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Stolan
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 Message 97 of 111
05 September 2014 at 11:46pm | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:

Or you can tell them that English and Spanish are some of the easiest languages to learn...

Both are not exceptionally simple, there is the entire Turkic family and most of the austronesian family and
vast swathes of the world are filled with things like Indonesian such as Quechua.

The problem is that Europe won in linguistics in the first world. The rest of the world can't all have stuff like
Russian, can they? Things are far more stable over there.

Edited by Stolan on 05 September 2014 at 11:48pm

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tarvos
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 Message 98 of 111
05 September 2014 at 11:48pm | IP Logged 
Stolan - missing the point, since, well, whenever.
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Stolan
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 Message 99 of 111
06 September 2014 at 2:46am | IP Logged 
tarvos wrote:
Stolan - missing the point, since, well, whenever.

Would you rather I have an 18th century view of linguistics?
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 Message 100 of 111
06 September 2014 at 5:01am | IP Logged 
No, I would like you to read the post you quoted again carefully before you take it as an
opportunity to stab features of languages you hate. You entirely missed her point in your
haste to criticize.

As for the 18th century comment... The only possible replies to that would be insulting.
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Stolan
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 Message 101 of 111
07 September 2014 at 5:47am | IP Logged 
tarvos wrote:
No, I would like you to read the post you quoted again carefully before you take it as an
opportunity to stab features of languages you hate. You entirely missed her point in your
haste to criticize.

As for the 18th century comment... The only possible replies to that would be insulting.


I'm not implying you have an 18th century view at all, but that an 18th century view is what I am against and ask
what you would think if I was an 18th century believer.
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 Message 102 of 111
07 September 2014 at 2:02pm | IP Logged 
Stolan wrote:
tarvos wrote:
No, I would like you to read the post you quoted again
carefully before you take it as an
opportunity to stab features of languages you hate. You entirely missed her point in
your
haste to criticize.

As for the 18th century comment... The only possible replies to that would be
insulting.


I'm not implying you have an 18th century view at all, but that an 18th century view
is what I am against and ask
what you would think if I was an 18th century believer.


I understood your comment. My response stands. Now go back and read what Serpent said.
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 Message 103 of 111
07 September 2014 at 5:07pm | IP Logged 
Tarvos-Stolan..

You two should get a room......


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Stolan
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 Message 104 of 111
07 September 2014 at 8:05pm | IP Logged 
tarvos wrote:
....


It doesn't matter anyway.
None of my points have ever been disproven, the common tactic now is to just act "appalled" and take some moral
high ground no matter how upsetting the truth of what languages are like due to their features and because of that
there are an extreme amount of misguided people who are complete half wits in the west.

Edited by Stolan on 07 September 2014 at 8:09pm



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