Re: Long-time lurker, first-time speaker-upper
Posted by: Xiphiidae
Date: 2015-02-14 02:23:55
Welcome, Xiphiidae!
Like you, I've lurked here for some time as well. And Torchickens' excellent work has also inspired and motivated me to make my own contributions, however small :)
As for competitive battling, I'm more of a solo player.
In terms of languages and linguistics, I'm a native Portuguese speaker with reasonable fluency in the English language and some knowledge of Japanese. Torchickens' post above was very interesting to me since I learned a bit more about the "language of Yamato". Another curious thing is that some Japanese words are actually of Portuguese origin.
Thanks :)
I'd like to try to make my own contributions somehow, but it's a bit difficult to know where to start.
Hm, I knew that tempura and pan came from Portuguese but I had no idea that there were so many other words also.