[gazdi]

We have just had a short discussion (wouldn't call it an argument) in Gameware about a sentence and now I'd like to hear your opinion about it.
The story is, that a guy came and wrote in English only and linked an image that was later marked as fake, etc. As some other strange errors appeared in his posts, I thought he's not who's he tells he is. The guy was asked why he was on a Hungarian forum at all, speaking English only. His answer (and the sentence mentioned above) was:

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To tell people about Age of Empires 3, I only look at this exact thread, and reply in this exact thread

I think this sentence has no sense. IMO what he wanted to write is something like "To tell people about AoE3 I simply looked at this particular thread and posted here."
Another opinion in the Gameware thread was that he was using simple present to express that he's used to come and post here, and the sentence should be translated to something like "Csak ebbe a topicba szoktam benézni és csak ehhez szoktam hozzászólni."
What do you, people with deeper and maybe wider English knowledge, think of it?

[bbence]

You're right. That guy is neither an englishman, nor American. And not a native speaker of english, that seems certain. At least, this is my educated guess from that single sentence you quoted.

edit: wrongly used word.

Szerkesztette: bbence 2005. 10. 23. 11:52 -kor

[Dorien]

You can find people who can't speak everywhere.

[Papesz]

Idézet: gazdi - Dátum: 2005. okt. 23., vasárnap - 12:35

We have just had a short discussion (wouldn't call it an argument) in Gameware about a sentence and now I'd like to hear your opinion about it.
The story is, that a guy came and wrote in English only and linked an image that was later marked as fake, etc. As some other strange errors appeared in his posts, I thought he's not who's he tells he is. The guy was asked why he was on a Hungarian forum at all, speaking English only. His answer (and the sentence mentioned above) was:

I think this sentence has no sense. IMO what he wanted to write is something like "To tell people about AoE3 I simply looked at this particular thread and posted here."
Another opinion in the Gameware thread was that he was using simple present to express that he's used to come and post here, and the sentence should be translated to something like "Csak ebbe a topicba szoktam benézni és csak ehhez szoktam hozzászólni."
What do you, people with deeper and maybe wider English knowledge, think of it?

Anyway I still don't understand why he should use Simple Past expressing that. Can you or someone else explain it grammatically?

In my opinion Simple Present is used to express repeated actions or habits. If someone comes to see the hottest threads everyday it is the tense that should be used.

(You're right, it isn't an argument. I'm just wondering.)

[gazdi]

Idézet: Papesz - Dátum: 2005. okt. 23., vasárnap - 18:28

Anyway I still don't understand why he should use Simple Past expressing that. Can you or someone else explain it grammatically?

In my opinion Simple Present is used to express repeated actions or habits. If someone comes to see the hottest threads everyday it is the tense that should be used.

(You're right, it isn't an argument. I'm just wondering.)

His posting was a single act in the past. Definetly Simple Past.
The guy doesn't post regularly to that thread and obviously doesn't read it. Remember, he didn't know that the image had been discussed before.
Considering he wanted to express that he visited that thread regulary, he should have placed "only" after "thread" like this: "I look at this exact thread only" (btw I still don't like the useage of "exact" here).

[bbence]

Who will attend this event?

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Over the last four years, Peepolykus (I'm going to call them Peeps from now on because Peepolykus is hard to type) have developed - ''honed'' - a refreshing and ridiculous style of comic theatre which has won them rave reviews all over the world, from Southampton to Singapore and Dorking to Delhi.

They love 'em in China (''I rarely laugh in the theatre but with this show I was forced to surrender" South China Morning Post) and also in wee bonnie Scotland (". . . the three-man team have once again given birth to a dazzling kaleidoscope of nano-second perfect timing, audacious irreverence and monstrous stupidity."  Scotsman).

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Peepolykus
15., 16., 17., 18., 19. December
Két produkció a Peepolykus társulattól (John Nicholson, David Sant és Javier Marzan), akik egyben ez idõ szerint az Egyesült Királyság legünnepeltebb nemzetközi hírû színházi társulata. Elõadásaikban a fennkölten képtelen bóhóckodás keveredik a verbális helyzetkomikummal és az elképesztõen pontosan idõzített, mozgásos komédiával. Angol nyelven!

I definetly will!

[gazdi]

Idézet: bbence - Dátum: 2005. okt. 24., hétfõ - 14:58

Who will attend this event?

[IMG]http://www.peepolyku...running-big.jpg

I definetly will!

Once I saw them mimicking a fly (including hunt for it and its noise), later a 10minutes show around strairs. They're simply great.
Now we know the dates but miss the place... Could you write about it?

PS Isn't it "attend to"?

[bbence]

Idézet: gazdi - Dátum: 2005. okt. 24., hétfõ - 16:54

Once I saw them mimicking a fly (including hunt for it and its noise), later a 10minutes show around strairs. They're simply great.
Now we know the dates but miss the place... Could you write about it?

I missed that bit, sorry. It will be performed in Merlin Theatre (Budapest).

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PS Isn't it "attend to"?

No, I think not. Attend to means "looking after something", while attend roughly means "visit". AFAIK.

