OT: Does anyone speak Latin?

[unkokusai]

unk...It's generaly a bad idea to insult someone's child. .

I have not done so. I will insult you as a presumptuous *****, and the other d-bag as an overly enthusiastic dope who doesn't understand languages and how they are learned (leaving alone the silly notion of 'creating' one)

[SaintSage]

I have not done so. I will insult you as a presumptuous *****, and the other d-bag as an overly enthusiastic dope who doesn't understand languages and how they are learned (leaving alone the silly notion of 'creating' one)

If you don't see how RD could have taken what you said as an insult, you have a serious problem.

EDIT: BTW, J.R.R. Tolkien had the "silly" notion of creating a language...he did it, too. He actualy made more than one...but I guess he was just a nobody that was out of touch with reality...

[sunfist]

To perhaps put it a bit more politically, full command of a completely alien language is something that takes decades. You can grasp the core of a language much more quickly than that, sure. But to understand all the little nuances, even with immersion, is not going to come quickly. RDs daughter may well be the exception to the rule, a true prodigy, however any sensible person would at least seek several additional sources before getting it inked.

[sunfist]

:EDIT: BTW, J.R.R. Tolkien had the "silly" notion of creating a language...he did it, too. He actualy made more than one...but I guess he was just a nobody that was out of touch with reality...

You do realise Tolkien was one of the leading experts in the world at the time on several old european languages, publisher of non fiction works and a top lecturer in the field, right?

Just saying, Its a stupid comparison.

[Mr Punch]

She is 17...speaks German, some French, self taught Japanese, and dabbles in Latin. She has also created her own language from the grammer up.

She wants to be a language teacher.

Yeah, I know It's scarry.

Maybe she could do teaching practice by teaching you English...? Wait on, she's a linguist not ****ing magician!

She barely speaks English anymore. I have to learn her language to talk to her. She is teaching me by immersion. It's really cool!

OK, inventing your own language or at least a framework of one as a linguistic exercise is a great idea, fun and productive, but are you trying to have us believe she has invented a language completely enough to be able to give you immersion in it? I think she's having you on!

I don't study as much as I should though, and I think I frustrate her a bit with my slow progress.

Monolingualism would be the first step toward bilingualism...!

(leaving alone the silly notion of 'creating' one)

For a linguist, it can be a good exercise. For a 17-year-old, I think she's secretly videoing her dad babbling totally meaningless bollocks to get some kind of Youtube prize as a scholarship!

[SaintSage]

You do realise Tolkien was one of the leading experts in the world at the time on several old european languages, publisher of non fiction works and a top lecturer in the field, right?

Just saying, Its a stupid comparison.

But he was a kid once who (by his own admission) invented languages.

Get it now?

[FuXnDajenariht]

If you like it so much why don't you go out and learn it well before getting a tattoo?

and why do you go so far out of your way to be a d!ck?

[FuXnDajenariht]

To perhaps put it a bit more politically, full command of a completely alien language is something that takes decades. You can grasp the core of a language much more quickly than that, sure. But to understand all the little nuances, even with immersion, is not going to come quickly. RDs daughter may well be the exception to the rule, a true prodigy, however any sensible person would at least seek several additional sources before getting it inked.

believe me. its not sumthin im gonna go run out and do tomorrow. but a starting point is nice to have.

im reminded of people who go out to get Japanese or Chinese characters tattooed on them and end up with "beef and broccoli" or "i like men" instead.

[FuXnDajenariht]

If true, then I hope she'll stick with linguistics instead of branching into politics.

lol i dont know. im partial to his politics.

[sunfist]

But he was a kid once who (by his own admission) invented languages.

Get it now?

At which time he was a child with no acheivments (to put it more coarsely, a nobody), whom was daydreaming and engaging in flights of fancy as all children do, not in touch with reality, one might say.

Are you sarting to get it, mellon nin?

[FuXnDajenariht]

why is anyone even deeming it necessary or proper to comment about what his daughter did or didn't create without actually seeing it firsthand?

[golden arhat]

A "space ghost"? Have you been writing sci-fi again or have you gone all Anglo-Saxon poetic imagery on us?

And yeah, of course, people had been praying to the sun for centuries before the 'space ghost' popped up.

OMG never speak to me again until u have seen at least one episode of space ghost

u get bravo at home? are u still a uk resident ? he's on the adult swim on there

really funny

[golden arhat]

why is anyone even deeming it necessary or proper to comment about what his daughter did or didn't create without actually seeing it firsthand?

the same reason hes deeming it ok to show off about it without showing us


and does unkokusai ever go away ?


EDIT: no offence RD u seem a sound enough guy

[sunfist]

why is anyone even deeming it necessary or proper to comment about what his daughter did or didn't create without actually seeing it firsthand?

I dont know about everyone else, but im talking about Tolkien.

[Mr Punch]

im reminded of people who go out to get Japanese or Chinese characters tattooed on them and end up with "beef and broccoli" or "i like men" instead.

Funnily enough, the Japanese translation for your quote I'd prepared for if you'd asked was exactly

'I like men's beef and two broccoli, Number 21'

It's an idiom.



... anytime!