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 [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Trevor_Clim 
Date:   05-04-03 10:39

Hi guys :)
(i hope this sort of Offtopic is allowed)

I was wondering where you guys are from! So i want to make a world map with dots, etc. to visualize the internationality of the fascination of ultima 7 :D :D :D
(ok kinda strange ;) )

so lets start it :D

Iam from GERMANY ! :)

(thats the cause, why my english is kinda weird and lots of mistakes :D )

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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Darke 
Date:   05-04-03 10:47

Third planet of the star you call 'Alpha Centauri'.

Darke
(I just say I'm an innocent, Earth born rabbit. It makes life easier. And no,
I don't want to be taken to your leaders, I'm afraid stupidity is contageous.
Thanks for your consideration, and all that.)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Trevor_Clim 
Date:   05-04-03 10:50

ok, Darke is from AUSTRIA ^_____^
only for statistic ;D

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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: wjp 
Date:   05-04-03 11:01

Darke's from Australia, not Austria :-)


I'm from the Netherlands.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Dominus 
Date:   05-04-03 12:38

I'm from Germany but live in Austria.
.au is Australia and .at is Austria.
Austria is in Europe and Hitler was born there.
Australia is in ... Australia and they fought Hitler (AFAIK)
The thing they have in common: certain people from a certain continet can't tell them apart, even if you say "Austria/Europe"
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Andrea B Previtera (---.dialup.tiscali.it)
Date:   05-04-03 14:00

Italy there. I am from Roma and I've been living there for twenty-three years. Then, thow years spent in Verona, which brings me to... today : )
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: flashingcurser<DAN> (12.174.182.---)
Date:   05-04-03 14:58

NW Montana-----USA :)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Artaxerxes 
Date:   05-04-03 16:28

I live in Canada but was born and raised in France.

Artaxerxes
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Achile Dragon (---.35-130-66.que.mc.videotron.ca)
Date:   05-04-03 17:57

I'm from Québec Canada

Achile
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: SB-X 
Date:   05-04-03 18:24

http://exult.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?f=1&i=9563&t=9373
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Morg (---.client.attbi.com)
Date:   05-04-03 18:57

Seatle Washington, USA
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Pan Sola (---.Reshall.Berkeley.EDU)
Date:   05-05-03 02:45

I'm from Taiwan, but currently live in Berkeley, California (USA)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Trevor_Clim 
Date:   05-05-03 08:40

oh didnt know that with .AU and .AT ;)
sorry ^^


@SB-X
i know this old WHERE ARE YOU FROM thread, but it's nearly one year old and i think it's interesting how many people are still there in the forum, etc TODAY
so i hope you dont mind ;)

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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: RazorBlade (---.dip.t-dialin.net)
Date:   05-05-03 10:04

It's not yet a full year old, also I guess not much has changed.

I still live in and am from germany btw. ;-)


Oh, by thinking of recent changes, I really miss the mandatory weekly U7online thread, the repeating 'do this for U8' isn't really the same.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: DrCode (---.mentorg.com)
Date:   05-05-03 12:22

Portland, Oregon. Originally from Los Angeles.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: dag (---.mcbone.net)
Date:   05-05-03 12:47

hmm, i guess we've had this topic before [look at SB-X's link above]

maybe we should make this thread sticky...

born in odense, denmark, lived a short time in madrid, spain.
have a norwegian father and a german morther.
now living in hamburg, germany. so i'm quite european...
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Skutarth (---.cox-internet.com)
Date:   05-05-03 16:11

I've lived my whole 13 years of life in Texas, USA.

Darke: How can you live on the third planet of Alpha Centauri? Alpha Centauri is a binary star system, meaning that no planet can orbit it because of the gravity changing the trajectory of the planet and hurdle it into space or into itself. Even then, there are, most likely, not any planets orbiting Alpha Centauri. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Simone F. 
Date:   05-05-03 16:52

I'm from Italy.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: A. 
Date:   05-05-03 19:20

"Darke: How can you live on the third planet of Alpha Centauri? Alpha Centauri is a binary star system, meaning that no planet can orbit it because of the gravity changing the trajectory of the planet and hurdle it into space or into itself. Even then, there are, most likely, not any planets orbiting Alpha Centauri. Correct me if I'm wrong."

