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 notapillow
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 Re: What language should I take? [Re: BillytheKid]
#3334981 - 11/08/04 09:47 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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hey jim
hows it goin
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beejay
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: pantsboy]
#3335163 - 11/08/04 10:17 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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hebrew is cool, and suprisingly sexy when you got some hot ass israelie girl talkin to you.
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fearfect
endless dreams
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: beejay]
#3335185 - 11/08/04 10:21 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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spricht Deutch!
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RRhoads
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: fearfect]
#3335221 - 11/08/04 10:30 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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eine kleine
Take German!!
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cb9fl
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: RRhoads]
#3335347 - 11/08/04 10:54 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Japanese or Latin.
But what end purpose are you taking the language? If it's just to finish a class take Spanish as it's probably the easiest.
If you plan on a medical field or possibly a legal field choose Latin.
For upper level business ( not seeling lawnmowers and cow movers ) choose Japanese.
Just for fun Latin is the coolest language to learn and Japanese is probably the hardest language to learn.
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3Stigmata
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: cb9fl]
#3335371 - 11/08/04 11:00 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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i know german. never helped me with anything. go with latin or japanese.
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daimyo
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: 3Stigmata]
#3335483 - 11/08/04 11:35 PM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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German is a fun language, Japanese would be interesting, Latin would be my choice.
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agr8fulchick
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 Re: What language should I take? [Re: MOTH]
#3336492 - 11/09/04 09:01 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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If you do any traveling in the south I've found that Spanish is a wonderful thing to know. Japanese is fun, because it sounds cool and no one will ever understand what you're saying 
I took latin, and not only did I learn a TON more about English, but it's very useful in deciphering large words you don't know, or with any science (I dig botany, mycology and biology, very useful!). Latin is similar to Spanish, so don't take both or you'll get confused! Another bonus is that you can talk to people in Latin, but they can never ask you to 'speak some latin' for them like the other languages, because it's a dead language! Another bonus is you can read old manuscripts in the original language, which is really cool 
People who know latin also look smart and appear to be over-educated, Si Hoc Legere Scis, Nimium Eruditionis Habes!
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cosmicray
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: agr8fulchick]
#3337250 - 11/09/04 12:50 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Don't take Japanese. It kicked my ass in school and took up way too much time from other classes. Now all I remember is how to say is "I have the number one big penis"...
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: cosmicray]
#3339331 - 11/09/04 10:00 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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i learned french in high-school - it helped land me a french girlfriend when i moved overseas (but not really... she always made fun of my french  ). then i learned norwegian (and by a bit of practice, swedish and danish) - which has opened up the door to free education, free health-care, and gov't student support
so i'd say learn one of the scandanavian languages if you are looking to leach off northern european tax-payers... otherwise, i'd go for french.
or actually, russian - learning a new alphabet is difficult, i'm sure, but think - to read the Brothers Karamazov in the original russian... jeeze
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: pantsboy]
#3339357 - 11/09/04 10:06 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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pantsboy said:
Espanol, por favor.
Por que esta tu mano en mis pantilones?
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nugsarenice
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: MOTH]
#3339378 - 11/09/04 10:12 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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open up your mind, japanese language is constructed completely opposite to caucasion language, and if you ever meet one of these japanese, they can be of a real help for whatever because they are rich.
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Krishna
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: nugsarenice]
#3339415 - 11/09/04 10:23 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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i've heard that in japanese, there is no possessive form for an idea - ie you can't say "i have an idea" - you can only say "there exists an idea such as..."
also in most indian languages, the word for yesterday and the word for tomorrow is the same word.
it'd be very interesting to see how lingustic differences like this effect one's world-view...
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in town untilthe blood flows
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: MOTH]
#3339435 - 11/09/04 10:27 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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all of them
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at this point i think we can be relatively certain seperation exists as a fallacy of finite perception, and the only barrier to infinite creativity is a preimposed notion of certainty and artificial conditioning. nothing is without origin
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nugsarenice
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: Krishna]
#3339459 - 11/09/04 10:33 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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yeah, that's true about japanese, and chinese, and thai, the speaker just assumes you know that the idea is yours, not too complicated to understand.
That's interesting about yesterday and tommarrow being the same word, is this the country India or native americans? thai, japanese, and chinese, all have different words for time occassions, never can mean the same, maybe you mean the spelling for yesterday and tommarrow are the same, but the accent and prononciation make the listener understand the difference, in Thai wan ni and wan ni are the same for yesterday and today, but yesterday's wan is spoken with a long accent that you always recognize. Most asian languages have words for "the day before yesterday", and the "the day after tommarrow" also, interesting ehh,
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kitsune
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: nugsarenice]
#3339901 - 11/10/04 01:44 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Nihongo (Japanese)
You'll know why you took it when you go to Tokyo for 2 months and never spend the night alone (well, once or twice)! 
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Gus
Back in town.
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Re: What language should I take? [Re: MOTH]
#3340788 - 11/10/04 09:44 AM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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French all the way baby ! 
In all cases, dont take latin... What the hell could it be used for now ?! Damn I had 3 years of latin back in highschool... That sucked.
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