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| Cthulhu Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7224 days ago 139 posts - 235 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Mandarin, Russian | Message 33 of 36 28 March 2011 at 6:15pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
Wow. Just...Wow. Apparently saying that a very large majority of Arabs are Muslim is going to lead to genocide; if I'd known I definitely would've been more careful about stating commonly known statistics. I don't really see the connection personally, but that's the *butterfly* effect for you. I'll be more careful in the future about stating the obvious on the internet. Personally, I've never cared much for butterflies, but then none of my languages have very good words for them...Dragonflies are totally where it's at; even in English, how much cooler are dragons than butter? Edited by Cthulhu on 28 March 2011 at 6:17pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Abdalan Triglot Senior Member Brazil abdalan.wordpress.co Joined 5047 days ago 120 posts - 194 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English Studies: German | Message 34 of 36 28 March 2011 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
Hi, TerryW. If you read again the Message 6 you are going to see that I tried to show exactly the contrary. "Of course, the focus is not the very word butterfly she cited, but to know at least a little of 20 languages. فهم - to refer to CaucusWolf's hint." There weren’t butterflies in scenery on stage. In her earlier remarks she didn’t mention "borboletas" - nothing came of that either – the focus the was, as I said in my first message was the "need to prepare young people to succeed through education". With a number of teenagers around, she was "encouraging them to focus on getting a good education, experience new cultures and to be ‘citizens of the world’"... ...but Raquel Helen Silva, 20 years old, girl that discoursed before M. Obama, told us that she became orphan since early childhood. Since the earlier stages of her life always studied in public school but her life changed after a cultural-exchange program: "I started learning ‘butterfly’ in one language, but now I know in twenty", so...
Erros, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below. Edited by Abdalan on 28 March 2011 at 6:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Abdalan Triglot Senior Member Brazil abdalan.wordpress.co Joined 5047 days ago 120 posts - 194 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English Studies: German | Message 35 of 36 28 March 2011 at 8:26pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
There is much to say about butterflies than one may think – When I get back to this thread my pulse raced a little. I don’t know how to swim butterfly stroke, but surfing through this forum, butterflies fluttered in my stomach. Should I give up and get back to my loved book Madame Butterfly? No... I’m learning French. I need some help. I already know how to spell "papillon", but it has something to do with "papillotage"? "Papillons noirs" such is my mood. But I didn’t dream about ‘mariposas’ nor woke up with the Buddhist Zhuangzi thought (once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly; he woke up but he didn't know if he was Zhuangzi who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuangzi) I am not a butterfly because I know it was Mary, "mariposa". Flutter by, butterfly. Schmetterling was cited, but what does "schmettern" means? Mary is a singer? You all know that the gallego "volverta", butterfly, comes from the Latin "volvere" and the snowflakes are called "volves de neu" and "vulva" is of the same family. The "vulva" is the "volverta" and much more... Dear Mari, I really care about butterflies. "I get high when I see you go by, My oh my. When you sigh my 'mind' inside just flies, Butterflies..." (John Lennon) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6380 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 36 of 36 29 March 2011 at 10:01am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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