It could happen, and isn't that unlikely really, you just would have to expect very odd seasons, and rotational changes,.... (Think you get sick on some fair ride, try living on a planet that keeps changing direction,...)

Off Topic threads are always good for boards, they let people play, and you never know what comes out of them. (Knew a guy that developed a plot line for his "NYT bestseller",... I think I threw my copy out after the tenth page,... and I was just skimming)


*Never said what comes of them is good now*

Also, very odd, I posted here the other day, yet it isn't here,...

oh well, I'm from eastren Canada,... I had a fair rant there before, but I forget it, but it was funny,... I think.

Some guy sitting infront of a crapy computer and needs a new one,...
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Gerry (---.let.uu.nl)
Date:   05-06-03 01:23

Netherlands.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Gunnar (---.isaserver.be)
Date:   05-06-03 01:28

Belgium
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Raxo Dragon (---.cselt.it)
Date:   05-06-03 07:06

Italy here
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Automaton Dragon (12.8.192.---)
Date:   05-06-03 08:32

SoFla, as they say. (South Florida, USA)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: cheshire (203.14.169.---)
Date:   05-06-03 22:38

Western Australia
(the Biiig island in the Souther Hemisphere, not the country in Europe, and yes, Australians did fight Hitler)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: MV (---.qld.bigpond.net.au)
Date:   05-07-03 04:44

I'm from Brisbane, QLD, Australia, but as for where I'm at right now.....

.....I'm in the next shire north of Brisbane, in a room surrounded by computers and their clutter, music playing and typing this message. A casual glance at the clock puts me at 9:43PM, the seventh day of the 5th month in the year 2003. :)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Colourless Dragon 
Date:   05-07-03 05:18

Be warned MV, you live dangerously close to Darke.

I personally hail from the city known as Adelaide in South Australia.

-Colourless Dragon
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Darke 
Date:   05-07-03 07:41

*sinistercackle* I now live further from MV then I used to, but more conveniently located to harassing random humans. *grin*

Darke
(Hey, I currently do Tech Support to furnish my hutch and keep me in
carrots, "harassing random humans" is in my job description! *grin*)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Dino (can't log in) (217.30.96.---)
Date:   05-07-03 12:34

Cool, nice to see some Italians.

I'm from Malta, south of Italy. Anyone know it exists? It doesn't even show on the world map! :D
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Dominus 
Date:   05-07-03 13:12

Well, I think I know enough people who went to Malta on a so called "language trip" to have a very good party (it helps of course that these are mostly women :-))
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: dag (---.dialin.hansenet.de)
Date:   05-08-03 03:38

Dino:

i've been in malta a few months ago for holidays and enjoyed it very much.
but it was colder than i guessed (it was january ;))
i hoped to improve my english but it is still not that good :(
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: MV (---.qld.bigpond.net.au)
Date:   05-08-03 06:34

So where exactly are you Darke?

I'm at Petrie if that means anything to you. :)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Darke 
Date:   05-08-03 19:30

Colourless: MV's relatively safe. He's a long way away from me. *grin*

MV: Brisbane. Literally. 4000/4001 area code. *grin*
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: MV (---.qld.bigpond.net.au)
Date:   05-09-03 03:01

But on the worldwide scale we have here, you're just up the street. ;)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Colourless Dragon 
Date:   05-09-03 06:06

MV, last time I knew, Darke didn't actually know exactly where he lived. :-)

-Colourless Dragon
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Darke 
Date:   05-09-03 07:48

Well... Yeah. Had to reference my resume to find out the street number for
my apartment block. I don't exactly *need* it on a daily basis do I? I
walk everywhere. *grin*
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: DrCode (---.mentorg.com)
Date:   05-09-03 09:34

I just heard Adelaide as a question on a quiz show: "The only city in Australia named for a woman."

