justgoogleme Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5333 days ago 26 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish, Arabic (Egyptian), French
| Message 201 of 346 16 June 2010 at 5:52pm | IP Logged |
Esperanto def, I mean come on, if we are in the habit of making up languages why even bother.
o fpmy lpmj yp drsl oy.
See, just made up my own, loosly translated its i dont know how to speak it.
The language is called Esperamento
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John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6043 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German
| Message 202 of 346 16 June 2010 at 6:14pm | IP Logged |
^^ What I don't understand is why it sounds so bad.
Plus it is too European to be neutral. People who already speak a European language are at an unfair advantage.
Edited by John Smith on 16 June 2010 at 6:15pm
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justgoogleme Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5333 days ago 26 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish, Arabic (Egyptian), French
| Message 203 of 346 16 June 2010 at 6:21pm | IP Logged |
oy dpmfd nsf nrvsidr oy od mpy s trsa asmhihr.
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John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6043 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German
| Message 204 of 346 16 June 2010 at 6:33pm | IP Logged |
^^
o trsa asmhlhr yp drsl oy s nrmhitr :)
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dmaddock1 Senior Member United States Joined 5434 days ago 174 posts - 426 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Esperanto, Latin, Ancient Greek
| Message 205 of 346 16 June 2010 at 8:35pm | IP Logged |
It's interesting to read other's reasons for not learning language X. Whereas many people seem to want a language that they can use to communicate with other people, this is my least important factor. For me, languages whose primary selling point is so that I can talk to people are at the bottom of the list.
I've come to realize I must have early onset curmudgeon's disease (aka. EOCD). I barely want to talk to people I love and care about, let alone spend years of my life to prepare for a conversation with a stranger. :)
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7016 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 206 of 346 16 June 2010 at 10:19pm | IP Logged |
dmaddock1 wrote:
I barely want to talk to people I love and care about, let alone spend years of my life to prepare for a conversation with a stranger. :) |
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I can empathise with that!
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Tally Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Israel Joined 5609 days ago 135 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew* Studies: French
| Message 207 of 346 16 June 2010 at 10:38pm | IP Logged |
Being able to communicate with people is one of my top reasons to learn a language.
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ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5336 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French
| Message 208 of 346 16 June 2010 at 10:50pm | IP Logged |
dmaddock1 wrote:
I've come to realize I must have early onset curmudgeon's disease (aka. EOCD). I barely want to talk to people I love and care about, let alone spend years of my life to prepare for a conversation with a stranger. :)
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Hehe, that's a very very good point and probably the reason why the number of speakers a language has makes very little to no difference to me too when I choose a language to study.
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