Rome!!!!!!!!!

[RedBaron635]

I am new at this but i won a cultural victory on a real world map with right starting spots.. I had all the wonders of the world and controld what was France, Brit. islands, Germany, russa, greece, North africa, eghipt, the what wold be araba, spain, norway, sweden, finland, [ if thay had them], india, china, and most of the island in the pacifc ocean ... allso what wohld be pannaml and parts of s. america o ya and all of the mediteranean sea... im a bad speller ..... well i was the farthes ahed with tec. and spred the communist govermant.. a strang thang is that all the democract and republic civs. had a team and all the communist civs had a team team and all was had wars whith one another but thanks to me communisam won......

 

[LionQ]

Originally posted by RedBaron635
im a bad speller .....

Yes, it's really terrible. I'm from the Netherlands and even I am better then a American. That's unbelieveble.

 

[Portuguese]

Iberian Peninsula has Spain and PORTUGAL! Personally, I hate to be called spanish. Would you like to be treated as Mexican? And yes, You'll have to learn English.
And one thing, communism is good to war times, democracy to peacefull times. Use one or another according to your strategy.
Good luck to your games...

 

[RedBaron635]

dont make fun of me..... i have a disabilty that makes it hard for me to spell but im good at all other stuff [but math]........

 

[Portuguese]

OK. Sorry...

 

[RedBaron635]

its ok

 

[zeeter]

Originally posted by CivilopediaCity

Yes, it's really terrible. I'm from the Netherlands and even I am better then a American. That's unbelieveble.

Not at grammar, though.

 

[LionQ]

Indeed, but I'm from the Netherlands and I think I can make some mistakes in English as a Dutchman. But he is an American.

But we all know what your meaning and we understand it, and that's where it's all about. So, it's ok.

 

[rubicon]

Yeah let's compare ourselves to guy with a learning disability. C,mon guys my spelling and grammar was poor in high school and didn't help having teacher who never had enough time for you ( even though they seemed to have time to do a spot of shopping over lunch break ). Over time my writing and reading skills improved. Don't be discouraged RedBaron635, I understood your message and your future contributions in these forums will only improve your writing skills.... Keep on gaming

RUBICON.

 

[Jason The King]

Just because someone is an American dosnt mean he/she can read and write perfect English. You must remember, America is a culturally diversed nation, with much Spanish, French, Italian, etc, so do NOT put someone down for not spelling or writing right, and do NOT poor more remarks on him/her because their an America. That is the most stupidest (ya I know it is not a word) thing I have ever heard. Get over yourself.

 

[LionQ]

All right, all right. Thousand times sorry. (so good?)

And now: let's continue with the real thread.

 

[zeeter]

English is not the official language of the USA. There is no official language. If there was, NYC wouldn't have to print their election ballots in fifty different languages. This was something that our forefathers said years ago.
Granted, for all intents and purposes English is used by most people and is the cultural language of the USA - predominant newspapers, television (other than the spanish channel), and radio are about 99.9% English. But that doesn't make it the official language.

 

[Portuguese]

Originally posted by Jason The King
Just because someone is an American dosnt mean he/she can read and write perfect English. You must remember, America is a culturally diversed nation, with much Spanish, French, Italian, etc, so do NOT put someone down for not spelling or writing right, and do NOT poor more remarks on him/her because their an America. That is the most stupidest (ya I know it is not a word) thing I have ever heard. Get over yourself.

I'm sorry because he told he has a problem with it and I wrote what I wrote without being fair. I apologised, and he accepted.
And yes,being an American makes me think you should write English better than I do (and You write Portuguese worst than I).
It's a mother tong advantage!
You are in a chat channel, not in an exam, but even that you are Russian or Australian or Welsh (all with bad accents...), if you live in an English-speaking country you should write better than a person who doesn't live there. And try to speak in an understandable way. There are people who know more than 10 languages. Who lives in Central Europe has to know more than 3 or 4.Anyone who leaves outside an English-speaking country knows at least 2. Why can't you learn only 1?

 

[Portuguese]

Originally posted by zeeter
English is not the official language of the USA. There is no official language. If there was, NYC wouldn't have to print their election ballots in fifty different languages. This was something that our forefathers said years ago.
Granted, for all intents and purposes English is used by most people and is the cultural language of the USA - predominant newspapers, television (other than the spanish channel), and radio are about 99.9% English. But that doesn't make it the official language.

Do the government give instructions in more than 1 language?
In EU, the European Comission always do so in 9!

 

[zeeter]

Not entirely sure, but most government documents that I've seen either have english and spanish, or have a paragraph that explains how to get the document in spanish. Other than that, it is up to the language speakers to have the documents translated.
However, all high school students are required to have a certain amount of credits in English, which may add to the national language debate. There simply is not a document that says that English is the national language.

 

[LionQ]

Originally posted by zeeter
English is not the official language of the USA. There is no official language. If there was, NYC wouldn't have to print their election ballots in fifty different languages. This was something that our forefathers said years ago.
Granted, for all intents and purposes English is used by most people and is the cultural language of the USA - predominant newspapers, television (other than the spanish channel), and radio are about 99.9% English. But that doesn't make it the official language.

Sorry, but in the Netherlands the US is the symbol for the English language. That makes that all Dutchman think that every American speaks English very well.
Thats a bad picture of the US (I know that now), sorry. Now I know better.

 

[LionQ]

Originally posted by Portuguese

...And yes,being an American makes me think you should write English better than I do (and You write Portuguese worst than I)...
...if you live in an English-speaking country you should write better than a person who doesn't live there. And try to speak in an understandable way...

Portuguese, you are absolutely right!

 

[Caeser_Augustus]

hey i thought this was gonna be a story?!

 

[Thrawn]

The first post was the story, then it went into an argument about languages or summit.

 

[zeeter]

Originally posted by Portuguese

And yes,being an American makes me think you should write English better than I do (and You write Portuguese worst than I).
It's a mother tong advantage!
You are in a chat channel, not in an exam, but even that you are Russian or Australian or Welsh (all with bad accents...), if you live in an English-speaking country you should write better than a person who doesn't live there.

This is kind of harsh. There are many people in America who don't speak or write english grammatically well. Many of these people are from homes where it was more important to leave school and work to support the family than to go to school to learn how to write well. Also, there is a large population here who grew up basically on the streets. If you hang around with people who speak a certain way, you're going to begin to speak that way.

We can learn all the English we want in school, but when we go home and our families are all speaking Spanish or Chinese, its difficult to retain what was learned in English.

I have, in haste, probably typed grammatically incorrect posts here or ones with mispelled words. And my dad's an english professor (retired)!

Does this mean that these people should be banned from posting to civ-fanatics for bad grammar and spelling? I don't think that is fair. Its also not fair to criticize these people. There probably are many things that you do that these people do better. Maybe this person is a roofer. You may be able to spell better than him, but he can put you to shame patching a roof.