Also heard of Malta, but not since it was British. It must be a nice place, since it's never in the news:-)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: E_Jim (---.las-condes1.pc.metropolis-inter.com)
Date:   05-10-03 09:19

Santiago, Chile
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Dino (can't log in) (217.30.96.---)
Date:   05-11-03 10:55

>>It [Malta] must be a nice place, since it's never in the news:-)

It may be what you define a nice place... it's got fine weather for 300 days a year and temperatures rise above 40 degrees celsius in summer... it's just TOO hot. :)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: gruck (---.nbnet.nb.ca)
Date:   05-11-03 12:02

Northern New Brunswick, Canada
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Matthew (---.server.ntl.com)
Date:   05-12-03 11:44

Woking, near London UK, and it's pouring with rain.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Hacki (---.adsl.highway.telekom.at)
Date:   05-12-03 14:56

I am from Austria.


>>Austria is in Europe and Hitler was born there.

Yes, and everyone thinks he was born in Germany. But that's OK, we trade him for Beethoven, who everyone thinks was from Austria. Bad luck for you Germans :p
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Dominus 
Date:   05-12-03 15:31

yeah, every morning I see all those people walking to obscure houses beethoven is supposed to have lived in. Who cares for such places anyway ?
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Covenant (---.58.13.42.proxycache.rima-tde.net)
Date:   05-14-03 05:25

I am from Granada, Spain.

Many people from "that country you were taling about" think that Spain is just south of Mexico... Well indeed we're just next to France in old Europe.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: DrCode (---.mentorg.com)
Date:   05-14-03 12:04

Wait a second... My country isn't known for knowledge of history or geography, and I used to hate those subjects; but are there really people who don't know Spain is in Europe, or that Hitler was from Austria?
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Dominus 
Date:   05-14-03 12:19

I don't know about the spain stuff but that Hitler was an Austrian or that Austria is NOT the same as Australia (that one I experienced myself at least twice) is really something some people don't seem to know.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Trevor_Clim 
Date:   05-14-03 12:42

hey i really know that AUSTRIA IS NOT THE SAME AS AUSTRALIA, i only didnt know the INTERNET-ENDINGS
.at
.au

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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: DrCode (---.mentorg.com)
Date:   05-14-03 13:20

Austria/Australia mixup? I can imagine a tourist in Austria asking where he can see kangroos:-)

Now, what I can't get used to is seeing stories or shows in which Australia is referred to as "Oz".
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Colourless Dragon 
Date:   05-14-03 22:58

But DrCode, Australia IS Oz :-)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Hacki (---.adsl.highway.telekom.at)
Date:   05-15-03 00:49

>>Austria/Australia mixup? I can imagine a tourist in Austria asking where he can see kangroos:-)

Believe it or not, but lame T-Shirts that read "There are no kangaroos in Austria" are in fact being sold here :/

I agree that .at and .au are easy to confuse. However, I thought since we share the same language with Germany, Germans would stumble across lots of .at (and .ch, which is Switzerland) sites in the Internet and thus recognize the ending. It seems I was wrong :)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Dominus 
Date:   05-15-03 05:04

Some examples:
- recently I looked for something on ebay.com and asked the seller if he would ship to Austria. He replied that shipping to Australia would cost $ X.xx. I then asked something else and (not to emberass him) wrote that I live not in Australia but in Austria/Europe. Somehow he didn't seem to get that even in the next reply :-)

- When I was in the US over a year ago with my gf and her kid, an elderly woman asked where we came from and I answered Austria. She was then confused and said she thought that we spoke English over there. When I replied we come from Austria Europe she didn't want to talk to me anymore :-)

Hacki, I have to confess before I looked up the university of Vienna for place to study I didn't come across much (if not none) .at sites. I rarely stumble upon .ch sites as well.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: DrCode (---.mentorg.com)
Date:   05-15-03 12:15

Colourless: Then where is the Emerald City?:-)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: cheshire (---.nv.iinet.net.au)
Date:   05-15-03 21:46

Somewhere in Tasmania?
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: 0sS (195.5.23.---)
Date:   05-16-03 19:32

HA! I'm from wild, bear-infested Russia.We here like playing U7,
when we are not cleaning snow.:)

Forgive me my weird English,please.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: evasi0n (---.wi.tds.net)
Date:   05-19-03 09:40

madison, wisconsin... or bay area, california a while ago.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: nosh (---.d1.club-internet.fr)
Date:   05-19-03 12:27

from paris france
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Artaxerxes 
Date:   05-20-03 05:44

Nosh,
I'm looking for French speaking dudes to try our Serpent Isle in French patch.
If you could go to our site (http://sf.net/projects/si-french/), download the patch, install it and report the bug, that would be GREAT!

