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oh cool, a thread full of language experts:P

till the end of time..

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Well we are nerds. tongue

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;D I read dictionaries in my spare time

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I write them in my spare time. So HA!

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I EAT them in my spare time. Beat that.

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I use them for toilet paper!

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While there's no real point in me adding more to the conversation, I will anyway.

For someone studying English and Dutch (two related languages!), I can only say that this theory was the biggest pile of nonsense-excrement I've read in a long while.

I'll never know if it was worth the pain, but I still loved it more than anything in the world - it was my life.

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muahhaa tongue

go lloyd!

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@Lloyd: Am I right in thinking the connection is between Old English and Fresian?

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English is world known language today, Other countries does require them to teach English as second language, but USA didn't require them on other languages such as Spanish, French, and German. I believe that they are trying to form English as national language for all countries.

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Err, sure, there'll be some connection between those two languages, seeing how they're both from the same language family tongue But I wouldn't connect them directly...

I'll never know if it was worth the pain, but I still loved it more than anything in the world - it was my life.

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"English is world known language today, Other countries does require them to teach English as second language, but USA didn't require them on other languages such as Spanish, French, and German. I believe that they are trying to form English as national language for all countries."

What are you talking about? In the US, there are foreign language requirements for middle school, high school, and most colleges. If anything, it's that people don't take foreign languages very seriously because no other language has an equivalent status.

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I wonder who of our American players knows a 2nd language, and which one..

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I had four years of Spanish in high school and a semester of Korean and a year of Latin and one quarter of French.

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I had a quarter or year of Spanish in middle school, 4 years of French in high school, and 1 year of Japanese in college.
I pretty much forgot Spanish and French, but Japanese is rather fresh.

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What's the point of studying a language for 1 semester or quarter? yikes

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Just enough time to form a whole array of curse words you could use.

Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...

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