Posted April 6, 200816 yr Hello all, As you can probably see I'm new here ;-) I'm 19-years old, I've been lurking for quite some time, and been in and out of a dark age for a few years now. Hopefully I'll fully recover from that :-P (but sadly I've missed ninja, and the legends, + I never got a lot of sets from before 1990 :'-( ). When I was younger I was into allmost all themes, but mostly into town and castle. Nowadays I focus on castle, but I'm feeling like moving on to pirates. Greetings, Fluyt
April 6, 200816 yr Eurobricks Emperor Welcome here! Pirates is a wonderful theme, don't doubt moving into it ;-)
April 6, 200816 yr Welcome" *y* Nowadays I focus on castle, but I'm feeling like moving on to pirates. Well what do you expect with a name like that? X-D And how do you pronounce it? Flight or flute? I've always pronounced it flute, but I don't really know... *sad* Perhaps you can build one! *sweet*
April 6, 200816 yr Author Welcome" *y* Well what do you expect with a name like that? X-D And how do you pronounce it? Flight or flute? I've always pronounced it flute, but I don't really know... *sad* Perhaps you can build one! *sweet* It's a bit of a combination of those two, but kinda hard to explain. But the English equivalent would be flute (although it is pronounced differently), so you're right. Fluyt is the old spelling of "fluit", meaning flute or whistle. I'm hoping I will indeed one day build a nice ship, be it a fluyt or not, but first I'll have to get some good parts, and some training in ship-building :-P. If so I think I'll model it after "the Duyfken" (the ship with which Australia was discovered), but that might take quite some time before I have the parts and skills to build it. First I'll want to make an imperial harbour to put a ship in. Thanks for the welcomes *sweet*
April 6, 200816 yr Welcome Fluyt to our forums! Are you from Holland as well, because you choose a Dutch type of ship to be called? Enjoy your time here. And how do you pronounce it? Flight or flute? I've always pronounced it flute, but I don't really know... *sad* Perhaps you can build one! *sweet* It is a Dutch word which sound does not excist within the English language, I am sorry for you >:-) I believe the way mr. Fluyt wrote his name is the ancient way to write Fluit, which is more common today when referring to the ship's type and also the direct translation to the English word 'whistle'. EDIT: it seems we crossposted the same explanation.... Edited April 6, 200816 yr by simonwillems
April 7, 200816 yr Author Are you from Holland as well, because you choose a Dutch type of ship to be called? I'm not from Holland, but from the Netherlands (provinciaal he :-P) We have lots of new Pirates, this days :-P ain't that great? ,the more the merier right? ;-)
April 7, 200816 yr Hello there, Fluyt! *sweet* Slyowl, I think it's pronounced Floyt, as in Floyd. *pirate* Enjoy your stay!
April 7, 200816 yr Hi and welcome! Dutch and a pirate fan. What could I wish for more? Enjoy your stay ;-)
April 15, 200816 yr Welcome to Eurobricks! Wow, u are interested in Ninja? So am I. There are many other nice members too. There are other great themes too
April 15, 200816 yr Hi! Welcome to eurobricks! So you want to move to pirates? Try some train sets first! I also want to contribute to the discussion on how to pronounce your username correctly: Do you pronounce "uy" in (Fluyt) like the German "eu" or "äu"?
April 15, 200816 yr Author Thanks for the welcomes Hi! Welcome to eurobricks! So you want to move to pirates? Try some train sets first! I also want to contribute to the discussion on how to pronounce your username correctly: Do you pronounce "uy" in (Fluyt) like the German "eu" or "äu"? I actually have 3 train sets: 4564 "Freight rail runner", 4532 "Manual level crossing" and 4525 "Rail and road repair" (+some extra tracks). My brothers old 725 "Freight train and track" and some crossing set must be around here somewhere too. Getting out of my dark age I first was into castle, now pirates, maybe train/town is next . Allthough I try to focus on just 1 or 2 themes, since sadly that can be expensive enough allready. And my username is pronounced in the same way as the modern spelling "fluit" in dutch, but I can't really think of any (non-dutch) word right now that has the same "uy" (ui) sound as fluit/fluyt. And it's pretty hard to explain. There must be a site somewhere which has sound files of things like these. (*should have taken another username* ) Edited April 16, 200816 yr by Fluyt
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