Halie Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6111 days ago 80 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English*, French
| Message 153 of 346 23 November 2009 at 1:21am | IP Logged |
An artificial language, especially one like Klingon or the language spoken in Lord of the Rings. I imagine that you'd have to spend a lot of time at those freaky Trekkie conventions to learn to speak coherently!
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Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5900 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes
| Message 155 of 346 23 November 2009 at 3:43am | IP Logged |
I would not bother to learn a language devoid of a written literary tradition.
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Lindsay19 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5822 days ago 183 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC1 Studies: Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic
| Message 156 of 346 23 November 2009 at 5:18am | IP Logged |
On the top of the list is Mandarin; I can't stand the sound of it, have no plans of visiting the places where it's
spoken, and it seems pretty difficult with all of the different characters...
Along with that, Spanish, French, Russian, Hebrew... I just have no interest in them, and really don't like the way
they sound.
*As well as Arabic and Greek
Edited by Lindsay19 on 23 November 2009 at 5:26am
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maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5575 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 157 of 346 23 November 2009 at 6:01am | IP Logged |
Tombstone wrote:
Mathematics wasn't 'made up,' it was discovered. The processes, rules and truths have always been there waiting for someone to reveal them.
If it was 'made up' then the rules would be dependent upon a the creator, not a truth.
Victor Belenko, a Soviet MIG pilot who flew his plane to Japan in Sept. of 1976 in order to defect stated that many in the Soviet Union studied mathematics because it was the only area of study that could not be infused and corrupted with Soviet doctrine. The truth is the truth. |
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Ah, but who chooses the axioms?
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FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6866 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French
| Message 158 of 346 23 November 2009 at 9:47am | IP Logged |
I would say Korean because it sounds monotonous (every sentence seems to end in either nida, nika or yo), and seem fiendishly difficult. Difficulty isn't an issue, but studying such a difficult language for something you don't really like the sound of isn't worth it.
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Aquedita Triglot Senior Member Poland myspace.com/aqueda_v Joined 6015 days ago 154 posts - 164 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese Studies: Mandarin
| Message 159 of 346 23 November 2009 at 6:23pm | IP Logged |
furyou_gaijin wrote:
Anything artificial like Esperanto. |
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Yup, I would have to go with that one.
Or some central African dialects? No use for me since I have absolutely no travel plans for that region and probably pronunciation would be awkward.
Edited by Aquedita on 23 November 2009 at 6:23pm
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Elwing Tetraglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5509 days ago 43 posts - 51 votes Speaks: Swedish, Finnish*, English, French Studies: Norwegian
| Message 160 of 346 23 November 2009 at 9:45pm | IP Logged |
Interesting thread. I'd probably have to go for one of the Asiatic languages (Thai, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin) since I've never been particularly interested in them sound-wise and learning the different writing system seems like a lot of work even though I do think it looks pretty, particularly Chinese.
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