I, personally, have been a fan of learning Chinese for a while. Though I
donīt think at my age I could handle learning in, nor any of the dialects
given how crusty my brain has become. But a brilliant language and system
of writing nonetheless.
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Xaoswolf
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posted on 14/8/2002 at 10:44 AM
I have to agree with you Bettie, revenge is great, but needs planning.
Personally, I wonīt do anything to someone that I hate until they least
expect it, like say a year or two after the fact. And then, it will be
something that they least expect, with little to no way to trace it back to
me.
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Anonymous
Posts: 116 Registered: 14/4/2002 Status: Offline
posted on 14/8/2002 at 11:42 AM
Oh arse! I canīt remember my password! You will just have 2 take my word
for it that this is my forum. All mine!!!! My precious! (Sorry about the
reference!)
Mono, I am extremely impressed by your knowledge of Latin! Try this one:
EHTIA NON SUNT MULTIPLICANDA PRAETER NECCESSITATEM.
You will just have to wait until I have thought up and equally biblical
sign-in name before I can return to spout peudo-intellectual gibberish at
you again!
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Anonymous
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posted on 14/8/2002 at 11:43 AM
Spot my spelling mistake Mono!
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Abbadon
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Posts: 499 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
posted on 14/8/2002 at 12:47 PM
Oh, look! Wait! Iīm back you lucky, lucky people!
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Ironboots
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Posts: 893 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
posted on 14/8/2002 at 03:50 PM
Oh, wonderful, Abbadon! Iīd feign be resigned to recognize you under
another name. Abbadon fits quite well.
Anyway, I guess learning latin would be good. I canīt really out-speak my
boss, since most words have latin roots. Sheīs damn hard to beat, although
there -are- greek/cyrillic words.
Smart people rock.
But Iīm pretty bad with revenge. Iīm slow to anger and quick to cool down.
The only time I could really formulate a plan would be when Iīve broke, but
then its hard to carefully erect a plan. Oh well.
Iīm quick to anger, but it takes a LOT to make me hate...and I can hold a
grudge like nobodyīs business.
In your darkest hour, when all you want is out of life, you can think "Oh
wait...I still havenīt skullfucked *enternameandoffensehere*...got to get
out of this and take care of that"
Grudges and smouldering anger are a lifesaver!!
Trust me...ah...yes, trust me...
*singing like a snake*
truuuusssssssssssst in meeeeeeee......
you are getting
sssssssssssleeeepy...sssssssssssleeepy....yesssssssssssss....
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Monolycus
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Posts: 580 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
posted on 15/8/2002 at 12:21 AM
Abbadon (I presume): I hope I havenīt misrepresented myself. I have only
ever formally studied French, Japanese and German. Any familiarity I have
with Latin has been picked up via osmosis. Incidentally, there is only one
"c" in "necessitas".
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Monolycus
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Posts: 580 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
posted on 15/8/2002 at 11:08 PM
Comedian (I presume): I am reminded of an acquaintance of mine a few years
ago who had developed an unhealthy fixation on the film star Jackie Chan.
She called the distributer of his films in Hong Kong to complain about how
a great body of his work had not been translated into English and she
wanted to see those movies. After a brief long distance fight, the
distributer suggested sarcastically that this woman could learn Chinese if
she were that darned interested. Within a year, this woman had become
reasonably fluent in conversational Chinese. Whenever I think that my mind
might be too ossified to take in anything new, I remember this friend of
mine and think to myself that nothing is insurmountable if you have a
schoolgirl-type crush. Of course, this rarely motivates me, but I thought
I would share. I am, I was, I will be
~Monolycus.
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Comedian
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posted on 16/8/2002 at 09:46 AM
Yes, but did she get the videos and understand them?
Thereīs something like 16 seperate dialects of Chinese, ranging from
Southern mandarin to Mandarin to Cantonese to City speak...
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Monolycus
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posted on 16/8/2002 at 03:11 PM
Itīs my understanding that she did, although I havenīt seen her since
around 1996. The last time I saw her, she was happily giving directions to
an older Chinese woman who didnīt speak any English at the bookstore where
she worked.
I know there are multiple dialects in China, but I was under the impression
that they had a "state" language as a default... Mandarin, maybe? India
has the same arrangement, something like 16-20 distinct languages each with
its local dialects. Another friend of mine who hails from India told me
about how they must constantly "code-switch" (Translate things in their
heads from their native dialect, through another language, and into
whatever language they are being spoken to). It always amazes me that
there are so many misunderstandings in the United States where at least the
majority of us are monoglots.
~Monolycus
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Abbadon
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Posts: 499 Registered: 31/12/1969 Status: Offline
posted on 16/8/2002 at 03:15 PM
I was thinking of the fact i spelt ENTIA as EHTIA, but your one will do
just as well.
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