Things that thrill or amuse you about Cantr.

[SekoETC]

Same thing with Finnish. Usually when Finnish people hear some foreigner is learning Finnish, they're like why don't you just speak English, everybody understands that.

[ObsessedWithCats]

Everyone outside of Cantr that I've told I'm learning Polish immediately asks why, why not French or Spanish or something 'more useful'. Never mind that Polish is the third most spoken language in England and one of the people who asked that speaks Croatian.

Dutch is a pain for me because I speak enough German to understand significantly more Dutch than a character who has only ever encountered English should, but it's hard for me to figure out how much my character should understand.

[Majix]

I'm always impressed with people who has English as their first language when they learn another language. As they often can get along easily without doing that.

[ObsessedWithCats]

I'm always impressed with people who has English as their first language when they learn another language. As they often can get along easily without doing that.

I'm always impressed at people who speak English as a second language because the more I learn other languages the more I realise that English is a hideous broken chimeric mess of a language XD Why the world couldn't have gone for something nicer as a popular language is beyond me
somehow a thing got added O_O I chopped it back out

[Bmot]

I'm always impressed with people who has English as their first language when they learn another language. As they often can get along easily without doing that.

I'm always impressed at people who speak English as a second language because the more I learn other languages the more I realise that English is a hideous broken chimeric mess of a language XD Why the world couldn't have gone for something nicer as a popular language is beyond me
somehow a thing got added O_O I chopped it back out

Damn, sorry, used the edit button instead of the quote button

What I said was (something like):

Ha, reminds me of this poem (that I probably posted before, but oh well)

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

[ObsessedWithCats]

I'm always impressed with people who has English as their first language when they learn another language. As they often can get along easily without doing that.

I'm always impressed at people who speak English as a second language because the more I learn other languages the more I realise that English is a hideous broken chimeric mess of a language XD Why the world couldn't have gone for something nicer as a popular language is beyond me
somehow a thing got added O_O I chopped it back out

Damn, sorry, used the edit button instead of the quote button

What I said was (something like):

Ha, reminds me of this poem (that I probably posted before, but oh well)

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

That explains it XD I like that poem - have tried to say it and its variants through a handful of times.

I was thrilled when re-learning German to find I could listen to a new word spoken slowly and spell it right 99% of the time, and now I can't remember how to spell anything in Polish at all without hearing it first Such a contrast to English.

[Wolfsong]

Not sure if this is going to be a redemption arc, or Debbie Does Dallas.

[altoids]

200 grams of ground coffee and 300 grams of water makes 500 grams of coffee.
300 grams of dry tea and 450 grams of water makes 750 grams of tea.

We're eating the grounds.

[MonkeyPants4736]

I like how I view my chars sort of like they are my kids, regarding how I feel about them aging. My oldest one always makes me proud when she has a spawnday. I'm all..."Aww, you're 28 now and such a strong woman." Go girl! Then, with my youngest ones, I'm all..."Nooo, don't grow up. Stay young forever." I might need to spawn new ones, soon.

[HFrance]

In Cantr you do no need to cry over spilled milk. Just get it back.

[hyrle]

In Cantr you do no need to cry over spilled milk. Just get it back.

Instead you cry when you auto-eat it because you forgot to have other food in your inventory and forgot to put said milk away.

[ObsessedWithCats]

Did a random forum search for a character mine recently met and discovered a snippet of a log involving the same five characters currently around in the same place from long before my character spawned :') It's nice when you can think on an old group and they're not mostly dead.

[Xander]

From anonymous -

You point at some crushed nuts held by you.

[Undine]

It took me until just now to realize how the Ice Sisters got their name!
Alice
Dorice
Am I the only slow one here?

[MonkeyPants4736]

The one with Legos wasn't Cantr 1. It did come first, but Cantr 1 was online and was handled mainly through e-mails . Then came this one, so maybe this one is really Cantr 3?