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| Ralf wrote: | Never have I seen anything as beautiful, never smelled anything as sublime and never tasted anything as delicate as those potatoes you made tonight  |
This is funny and romantic. Until I see potatoes, I thought you were talking about a woman! Cute!
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| Sat Oct 27, 2007 15:56 pm How romantic is English? |
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The Love of Tan Hong Ming
I think this is romantically adorable or adorably romantic. The boy is sooooo (five Os) cute! The little girl too.
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| Sat Oct 27, 2007 17:53 pm How romantic is English? |
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Ralf turned something mundane -- potatoes -- into an artfully painted canvas.
hehe
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| Wed Oct 31, 2007 15:11 pm How romantic is English? |
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Saith the bard, "As mine heart beats, so shall I love thee."
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| Wed Oct 31, 2007 15:35 pm How romantic is English? |
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| prezbucky wrote: | Saith the bard, "As mine heart beats, so shall I love thee."
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Sagt' der Bard' “Als mein Herz bat, so schall's -- I' lob' Di'”
Is Bavarian Romantic 
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| Thu Nov 01, 2007 19:12 pm How romantic is English? |
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Is that "Low German"?
What is the difference between "High German" and "Low German"?
I heard someone say that the Dutch (Hollanders) speak Low German -- that Dutch is really Low German.
Is that right?
danke
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| Thu Nov 01, 2007 19:50 pm How romantic is English? |
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| prezbucky wrote: | Is that "Low German"?
What is the difference between "High German" and "Low German"?
I heard someone say that the Dutch (Hollanders) speak Low German -- that Dutch is really Low German.
Is that right?
danke |
To my knowledge, Dutch is a variety of Low German (which used to be spoken in northern Germany) whereas High German is generally referred to as a standardised pronunciation; a variety that is not affected by any regional tinge. Some people claim that the area of Hanover is free from any dialectal influence. I would say that you can still hear the Low German influence there.
Unlike conservative RP, High German is a variety that is actually spoken by people other than phoneticians. Newsreaders, educated people, many students as well as call centre service personnel are thought to be able to speak sans accent.
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| Thu Nov 01, 2007 20:09 pm How romantic is English? |
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I see
High German isn't a language so much as an accent (or lack thereof).
Thank you, sir!
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| Sat Nov 10, 2007 0:29 am How romantic is English? |
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As far as I'm concerned, I suppose that english has many ways of expressing your feelings (as a non-native speaker: if u can do that, of course).
I just perceive it differently from my mother language and will never perceive it in the same way.
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| Sat Nov 10, 2007 17:09 pm How romantic is English? |
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| michauek wrote: | | it differently from my mother language and will never perceive it in the same way. |
How do you mean? As for me, I am just really uncomfortable with romantic words. Worse, if it is in my own language.
But I love romantic old poems in Malay. Like Shakespeare, it uses a lot of nature and I can feel I am melting on the inside when I heard them being recited. Not to me though. 
A lot of us here think that it will be hard for non-natives to feel the romanticness in English but to me, I just cannot feel the supposedly romantic poems like the ones of Shakespeare but if they are just simpler expressions, if I can understand it, I can feel it.
Personally, I don't like flowery words, it makes me suspicious of the guy. I like direct ones, like, 'I think about you pretty much every day' or 'Hey, you're cool, I wanna hang out with you'. Like that. 
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| Sat Nov 10, 2007 17:37 pm How romantic is English? |
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Maybe we could list or start a new thread about the best (or worst) chat-up lines you know or have heard -- from the most common to the really creative ones.
In Spain we used to have the "piropos", for which there is no word in English, and which are sadly becoming extinct:
http://www.blogtext.org/Valencia/article/9583.html
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| Sat Nov 10, 2007 17:53 pm How romantic is English? |
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Why don't you start with your favourite ones, Conchita?I have told mine.
And yes, no matter how cheesy the lines are, I am never offended by them, they are very amusing.
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| Criteria for acceptability | Similes |
...harshhhhhhh 