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Cunning Linguists Languages and their use. What languages do you speak and why? What do words really mean? Can you say things in one language that you can't say in another? Should there be a national language? How many languages should a person know and what are they?

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Old 2007-12-19, 15:17
ScytheCGC ScytheCGC is offline
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I speak the English language because it is the best language.

I can say everything in English that I can't say in every other language.

I think there should be a national language; English.

I believe a person should know one language; English.

-Scythe
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Old 2007-12-19, 23:02
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when I was young I saw a british film about the battle of el alamein. a cournel asks a lieutenant, "are you a fascist? if you are not, you have no healthy mind. if you never wanted to change the world to it´s best you must be insane"

so whenever I read bullshit like yours I just smile and go on ..
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Old 2007-12-26, 00:55
SpAz F CAstro SpAz F CAstro is offline
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I speak the English language because it is the best language.


No, you speak english because its the language you were taught. People sadly do not choose their primary language. If we could choose what language we learned while we were growing up, i would be naturally trilingual. And I bet you'd have a different opinion of language if you grew up and knew only spanish.
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Old 2007-12-27, 20:08
Beka Beka is offline
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I find Spanish better than English because it is less ambiguous. It has more verb tenses and it allow to distinguish 'ser' from 'estar', 'libre' de 'gratis' and so on. Also English have something called phrasal verbs, and I hate them so much.
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Old 2007-12-30, 21:25
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I think there should be a national language; English.

I believe a person should know one language; English.



If that were true, the world would be so boring.
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Old 2008-01-02, 14:11
Beka Beka is offline
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If that were true, the world would be so boring.

And this forum will be even more boring that the world!
 
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