In diese Sommer vielleicht gehe ich nach Deutschland. Ich sauge mit Griechisch so jetzt muss ich auf Deutsch sprechen. Diese ist für Musik. Alles ist für Musik! Oder, alles ist für Musik und die Mädchen (ich lache)!
Ich spreche nür ein bisschen auf Deutsch aber ich lerne das Eurospeak: Bluff!
The translation for the above: I might go to Germany this summer. I suck with Greek so now I must speak in German. This is for the music. Everything is for the music. Or, everything is for music and the girls (I laugh).
I speak only a little German but I learn Eurospeak: bluff!
Since you may not know Eurospeak, it works like this: if you don't know how it goes, baffle 'em with bullshit! It's more gentle than that, tho. You learn as much as comes to you for any given language and you show respect by using it. If you're trying, people will help you. If you think it helps people understand your English by talking louder, you'll be sitting on the wharf talking to seagulls.
Even though I'm not an American and really never was, I do sound like one and feel an obligation to represent. That means manners which I like to show anyway but, to me, that also means learning as much of a fellow traveler's language as possible and I consider a fellow traveler anyone else who is riding the Earth around the sun. I believe it's good to keep in mind that English is the foreign language here and just because someone can speak it doesn't mean they should be required to do so.
It wouldn't also be a bad idea to keep in mind that American is a foreign language in the UK but, obviously, no-one anywhere understands the Scots.
So, we'll see what comes. There's a good chance some people from Second Life will get together in Germany for music and fun. That sounds like one hell of a good reason to go there so it just might happen. It would also be an outrageously long scoot but, who knows, anything is possible. You all didn't believe I'd make it to Greece! It's eighteen hundred kilometers one-way so it's kind of improbable but dream big!
Ich spreche nür ein bisschen auf Deutsch aber ich lerne das Eurospeak: Bluff!
The translation for the above: I might go to Germany this summer. I suck with Greek so now I must speak in German. This is for the music. Everything is for the music. Or, everything is for music and the girls (I laugh).
I speak only a little German but I learn Eurospeak: bluff!
Since you may not know Eurospeak, it works like this: if you don't know how it goes, baffle 'em with bullshit! It's more gentle than that, tho. You learn as much as comes to you for any given language and you show respect by using it. If you're trying, people will help you. If you think it helps people understand your English by talking louder, you'll be sitting on the wharf talking to seagulls.
Even though I'm not an American and really never was, I do sound like one and feel an obligation to represent. That means manners which I like to show anyway but, to me, that also means learning as much of a fellow traveler's language as possible and I consider a fellow traveler anyone else who is riding the Earth around the sun. I believe it's good to keep in mind that English is the foreign language here and just because someone can speak it doesn't mean they should be required to do so.
It wouldn't also be a bad idea to keep in mind that American is a foreign language in the UK but, obviously, no-one anywhere understands the Scots.
So, we'll see what comes. There's a good chance some people from Second Life will get together in Germany for music and fun. That sounds like one hell of a good reason to go there so it just might happen. It would also be an outrageously long scoot but, who knows, anything is possible. You all didn't believe I'd make it to Greece! It's eighteen hundred kilometers one-way so it's kind of improbable but dream big!
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