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I would send them a private message saying what LordBucket said. In my experience straightforward honesty is the best attitude to have regarding such matters, and it's not public enough to be posted on their walls or something.

There's no need to say more. Answer their questions if they have some, but you don't have to go on explaining why. It's better to keep it short and polite and to the point.

And good luck !

Hey, french sounds cool ! I especially like the french spoken in quebec and the french accent of the maghreb folks. France's french sounds mundane, but that's probably because I lived in it all my life.

Arabic sounds really awesome though. It's really too bad that it's a nightmare to actually pronounce.

And I'm pretty sure that even if a reform was succesfully made, discrepancies and exceptions would start to appear once again in less than a century.

I speak french and english fluently (with my french being much, much better than my english). For me, english is the crazy girl in the house : it's fun, full of exceptions and surprising rules, and overall quite frustrating and difficult to grasp. It's easy to speak it poorly, hard to speak it well, and I am never quite certain I understand clearly what people say to me. It doesn't help that being a lingua franca, lots of non-native speakers mangle it in their own way, while natives accumulate a huge variety of dialects and accents (I swear, sometimes it's like the georgian lady living here speaks a different language altogether). It's not precise enough for me. I can probably mumble my way anywhere in the world with it, but I can't do poetry with it the way I want to.

But I can have fun with it. It's especially cool to be able to switch from a language to another with my family and my bilingual friends (or just blatantly insert a word or a grammatical construction from the other language here and there). I need to learn more languages to do even more ugly mash-ups like that.

I just learned that today D:

I need to move in a desert country faster so I can see those once-in-a-lifetime stuff that goes in front of the sun and all.

I used to play DnD when I was younger, along with a huge collection of new and old roleplaying games. Since pretty much only me and my brother were really interested, and we had trouble convincing friends to play along, we spent just as much time reading books as actually playing. And we spent much more time just inventing stories than actually rolling dices and stuff. It was fun.

I really, really want to try a dungeon crawl game with the map and the figurines and all the bells and whistles though. Never really had the chance to.

I am a 23 years old guy, with french and american nationalities (I am also bilingual, although I speak english with a french accent). I am extremely lazy and extremely patient, and I can spend days after days doing absolutely nothing, a trait I am (lazily) trying to fix. I sometimes have short bursts of activity, which combined with an awful sense of reality can lead to pretty strange outcomes. For example, I have wanted to move on my own for a long time, and after dreaming of it for years I have suddenly moved by myself to a state I have never lived in, where I know no-one, and where my closest relatives are 3 timezones away. I'm also trying to go back to college and earn a degree or something. It's pretty fun.

My family on my mother's side is almost stereotypically french - catholic, military tradition, some italian ancestry from a century ago (my grandmother still remembers it) and many kids, while my family on my father's side comes from a bunch of eastern european immigrants who decided to move in the US a century or two ago. I was born in Los Angeles and I have lived almost all my life in Paris, a fact that apparently gave me bonus charisma points (which is good, since charisma is probably my dump stat).

I have horrible social skills, in the sense that I rarely have something to say and that I usually tend to go away and find a place to be alone if there's too many people or if I have been with people too long. Despite that, I have never been bullied as a kid, nor have I had any real problems with creepy strangers in the street (I did met a few nutcases).

Funnily enough I do love language and history and social studies and humanities. If I ever manage to do something else than stare at a computer or read a book all day long, I will learn a few more languages, so I can be socially awkward in your native tongue as well.

I also love to walk. I used to walk for hours in Paris. I miss my old mountain shoes terribly and might try and find a good pair of mountain shoes or military boots here. I am one of those strange americans who actually consider walking to the store instead of driving a car there, even (and especially) if it means walking an hour to go, and another hour to go back.

I love to read and I have an awful eyesight. I can read everything. Everything. Including stuff like user notices, little lines on contracts, official gibberish, and end movie credits. So far, the yellow pages are the only thing I have gave up reading because it was boring. I love poetry and do write some regularly.

And I think that's it ! That's all that comes to mind for now.