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| icing_death Senior Member United States Joined 5660 days ago 296 posts - 302 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 13 14 April 2009 at 2:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Got this from someone who wants to be my language teacher:
Xenegram: The absolute and quintessential truth in words. Deciphered meanings of otherwise hidden messages stored inside words. Advanced yet simple non etymology lexicology way or determining the ostensible meaning of a persons name when the information is processed and unlocked thus. Reveals the truth in words, names and phrases that perform and achieve relevance to information of express written form. (We are fairly exclusive to this matriculation technique whereby the student is enabled and empowered to learn at an accelerated pace. Awesome word discoveries often occur yielding mind boggling truths to expel lies. Classroom application is more effective overall as simple visuals are are employed but not limited to. Opinions? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Keilan Senior Member Canada Joined 4885 days ago 125 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 2 of 13 08 April 2011 at 3:06am | IP Logged | ||
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I think someone is trying too hard to sound intelligent. I would want a language teacher who speaks like a normal human being.
Plus, the xenegram thing is either some kind of crazy inherent truth in words thing, or just explained very poorly. Personally, I would not let this person teach me language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5810 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 3 of 13 08 April 2011 at 12:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Anyone who believes my name can tell them anything about me doesn't understand language.
If someone doesn't understand language, can they teach it? I think not..... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6502 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 13 08 April 2011 at 12:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's just numerology under a new name - i.e. the idea that a name can be converted into a number, that has some hidden meaning. That thing was popular some years ago, and people who believed in it were easy to recognize because they changed the spelling of their names in strange ways.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6814 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 13 08 April 2011 at 5:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wonder why, in the almost two years that passed between the original post and the first reply, no-one replied sooner with their opinion?
Perhaps because people realised what a load of bull this was and their opinions were too rude to share. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| etracher Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 5133 days ago 92 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Modern Hebrew, Russian, Latvian | Message 6 of 13 08 April 2011 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm assuming then that Cainntear is not your real name! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Keilan Senior Member Canada Joined 4885 days ago 125 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 7 of 13 08 April 2011 at 7:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well... now I'm confused. I didn't mean to reply to a 2 year old post. It was on my first page for some reason.
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| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5495 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 8 of 13 08 April 2011 at 11:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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I seriously thought this was a randomly computer generated paper in the vein of:
The Postmodernism Generator SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator Try them! The latter group actually got one of their randomly generated papers accepted to a suspected low-standard conference. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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