Several things.
1. The Wu Tang Clan was awesome. At least, I assume it was...I didnt go. Everyone who was going to go with me crapped out last minute. I should have sacked up and gone to the 11 pm show in the ghetto of DC on a Monday night by myself, but I am a giant douche.
2. Wedding. Alright, so its on, and we are invited.
3. Polite request. Give the "carcass body" nickname some time off. Creeps me out.
4. I mistakingly hit next Blog on the postgrad site, and I was taken to this guys page: http://bendisplanet.blogspot.com/. I have no clue what the hell is going on and what language this might be, but its probably the coolest blog ever.
5. pat - single thick? wtf
ted - not sure on the ski trip, ill let you know
(Exeunt)
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Hehehe, thank you very much for the nice opinion about my blog! The language it's written in is Esperanto, which was invented by a Polish guy named Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof in 1887. It has 2-3 million speakers worldwide and is based about 70% on Latin. Being a perfectly regular language, it's at least 5 times easier to learn than English, for example. You can find more about the language on http://www.esperanto.net.
How can you claim it is 5 times easier to learn than English? I hate to say this, but you're full of beans, Gebelaser-eyes.
I am not a native speaker of English. When I was 16 I started learning both Esperanto and English. It took me less than 6 months to be really fluent in Esperanto and about 2 years for simillar results in English. Not to mention the accent which took several more years to fade. Even today, when my accent is not strong anymore, I find English as a very unnatural language compared with French, Esperanto, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Romanian (my native language) and Japanese (I can speak all these languages fluently, except Japanese, where I still need to work on it and hope to become fluent one day). So, I'm not full of beans about Esperanto. If you speak only English, then it's normal that your mother tongue looks the easiest, being the only language you can speak. But if you speak at least one more language, just try to learn Esperanto on www.lernu.net and you'll see it's much easier than anything else. Of course, for monolinguals, any foreign language seems difficult, as their brain simply is not trained to have more than system of ideas representations. So, what I've said is 100% valid about Esperanto: IT'S AT LEAST FIVE TIMES EASIER TO LEARN THAN ENGLISH.
Congrats on being so fluent ("simillar" only has one 'l' and "...as their brain simply is not trained to have more than system of ideas representations" is completely incoherent). Now, regarding the original focus of our debate, you claim that Esperanto is 5 times easier to learn than English and I correctly deduced that you are full of beans. I don't disagree that Esperanto is easier to learn than English, I simply think that it is absurd to quantify a concept as subjective as "ease of learning." I'm also bothered by your broad assumptions based on your limited personal experience. To use your own "speed of learning" as a basis for your entire claim regarding how easy one language is to learn over another is absurdly simplistic reasoning that could only be championed by the feeblest of minds (you know, the kind of mind that recommends sporting a dirty 'stache). Good day.
The mistakes were simply typing mistakes, the "incoherent phrase" had the word "one" missing (I could not correct it latter). Well, the data about Esperanto is based on several other people's experiences. Someone was trying to learn German for 2 years and still was not fluent in it and got fluent in Esperanto in 6 months and I have many similar examples. You can give it a try and then tell me how hard is to learn Esperanto. From my point of view, I'm busy (in my spare time) with Japanese and Chinese :-). So, you can eat your beans, hehehe.
Now lets all just calm down here. I did not mean to spark an international incident.
I am curious, Mr. Jezebelle, how you found out about my recommendation of your blog. What else do you know about me?
I am also curious about what you do for a living. Five languages? or is it seven? Why so many? what are you trying to prove? are you a student? Tragically lonely? a spy? utterly and devastatingly bored?
You are an enigma wrapped in a mystery, sir, and I want to draw you.
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