Speak Fucking English!

Damn those Italians! Offshoring jobs even back then!. OK.. It's LATIN either way

Can't we all put our differences behind us and join together to discriminate against potential life on other planets? Forget black skin or epicanthic folds, how about tentacles for crying out loud? And you just know those hive minds would move here and start taking all the good jobs. Or cyborgs. Those will probably be a reality before long. Let's hate them.

I need some good ethnic slurs for aliens. The best I have is bemmies from Bug Eyed Monsters and E.T.'s. Man I hate aliens. You think Mandingo was bad? Check out scifi creatures from the 50's. Those guys don't even have compatible genitalia and they're still after our women.

my family came over from spain 2 generations ago. while this is a totally different generation, you were not allowed to speak spanish outside of the house. you were only allowed to speak spanish *in* the house if there was no company.

as much as great grandma tried.. she really couldn't speak english very well... she added an 'e' to every word that began with an 's'. she also talked back to the movies, but whatever.


solution to this language problem: everyone learn and use sign language.

Cyanide,

Please learn to speak proper English. I'm tired of all these lazy, selfish, intolerant half-wits who refuse to think about what they say, or how they'll say it, before butchering their English in public.

Would it destroy your last brain cell to actually think for a moment before opening your mouth?

Go back to where you came from. My calculations place that somewhere up your posterior orifice.

I r teh r0xx0r

Cyanide... there are no laws in the US requiring anyone to speak any language in particular. Except for a handful of states whio declared English their language, anyone's free to speak whatever they please, so it's pointless to get all worked up about it I know! How about you learn some spanish so you can communicate with the largest minority in this country? It'd be fun, plus you'd broaden your horizons as you gained a new skill

*hugs*
Leilany

I wanna learn Navajo.

I agree! I think we should declare Neptune an Enemy Planet immediately and move to send a adequate number of troops to pacify this glaring threat to our world!

I'm also highly suspicious of Ganymede.

Would that be ASL, PSE, SEE, International Sign, BSL...?

Lye anta quena i'lammen tel'edhel.

Elvish?

HOW DARE YOU! I Saw Dances with Wolves, I know what that means

QUE? No Hablo Ingles!
I am sorry to say but you are very ignorant, the United States is about Freedom, and they can speak whatever language they want to! Someone can say the same to you, and tell you to get a better education and learn other languages, and I surely hope you never plan to leave the US for any reason, would be a shame to run into someone as ignorant as yourself in another country..

We should all speak the language of the elves... lol.

I should clarify that the elven language I use is tel'Mithrim and it's only loosly based on Tolkien's Quenya language.

My Quenya is worse than my Spanish and I have not learned caligraphy to write the letters. It's fun to learn if you have the time.

I agree here. Learning Japanese when born speaking English is quite a confusing process. One of the rules my Japanese teacher laid down near the beginning of teaching the language was that, always, the verb comes last in a sentence, in English, it bridges the subject and predicate, and occurs near the middle. When you run pure japanese through a japanese -> english translator, that's why it sounds garbled. Its difficult for a simple parser to rearrange sentence structure without garbling the sentence even more. (That's why auto-translator earpieces haven't caught on ).

Japanese seems initially hard to learn. This is mainly because Japanese is totally not based on phonetic structure, like English is. In Japanese, the main 'problem' for learners is the numerous interpretations for the same sound and symbol. This brings up another problem with auto-translators, they arent smart enough to use context to figure out the meaning of a pronunciation.

One of the things I love about Japanese writing is that, when used in practice, its super-easy to tell between native words (they're in kanji), foreign words (they're in katakana), and sentence structure items (they're in hiragana). The three different writing systems is another big problem that learners have to take on.

Also, there are things that make Japanese easier to understand, such as the w(o) hiragana particle (sometimes only written as o). It itentifys the direct object in a sentence, whereas English expects you to 'understand' that a particular thing is the direct object.

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You can actually learn Quenya?!? Ooh! Coolies!

I plan on studying Spanish later on, having three substantially different languags (one sandskrit (English), one romance (Spanish), and one phonetic (Japanese)) is interesting (IMO).

==Chris