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| 9639 | Games for French pre-school | games | -1 | Re: Magnefique! (?) | Hi. Congratulations on your first French sentence, which also contains one of the first errors committed by non-French speakers: "J'aime" ("I love"), while grammatically correct, is not common usage in French, because when spoken it sounds too much like "jamais", which means "never". For the record, I learned this the hard way, while IN France. When a French person wants to say they like or love something, they use "J't'aime", "I love you", which, while not correct, avoids confusion. I was trying to think of an English equivalent, but couldn't. Again, congratulations. :) | 2003-03-19 21:03:27 | 9629 |
| 9640 | GL-117 | games | -1 | Re: You art thy one who hath posted crap | Most of C++ is just making C easier. for instance, function overloading. No overhead since it's found at compile time, but less naems to remember and less typing. Classes are just structs with easier initialization. The only part about C++ that is by design slower than C is using inheritence. How much slower? Slow enough to follow a pointer and read a VTABLE. Compared to the time spent drawing graphics and implementing AI this is hardly a problem. And if you wanted to implement anything like that in C it'd take a lot more work and you'd get the same overhead. | 2003-03-19 21:35:41 | 9616 |
| 9641 | Games for French pre-school | games | -1 | Re: Magnefique! (?) | never the woman? (eh?) <p> Is that anything like... J't'aime la ma main?<p> question: why do I always hear, sadly by slashdot rumor, that French-Canadians postfix "eh" or "guffah" at the end of every sentance? That isnt hillbilly francais, eh? And if anyone else is reading, or maybe the parent poster has time, what is the reason for "la" and "le" being used? I have not yet recognized a pattern for the interchange of "la" and "le" or what circumstance it is changed. "la" and "le" I understand is "The", eh?<p> GUFFAH! (I'm annoying already, eh?) | 2003-03-19 21:38:24 | 9639 |
| 9642 | GL-117 | games | -1 | Re: You art thy one who hath posted crap | um... no according to 'the c++ programming language' by bjarne stroustrup, he made it *based on* c not *extending* c. he didn't just get a existing c compiler and whack object orientation on it. | 2003-03-19 21:41:25 | 9616 |
| 9643 | Race | games | -1 | Clanlib | I sure wish Race didn't use Clanlib. Due to the many API changes, Debian doesn't have the latest version in it's repositories. :-( | 2003-03-19 21:59:32 | 0 |
| 9644 | Race | games | -1 | Clanlib | I sure wish Race didn't use Clanlib. Due to the many API changes, Debian doesn't have the latest version in it's repositories. :-( | 2003-03-19 22:00:14 | 0 |
| 9645 | 3552 | news | -1 | ooooh!!! | I have a great idea for a name!!! LGP2! or Loki v2.0 or something else equally innovative. | 2003-03-19 22:47:59 | 0 |
| 9649 | Eternal Lands | games | 5676 | Thanks for the offer | Thanks for the offer but I think if I were to relocate it would be to one of the other colonies - Canada, Australia or New Zealand:-<br> <br> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/10/04/world.cities/#fulllist"><b>World's Top 130 Cities</b></a><br> <br> 1. (tie) Melbourne, Australia<br> 1. Vancouver, Canada<br> 3. Perth, Australia<br> 4. (tie) Toronto, Canada<br> 8. (tie) Adelaide, Australia<br> 8. Brisbane, Australia<br> 8. Sydney,Australia<br> 8. Montreal, Canada<br> 16. (tie) Calgary, Canada<br> 24. (tie) Auckland, New Zealand<br> 24. Wellington, New Zealand<br> ...<br> <br> Regards<br> <br> P.S.<marquee>God save the Queen :p</marquee> | 2003-03-20 02:57:13 | 9631 |
| 9650 | GL-117 | games | -1 | Re: You art thy one who hath posted crap | I believe when you referred to the most productive language you were talking about COBOL ;). While C(whatever) programmers were debugging pointers, COBOL programmers were churning out mountains of headaches for the next generation! :D | 2003-03-20 03:57:26 | 9616 |
| 9651 | Games for French pre-school | games | -1 | La vs. Le | <p>All French nouns have gender. That is, a noun is either masculine or feminine. The definite and indefinite articles ("the" and "a"/"an" in English) must agree with the noun they apply to -- that is they must match the gender of the noun. This So, "le" is the French for "the" for masculine nouns, "la" for feminine nouns. Also, "un" is "a" for masuline nouns, "une" for feminine nouns. You would say "la femme" (the woman) or "une femme" (a woman) but "le garcon" (the boy) or "un garcon" (a boy). If a noun starts with a vowel or an 'h', which is silent, you use "l'", so you would say "l'homme" (the man) or "l'ordinateur" (the computer).</p> <p>To answer the first poster's question: the best way to learn French or any language is to use it as much as possible as often as possible. Go to France for a while, spend a lot of time with French people, and force yourself to never speak a word of English. You'll be amazed at how quickly you start to pick things up.</p> | 2003-03-20 04:56:50 | 9641 |