Languages

[bodhigirlsmiles]

what languages do you speak? :)

Bene, cum Latine nescias, nolo manus meas in te maculare.

[Dr T]

Spanish and English

[Palerider]

english....barely.....

[Elgama]

fraid i am with Palerider on this one, I can manage a conversation in French and ask for directions in German, count to 4 in Japanese, understand some Welsh and Scots Gaelic but not enough in any other language to get buy

-Charley

[pam]

English and some Spanish

[FunkyTown]

English, Bad English and Pig Latin.

[kona0197]

English. The best language there is.

[pam]

Unless you live in France or Japan or China or Portugal or Brazil. All languages are great.

[kona0197]

I disagree. English is becoming a worldwide language.

[skalenfehl]

English, Spanish, German

[pam]

Not everyone in the world knows or has learned English. So that makes their language not so good? Please...rather a ridiculous comment there. There are thousands of languages spoken all over the world. Unfair to say that English is the BEST language. Perhaps to you since that is the ONLY language you speak. I have heard some beautiful languages spoken in my lifetime.

pam

Edited December 14, 2008 by pam

[Heavenguard]

English. The best language there is.

English is the worst language on the face of the planet!! Or one of them, at least.

THE single most basic verb, be, conjugates very irregularly! Be: am, is, are

Irregular adjectives: Good, better, best. Bad, worse, worst.

It absorbs and takes in words from every and any language.

English is a horrible language for non-native speakers to learn.

Although you can sound out most words, there are still things that are strange and irregular, such as silent letters: Pneumonia, doubt. And homonyms like might, mite (also sight and site?); two, too, to. Why does "ight" and "ite" even sound the same? I before E, except after C, and when it says A as in Neighbour and Weigh.

It's my native tongue, it's what I think in, and it's the only language that I can competently communicate with, but I'm so painfully aware of it's shortcomings.

I speak (conversational) Cantonese, and have a very limited literate vocabulary.

(While English is a nightmare to learn to speak properly, Chinese is a nightmare to learn to write!)

[pam]

So many words in the English language are words taken from other languages.

pam

Edited December 14, 2008 by pam

[kona0197]

Not everyone in the world knows or has learned English. So that makes their language not so good? Please...rather a ridiculous comment there. There are thousands of languages spoken all over the world. Unfair to say that English is the BEST language. Perhaps to you since that is the ONLY language you speak. I have heard some beautiful languages spoken in my lifetime.

Let me rephrase since you love to argue. It is becoming the world's language and rightly so.

[pam]

Explain why you say rightly so.

pam

Edited December 14, 2008 by pam

[kona0197]

Why? I believe in a one world language just like in old times before the Tower of Babel.

[pam]

So why English? Why not French or Spanish? French is also spoken all over the world as well. That's why they do the interpretation during the Olympics in French as well. I don't think English was the worldwide language before the Tower of Babel.

pam

Edited December 14, 2008 by pam

[kona0197]

Because English is my native tongue and I am American. I will not explain myself father than that.

[pam]

Got it..so you want to force YOUR language on every other person in the world. I get it now.

[pam]

That's what we call bigotry.

[kona0197]

No need to force it. It's already happening. And no that's not called bigotry. Try again.

I even looked it up...

big⋅ot⋅ry

/ˈbɪgətri/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [big-uh-tree] Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun, plural -ries. 1. stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own. 2. the actions, beliefs, prejudices, etc., of a bigot.

Just because I wish more people spoke English does not make me intolerant of other languages.

[pam]

Do you see the word etc? Trying to force someone into your way of thinking in this instance language is bigotry.

You left out one definition:

"the actions, beliefs, prejudices, etc., of a bigot". In this case prejudices. You think English is the best language over all the others. You state because that is YOUR language. That's pretty prejudiced against other languages.

[kona0197]

If you say so. The bottom line is that I wish more people spoke my language. I'm not gonna force it on anyone.

If we use your line of reasoning the same word "Bigotry" can be applied to religion as well.

Edited December 14, 2008 by kona0197

[pam]

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha Now THAT is funny. Changing the subject away from the topic.

Okay I'm done. Thanks for the exhilarating conversation tonight Kona.

[kona0197]

You quite welcome.

Kona:1 Pam:0

:D