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| Thread ID: 103701 | 2009-10-03 10:36:00 | A True Story | Twelvevolts (5457) | PC World Chat |
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| 816436 | 2009-10-03 12:24:00 | Well, realistically, what are the chances someone would have the reason to say a sentence like that? :p Realistically, I would say probably not any person ever except me. Or perhaps a person that joined the French Foreign Legion maybe. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 816437 | 2009-10-03 17:16:00 | English is so complicated because it's a mixture of various languages. I think it's a daft language. I mean, how daft is it that two words, spelled exactly the same way, pronounced the same, but have two completely different meanings!? I studied elamentary Japanese language for a while, and although the written language is complex with so many alphabet characters, the spoken language is way easier than English. Having said that, my Japanese tutor disagreed, and said that English was easier to learn. The 1 year course I did in Japanese took me to a level that 6 year old Japanese children get to! My tutor and his wife were both language tutors - he taught Japanese to English speakers, and she taught English to Japanese students. So I guess he had a fair amount of knowledge of the two languages. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 816438 | 2009-10-03 19:01:00 | Some years ago there was an attempt to have a worldwide language. There is one. It's called English. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 816439 | 2009-10-03 19:30:00 | There is one. It's called English. x2 (Not 'officially', but almost every non-English-as-a-first-language-speaking country teaches English to their kids in school. When I visited Czech Republic a couple of years ago, I found that all the kids could speak Czech - obviously - German and English fluently. I suspect the kids on the north-western border would also speak Polish... English is a second language in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. And the USA and Canada. :D) |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 816440 | 2009-10-03 19:34:00 | Well, realistically, what are the chances someone would have the reason to say a sentence like that? :p Funny you should ask that. I just happened to use that phrase yesterday. Ken :):) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 816441 | 2009-10-03 20:13:00 | In my humble opinion I think the purpose of language is to communicate with others and usually humans ( which, of course, would exclude most members of a prison population ). I have learnt cat language as well though as I note that when my cat wants food there are various ways in which she can express her opinion. Some burglars get to learn dog language real quick too. There IS a difference between a bark and a growl I think. The more you learn any language the more you understand the nuances thereof I guess. Has anyone ever noticed that when a person rides on a roller coaster or falls off a cliff the scream is a universal language understood world wide? |
Sweep (90) | ||
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