(January 16, 2016 at 7:36 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Is that Mark Twain?(January 16, 2016 at 7:29 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: is=ist
Then German should not be hard to learn. I used Google Translate to read some of the stuff on that website. My reply to you might make you smile. or might make you groan.
I've been told that linguist think of English as a bastard language. But I thought that was just American English, because of all the people who came here from Europe.
I strongly recommend reading Twain's 'The Awful German Language' before trying to learn to speak German.
I think a better term than 'bastard' to describe English might be 'amalgam.'
Boru
Amalgam. Okay, I speak an amalgam language. Feel better already. Thanks.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.