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Fool010:
--- Quote from: Burkingam on February 07, 2011, 03:08:04 AM ---Btw saying that American culture is only junkfood and fat people is not only trolling, this is pure bull shit.
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That's the same thing dude, don't get redundant ;D
AceHigh:
Never did I complain about English language for the sake of complaning, nor for any other reason. I never said it was a bad language either.
I am not going to start flaming any language, only short-sighted people.
As for complexity, a language with more variables gives a wider variety for someone to express their thoughts. A simple language has the advantage of easy learning, little else.
As you said yourself English is good as lingua franca because it is widespread, with that you pretty much proved my point that it is the history that decided lingua franca and not the merits of the language itself. After all that is all I meant when I said it the first time, I never threw a jab at English to begin with, however some people took it personally it seems.
--- Quote ---How are we supposed to take you seriously after you say something so stupid.
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You just have to use a common sense to see when I am serious and when I am trolling, in this case I even said that this is how it would look like when I troll. If you still failed to see that, your loss.
--- Quote ---Here's a clue the Internet. Think of where 90% of it's content comes from.
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That is ironic, here on bakabt, over 90% of content comes from japan ::)
--- Quote from: Fool010 on February 07, 2011, 03:23:27 AM ---That's the same thing dude, don't get redundant ;D
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See? he got that right.
Fool010:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 07, 2011, 03:33:21 AM ---That is ironic, here on bakabt, over 90% of content comes from japan ::)
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That's why I try to leave cultural relativism asides as much as I can. After all, stupidity is a part of man's -read as human being- genetic heritage. We're all stupid, ignorant, biased and prejudiced, just choose your flavour ... different shapes and colours, same stuff.
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 07, 2011, 02:36:09 AM ---Next time it should be easier for you to see when I am trolling.
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It increasingly got more difficult to distinguish when you're not ... going through a rebellious phase ?
harpy:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on February 07, 2011, 02:36:09 AM ---
--- Quote ---but what you're doing here is nothing more but taking easy shots at english-american culture, as usual.
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Corrected for accuracy. English language is English as Americans did not provide any significant change to the language and just use it because they don't have their own. That by itself is one of many arguments why a thing called "American culture" is almost non-existent with the exception of junk food and fat people.
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I was dying to say that all (the language part) yesterday but I decided to be ...em, polite :D
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I wonder why mostly people are going English-American. There is other English as well. Just thinking.
brunoais:
If you want a language to express yourself to the fullest try Portuguese. Not Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal Portuguese. It is one of the hardest languages in the world, (I think) the 5th most spoken (thx Portuguese explorers :)).
It has much more rules than english all verbs have a different word for I, you, he, us... The politeness is a kick in the *** not to forget (yeah... most verbs have a politeness...), it's not based only on thank you. You have for almost everything, at least 2 different words (that happens much more than with english) and usually 4 or even 10 (yes, 10. Check the dictionary). And you can express what you want in many ways, a bit more than Francais or Castellano and much much more than in english.
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