Where are you from?

[Reverie Revenge]

sorra for double post, but I'd like to help Choki w/ some linguistics (I'm laic, not professional, don't kill me):

But before that...how do you pronouce those words in Serbian?

Serbians have the rule: ''Piši kao što govoriš'' = ''Write like how you speak'' --> totally phonetic writing system - kinda opposite to English, where you pronounce one letter in many different ways. Serbians write what they hear.

For example: even names - those we all know: they write ''James Dean'' = ''Džejms Din''
George Bush = Žorž Buš
Elvis Presley = Elvis Prisli
Mick Jagger = Mik Džegr
*trying to remember some more names*

ok, some Hollywood tosh:
Josh Hartnett(sp?) = Još Hartnet
Brad Pitt = Bred Pit
Tom Cruise = Tom Kruz

maybe now they write some celebs' names in correct spelling but if they do it their own way, it's hard to figure it out

[Female_alien]

Yeah, that's true.

Serbians write everything like they pronounce it.

Like Jenniffer is Đenifer and so on (just like Reverie said)

Croatians and Slovenians don't do that, although most of croatians word are written like they're pronounced, some of them are not and we write foreign names normally (James is James, George is Goerge)

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

I'm from Aotearoa the land of the long white cloud................ New Zealand.



Oh Yeah!...............

[Paulina]

I`m from the biggest country in the world...RUSSIA!
Эй,россияне здесь обитают?Наверно нет...

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Is the Russian bit below a translation or something?

[Paulina]

If you don`t understand russian language,you may learn it Well,I just asked:are there any russians ?(sorry,if there are mistakes)

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Your English is actually very good Paulina, it's just things like putting a space after a comma (, ) that sets it out.
I am actually interested too though. How many Russians are active on here?

[Paulina]

Thanks for noting the mistake with the comma.But I think that it`s not very important.

[Broccoli]

I am Russian, but live in Austria and Mint speaks Russian, too. That's it I suppose.

[Paulina]

That`s great!Is anybody else there from Russia?
Broccoli,ты раньше жил в России?

[Broccoli]

Paulina: Yes, I came to Austria only 3.5 years ago. I am from Moscow. And I am a girl

[Paulina]

I live in a town Yessentuki.Do you know where it is?
sorry,of course you are a girl .

[Broccoli]

I know it is in the Caucasus and you have mineral water there which is good for health! But I've never been there, how is it?

[Imelyen]

Orange, California...born and bred.

[Cedric]

Anyone from Ohio or Tennessee? I live in both states.