New Person Who Just Might Be Lost! :)

Hi ReD,

You know, I think that's the amazing thing about RPing. You meet people from all over - and many of them put us English speakers to shame with their writing skills. I have met so many wonderful and interesting people through RPing.

I will definitely check out the book section. I've been somewhat bored lately - everything seems to be a retake on something else that I've already read. I love, and I mean love, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, and have been desperately trying to find something similar, something magical that is out of the box.

I think it's tagalog. Although, chabacano is definitely Spanish sounding. Maybe both have some Spanish in the language?

Thanks Pallas. Nice to meet another ranger :)

That makes sense since the Spanish were in the Philippines for quite a while, their presence would have infiltrated the languages of the main areas/capitals, whereas the languages of the areas where there was less Spanish presence would have remained more pure or untouched.

The Philippines has a crazy number of regional languages/dialects - I believe it's in the 30s actually - for such a tiny place. (I freelance as a translator among a few other things, and the site I use has requests for the oddest languages - at first I thought they were African or maybe South American - but most are Philippine!)

Question: How close is Cebuano to Tagalog? Can you read and understand it?

333 that's too cool. If you are a spiritual person (or superstitious) you might read into it even! XD

Hmm, let's just say learning French in school in Canada, plus Spanish and a regional dialect that is extremely similar to Portuguese, has opened a lot of languages to me. I can read a newspaper in French, Italian, Catalan, Valenciano, Mallorquin (Spanish/French dialects), and make out a few others.

Languages are, once you get the drift of more than one or two, almost mathematical and follow patterns. It's funny, I can often sometimes see a pattern in a language yet not understand it. For example, I used to watch MTV shows in English but subtitled in German in Spain (yes, that's weird, I know... the Spanish like to be different! lol) anyways, I noticed that random words were capitalized in the middle of the sentence, and they weren't names that much I knew, so I figured that maybe they were the subject of the sentence - and after asking around, it turns out I was right. I also learned that those amazingly long words in German are actually similar to compound words except they are words with adjectives attached ie big red ball would probably be bigballred or some similar.

Ah yes, false friends are what those words are called. They look like one thing but mean another in another language. Those are interesting too.

My ex-boyfriend actually became extremely fluent in English playing video games as a child (then adult), so I totally see how watching cartoons can do that. I hate subtitles sometimes, they are often done so badly that I end up ignoring them altogether.

@Nameless