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| Noodlez94 Triglot Newbie Malaysia Joined 5084 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English, Mandarin, Malay Studies: French, Japanese | Message 1 of 11 22 December 2010 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hello. I'm new here. I came across this forum and it's wonderful. I love languages. However, I don't understand why there are so many people out there bashing polyglots. What's wrong with learning other languages?
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5128 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 3 of 11 22 December 2010 at 6:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
I haven't either, but then again, I tend to think the word "basher" is overused, if not just plain misused. Most everyone I know is fascinated with the fact that I can speak more than one language, once they find out. But I tend not to talk all that much about it unless someone asks (what I do for work, for example). R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5667 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 4 of 11 22 December 2010 at 8:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
I haven't seen any, even on this forum. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| slhdn Diglot Newbie Turkey Joined 5729 days ago 20 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: French, Arabic (classical) | Message 6 of 11 22 December 2010 at 10:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
Why do you think people are "bashing polyglots"? Polyglots know so many languages and we get jealous of course, that is why. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5667 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 7 of 11 22 December 2010 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
Rather than making a general accusation of "bashing polyglots" can you please show us some examples of threads wherein people who "know so many languages" are "bashed" because of it by "jealous" people? I cannot think of a single example of it here. The only remotely related thing I have seen is arguments about whether any particular person is "fluent" or not. Somebody makes claims they are fluent, somebody else says "no you aren't" and we end up with another endless debate about what constitutes fluency. That, however, is very different from polyglot "bashing". Edited by Splog on 22 December 2010 at 10:43pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| slhdn Diglot Newbie Turkey Joined 5729 days ago 20 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: French, Arabic (classical) | Message 8 of 11 22 December 2010 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
That was my silly attempt of being sarcastic :D Sorry. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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