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Eeeh - Me Smart Watch turned Polish!

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    Eeeh - Me Smart Watch turned Polish!

    Dunno how it happened but suddenly can't understand a thing. Guessed it was Polish cos of all the Zs. Now working my way through the settings with the aid of Google translate trying to find the language option so I can set it back to English. Just got to:

    zegar
    typ zegara
    czas i data
    =
    clock
    type of clock
    time and date

    Maybe that would be a good way to make youngsters learn languages, keep hacking into their online games and changing them!
    bloggoth

    If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
    John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

    #2
    Ah sorted it! The Jesyk screen
    bloggoth

    If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
    John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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      #3
      Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
      Eeeh - Me Smart Watch turned Polish!
      At least, with an analogue watch, you can still tell the time....even if it does turn Polish....

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        #4
        Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
        Maybe that would be a good way to make youngsters learn languages, keep hacking into their online games and changing them!
        Thought of that 20 years ago

        A game where at the end of each level a homework question pops up and they have a limited time to answer it correctly to make the door to the next level open
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          #5
          Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
          Maybe that would be a good way to make youngsters learn languages, keep hacking into their online games and changing them!
          It's a good game with cars.

          Was at a wedding where the bride worked in marketing at RangeRover. They leant her one of the top end models for the weekend of the wedding. The groom was very keen to show it off to me and his boss.
          The boss gets into the drivers seat, revs the engine etc. Groom shows him all the electronic gizmos (apart from the big touchscreen in the middle). While the groom is distracted, I set the system to Danish.

          ...it's different to the old days of tying balloons on the bumper, a potato on the exhaust and hair gel on the door handles, slightly less destructive but still good fun.
          …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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            #6
            I'm a bit hesitant at using my Satnav now. I might head off to the beach and find myself in Wroclaw.
            bloggoth

            If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
            John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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              #7
              Notice the genitive case in the second use of the word for clock

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                #8
                Notice the genitive case in the second use of the word for clock
                Good thing we just have "the" and not a gender selective version like lots of languages. It would open a huge door to lots of complaints about sexism.

                PS Oh no! Just did a Google and it seems that nouns had gender in old English but that fell out of use and the male form was used for most nouns. How sexist!
                bloggoth

                If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
                John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
                  I'm a bit hesitant at using my Satnav now. I might head off to the beach and find myself in Wroclaw.
                  or worse, - Swindon

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
                    Good thing we just have "the" and not a gender selective version like lots of languages. It would open a huge door to lots of complaints about sexism.

                    PS Oh no! Just did a Google and it seems that nouns had gender in old English but that fell out of use and the male form was used for most nouns. How sexist!
                    Genitive case indicates possesion.

                    And Russian has no articles at all, which might seem to make it easy to learn but in fact makes it harder with no way to indicate the definate and the indefinate.

                    Russian and Polish and most Slavic langauges have inflected nouns and adjectives, but not Bulgarian interestly.

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