Not hard that English is the most spoken language all around the world, you fuckers once had half of the world in the palm of your hand.

Blain wrote:Not hard that English is the most spoken language all around the world, you fuckers once had half of the world in the palm of your hand.

Mandarin tbh.

just being a pedant though. I have a thing for language, i would like to speak a lot more than english i just lack a lot of the time and being arseditude most of the time.

Have been learning German though in prep for Wacken.

Dian Wei wrote:

Blain wrote:Not hard that English is the most spoken language all around the world, you fuckers once had half of the world in the palm of your hand.

Mandarin tbh.

just being a pedant though. I have a thing for language, i would like to speak a lot more than english i just lack a lot of the time and being arseditude most of the time.

Have been learning German though in prep for Wacken.

Das luftwaffe moes attakieren !

I could teach you some Dutch, und a very tiny bit of French.

There is only one language worth learning, and that is the language of ARNIE!

Christ, we're up late tonight aren't we?

thrash metal maniac wrote:Not just French vocab, Hispanic/Germanic too... but that all really comes from Latin originally, but then there's Celtic and Norse- where did they come from? and before that? and before that? the origins of language are pretty interesting!!!! I wonder what the first language ever spoken was, and where!?

Yes America is scummy and their horrible version of our language is too (and why the fuck do some of those dumb pricks call it AMERICAN?? - "I don't speak English, I'm from America")... but I mean, they did 'beat' us to win their independance (after stealing our entire country's technology and knowledge and language), so I guess fair play to em

But one thing Iain, one horrible thing - Who the fuck laughs at Friends?? (except for actually AT the show??)... I am a pretty ungrateful prick though, it would seem!!!

Well, French, German, and the Romance languages are all part of the Indo-European family of languages so the vocabularly is pretty similar. Even Russian and the majority of Slavonic languages are pretty similar to English if you're capable of lateral thinking. I think language, like most things, took off big time in Iraq. To be honest, I don't know any Gaelic so I can't say whether or not it's that different.

I'm still trying to accept the disintegration of the British Empire. It was great.

Who laughs at Friends? Try being a student. The number of cunts you get that don't find Dad's Army, One Foot In the Grave, Peep Show, and Yes, Minister funny is outrageous. At the same time, it's hard not to be subject to Anchorman quotes whenever you go to a party or even to someone's flat.

Thank fuck I'm officially done with education a week today!

MartinC wrote:

thrash metal maniac wrote:Not just French vocab, Hispanic/Germanic too... but that all really comes from Latin originally, but then there's Celtic and Norse- where did they come from? and before that? and before that? the origins of language are pretty interesting!!!! I wonder what the first language ever spoken was, and where!?

A lot of people think that modern languages originated somewhere around India. It's called something like 'Indo-European'. It's been a while since we studied it at school.

Aye.

Having studied Estonian - a Finno-Ugric language - you realise how lucky you are to know English. Honestly, the only other languages that have much in common with it are Finnish and Hungarian and they're both impossible to learn. People always ask me if Estonian is just like Russian but English is actually far closer to Russian than Estonian is. It's mad. That reminds me, Estonian exam on Monday.

Hoorah!

Metal Iain wrote: It's mad. That reminds me, Estonian exam on Monday.

Hoorah!

I thought you were studying politics?
Regardless, I can sympathise with your eagerness to leave further education (or at least other students) behind. By the end of my third year I was sick of writing bullshit essays to cater for twattish lecturers while trying to put up with fuck-monkey students. The worst part of my course were other people.
I think I met about ten people that I liked, about 30 I could stand and around 100 that used to infuriate me. Obviously I met more but that sounds about right for people I came into regular contact with. And I'm actually pretty tolerant of people. By the end of it I really struggled to keep myself civil.

STD_Caps wrote:

Metal Iain wrote: It's mad. That reminds me, Estonian exam on Monday.

Hoorah!

I thought you were studying politics?
Regardless, I can sympathise with your eagerness to leave further education (or at least other students) behind. By the end of my third year I was sick of writing bullshit essays to cater for twattish lecturers while trying to put up with fuck-monkey students. The worst part of my course were other people.
I think I met about ten people that I liked, about 30 I could stand and around 100 that used to infuriate me. Obviously I met more but that sounds about right for people I came into regular contact with. And I'm actually pretty tolerant of people. By the end of it I really struggled to keep myself civil.

Joint Honours in Central and East European Studies, and Politics. I had to do CEES because Single Honours Politics would have been soul-destroying. It's a lesson in life, never do anything you think you might like.

I too share your hatred for students. I really don't mind the education part at all. The fact that my coursework over the past two years has consisted mainly of As is probably why. I cannot stand the majority of students though. I've even had a few nemeses in my time at Uni. One of them was in my Politics tutorials in second year. He basically purveyed every cliché about the Bush Administration going. He pissed me off so much so that I have become a complete right-wing extremist just to spite him.

this is possibly the most off-topic thread ever

You're possibly the most off-topic thread ever?

Drugs to language.

Never mind that guys, my guns ache, I've totally just been working out. Fuck.

I don't know if you heard me counting but I did over a thousand. Tuesdays are arms and back.

90% of the time it works everytime.