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XD is he not a native English speaker? Don't think I've ever heard anyone phrase it as "coauthor at your storygame."

Love his bold capitalization choices: nothing but the second "t" of TacocaT, and the word "Good." Perhaps he's emphasizing just how Good he is at grammar grammer and spelling(s?)

I admire his confidence, if not his facility with the English language. 

(Freely admitting here that any ESL site members are far better at English than I am at whatever language they speak. Just, y'know, 1) I'm not claiming to be good at other languages, and 2) ain't nobody better than me at English XD.)

I assumed English was not his first language and I asked him, but he says English IS his first language and he's pretty confident in it, too.
 

It seems that the spidey giy will never learn. English isn't my first language either.

It's funny how many people think I'm American. I will never tell you my national language.

Is it non-Indo-European?

You'll never know.

Japanese.

French.

Spanish.

Something Central American-ish.

Russian.

German.

#EveryOtherLanguage

I speak two language. My national language and American English.

Why would you think of that?

I ain't Russian. XD

Hint: My country's special force use the HK416

German?

I figured you were either Australian or Serbian.

Polish would be my third guess.

Why would you figure that I'm Australian? I use American English. Also, I switch my accent to American whenever I want to speak in English.

Being a firearms nut and speak in American accent doesn't mean I'm 'Murican. You'll never know my nationality. My RP characters and my storygame characters came from various of countries.

Bangladesh?

@Raven47

Nope.

Dammit!

The Australian thing came to mind, because sometimes I get you confused with Delta, who is Australian and also uses a lot of female anime avatars.

Both of us like female anime characters. In RP, I'll be making a lot of female characters too. My story game has a female character as the main protagonist. But later on, the main protagonist will change to special forces soldiers.

Albanian? Malaysian? British? Danish?

Nope.

Nuh-uh

I ain't telling you my nationality or language. That's why I answer with a no every single time!

Why not? We're not going to stalk you to death.

Says you.

Oh come one, it's not like we'll know where you exactly live. I said my nationality and language to the people here and so far I got no stalkers that I know of.

It remains as a mystery, hehehe. :P

" English isn't my first language either."

English is Bevan's first language. Well, that's what he told me, anyway. I also assumed he was young, but from what he told me, he's older than Taco ...

But his grammar and spelling sucked. He's not making any improvement.

>_> I'm aware.

After talking to him via PM, it's become evident that he is a terrible listener.

Hablo espanol muy poco. Que idiomas hablas?

Do constructed languages count?

I tried learning Esperanto once. Kinda lost interest though.

I've tried creating a language of my own. And it's not that I've abandoned it completely, but I think it's a bit hard to maintain interest in something that may not be too practical in the first place.

... Well on the plus side, if you pronounce something wrong, no one will ever know. ^_^

@BradinDvorak you conlang? That's awesome. Me too. ^_^

I think Sentinel does also, but I've not discussed it with him.

I'm less about one-and-only-one language of encyclopedic depth, more about oh-what-if-pronouns-indicated-the-speakers-relation-to-the-thing-being-discussed; wait, wait, can-I-male-two-languages-like-how-Normans-and-Saxons-interacted; wait, I had another idea. . . XD 

Yeah; that's the thing. For all the ideas I can come up with, there's no way to fit them all into one language and despite my telling myself to focus on one, I inevitably end up starting something new. I suppose, though, that a number of linguistic journeys can be better than a single destination.

Yeah. Constructing a language is known as conlanging.

Yeah, it's not just making up a bunch of words that mirror English. There's considering what the phonology of your language is, considering the culture of the conlang speakers, there's building relationships between related words, inventing idioms, writing systems, all kinds of fun. ^_^

Didn't mean to imply you didn't. XD  Just excited about linguistics.  

Oh, to be sure, to be sure! ^_^

I believe it's a joke.

First time I see an admin copy pasting posts.

First time I see an admin copy pasting posts.

^v^

And that's the second post an admin copy-pasted... :P

Wait...is the OP here Seth or someone else?

Seth is OP & he also moved it, since he derailed his own thread. Draw My Attention works better if its mostly suggestions/responses- stuff gets buried under side digressions.

*Raises hand* Does it count if I can speak Klingon?

HIja'.

...Unless if, like me, this is the only word you know.

tlhIngan nIvbogh vISov.

In that case, uh... HIja'.

I speak Finnish. If anyone cares...

I care! I assume you're a native speaker? I've heard nordic languages are rather hard to learn.

Native. I also hear that all the time. But the scandinavian languages like Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Sound almost the same to me.

But Finnish is easy to me. every word is pronounced like it's written. There are no crazy rules like in English that like: 'E' is pronounced E on its own, but in 'There', it's pronounced differently. We don't do that in Finnish.

Estonian sounds like gibberish to me. It's so similar, yet it makes no sense if you can't speak it.

Ah, Rosetail, that's awesome!  Have you also spoken English for a long time?  

Mmm. Let me think...Well I knew some English words before I had English class. I guess that on second grade I could speak some sort of English. Than came third grade and completed the holes...

In total I'd say four or five years. Well I pronounce stuff bad, but I can write good English. I really only speak English aloud when I'm on vacation in another country.