What di hell is up?

stapledxlungs · Postby **stapledxlungs** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:20 am

languages are fun. I've heard German is good. i'll look into it more. Japanese sounds interesting too.

Ragdoll Bob · Postby **Ragdoll Bob** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:26 am

I know some Japanese, mostly useless in casual conversation and mostly from English-subtitled anime. The only obviously useful one I know is kudasai.

stapledxlungs · Postby **stapledxlungs** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:28 am

Have you ever been to Japan before?

Ragdoll Bob · Postby **Ragdoll Bob** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:30 am

Nope. Hoping to go over the summer before senior year (next summer, actually).

Cultural immersion is an excellent way to learn a language.

You?

stapledxlungs · Postby **stapledxlungs** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:33 am

I have not but I'd like to. I really want to travel because i agree "Cultural immersion is an excellent way to learn a language. " and also that cultural differences is very important when learning things through out life

Ragdoll Bob · Postby **Ragdoll Bob** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:43 am

Taking lessons from many sources, especially many different cultures, is the best way to realize your potential.

stapledxlungs · Postby **stapledxlungs** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:45 am

exactly and i think thats why America is so full of idiots lol.

Ragdoll Bob · Postby **Ragdoll Bob** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:47 am

Americans are for the most part interculturally ignorant.

stapledxlungs · Postby **stapledxlungs** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:52 am

there aren't as many deep thinkers as we'd like there to be cause they don't really believe in spirituality.

Ragdoll Bob · Postby **Ragdoll Bob** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:08 am

Deep thinking very much requires being in tune with one's self, and sometimes being in tune with those around you. Without belief in spirituality, that can't really happen.

Thusly do we end up with a bunch of shallow ditzes in high school that don't get much if any better afterwards.

stapledxlungs · Postby **stapledxlungs** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:11 am

and it's so funny to think the people they rely on now they won't have in the real world, so they're pretty much screwed if they cant think or act for themselves.

Ragdoll Bob · Postby **Ragdoll Bob** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:13 am

That would be true if our society in general didn't support those very people, very openly in fact.

stapledxlungs · Postby **stapledxlungs** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:15 am

ughh i know. the kids in general are so....predictable, so typical. its annoying. they're so defensive but so stupid.

Ragdoll Bob · Postby **Ragdoll Bob** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:21 am

Well, it's a comfort to know that as long as my position in my life doesn't shift, I won't be dealing with anybody like that on a regular basis after high school.

stapledxlungs · Postby **stapledxlungs** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:22 am

What is your position in life right now?

Ragdoll Bob · Postby **Ragdoll Bob** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:28 am

I'm part of a web programming/design company that's moving nowhere but up.

Eventually, it's going to involve to include security application programming and then game design/programming.

There will only ever be about 8-10 people, most of which are already involved, and none of which will be ditzy.

ƒrosty · Postby **ƒrosty** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:29 am

Y'know what'd be cool? If this continued via PM.

Ragdoll Bob · Postby **Ragdoll Bob** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:31 am

Sorry Frosty. Will do.

Elen Sila · Postby **Elen Sila** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:23 am

GODDAMN. STOP CHATTING ON THE BOARDS.

On the subject of languages, I'd rather learn Arabic than Japanese.

Arabic is interesting to me for two main reasons. For one, the vocabulary is absolutely vast. There are apparently over eighty words that signify the English word "lion." For another, the language uses "inflection" instead of "accidence;" accidence is what European languages use, where words are conjugated and declined with suffixes and prefixes, whereas inflection is where words are conjugated and declined with vowel changes. There is some degree of inflection in classical Greek, which shows up in the fact that the words "legion" and "logic" are etymologically related, and there is also some degree of inflection in modern English, such as in the words "write/wrote," "fight/fought," "take/took," etc. In Arabic, however, it's found all over the place, in just about every word. (Also, they say the Qu'ran has some of the best written verse in any work of historical literature, and frankly, I'd like to read it in its original text, rather than through English translations. I particularly like the Second Surah, in which it frequently makes reference to people being "blinded and deafened by the thunder and lightning of God," which is very different from the Western perspective of thunder and lightning as more of a force of pure destruction rather than as an instrument of "blinding" and "deafening.")

stapledxlungs · Postby **stapledxlungs** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:29 am

lol calm down...it was a friendly conversation

obskewer · Postby **obskewer** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:35 am

Don't mind him. He speaks his own language.

daemon · Postby **daemon** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:28 pm

Yeah.. sorry my mom found some of my older brothers porn from like 2 years ago on the computer and I kinda got grounded.

@Anarch

Thanks for the spelling on my sig. I had a friend give me the translation. The only forign language you can take in my school is fucking spanish. Sucks balls.

Fook_Mi · Postby **Fook_Mi** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:32 pm

You got caught for your brothers porn?That sucks,tell me you atleast got to view it before you got caught?

obskewer · Postby **obskewer** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:07 pm

Even worse. The porn includes his brother.

Ragdoll Bob · Postby **Ragdoll Bob** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:18 am

@hunted_daemon - What grade are you in? I could only take Spanish in junior high, but I got to pick Spanish, French, or German in high school.

forum.MINDistortion.tv

What di hell is up?

Who is online