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Odd observations; If you notice strange things...
Topic Started: Jul 17 2006, 02:53 AM (1,520 Views)
LuppyLuptonium
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I decided to check and see how hard it would be to learn Japanese... I was looking up the subject and found many web sites on it...

I just figured out why japanese women are known for being so submissive. In japan there is a class system hissen in their language. it forces you to assign rank to yourself as well as others round you.

speaking down to people is not looked on kindly so it is polite to lower your rank below what you think someone is before you speak with them... There are about 8 ways to speak to someone based on where you feel they rank in reguards to you.... It creates a nice inferiority complex when you think about it...
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Well what do you expect from a language that doesn't even differentiate between gender.
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Oh, it differentiates between genders, just not with pronouns.

There are practically entirely different languages for men and women to speak.
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It totally does though, at least for males...

Edit: Baron'd, and for the record, not trying to sound shovanistic (sp?), but the language is cooky like that.
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Well in the grand scheme of it all, English is really one of the more difficult languages to master.

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(Q)_< Where was this thread last week,month, 5 years ago?

I forget everything odd after one day!


Well I noticed how every living second of existance theirs a war going on but talks about peace are things of far off future like living on the moon
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MechaV,Jul 16 2006
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Well in the grand scheme of it all, English is really one of the more difficult languages to master.

You know, I've heard that most of my life... and considering how many native speakers butcher it, I totally beleive that...


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Totally...
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Try driving around the South.


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English... you can speak it wrong and people still understand. I think the 'correct' way to say things is just the fastest. You know, alot of countries use English when they send out military orders because English is so quick and cuts out everything but warly pertinant combat details. At least, that's what my Puerto Rico friend who works in decryption says.
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Try living in my town, its like the south but without a viable excuse
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There are weird dialects and phrases everywwhere, heyna(is it so... NEPA's own wird made up word)?
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I gave a definition foir mine...
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Then you lose :P
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(Q)_< Then there is ENGRISH!
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Every time I think I've done really badly in life, or that I cannot obtain my goals regardless of how hard I work, something steps in and pushes me forward.

For instance, I was sure I had done a hell of a lot worse with recent exams. But my current average is a 2(ii), which can be pushed up to a 1st next year if I really push it.


That sort of thing on my CV will be useful, doncha think?
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Actually I thought English was an easier language. (In terms of simplicity.)


I love living in an area that doesn't have a true accent. We just make up our own if we feel like it.
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I don't have an accent either.
But I DO randomly slip into completely unrelated other accents and not be aware of it. I can be Detroit -Neutral one minute, Southernthe next, and Indian from India the next.
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People I talk to tend to mishear me for whatever reason.
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