Not so funny post I've read today :-) BFME

jpinard · Post by **jpinard** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 4:41 pm

Holy crap I was laughing hard at this. On the BFME mod forum a guy posted a mod, and had awful writing skills.

Here we go (paraphrased)

* Clord: Started doing Gondor AI it is fully playable Skirmish AI. Unzip this The Battle For Middle-Earth main directory and move Libraries.big somewhere else directory.

* Guest: Clord can you please post some details on what this mod actually does?

* Clord: I need see replays where is player vs my Gondor Skirmish AI. I know more clearly then how good it is vs human player and my brain get information what to improve and maybe change.

* LivedbytheSword: Huh?!?!

* Guest: I think your Brain should first learn communication, then start work on AI. FFS mate, I see better posts from 12 year olds, if you don't know the language then post in your own because you confuse the shit outta me.
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Now granted the mod author was Finnish, but still the last half of Guests sentence just cracked me up. Link:

http://www.forumplanet.com/rpgplanet/me ... 556768&p=1

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:19 pm

WTF are og Guests? Original gangster visitors?

Ale

jpinard · Post by **jpinard** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:32 pm

Arggh. You pick my one typos out of that whole post?

Alefroth · Post by **Alefroth** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:56 pm

One typo, one grammatical error =)

Ale

jpinard · Post by **jpinard** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:59 pm

oh man!

Reed · Post by **Reed** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 6:00 pm

OG Loc?!

Lee · Post by **Lee** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:25 pm

So someone posted in english, it's not his natural language and its hilarious? I guess I don't get it.

Enough · Post by **Enough** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:39 pm

The Fino-Ugrian group of languages is one of the more bizarre and difficult to learn thanks to it's logic and sentence structure, etc. so we might want to cut this Finish guy some slack.

I remember when I first started learning Hungarian our professor started the class by telling us we would be learning one of the three hardest languages to learn in the world. I couldn't believe she would say that and risk turning us off to trying to learn the language right from the start. But I can vouch for it's difficulty. Between suffix and prefix use it's almost possible to construct an entire sentence with one word!

jpinard · Post by **jpinard** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:48 pm

OK, I guess the humor is all my own. It wasn't that he was mocking him per say, it was just funny the way it was stated. And when people keep saying Huh? usually poster woudl say early on "English is not my first language".

I just thought one part was funny. Oh well.

Tareeq · Post by **Tareeq** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:37 pm

Enough wrote:The Fino-Ugrian group of languages is one of the more bizarre and difficult to learn thanks to it's logic and sentence structure, etc. so we might want to cut this Finish guy some slack.

Finno-Ugric. Finnish.

Grifman · Post by **Grifman** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:53 pm

Enough wrote:The Fino-Ugrian group of languages is one of the more bizarre and difficult to learn thanks to it's logic and sentence structure, etc. so we might want to cut this Finish guy some slack.

That's kind of irrelevant since Finnish isn't his second language, right?

Grifman

Poleaxe · Post by **Poleaxe** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:42 am

This might have been funnier if any one of those guys could speak a foreign language. No wait, it would still be kind of rude and shitty.

Kael · Post by **Kael** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 1:37 am

I remember a gaming magazine column about the sorts of letters they get. They went through all the typical stuff, the rants from fanboys that they didn't rank there game high enough. The rants from the detractors that they ranked it to high. But the comment that always stuck with me was when they said: "At least once a month we will get a letter from someone from another country who will always end it by apologizing for his poor english. These letters are usually more eloquent and well written than most of the letters we get from people who claim english is their primary language."

The Mad Hatter · Post by **The Mad Hatter** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 2:35 am

Poleaxe wrote:This might have been funnier if any one of those guys could speak a foreign language. No wait, it would still be kind of rude and shitty.

Particularly when directed at a mod writer who's creating something for everyone to use.

jpinard · Post by **jpinard** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 10:20 am

Well I apolgize to the author and everyone else. I feel terrible.

Odin · Post by **Odin** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:40 pm

jpinard wrote:Well I apolgize to the author and everyone else. I feel terrible.

Not necessary in my case. I thought it was funny, but I usually always see the humor in badly broken English from people who don't know the language. Like with the magazine guys above, it's when native speakers mangle it that I get annoyed.

Sith

Enough · Post by **Enough** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:25 am

Tareeq wrote:
Enough wrote:The Fino-Ugrian group of languages is one of the more bizarre and difficult to learn thanks to it's logic and sentence structure, etc. so we might want to cut this Finish guy some slack.
Finno-Ugric. Finnish.

I'm pretty sure either is correct mr. smarty pants. The Library of Congress classification system spells it the same as I did (Fino-Ugrian). Unless there is some greater meaning to your brief post that misses me I give you one of these:

with a side order of cat butt:

And I give myself one of these

for offending our resident spelling bee champion by misspelling Finnish.

bluefugue · Post by **bluefugue** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:43 am

Are you guys finnished?

GungHo · Post by **GungHo** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:15 pm

I thought it was funny...but then I also laugh when I try to speak my pathetic excuse for broken Spanish. Its great cause I can tell the people to whom Im speaking are about to bust a gut too.

Cmon yall. If you cant laugh at other people, who *can* you laugh at?

jpinard · Post by **jpinard** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:21 pm

See gungho I'm the exact same way. I love speaking German, but I laugh and make fun of myself because I KNOW how terrible it must be (and painful) for German-speakers to hear/see it.

Enough · Post by **Enough** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:37 pm

jpinard wrote:See gungho I'm the exact same way. I love speaking German, but I laugh and make fun of myself because I KNOW how terrible it must be (and painful) for German-speakers to hear/see it.

Sorry to cause any fuss, I actually thought it was funny too. This is a case of trying to add value to your already fun post. That effort apparently went off badly. But hey at least we all now know there are two ways to refer to the language family with Finnish.

RashG · Post by **RashG** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:17 pm

I agree that the original post was quite funny. Usually it is the Japanese who mangle English that badly. Of course there are always people who can't form coherent sentences even in their native languages.
Normally Finns speak English fairly well, it is taught at elementary school after all.

But I don't agree that Finnish is that hard a language. It has a similar sentence structure that germanic languages have and almost all the same tenses (future is usually implicit). Of course the suffixes and composite words make it hard to learn (even to the native speakers sometimes) but same could be said about latin.