Merci de ton aide

Artaxerxes
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Edgar (---.stendahls.se)
Date:   05-21-03 07:31

Born, raised and living in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Natreg Dragon (---.58.44.42.proxycache.rima-tde.net)
Date:   05-24-03 03:35

I´m spanish, I live in a town called Aspe
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: `daniel (---.b.002.ncl.iprimus.net.au)
Date:   05-24-03 16:06

I'm in Australia somewhere wondering around like an idiot :P
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Kadesh (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date:   05-25-03 06:23

I can't believe that there aren't more English here...!
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Annorax 
Date:   05-25-03 08:13

Well, I'm from Massachusetts in the US, seems like I'm one of the minorities... :-)


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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Colourless Dragon 
Date:   05-25-03 08:37

Daniel is from Newcastle. His hostname gave it away.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Joe Ust (---.vc.shawcable.net)
Date:   05-31-03 17:34

Vancouver, BC, Canada
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: MagicMop 
Date:   06-03-03 12:40

Guildford, Perth, Western Australia
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: finite (---.vic.bigpond.net.au)
Date:   06-04-03 12:21

Victoria, Australia
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Matthew (---.glfd.cable.ntl.com)
Date:   06-06-03 03:05

Kadesh, look further up the post,
I'm in Woking, England, Home of H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds" (Also a great album by Jeff Wayne!)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Chris Schumacher (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date:   06-06-03 10:50

I'm from my mother.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: dag (---.mcbone.net)
Date:   06-06-03 18:30

i'm from my mother and my father.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Skutarth (---.cox-internet.com)
Date:   06-16-03 18:29

<OT>
In French:
Merci de ton aide

My guess on what it meant:
Thanks for your help

What it really was:
Thank you for your assistance

I was close enough. The main point I'm trying to make is if you have an extensive enough vocabulary in English, you should be able to read French relatively well, noticing so many words in English are derived from French. Along with that, many French words are just plain common, like merci.
</OT>
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Artaxerxes 
Date:   06-17-03 05:22

For once, Skutarth, not only you made sense but I entirely agree with you.
Knowing both language myself pretty well, I am _amazed_ on how similar they are. I know a bit of Polish and a tad of German, and honestly, French-English are much more similar than any other French-X combinaison I know.

Artaxerxes
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: DrCode (---.mentorg.com)
Date:   06-17-03 09:06

Also OT:

What I noticed about French is that there's the proper language, and then the version that everybody speaks. Back in college, I was able to read an entire math book in French (one of the Bourbaki volumes) with very little trouble, because it was written in 'proper' French. But I also have a couple French 'Peanuts' comic books, and they're almost impossible to get through. Half the words don't appear in the dictionary!
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Skutarth (---.cox-internet.com)
Date:   06-17-03 19:10

Thanks for not taking down that post, and actually reading it. I just noticed and pointed it out. I just wanted you to know that I could read parts of some of your posts...
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Ram dragon (---.psy.uwa.edu.au)
Date:   06-18-03 05:03

Canadian living in Australia.

"Australians? Canadians? What the hell's the difference?"
- Southpark: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Beni (---.ipt.aol.com)
Date:   06-18-03 09:22

Originally from Germany, also lived in the Netherlands for a while and now North West Alabama, USA
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Artaxerxes 
Date:   06-18-03 09:48

I'm amazed at how many people move around countries so distant.
I wonder whether there is a connection with our being computer people, more open to unknown, having a desire to learn and discover.

Artaxerxes
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Skutarth (---.cox-internet.com)
Date:   06-18-03 10:26

Cheers to the nerds!
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Hacki (---.adsl.highway.telekom.at)
Date:   06-18-03 11:17

>>English are derived from French

Actually, that's not quite correct. French is derived from Latin, while English was just greatly influenced by Latin. That's why English grammar is still quite different to French one.

