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Budz Octoglot Senior Member Australia languagepump.com Joined 6374 days ago 118 posts - 171 votes Speaks: German*, English, Russian, Esperanto, Ukrainian, Mandarin, Cantonese, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Persian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Swahili, Vietnamese, Polish
| Message 41 of 43 21 June 2008 at 6:57am | IP Logged |
Oh, btw, 'respectfully suggest' is really an English idiom and shouldn't really be taken too literally.
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| txantxangorri Newbie Ireland Joined 6480 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 42 of 43 21 June 2008 at 9:55am | IP Logged |
I find myself agreeing with the thrust of Cainntear's previous comment. I came across this website and forum while searching for information and opinions on language learning. And, in general it is a very useful resource that I find myself coming back to repeatedly whenever a question or uncertainty occurs.
However, two aspects of this forum really bug me:
(1) posters with nothing to contribute except for their certainty and belligerence.
(2) a widespread sycophantic element.
This worries me as I had long been of the opinion that interest and exposure to different ideas, cultures and languages broadened the mind not narrowed it.
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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7377 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map
| Message 43 of 43 21 June 2008 at 10:26am | IP Logged |
This room as been created at Prof. Arguelles' request so that people could ask him questions and he could reply in a more efficient manner than writing personal emails. If you stepped into his office at his University you would certainly want to use a tone similar to the one we use in this room. If you resent polyglots or the special status he enjoys in our little community, well maybe indeed this is not the forum for you.
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