions but will that stop it? As you said maybe Portal Watch is needed.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/48 2810Oh wait it got removed I don't think I have ever seen the word Removed before, but it had stolen reviews and I thought it looked funny UJ, but was not sure so I did not link to it. Pleased about the deletions but will that stop it? As you said maybe Portal Watch is needed.

Sorry fucked up link here it is have you seen the removed before? http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/48 2810 I'm sure the flash was not called Removed.

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This is annoying.

I know Idiot-Finder its really pisses me off when it keeps on passing, plus he was posting here yesterday trolling, but I just ignored him. That is the best thing to do with trolls. I think its better to vote o UJ. Hopefully he will get sick of it and move on to another website. Gained around 13 b/p points wonder what sort of flash will be submitted? seen a few flashes about Valentine day here so it will be interesting. Seen that illwillpress has released another Foamy flash will check it out soon. Also noticed they have removed the genre for example the flash could be comedy, spam,etc. And its got a large space if you look link.

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At 2/14/09 01:07 AM, LMS002 wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/48 3086
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/48 3084
Does anyone believe these arent stolen?

I happen to know for a fact that guy doesn't have Flash (or at least he didn't last I checked, which I'll admit was a while back), and he's been known to steal Flashes before. So I say they are. Good catch, Civilian! However they passed Judgment... I'll PM Wade about them.

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You people better be there, it's your perfect chance to destroy this garbage!