Why can't you Germans just see the light and start speaking dutch?
I've tried to learn German, but I failed miserably. There was only one language I was worse at... French. I totally rocked in English class, though. A+
[mad]If Belgium would join The Netherlands, and the Germans will speak Dutch and eventually join too... We could be the MOST powerfull country EVER!
away with those 1 on 4 american SUV's.
Hooray! let's bring on the GOOD times..
What if we didn't sell New Amsterdam (now New York) maybe Dutch would've been a world language... 0.o[/mad]
Nederlands es toe moeijlijk voor mee. Or something like this.
However, I can imagine, that German is one of the hardest languages to learn for foreigners. Already only the definite articles must be hard to learn. English has only one, French has two, but German has three. illepall
I guess there are harder languages to learn, I mean English, Dutch and German seem to be quite similar in many ways. Now Finnish or Romanian or such other moon languages... duuuuh.
I guess I'm quite okay in English (and of course German), as long as you don't ask me anything about grammar, that is.
At first I thought it's going to be the novelty gimmick accessory that is fun for five minutes and then starts collecting dust in a corner, but today I found out, besides making me somewhat inconsistent, that it's not completely impossible to use AND be quite competitive. Downshifting is still more a random act of erratic spasms and I completely disregard revmatching, but the immersion gained from it is enormous.
The shifter itself is nice, though the buttons are a bit too obscured for really quick access, so I only use them on a long straight with plenty of time for messing around, though that's probably not going to help much if I need the horn or handbrake
What made the shifter feel much more useful and better overall, was creating an "adapter" for my nearby drawers that allows it to be mounted roughly on the right height of a real shifter, instead of besides the wheel which felt awkward.
Can't say much about sequential mode, but the feeling I get from it is quite icky, so it's probably going to be H-gate/paddles only. Speaking of that, it might be a good idea to give the paddles a function if I'm using the shifter
English is in ways harder to learn than either Dutch or German. English has roots in both germanic languages and latin languages like french.
In the end, all languages come from a single mother language spoken some 20000 years ago. Gradually, our language changed to the first semitic language right up until the tower of Babel ordeal, and we got genuinely screwed over by whoever decided it was a good idea to confuzzle our language (be it God, Enlil and the other Anunnaki, or whoever you believe it was).
Keep at it for a few weeks... I started out being some 3 to 4 seconds slower using manual everything and heel-toe, but I'm now beating my old PBs using it for the road cars... In S-S cars it's still a bit strange, though.
I don't use the horn or the handbrake... Not even on rallycross tracks. Practice it, and it should be fine (got my silver license on a rallycross track, to show you don't need the handbrake to be fast).
Yeah, but even that is just a matter of getting used to. Planning on modifying my setup to include an axis handbrake, though, and with that, the shifter will move near the handbrake about 40cm lower. In my real car the shifter is only some 20cm below the steering wheel anyway, and the handbrake is to the lower right of the shifter, almost next to it.
Sequential mode would've been better if the travel of the stick was larger... Now you just have the feeling it'll shift when you blow at it. Another thing I noticed was that in LFS it sees the FO8 as being a paddle car, yet it won't engage the F1 style clutch/throttle lift system... Is that true-to-life, or just a useless and weird setup?
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