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| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes  Speaks: English*, French | Message 17 of 202 11 April 2009 at 8:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm female.
It's much easier to spend hours on intellectual pursuits if you have a wife cooking all your meals, washing your clothes, cleaning your house and looking after your kids for you. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| JasonBourne Groupie United States Joined 5754 days ago 65 posts - 111 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, Arabic (Written), Turkish | Message 18 of 202 11 April 2009 at 9:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ummmm, what?
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| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 19 of 202 11 April 2009 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Why are you rolling yor eyes? It's true. I'm not saying all men are lucky enough to be in this position, but many are. Whereas only extremely wealthy women have the luxury of being able to neglect the mundane things in life.
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| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6680 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 20 of 202 11 April 2009 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
Why is that? It's true for a huge amount of women. I bet my mom would still speak four or five languages if she hadn't had two full time jobs (one at work, one at home) for the last 40 years ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5849 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 202 11 April 2009 at 9:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
I am a woman, I am polyglot and I am poor. So I manage to combine those. But I'm not tied up with family tasks. Fasulye-Babylonia Edited by Fasulye on 11 April 2009 at 10:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 22 of 202 11 April 2009 at 10:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm also poor, and I don't have a family either. But if I did I wouldn't be posting on this forum now, that's the point. How many of the women on this forum have children or old-school husband-caring responsibilities? I'll be extremely impressed if there's more than one.
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| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5849 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 23 of 202 11 April 2009 at 10:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, Dark Sunshine, there's truth in your point, because when I compare myself with my sister and my sister-in-law who are both married with small children and having part-time jobs, it is very obvious that they couldn't develop any intellectual endeavours like I can. Fasulye-Babylonia Edited by Fasulye on 11 April 2009 at 10:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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