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JFman00
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07 April 2011 at 6:52pm | IP Logged 
I'm trying to find a website I saw once that had basically every variation of the above
"Portuguese is like Spanish with a Russian accent" or "Quenya is like Welsh spoken by an
Englishman". Any ideas?
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jeff_lindqvist
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07 April 2011 at 8:14pm | IP Logged 
Here's the list you're looking for:
http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html
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JFman00
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07 April 2011 at 8:16pm | IP Logged 
Thank you very much. That's exactly it.
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gambi
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01 May 2011 at 3:08pm | IP Logged 
"Cantonese is Hokkien spoken by a Maori doing the haka after hearing his wife's been cheating on him."
    
--Ken Westmoreland


That one is a classic.....*ROFL*


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