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Furry Chat => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: Grisli on January 01, 2012, 05:36:36 PM
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Hi everyone!
My name is Grisli. I'm new to the fandom, but I like how easy it seems to be to make friends here. My fursona isn't very developed yet, but I'm working on it. I chose the bear because that's just how I imagine myself if I were an animal.
In reality, I'm a 21 year old college student putting myself through school as a freelance writer. I'd love to write some furry-based fiction once I have a better feel of the fandom and everything. I'm studying German, Spanish, and Russian. If there are any fellow furs native to those tongues, I'm a willing English study partner. :)
Enough about me, I'm really looking forward to meeting all of you!
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Hello and welcome to the forum. I am Puncia and at your service. I hope you like it here with us.
What are your hobbies other than writing? If you want some experience with furry fiction, there is a lot of material on FurAffinity (http://www.furaffinity.net/) you could read. Any theme, any species and any rating, depending on what you prefer.
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Hello Grisli and welcome to the Forums ^_^
I'm Rasui and like you i'm still working on my Fursona :P
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Welcome to the forum Grisli!
I'm Timmy, the one and only Royal Cutefox. I hope you'll enjoy your time here ^_^
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Thank you everyone for your warm welcomes!
Puncia, I'm also a musician, I play percussion. I also love learning foreign languages, so I guess that could be considered a hobby as well. Also, I'm a die-hard ice hockey fan and player. I've checked out FurAffinity and read a few things on there. I think I'll start a short story tonight, I've got the urge to suddenly. :D
Rasui, it's nice to meet you. Hopefully we can both develop our fursonas into something great.
Thanks Timmy! I hope so too!
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I'm glad you found it inspiring! FA might have a ton of adult material but they let you filter it out if you so wish and it does have a lot of users with different talents and such.
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Hello, Grisli! Welcome to the forums and to the fandom! ^_^
So you're studying Spanish? I am as well, but I have to say it is a difficult process! How do you manage to study multiple languages at once? Do you ever mix up languages by accident? XD
Sorry to bombard you with questions there, but please enjoy your time here!
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hey grilis! im tallice! ive been through 1 semester of german! does that count? :?
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Puncia, yeah, I noticed that. I'm not necessarily against that kind of stuff, but for the moment my writing will stay clean. I've actually submitted my first short story/flash-fiction-thing already. Well, actually, I posted it there, here, Furtopia and DA. It's called Alone. Being that it's New Year's Day, it'll probably be a while before I get any kind of real response or critique though.
Thanks Sigcutio! Yep, español, alemán, y ruso. haha. It does get confusing between Spanish and German sometimes but not with the words as much as the grammar. Like prepositions and stuff. Like in English, you say to dream about something, whereas in Spanish you dream with something, and in German you dream of something. That gets really, really confusing. I don't confuse Russian with them too much because it's completely different. Other than the alphabet, it's really a lot simpler. That said, learning languages isn't too impressive, considering I really suck at math and science. It's just my thing I guess.
Nice to meet you Tallice! Sure it counts. Sehr gut! haha
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ja! sehr gut! ICH BIN EIN KARTOFFEL!!
Please do not write entire posts in non-English.
- WingedZephyr
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Yes! You are a potato! Here in Austria there's a different word for potato.
ICH BIN EIN ERDAPFEL! It's funnier than Kartoffel, because Erdapfel is literally earth-apple.
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...hu..........learn something new every day.........mmmmm..... ich bin ein apfelsaft.....
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Yeah seriously! Prepositions are insane in Spanish. Por and para (different forms of for) in particular are driving me up the wall XD
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Lol tallice.
And I hated learning the 'por' and 'para' usage. To this day (I've been studying Spanish going on 8 years) I just use them by what sounds right in my head. I still make mistakes. It'll come with practice though, hopefully.
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Hi Grisli, Welcome to the forum.
Sie nennen mich Caboose, Nett, sie kennen zu lernen. ^_^
Hope to see you around
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Wow, just got on and saw this.
Wish I knew as many languages as you Grisli... I'm an English and French speaker that dabbles in another 5 languages, enough to live and learn but not great.
Good to see you here!
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Yes! You are a potato! Here in Austria there's a different word for potato.
ICH BIN EIN ERDAPFEL! It's funnier than Kartoffel, because Erdapfel is literally earth-apple.
Hmm, looks like the dutch word "aardAppel",also literally earth-apple.
And in russian картошка
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"Earth-Apple?"
Forgive me and my silliness, but my mythological senses are tingling. I'm pretty sure that I've heard legends about an "apple of the earth"?
Apples are pretty large in mythology, Eris' Golden Apple of Discord being one good example, but is there a World Apple? I think there is, but I can't think of it right now...
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Really first time i have heard of any of that before.. @.@
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Okay, did my research. There isn't...
The world was referred to as an apple as analogy.
Sorry
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Ahh.. Makes bit more sense.
Still i do not have vary much knowledge on it though.
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I think in thé olden days they thought it looked like an apple... And it grew under the ground => earthApple
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Well, yeah. Most cultures view the potato as the "apple of the earth." Heh, in French, that's even the name for it (<<Pomme de Terre>> / Apple of the Earth).
Sorry to derail everything.
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Mhe thats all right this to me is kol knowledge :P
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That's very interesting. Seems like all the central European languages use that term then, the exception being Kartoffel in Germany's German. It also now makes soooooooooo much more sense why we (in Austria) say French Fries as Pommes Frites (literally fried apples in French), because they use the earth-apple thing as well.
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lol
I need to travel more to these different parts of the world.