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Most ridiculous prejudice about languages | ||
Tags: Discrimination | "Louche" Languages | ||
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| unityandoutside Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6016 days ago 94 posts - 149 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin, Mandarin | Message 9 of 54 08 March 2010 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
I hear this one all the time. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6013 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 10 of 54 08 March 2010 at 6:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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"Why would you want to learn Welsh/Gaelic/Irish? They all speak English anyway!"
Of course, that would get beaten by: "Why would you want to learn Basque? They all speak French anyway!" Nul points, monsieur! 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5471 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German | Message 11 of 54 08 March 2010 at 6:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
How do you then answer that? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5857 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 12 of 54 08 March 2010 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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"English is the most superior language in the world and only the elites use it. So you must master it!" - heard it when a Singaporean parent speaks to a child on what to learn.
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| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5679 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 13 of 54 08 March 2010 at 8:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
A friend of mine concluded the following about others' languages: Urdu - Angry Arabic - Pretentious Mandarin - Whiny Spanish - Conniving I suspect he projected ethnic stereotypes onto languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| The Blaz Senior Member Canada theblazblog.blogspotRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5602 days ago 120 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Swahili, French, Sign Language, Esperanto | Message 14 of 54 08 March 2010 at 8:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Swahili - "does it have many words?"
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| horshod Pentaglot Groupie India Joined 5772 days ago 74 posts - 107 votes Speaks: Hindi, Marathi*, Bengali, Gujarati, English Studies: German, Spanish, Turkish | Message 15 of 54 08 March 2010 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
LOL!! :D 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5424 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 16 of 54 09 March 2010 at 12:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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