RE: Do you still say "Oh my God"?
December 17, 2012 at 6:00 pm
(This post was last modified: December 17, 2012 at 6:03 pm by Norfolk And Chance.)
I find myself often saying "for gods sake", "JESUS!", "Jesus fucking Christ" when frustrated or exasperated, and have even uttered the odd "thank god for that" when I've been really relieved about something, they're just words that come out...but since I've started speaking about atheism on the internet, I do find myself consciously trying to stop myself uttering these words that are meaningless in the context that I use them, but abhorrant otherwise.
German and Dutch are almost mutually intelligible though aren't they?
I've never studied Dutch in my life but I must say that as an English speaker if I read a paragraph or two in Dutch, I can sort of understand bits of what is being said. Though if I hear Dutch, I have utterly no idea.
(December 17, 2012 at 10:42 am)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: I actualy love every foreign language, I cant help but listen with fascination trying to find the meaning of the words spoken and to put them together into a meaninfull sentence.
Which is easy with Dutch, less easy with French and almoust impossible with non European languages.
German and Dutch are almost mutually intelligible though aren't they?
I've never studied Dutch in my life but I must say that as an English speaker if I read a paragraph or two in Dutch, I can sort of understand bits of what is being said. Though if I hear Dutch, I have utterly no idea.
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
