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unityandoutside
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 Message 9 of 54
08 March 2010 at 5:32pm | IP Logged 
ember wrote:
"Whatever the Russians are saying it sounds like they are arguing/angry with each other"

I hear this one all the time.
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Cainntear
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 Message 10 of 54
08 March 2010 at 6:25pm | IP Logged 
"Why would you want to learn Welsh/Gaelic/Irish? They all speak English anyway!"

Of course, that would get beaten by:
"Why would you want to learn Basque? They all speak French anyway!"

Nul points, monsieur!
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elvisrules
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 Message 11 of 54
08 March 2010 at 6:42pm | IP Logged 
Cainntear wrote:
"Why would you want to learn Welsh/Gaelic/Irish? They all speak English anyway!"

How do you then answer that?
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QiuJP
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 Message 12 of 54
08 March 2010 at 6:44pm | IP Logged 
"English is the most superior language in the world and only the elites use it. So you must master it!" - heard it when a Singaporean parent speaks to a child on what to learn.
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Paskwc
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 Message 13 of 54
08 March 2010 at 8:00pm | IP Logged 
unityandoutside wrote:
ember wrote:
"Whatever the Russians are saying it sounds like
they are arguing/angry with each other"

I hear this one all the time.


A friend of mine concluded the following about others' languages:

Urdu - Angry
Arabic - Pretentious
Mandarin - Whiny
Spanish - Conniving

I suspect he projected ethnic stereotypes onto languages.
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The Blaz
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 Message 14 of 54
08 March 2010 at 8:25pm | IP Logged 
Swahili - "does it have many words?"
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horshod
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 Message 15 of 54
08 March 2010 at 10:20pm | IP Logged 
The Blaz wrote:
Swahili - "does it have many words?"


LOL!! :D
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Johntm
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 Message 16 of 54
09 March 2010 at 12:20am | IP Logged 
ManicGenius wrote:


Also when studying German I've been called a Nazi. yeah... that's fun...
And a terrorist when studying Arabic.
And a commie when studying Russian.
I joke around saying things like that. But I am not a commie, terrorist, or Nazi, and I plan on learning all of those :P


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