Fascinating, explains a lot

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 13:57

Now we can all see why certain people to whom Englaish is a second language simple don't understand and never will.



http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=general&src=me

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 18:44

RE msg 1, JohnW: (...) Now we can all see why certain people to whom Englaish is a second language simple don't understand and never will. (...)

=> Fascinating indeed to read how you - "Englaish" is your first language, isn't it? - write the "Englaish" language. I simply don't understand or should I write I "simple" don't understand? Yes, now we can all see how your post backfires.

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 18:45

you really are anal Dutch

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 19:01

RE msg 3, sienna: (...) you really are anal Dutch (...)

=> That maybe so, but you're not a lady.

mahdel


Joined: 28/05/2009
Posts: 255

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 20:08

@msg 1.

That's not what the article actually says at all, unless you are referring to some English as a second language speakers' tendency to equate certain objects with certain genders. In fact the whole idea of "language affecting how you think" was largely discredited decades ago, as was mentioned in the first paragraph. The differences in actual thought are far more minor, as with the genderized nouns example and the use of cardinal directions instead of "in front of" etc.

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 20:45

I could not give a flying fig what you think because eveytime you com eon here oyu show what a stupi man you are

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 20:59

RE msg 6, sienna: (...) I could not give a flying fig what you think because eveytime you com eon here oyu show what a stupi man you are (...)

=> Thank you for teaching me how to write in the English language. Something wrong with your keyboard..?

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 21:01

no I did it on purpose to prove a point that you would pick up on it !!! sucker you fell for it you just cannot help yourself LOL

Mick the Fish


Joined: 27/05/2008
Posts: 180

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 22:32

For many years I thought that the deception used by the British

In the Falklands War was brilliant.



During the build up the press reported that

the nuclear powered submarine 'HMS Superb'

was in the South Atlantic and would soon be in

a position to 'bottle up' the Argentine navy



It was in fact being refitted in Faslane

Throughout the war



Well done Sienna!



All





You

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 22:37

i think we should all go back to school. Guido and I constantly have this discussion as he does not understand how we do not use the masculine or feminine, or the 3RD person

Mick the Fish


Joined: 27/05/2008
Posts: 180

Message Posted:
05/09/2010 22:53

If you read the article it is obviously in Klingon (Whorf).

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
06/09/2010 00:52

Poor DC, ROFL, took the bait, hook, line and sinker. He just can't resist.

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
06/09/2010 01:00

DC



Yoo reeley argh er compleet maroon.

littlejohn


Joined: 09/03/2009
Posts: 316

Message Posted:
06/09/2010 01:46

DC - I really don't know why you bother with these people.

Jeannie


Joined: 04/08/2009
Posts: 3283

Message Posted:
06/09/2010 02:22

Quite frankly, neither do I

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
06/09/2010 02:36

'Epic fail' springs to mind.



Category: Trying to garner support in an effort to upset an individual and failing miserably....

proger1



Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 2919

Message Posted:
06/09/2010 08:25

Stupidity at it's highest level, six year olds act more maturely than this and I should know, they are who I have most converstaions with now because they can speak betterly than most of the intelectual giants I came across on here.



Time for me to retire form having a serious thought I think.

When an alcoholic falls on his face people expect it and laugh, when he shows up sober people are genuinely surprised. I think I will try to be serious and end the night making everyone laugh.



Pauls thought of the day: The sooner most of the members on here realise it is a holiday forum and stop acting like insane asylum gang members the better.

Lazy days


Joined: 24/07/2008
Posts: 847

Message Posted:
06/09/2010 08:42

Proger one of my all time favourites on the drunk thingy is, and I think it was Churchill who was credited with saying it ?



Lady to him ? Sir you are Drunk



Him:- Madam you are ugly - I will be sober in the morning