is there anyone here who is signed up at zune.net who lives in america and subscribed for the zunhd update thing. i tried to but it wont let me necause i live in canada
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I guess they figured no in the U.S. listens to foreign music and when the Zune was launched in Canada, that no one in Canada listens to foreign music
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i live in Canada, and i have yet to meet someone who does.... ( not saying there isnt anyone who does)
I would hope the older Zunes get unicode support.
Microsoft was never one to abandon it's older devices and it would make a lot of people happy.
They do, eventually. They still have tech support for 2K I believe. They have some kind of deal or something. But, yes, they are a little slow with that kind of stuff. (Even when they released Vista, they called XP obsolete but still helped those guys out)
@coryflet... you are way off... there are a lot of multilingual people in the U.S.A. who listen to foreign music, and English, believe it or not, is one of the hardest European languages out there, due to lack of consistency.
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anyways who needs a new language, english is like the most popular language. and its allot easier to understand.
I speak 3 different languages (Russian,German,English in order that i learned them) I started to learn english when i was 11 and i'm pretty good at it right now, but i still cann't for the life of me figure out how to make the "th" sound properly. I say it like an 'f' not "th".
English isn't as easy to learn as you think. There is a joke about it in my family saying that a drunk guy invented this language because you need to KNOW how to pronounce every single word or you are going to say it totally wrong. In other languages (german for example), if you know the alphabet, you can read the world correctly, no problem. There might be a few exceptions but there are a lot less of them then in english.
A good example of this would be help and either. The 'e' in both words (first 'e' in either) make entirely different sounds while 'e' is 'e' in german, no different sound in different word.
Also if you dislike french so much, when you should dislike english just as much since both of them have funny rules about different things. (VANDERTRAMP verbs for example in passe compose) The only reason that you can speak english so well is because you were born into it. (as in first language), you would proably say the same thing about english if you were born in france or quebec.
Also if you don't like french maybe you should learn spanish unless of course you want to get a government job in canada. Spanish is the easiest language that I started to learn/learned so far and has few of those funny rules that you hate so much
I speak 3 different languages (Russian,German,English in order that i learned them) I started to learn english when i was 11 and i'm pretty good at it right now, but i still cann't for the life of me figure out how to make the "th" sound properly. I say it like an 'f' not "th".
you just put your tongue up to your front teeth and the air kind of goes through them. idk how to explain it, but yeh
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English isn't as easy to learn as you think. There is a joke about it in my family saying that a drunk guy invented this language because you need to KNOW how to pronounce every single word or you are going to say it totally wrong. In other languages (german for example), if you know the alphabet, you can read the world correctly, no problem. There might be a few exceptions but there are a lot less of them then in english.
thats true, its like how you can say th or ph, and the x can be pronounced as a z sometimes. i never thought of it that way, but ive never tried to learn another language. if german's that easy, maybe ill try to learn it someday. maybe if i need a second language for colledge or something (if i go)
a little off topic. anyways, if MS wants to widen their audience then thats no problem with me, im not going to use it, but maybe someone else will. as long as it doesn't delay the release date MORE
Doesn't really effect me, I listen to country music, not a whole lot of country comes out of the Asian market. (if any?)
I do believe that they will add this to the other devices if they are planning on taking them international too, which I believe they are.
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It's high time that they did this, they alienate anyone with foreign characters in their songs (Spanish, Chinese, Russian, etc). Having to use JAZP was annoying, but now it should become obsolete.
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anyways, if MS wants to widen their audience then thats no problem with me, im not going to use it, but maybe someone else will. as long as it doesn't delay the release date MORE
calm down. anyways so it's like exactly the same as just changing a language setting.....
anyways who needs a new language, english is like the most popular language. and its allot easier to understand.
Actually, the most popular language is Mandarin Chinese(go ahead and google search it). Also, it certainly ISNT the easiest to learn/speak/spell. The reason for that is pretty obvious from its history since it comes from a combination of French and a Germanic language. So it ended up being a messed up version of both and has massive numbers of exceptions(i before e except after 'c' or in "ei" as in neighbor or after 'w' like in weird and I believe there's more exceptions to that one as well, just can't remember them).
As for your comments about China, it's barely "communist" anymore, the government has been less and less a part of people's lives for the past couple decades. Of course it still has its(another exception, no apostrophe there even though there is in every other word) problems, but at this point I think it'd be safe to say it pretty closely mirrors the United States' state in the late 1800's/early 1900's. There were certainly ample amounts of people who could afford luxury's back then here and similarly there are many in China now who can.
According to linguists, English is the hardest language to learn as it is a bizarre mixture of Romance languages, Germanic languages, Gaelic languages, and so on, with strange rules to pronounce words like "knight" and all kinds of exceptions when it comes to grammar and spelling (according to William Safire, the "i-before-e-except-after-c" rule raises spelling to a sceiance). Japanese is ranked second hardest language; Chinese is third hardest.
Also, please do not call China communist; its economy (3rd in the world by purchasing power parity) is as far from being communist as possible... do your own research. Communism does not endorse dictatorship; instead it is an extreme form of democracy where everyone is equal with no one in charge and all decisions made collectively.
Chinese does not have an alphabet. If by "Asian" you meant Japanese and Korean, that's fine; I overreacted. Those languages have alphabets; Chinese has characters instead (think of them as words).
DDD this make me a happy camper. however, will this be a universal software update? i don;t want to buy a whole new zune when this can be easily fixed with a quick patch.
DDD this make me a happy camper. however, will this be a universal software update? i don;t want to buy a whole new zune when this can be easily fixed with a quick patch.
i think its just there to encourage people to buy it
DDD this make me a happy camper. however, will this be a universal software update? i don;t want to buy a whole new zune when this can be easily fixed with a quick patch.
