Makrasiroutioun Quadrilingual Heptaglot Senior Member Canada infowars.com Joined 6108 days ago 210 posts - 236 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Armenian*, Romanian*, Latin, German, Italian Studies: Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Arabic (Written)
| Message 49 of 54 11 March 2010 at 5:15pm | IP Logged |
Hebrew - "ZOMG you're a Zionist/ZOG!!"
Any Native American language - "Dude, they're all a bunch of drunkards on welfare, why on earth would you want to learn their PRIMITIVE languages anyway?"
Dutch - "Isn't that just another word for German?"
Any non-Russian Slavonic language - "Why not learn Russian instead?"
Basque - "Isn't that a Neanderthal language?"
Most Bantu/Khoisan languages - "Why would you want to learn those languages? They're all so poor."
Any sign language - "Dude - it's not even a language!"
Hmm... great wisdom unleashed!
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datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5587 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French
| Message 50 of 54 11 March 2010 at 5:31pm | IP Logged |
Makrasiroutioun wrote:
Hebrew - "ZOMG you're a Zionist/ZOG!!"
Any Native American language - "Dude, they're all a bunch of drunkards on welfare, why on earth would you want to learn their PRIMITIVE languages anyway?"
Dutch - "Isn't that just another word for German?"
Any non-Russian Slavonic language - "Why not learn Russian instead?"
Basque - "Isn't that a Neanderthal language?"
Most Bantu/Khoisan languages - "Why would you want to learn those languages? They're all so poor."
Any sign language - "Dude - it's not even a language!"
Hmm... great wisdom unleashed! |
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You were really raised with 4 native languages?! :O That's awesome!
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alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7223 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish
| Message 51 of 54 11 March 2010 at 5:37pm | IP Logged |
The one I heard is towards languages in general not known to the person who says this.
"They talk behind my back in front of my face."
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nescafe Senior Member Japan Joined 5411 days ago 137 posts - 227 votes
| Message 52 of 54 11 March 2010 at 5:52pm | IP Logged |
In Japan,
I am learning Mandarin Chinese...
Why? Chinese speak English.
I want to learn Korean...
Why? Koreans must speak English
How about German?
You are a doctor. But, I heard doctors are now using English.
French?
Why don't you learn English?
OK, I will learn English.
Very good, but, unfortunately, it is impossible to master English. Too hard.
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ManicGenius Senior Member United States Joined 5483 days ago 288 posts - 420 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French, Japanese
| Message 53 of 54 11 March 2010 at 6:13pm | IP Logged |
nescafe wrote:
Very good, but, unfortunately, it is impossible to master English. Too hard. |
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Don't let yourself down like that. Nothing is impossible.
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 54 of 54 11 March 2010 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
ManicGenius wrote:
nescafe wrote:
Very good, but, unfortunately, it is impossible to master English. Too hard. |
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Don't let yourself down like that. Nothing is impossible. |
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Look at the title of this thread. I don't get the impression nescafe believes any of that post.
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