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Post #116,110 by inthane-chan 8/31/03 5:43:53 PM Reply	From someone who's been there. Learning BASIC spoken Japanese isn't that hard. But learning to speak like a person of your age bracket, instead of a 10 year old girl... Well, that's a whole different difficulty. ;) In that final hour, when each breath is a struggle to take, and you are looking back over your life's accomplishments, which memories would you treasure? The empires you built, or the joy you spread to others? Therin lies the true measure of a man.
Post #116,114 by pwhysall 8/31/03 5:59:00 PM Reply	Re: From someone who's been there. Oh, I quite agree. What I was trying to get at is that making yourself understood in Japanese is much, much easier than in !Kung or Hungarian, to pick two glaringly obvious examples :) Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #116,132 by deSitter 8/31/03 8:30:50 PM Reply	Hungarian? You've tried Hungarian? (It's part of a small family of langauges that includes Turkish and Finnish.) I know one word of Hungarian (I think) - zongora, piano. I only know that one from a Tamas Vasary disk, and I know he didn't play the sousaphone. -drl
Post #116,167 by pwhysall 9/1/03 3:13:45 AM Reply	Re: Hungarian? Part of the Finno-Ugric language group. I spent a fortnight there and never got much more beyond saying "cheers" and "taxi". The language was a blank to me. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #116,189 by inthane-chan 9/1/03 9:53:07 AM Reply	Ah, the essentials. Just enough to get drunk, and get home. ;) In that final hour, when each breath is a struggle to take, and you are looking back over your life's accomplishments, which memories would you treasure? The empires you built, or the joy you spread to others? Therin lies the true measure of a man.
Post #116,713 by pwhysall 9/5/03 3:28:02 AM Reply	Absolut-ley :) Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #116,137 by FuManChu 8/31/03 10:22:32 PM Reply	One thing I noticed in Spanish... ...there's a distinct subset of the total vocabulary that men use that women don't, and vice-versa. Subtle (because it's not absolute), but noticeable. "There's a set of rules that anything that was in the world when you were born is normal and natural. Anything invented between when you were 15 and 35 is new and revolutionary and exciting, and you'll probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things." Douglas Adams

Amazing thing I just realized about Sting - (FuManChu) - (18) - Aug. 29, 2003, 06:18:51 PM EDT

Aiglth breath eagrhe aithacliath -NT - (deSitter) - Aug. 30, 2003, 01:04:20 AM EDT

He was an English teacher in a previous life... :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - Aug. 30, 2003, 01:07:14 AM EDT

The history of English is fascinating. - (static) - (14) - Aug. 30, 2003, 03:25:27 AM EDT

Re: The history of English is fascinating. - (deSitter) - (13) - Aug. 30, 2003, 01:16:55 PM EDT

Depends on where you're coming from. - (admin) - (10) - Aug. 30, 2003, 01:21:37 PM EDT

On Japanese - (pwhysall) - (9) - Aug. 30, 2003, 01:33:31 PM EDT

Had the opposite opinion on spoken from college roommate :-) - (admin) - (1) - Aug. 30, 2003, 01:36:39 PM EDT

It's more of a culture than a language. - (static) - Sept. 1, 2003, 09:57:12 AM EDT

From someone who's been there. - (inthane-chan) - (6) - Aug. 31, 2003, 05:43:53 PM EDT

Re: From someone who's been there. - (pwhysall) - (4) - Aug. 31, 2003, 05:59:00 PM EDT

Hungarian? - (deSitter) - (3) - Aug. 31, 2003, 08:30:50 PM EDT

Re: Hungarian? - (pwhysall) - (2) - Sept. 1, 2003, 03:13:45 AM EDT

Ah, the essentials. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Sept. 1, 2003, 09:53:07 AM EDT

Absolut-ley :) -NT - (pwhysall) - Sept. 5, 2003, 03:28:02 AM EDT

One thing I noticed in Spanish... - (FuManChu) - Aug. 31, 2003, 10:22:32 PM EDT

In addition to that, consider: "Merry Mary got married." - (Another Scott) - (1) - Aug. 30, 2003, 01:24:06 PM EDT

Renault vs. Peugeot - (jake123) - Sept. 4, 2003, 04:59:09 PM EDT

Not Old German, Actual English: - (pwhysall) - Aug. 30, 2003, 04:26:41 AM EDT

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