[WickedWitch]

Idézet: bbence - Dátum: 2005. okt. 24., hétfõ - 17:02

I missed that bit, sorry. It will be performed in Merlin Theatre (Budapest).



No, I think not. Attend to means "looking after something", while attend roughly means "visit". AFAIK.

And now if you could just explain what the letters AFAIK stand for I'd be eternally greatful.  I think I'm behind in my chat abbreviations... 

[bbence]

Idézet: WickedWitch - Dátum: 2005. okt. 24., hétfõ - 18:48

And now if you could just explain what the letters AFAIK stand for I'd be eternally greatful.  I think I'm behind in my chat abbreviations... 

It's more like an internet acronym, which stands for: as far as I know.

[WickedWitch]

Idézet: bbence - Dátum: 2005. okt. 24., hétfõ - 19:55

It's more like an internet acronym, which stands for: as far as I know.

Thanks.  Still, I think I'll just stick to the old-fashioned way of typing out the words in full. 

[bbence]

Idézet: WickedWitch - Dátum: 2005. okt. 24., hétfõ - 19:58

Thanks.  Still, I think I'll just stick to the old-fashioned way of typing out the words in full. 

That's all right. Like, for example, I don't like to mix english and hungarian words. Some people use english words in their hungarian communication, but I'm not very fond of it.

BTW (means by the way, by the way ), if you're looking for abbreviations or acronyms, google is your friend. 

[spidey]

Idézet: bbence - Dátum: 2005. okt. 24., hétfõ - 20:06

That's all right. Like, for example, I don't like to mix english and hungarian words. Some people use english words in their hungarian communication, but I'm not very fond of it.

BTW (means by the way, by the way ), if you're looking for abbreviations or acronyms, google is your friend. 

Instead of Google, this link should be your friend for acronyms:
http://www.acronymsearch.com/

BTW: I looked at your website, and I noticed a few grammatical errors (in English)

[bbence]

Idézet: spidey - Dátum: 2005. okt. 24., hétfõ - 22:53

Instead of Google, this link should be your friend for acronyms:
http://www.acronymsearch.com/

BTW: I looked at your website, and I noticed a few grammatical errors (in English)

Please, don't hesitate to correct 'em!

[spidey]

Idézet: bbence - Dátum: 2005. okt. 24., hétfõ - 23:13

Please, don't hesitate to correct 'em!

Ok, here you go:

Favourite: Reading
Authors: Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, J. R. R. Tolkien, Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, George Orwell and others

I'd write "Favorites" in this context, especially that you have more favorites.

Lock, Stock and the Two smoking Barrels

The title is Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

but we're close to finish it

finishing it, IMO

Minor mistakes, but I thought it is worth mentioning.
What kind of game are you doing? How does it progress? You might get a sticky topic in Gameware, if it could be a popular game.

[WickedWitch]

Idézet: bbence - Dátum: 2005. okt. 24., hétfõ - 20:06

That's all right. Like, for example, I don't like to mix english and hungarian words. Some people use english words in their hungarian communication, but I'm not very fond of it.

BTW (means by the way, by the way ), if you're looking for abbreviations or acronyms, google is your friend. 

I'm not that amateur!  I've been using the net before there even was a "net". Started out writing on the bulletin boards of Prodigy (which was an online network like Compuserve and AOL, before AOL joined the WWW) with a 2800 kbps modem. Aaaah, the good 'ole days... When kids where kids and McDonalds only served one size of fries... 

Szerkesztette: WickedWitch 2005. 10. 25. 07:35 -kor

[bbence]

Idézet: spidey - Dátum: 2005. okt. 25., kedd - 0:03

Ok, here you go:

...

Minor mistakes, but I thought it is worth mentioning.
What kind of game are you doing? How does it progress? You might get a sticky topic in Gameware, if it could be a popular game.

Thanks! I'll correct them soon.
If you click on the image left to the Programming section header, you can access the page that's dealing with our game, apart from other things.

[bbence]

Idézet: WickedWitch - Dátum: 2005. okt. 25., kedd - 8:34

I'm not that amateur!  I've been using the net before there even was a "net". Started out writing on the bulletin boards of Prodigy (which was an online network like Compuserve and AOL, before AOL joined the WWW) with a 2800 kbps modem. Aaaah, the good 'ole days... When kids where kids and McDonalds only served one size of fries... 

Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound that way.
And a nice internet past you have, too.

edit: one word too many.

Szerkesztette: bbence 2005. 10. 25. 10:08 -kor

[WickedWitch]

Idézet: bbence - Dátum: 2005. okt. 25., kedd - 11:08

Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound that way.
And a nice internet past you have, too.

edit: one word too many.

Yeah, and a nice typo I have too, (where - were). Gonna go see if I can still edit it... Happened in college all the time. Even if I ran the spellcheck through there were always other typos not picked up by it. Once the teacher returned it saying, that it will be an A as soon as I correct all the typos. 

Szerkesztette: WickedWitch 2005. 10. 25. 10:15 -kor

[WickedWitch]

Idézet: bbence - Dátum: 2005. okt. 25., kedd - 11:05

Thanks! I'll correct them soon.
If you click on the image left to the Programming section header, you can access the page that's dealing with our game, apart from other things.

It's "next to" and "left of" something.    Sorry...