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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3933 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes  Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 17 of 132 26 September 2013 at 11:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oops. I voted yes before I watched that video. Then I watched it. And...no. I changed my mind. I'm not interested in
that debate. At all. 8 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| I'm With Stupid Senior Member Vietnam Joined 3962 days ago 165 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Vietnamese | Message 18 of 132 26 September 2013 at 11:47pm | IP Logged | ||
Presumably because that's his particular field, so he likes to draw a tenuous link between that and applied linguistics, which is the field where you actually get expertise in language learning. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5671 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 19 of 132 26 September 2013 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Very seldom the phrase "don't feed the trolls" would be more appropriate.
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| JiEunNinja Diglot Groupie United States Joined 3993 days ago 64 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Korean Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 20 of 132 27 September 2013 at 12:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh my gosh. I had never heard of this guy before this post. He is so mean! His video was
so horrible. He just spent the entire time putting down other people's language abilities. Like, um, yeah people are going to make mistakes speaking foreign languages. That's normal! It doesn't mean someone is unintelligent. No one knows what their 100% of the time. I didn't realize there were people out there that were that mean spirited. He completely turned language learning into some sort of competition. Here I was thinking language learning was about opening your mind and experiencing new things. ._. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4421 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 21 of 132 27 September 2013 at 12:31am | IP Logged | ||
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It had been a long time I hadn't seen such a douche. This guy is full of hate and I don't
see the point of the hate he's showing. He actually pissed me off quite a lot. I may not totally agree much with Moses, Steve nor Benny, but it's not a reason to be so hateful. The only thing I liked in there was Benny's 2 comments! edit: so sad i put yes before seeing the video too... Edited by yuhakko on 27 September 2013 at 12:36am 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Emily96 Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4217 days ago 270 posts - 342 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Finnish, Latin | Message 22 of 132 27 September 2013 at 2:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Now that we've concluded that such is a debate is unwanted, I think we can stop the personal attacks too. Don't
stoop to their level guys. The negativity is kind of unnecessary on our beloved forum. Edited by Emily96 on 27 September 2013 at 2:12am 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| akprocks Senior Member United States Joined 5075 days ago 178 posts - 258 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 23 of 132 27 September 2013 at 2:12am | IP Logged | ||
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I thought about watching the video but after reading the comments on the forum I changed my mind. I hate negativity and personal attacks in general (I get enough of this shit working at a Courthouse), so I'm probably not even going to watch it now.
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| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4123 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 24 of 132 27 September 2013 at 5:22am | IP Logged | ||
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I can't possibly be the only one thinking that Clugston's idea of a "debate" would probably take place in a MMA cage...
Regardless of whether he's knowledgeable on the subject or not, there are two reasons why I would never watch a debate involving him: 1) He's so aggresive I honestly doubt he's capable of debating for the sake of discussion, and doubt even more that he's capable of learning from other people's experiences and reflections. He wants to prove he's "right" (whatever that may be for him...), and he wants to do it in front of people so as to validate himself. 2) He takes the fun out of learning a language better than the Grinch ever could. 7 persons have voted this message useful |
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