Hello from a laptop running chinese XP

[rabbit]

I have too much experience with language...
My dad was a language major in college, and randomly starts speaking German at the table.  Sometimes he speaks French with my oldest sister, which is really annoying.

My girlfriend is teaching me Vietnamese (but I'm failing) and my NT classmates have been pushing Korean on me.  There's also this girl, Karen, in 11th grade (who I don't see much) who speaks Cantonese (I think).  Personally I prefer the following order in Asiatic languages: Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, and then all the other ones I haven't heard.

I studied Latin for a while, and then Italian.  I was surprised how different Italian was from Latin.  It's just like...a huge gaping difference of doomyness.

I live in America, so obviously I've been exposed to Spanish.

I go to school in the city, so I've also been exposed to Hebrew.

Cartman is a fat kid, so I've been introduced to Arameic (sp?).

My FAVORITE language, however, is definately Jersey English, cause it's awesome.

[d&q]

My interests include computers and cars, and I live in San Jose, California. You've been here, and although you were mainly downtown (viva la revolution!), you can tell there is a large asian population here (Ergot). It's not hard to believe that I speak some of each of those languages.

Personally, I think all languages are boring (other than Italian, which has some interesting scientific studies to back up my interest--I'll go into more detail if wanted).

Are you referring to the study that showed that when someone speaks Italian, they use the portion of their brain that creativity, music, and all that beautiful stuff takes place in?

[Quik]

I have too much experience with language...
My dad was a language major in college, and randomly starts speaking German at the table.  Sometimes he speaks French with my oldest sister, which is really annoying.

My girlfriend is teaching me Vietnamese (but I'm failing) and my NT classmates have been pushing Korean on me.  There's also this girl, Karen, in 11th grade (who I don't see much) who speaks Cantonese (I think).  Personally I prefer the following order in Asiatic languages: Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, and then all the other ones I haven't heard.

I studied Latin for a while, and then Italian.  I was surprised how different Italian was from Latin.  It's just like...a huge gaping difference of doomyness.

I live in America, so obviously I've been exposed to Spanish.

I go to school in the city, so I've also been exposed to Hebrew.

Cartman is a fat kid, so I've been introduced to Arameic (sp?).

My FAVORITE language, however, is definately Jersey English, cause it's awesome.

Yeah, Japanese is great too. Tell your girlfriend "du ma!", she'll love you long time.

[Joe]

I go to school in the city, so I've also been exposed to Hebrew.

Cartman is a fat kid, so I've been introduced to Arameic (sp?).

I love you! Ancient languages are pretty sweet. Aramaic*, btw.

I can't really see why people in the city or fat people would know those languages, but ok.

[Blaze]

Japanese is a hot language.  I can understand and speak enough french to get by in Quebec.  btw, Quebec french is much lazier/sloppy then real french.  :)

Spelling in other languages sucks.

[Sidoh]

Are you referring to the study that showed that when someone speaks Italian, they use the portion of their brain that creativity, music, and all that beautiful stuff takes place in?

That's the one!  I think I've actually referred to it a few times on these boards.

Japanese is a hot language.  I can understand and speak enough french to get by in Quebec.  btw, Quebec french is much lazier/sloppy then real french.  :)

Kind of like American English? :)

[rabbit]

Was that study of native Italian speakers or of people who SPEAK it?  It's true for almost any language that if it's not native it comes from the artistic areas.

[Sidoh]

Was that study of native Italian speakers or of people who SPEAK it?  It's true for almost any language that if it's not native it comes from the artistic areas.

It was published in Science News, which I hope you recognize as a merritable science magazine.  If it did not follow scientific proceedure (which entails the elimination of as many variables at a time as possible -- this includes native and non-native speakers being recognized), I highly doubt the article would have been published.

In conclusion, it was a study of people who natively speak the language.

[Joe]

Sidoh's original message:
I listen to Japanese Oman going to same peanormal? Sasa he let a sex maniac in the amount we 'll talk him inside me Kazakhstan Kazakhstan approved spraying

Lihao's message:
Who says nothing is your own level of bad Chinese, so do not know then.

Sidoh's second message:
My name is Oman, yesterday he said that he and beans as ordinary. Sasa eat one of the youngest people in the sex maniac? Name is the forehead, and we will play tongue tip back, and I him laugh together spraying saliva.

Up:
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[Sidoh]

Sidoh's original message:
I listen to Japanese Oman going to same peanormal? Sasa he let a sex maniac in the amount we 'll talk him inside me Kazakhstan Kazakhstan approved spraying

Lihao's message:
Who says nothing is your own level of bad Chinese, so do not know then.

Sidoh's second message:
My name is Oman, yesterday he said that he and beans as ordinary. Sasa eat one of the youngest people in the sex maniac? Name is the forehead, and we will play tongue tip back, and I him laugh together spraying saliva.

Up:
-

Haha, yeah.  The second message was actually Lihao as well; he was trying to form a more literate explanation of what I'd created to begin with.

Incidentally, he's going back to China soon.  He's taking a travel vacation to Yellowstone, Las Vegas and Hawaii before he goes back for the summer, then he'll move back to Colorado.  He's going to attend college at CU Bolder.

[MyndFyre]

Yes, I know Kim Jong-Il isn't from China.

I'm going to hell.  :P

[deadly7]

You were going to hell well before you posted that.

Dude, we have an exchange student at my school (he's Japanese) and we got him to say his "L" like Kim Jong-Il.  It was so funny.
We were like
"Hey.. say hello"
he repsonds "... Oh fuck you." :P