>>French-English are much more similar than any other French-X combinaison I know.

Italian and Spanish are generally more similar to French, because they all belong to the same language family that is directly derived from Latin :)

Then again, almost all European languages can be traced back to Indo-European anyway, including Latin, Greece, and ancient German. It's fascinating how different words have evolved over time. For instance, Indo-European "kuuon" became kyon in Greece (which lead to the modern English word cynical), canis in Latin, Hund in German, and hound in English.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Colourless Dragon 
Date:   06-19-03 07:08

Adding to the above post English is actually said to be of Germanic descent.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Covenant (---.58.13.42.proxycache.rima-tde.net)
Date:   06-19-03 07:16

English is classified like Germanic language.

Spanish, Italian, Portuguesse and French (among others) are Romance languages (Latin derived).

I'm not German speaker but I find very similarities between english and german (in vocabulary, not between the structure of the sentences). I fact I can barely understand (or guess) some simple things in german with my knowing of english.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: MrPaul (---.home.cgocable.net)
Date:   06-19-03 10:18

(Was'nt there a topic much like this one on the board before??)

Southern-Ontario, Canada.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: dag (---.mcbone.net)
Date:   06-19-03 20:28

speaking english and french (and norwegian) as foreign languages and
german as a native speaker, i think french is closer to german than english,
at least concerning grammar...

while french (like german) has 'millions of millions of difficult tenses' with
unregular verbes, english is quite easy to learn for a beginner. what makes
english so hard to understand is the vocabulary. while german or french
people have 2 different words for one and the same thing, the english have
10.

i recently started to read moby dick, but after only a few pages i realized
that i have to fail, understanding just maybe half of the keywords...
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Hacki (---.adsl.highway.telekom.at)
Date:   06-20-03 08:00

I found that my English considerably improved once I began to participate in international Internet chats, newsgroups, and message boards like this one.

When I now read my old English homework books from school (they are only two years old), I am amazed at how bad my grammar and style had been :)

>>what makes english so hard to understand is the vocabulary. while german or french people have 2 different words for one and the same thing, the english have 10.

I think you exaggerate a bit. I've never made that observation. Any example?
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Dyst (---.rasserver.net)
Date:   07-25-03 22:43

I'm from Singapore.

In chinese it means "new add slope" which sounds nonsensical

but i interpret it 4 my own agenda.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: toria 
Date:   07-26-03 01:02

Alberta Canada here
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: XxVenomxX 
Date:   07-26-03 08:52

Connecticut, USA. Lived in Sunderland, England for a year, now I'm in CT again

http://venom.gamersgraveyard.com
Fantasy art/Illustration by Brendan Setaro
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Wizardry Dragon (---.cpe.net.cable.roger)
Date:   07-26-03 09:03

I live in Ottawa, On but my background/homeland is in Scotland :)

~ Wizardry Dragon
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Soul (---.66.15.117.2.gte.net)
Date:   07-26-03 11:04

** Dr Code: You live in Portland? I'm going to college in Portland right now. I shuttle up every day from Aloha (Near Hillsburrito / Beaverton) to go to classes. Whereabouts do you live?


As I mentioned I currently live in Aloha, OR, but I have lived in just a tad over twenty cities in my lifetime, all over the U.S. pacific northwest. Oregon, Washington, California, Colorado.... I've never stayed in one place for very long.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: EvilElk 
Date:   07-28-03 08:40

Oxford, England-cestershire here - soo many Australians... you guys got nothin better to do than play U7 or sumthin? ;)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Skutarth (---.cox-internet.com)
Date:   07-28-03 20:37

What is there BESIDES Ultima 7? You should be shot for that treason!
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: fliptw 
Date:   07-29-03 00:14

Alberta Canada.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: SteveLord (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date:   07-29-03 05:12

New Jersey, USA

Born in Germany in Bitburg or Bipburg...i dont remember. it was a military installation. went to Heineberg elementary school.

