Search results

NO. Thinking and language are absolutely inseparable. If you can't give your thoughts a distinct form by the means of a language, you wouldn't be able to have concise thoughts in the first place. Your thinking would be reduced to animal niveau only, at best.

Well, I think articles and gendered words are totally antiquated and don't belong into our time anymore. TThere's no good reason for using articles anymore, and gendered words should be replaced by gender-neutral ones - if neccessary, one could use a prefix or something for male/female. The...

I wouldn't say that German is any more difficult than English. While it has a little more grammar (like verb conjugations), it has a nice and regular spelling, unlike English, where the spelling is often quite arbitrary :relief: Italian is somewhat more complicated than the two. While the...

Looked around and found some statistics: http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/o/overweight/stats.htm * Overweight prevalence statistics for men in the USA: o 58% of men aged 20-34 are overweight in the US 1999-2000 (Health United States, 2003, NCHS) o 67.6% of men aged 35-44...

Sauerkraut, bleh... now that's something I'm really not fond of :relief: Even worse is pork's knuckle... even though I really like pork otherwise (actually, pork is the only meat I eat :D ), but pork's knuckle is totally yucky! :okashii: How the hell could some icky stuff like pork's knuckle...

Ok, here's my version: rough with ou as in grow or oh (rhyming with dough) dough eith ou as in grow thoughtful with long o as in port ploughman with au as in now through with long u as in too scarborough as in borrow slough with au as in now - it should'nt be as in buff, I checked my dictionary...

As bossel already said, it's common in Germany as well: 2) immerse in detergent, wipe off mess, wipe w dry cloth, to rack Dunno about the UK, but here there's a norm that all detergents are 98% of its contents are bio-degradable (or something along the lines). Guess the same applies for the UK...

Very interesting... it's not surprising that English has the most non-native speakers, but I didn't know that German had the most native speakers :D

"der" is male, "die" is female and "das" is neutrum.

You'll have to set the Codepage to "Western" (Iso-8859-1), then it displays fine. I used the charmap to look for the Ipa chars.

Now that's really something to be proud of: "I can say 'Nice ass!' in ten languages!" :D

The issue is probably that the Bavarian dialect is very different from Standard German, so much that I'd say it's a language of its own, as it's actually pretty much incomprehensible to any German. I guess the opposite would be right as well, a Bavarian will have difficulties understanding...

????΂??ĂˁI :cool: Don't hesitate to ask if you have any problems.

Exactly, the tones are a real pain :okashii: Learning the hanzhi is quite annoying too - even if you know already what one character is read in Japanese, you still have to learn how it's read/pronounced in Chinese... :relief:

[x] Non-smoker. Do agree on bans I think smoking bans are a good thing. If you want/have to enter certain places, I don't want any nasty fumes there - it stinks really awful and is very unhealthy as well. Right now, over here smoking is banned in schools, some railways and some public places. I...

The French orthography makes my hair stand on end as well, but it is at least somewhat more regular and predictable than the English spelling. Those are some very good examples indeed :D True nightmare for anyone that learns English. About Chinese becoming a possible world language: There are...

Hmm, let's see - I'd say 4. fits clearly the best. Of the others, 9. isn't half bad either. Let's see, that would be... British English and German! :D Wow, that's very interesting indeed... didn't know I'm typical British. God shave the Queen! :D

I know several of then at least by name, but I don't like Classic in General :D

Well, it should be crystal clear to anyone by now that the reasons for the Iraq war were all just a fantasy born in the sick brain of the Bush-man :okashii: WMD: The only WMD you'll find in Iraq are the bombs 'n' stuff thrown by the US. Husseins: The Husseins were for a long time close friends...

Ok, here's some food for thought - is it odd for me as a firmly convinced atheist to not believe in the evolution theory? Because that's what it is, a theory and nothing more, even if most people treat it as a fact :p I've recently read a book which has some very good evidence against the...