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| Mr.Mystery |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
I've wanted to post this for a while, but didn't really care enough.
Anyway, here's my hypothesis:
There is no way that Meat187 and Mr. Mystery are the same person. I say this because over the last few years, I have become consciously aware of various linguistic traps that Meat187 falls into in his posts. These are very similar to the traps that my former european-born ESL students used to fall into when writing in English.
Despite the fact that his written English is dead-near fluent, Meat still made the occassional blunder that sparked the recognition in me that English was his second language and that he likely does not use it in his everyday work life.
Mr. Mystery's writing style didn't show any of this. So he's been speaking English a lot longer (all his life?) and/or uses it every day at work because he writes like an anglophone.
These details I noticed were very subtle and would take a LOT of time and effort to fake and keep regular for 3 years in two different online characters :wtf: |
Maybe Mr. Mystery does that on purpose. The last time I made an alt, Noisician found out it was me because of the expressions I use :p |
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
I do :mad: |
So do I! :mad:
Edit: Of course English is a second language for me but I do use it at work every day. Albeit only with others who speak it as a second language, too, and are usually quite a bit below my level. Greeks and Spaniards sometimes have horrible pronounciation that just hurts my ears... :)
Apart from that, :stongue: :stongue: :wtf: :stongue: at Ania. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
So do I! :mad: |
Duh! |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ania_xox
I've wanted to post this for a while, but didn't really care enough.
Anyway, here's my hypothesis:
There is no way that Meat187 and Mr. Mystery are the same person. I say this because over the last few years, I have become consciously aware of various linguistic traps that Meat187 falls into in his posts. These are very similar to the traps that my former european-born ESL students used to fall into when writing in English.
Despite the fact that his written English is dead-near fluent, Meat still made the occassional blunder that sparked the recognition in me that English was his second language and that he likely does not use it in his everyday work life.
Mr. Mystery's writing style didn't show any of this. So he's been speaking English a lot longer (all his life?) and/or uses it every day at work because he writes like an anglophone.
These details I noticed were very subtle and would take a LOT of time and effort to fake and keep regular for 3 years in two different online characters :wtf: |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
Greeks and Spaniards sometimes have horrible pronounciation that just hurts my ears |
I can understand why Spaniards have trouble speaking quite a few foreign languages, but Greeks? |
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
I can understand why Spaniards have trouble speaking quite a few foreign languages, but Greeks? |
Weird pronounciation, strange grammer that they probably derive from their own language: "the question it is whether...". |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
Apart from that, :stongue: :stongue: :wtf: :stongue: at Ania. |
Didn't I actually say in this very thread that it was just a dumb joke?
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| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
grammer |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
Weird pronounciation, strange grammer that they probably derive from their own language: "the question it is whether...". |
Oh, makes sense now.
[Cool Story]
The reason is probably because English and German are very atypical languages when it comes to their infatuation with subjects :D
Both languages (and French) add dummy subjects to sentences that don't really have an agent. For example, when you say "it rains" (or "es regnet", if you will), what does "it" mean? We just say "Chove" (regnet/rains) in Portuguese, and Greeks do the same (but they use the word βρέχει (Vrechey) instead :p). No "it", no "es", no nothing.
Therefore, because it's so common to see the verb "to be" preceded by a pronoun in English (like in this very sentence), they probably feel the need to add pronouns to verbs all the time, even when the subject is already there. That's what we call hyper-correction.
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
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Frasier is actually my favorite TV show ever. There's no ing way I'm not your alt after this. :p
... ahhh, I mean my alt.. no I mean... whatever, someone will believe it. |
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| Ygrene |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
whatever, someone will believe it. |
WAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS |
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ygrene
WAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS |
Well, whose alt do YOU think I am? |
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