100% American soldier, HOOAH =)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: dag (---.mcbone.net)
Date:   07-29-03 15:24

you should know where you are born...
maybe it's bitburg (google says there is no bipburg in germany), because
there's an american military airport and since 1985 a military base (closed
in 1994).
one of my famous beers comes from there: bitburger! (see thread 'voices'...)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: DrCode (---.mentorg.com)
Date:   07-29-03 16:00

Soul: Sure, I know Hillsboro; used to live there. I also taught a course at Pacific University last January; that's a looong drive from Portland.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: SteveLord (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date:   07-29-03 16:12

i was born in 1984...in "west germany" =) i think i came to the states in 92.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Dupre the Fighter (---.rba1.pppoe.execulink.com)
Date:   07-29-03 16:19

I hail for Britannia :-)

Ok, Southern Ontario, Canada
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: suji (---.server.ntl.com)
Date:   07-30-03 15:44

I am from Leeds in England.

I wondered are there any other women of my age (54) who love Ultima?
Ive never met on LOL
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Torgus dragon (---.mycingular.net)
Date:   11-11-10 19:56

Boston ma. Way to spam up an old thread

(edit by Dominus: removed the above spam message)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Monotremata 
Date:   11-12-10 02:34

Yay for old dead threads!
Jeez I never realized how popular Ultima was outside of the US..

(Southern Californian here, born, bred and lived my whole 35 years)..

Morbius/Monotremata Dragon
-==(UDIC)==-
Since 1992!
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Korneluk (---.222-56-74.mc.videotron.ca)
Date:   11-12-10 02:40

Currently Montreal, Canada... soon to be encased in ice.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: El Guesto (---.studat.chalmers.se)
Date:   11-12-10 17:33

Gothenburg, Sweden
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: alagner 
Date:   11-13-10 16:25

I'm from Bytom, Poland.


And on the language related topic:
>>>>English are derived from French

>>Actually, that's not quite correct. French is derived from Latin, while English was just greatly influenced by Latin. That's why English grammar is still quite different to French one.


Hacki, I'm not a historian (so correct me if I'm wrong) but aren't you skipping battle of Hastings in 1066 and its influence on English language here? Remember that Skutarth mentioned vocabulary, not grammar. As far I know, after 1066 the original English (its "fully Germanic form") was replaced by French among the aristocracy, while the was still spoken by the rest of the population.
As a result we have "arrive" and "come" meaning almost the same, but with "arrive" (French: arriver) being the more elegant one. In fact, Old English (the one spoken in the Middle Ages) is really similar to German.
I've one read an article that stated that more-less 60% of English words is of French origin. I may look for it if you want a proof ;)

A.M.Miera
vel. Alagner Dragon
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Dominus (not logged in) (84.119.84.---)
Date:   11-13-10 16:28

Please don't beat on a very old topic. The only reason it got revived was because of a spam post and me not wanting to delete a legitimate reply.
If you want to post where you are from, please go ahead, but continuing a years old discussion... Please no ;)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: alagner 
Date:   11-13-10 17:13

Oops, I haven't noticed the date. Sorry

A.M.Miera
vel. Alagner Dragon
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: MV75 (---.static.tpgi.com.au)
Date:   11-14-10 05:15

Wow, 7 years on, I'm still at the same desk, but different computer, monitor, keyboard and mouse. :) Oh yea, new chair too as my old one finally carked it a couple of weeks ago.

Funny though too, I remember 7 years ago I said I was surrounded by computers, I've now got less of them than I did back then. :) Oh yea, it's 3:14pm and the 14th of november 2010.

Finally with a better isp too as it should be next to my name above ^. :)
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Ozrick (193.222.132.---)
Date:   11-17-10 10:13

French living in NL.

I believe your map is now complete Tevor Clim!

Ozrick.
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 Re: [OT]Where are you from? (visit everyone, please!)
Author: Dewis (---.proxy.aol.com)
Date:   12-02-10 14:59

Gloucester, England, UK.

Used to play U7 back in the early 90's and I was not even a teenager. The game is just as good now as it was then.

Thumbs up to the guys who created and maintain Exult!
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