OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind

Re:OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind by bee_rider on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:11PM (#28910973)

They are talking about the way people from these countries typically phrase things as a result of their native language, rather than trying to characterize the actual personalities of the people from these countries. We just add more friendly sounding little filler phrases in our speech and often phrase instructions/commands as requests in English. This doesn't make us fundamentally nicer or more reasonable, it is just a social convention.

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Re:OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind by izietto on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @03:57AM (#28915845)

Thank you for explaining that at my place :) I wasn't even referring to "Western" countries, I mean I come from Italy, which actually is a Western country, and when I read native English speakers I notice many differences that I'll never be able to reproduce

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Re:OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind by silicon2401 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @09:24AM (#28917797)

I'm just curious; why did you specifically say western countries, if you didn't mean western countries? Or say people if you didn't mean people?

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Re:OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind by izietto on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:10AM (#28928883)

Because I'm not a good English speaker, I'm sorry about that

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Re:OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind by silicon2401 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @10:08AM (#28930821)

You're a great English speaker, which is why it was just confusing since you're clearly able to articulate when you _don't_ mean people and countries.

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Re:OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind by izietto on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @10:18AM (#28930925)

Well, I appreciate that I can write decently :D but it requires me a lot of effort, my English skills are a source of big troubles at interviews with other countries. Sometimes I just get confused translating and I say something for something else

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Re:OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind by silicon2401 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @02:02PM (#28933813)

In fairness to your point, I guess I technically can't comment on your speaking, but your writing is definitely great. I wouldn't have guessed you're not a native speaker. Do you practice speech often? I'm a language learning fan but not a huge fan of talking in any language, so my speech always lags behind my writing in languages I study.

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Re:OpenMW: Open-source reimplementation of TES3 Morrowind by izietto on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:47AM (#28997938)

I never practice speech, that's something I should do, but my problem is that I like too much the English language spoken by an Italian person, and also I don't like the English pronounce. That's a strong obstacle to any improvement on English language sounds. I love written English, that's why I can write it, but I just don't like how it sounds, that's why I can't speak it.

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