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Subject: Fake English?

Do you guys know how when people make fun or make fake language of what another language is? Like what it sounds like to people that have never spoken or know anything about that language?

For example chinese people speak Chinese and it sounds to people that don't speak it like. Ching chong. And the Russian and German language sound very angry. I wonder how English sounds to people that have never spoken or understand it?

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Kxo ehawaduc fejkoh aj u vuwwek.

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Ignorant.

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If you assign every letter of the alphabet a number, a is 1, b is 2, etc., and you take all of the values of the word "MATH", and add them, you get 42. So math is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

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  • 01.03.2013 6:32 PM PDT

Wow, just wow!

I've asked a a student from China that very same thing.... apparently its "sss-blam!-skkskk-blam!-ssssss-blam!-s-blam!-sssk-blam!-s " (or something similar to that)

EDIT: -blam- = 3 k's in a row... wasn't aware of the strictness of the filter.

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Posted by: rj is cool
Ching chong.
*leaves thread*

  • 01.03.2013 6:32 PM PDT

It sounds like English. They just don't know what said English means.

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Either posh or rough or common. Depends on where you come from. Just like Americans sound very patriotic or very southern. Or bland like, no accent at all.

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Took me a few reads to understand the OP, thought it was in a different language for a while.

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Posted by: rj is cool
I wonder how English sounds to people that have never spoken or understand it?
I imagine it sounds exactly the same, just without any meaning or context whatsoever.

Kinda like any language the listener has never heard before.

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You could have written your post a little more clearly, but English is a Germanic language, so I would assume that we might sound kind of angry too, although not as much.

  • 01.03.2013 6:33 PM PDT

Relevant

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I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

After having a foreign language class last semester, I have been wondering the same thing; what does English sound like to non-English speakers? I can only hope I will find the answer to this question someday.

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Posted by: rj is cool
it sounds to people that don't speak it like. Ching chong.
oh. well thats not nice. thats nice at all you prick.


being terrible ignorant. i've always questioned how, for example.

Bonjour = hello
Konnichiwa = good afternoon (or something)
ect.

but, hello.. meaning hello. and good afternoon meaning good afternoon. but to every other language. it not.

its hello = herp
good afternoon = derp


confuses the -blam!- of me.


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Hs just using English words in sentences that make no sense.

[Edited on 01.03.2013 6:38 PM PST]

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"It is the cruelest fate, to have written words that meant well and see them made wicked and unwise. What was meant to encourage life, used instead to justify taking it."

English to foreigners probably doesn't sound as pleasant as we think it would, unlike French which is like smearing honey on your ear drums to pretty much any culture.

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Posted by: random no337
Took me a few reads to understand the OP, thought it was in a different language for a while.

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Why don't we just share the hill?


Ching chong.

No.

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Posted by: rj is cool
it sounds to people that don't speak it like. Ching chong.
oh. well thats not nice. thats nice at all you prick.


being terrible ignorant. i've always questioned how, for example.

Bonjour = hello
Konnichiwa = good afternoon (or something)
ect.

but, hello.. meaning hello. and good afternoon meaning good afternoon. but to every other language. it not.

its hello = herp
good afternoon = derp


confuses the -blam!- of me.
How is that ignorant? That's how it comes across to non Chinese speakers... Grow up. I was using that as a example it had nothing to do with making fun of any ethnicity.

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Posted by: DngerlyAwkwrd
English to foreigners probably doesn't sound as pleasant as we think it would, unlike French which is like smearing honey on your ear drums to pretty much any culture.
I was in Quebec over the past summer, and I can say that the French they spoke was not soothing. Not at all.

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English is my second language and this is exactly what TV American English sounds like.

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Posted by: Vien Quitonmee
Kxo ehawaduc fejkoh aj u vuwwek.

Who wants the translation?


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"It is the cruelest fate, to have written words that meant well and see them made wicked and unwise. What was meant to encourage life, used instead to justify taking it."


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Posted by: DngerlyAwkwrd
English to foreigners probably doesn't sound as pleasant as we think it would, unlike French which is like smearing honey on your ear drums to pretty much any culture.
I was in Quebec over the past summer, and I can say that the French they spoke was not soothing. Not at all.

I guess it depends on who's speaking it. I'd rather hear French spoken by a young woman than an angry old man.

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Posted by: DngerlyAwkwrd

Posted by: Murcielago00

Posted by: DngerlyAwkwrd
English to foreigners probably doesn't sound as pleasant as we think it would, unlike French which is like smearing honey on your ear drums to pretty much any culture.
I was in Quebec over the past summer, and I can say that the French they spoke was not soothing. Not at all.

I guess it depends on who's speaking it. I'd rather hear French spoken by a young woman than an angry old man.
THAT'S IT!!!

You just reminded me of my pseudo-"epiphany" I had when I was there.

It was that French spoken by men sounds perverted and lecherous and French spoken by women was incredibly soothing and delightful to your ears.

At least to me, it does.

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