midnightblue
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Post by midnightblue on May 2, 2016 18:23:45 GMT
Man in the white suit - Alec  , surely?  All the regulars finish up with an attribute - you can change it in Profile -> Personal if you've got a better one. Some people have a gift with languages - my sister speaks four or five fluently and a working knowledge of lots more. I don't have it, although I do have some rustic French left. Chris. No, I'll leave it. It made me laugh! (-: It's not so much a 'gift' as having grown up in lots of different countries. What languages does your sister speak? Does she drive a crab? I speak English French Italian Irish and Cherokee. I'm OK with Russian and Serbo-Croat but I'm not fluent. The twins speak Sooke, Colombian Spanish, Wayuu, (which you probably know better as Guajira) Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, English, Kwakiutl and Haida. In about that order. They are 5. Sooke is a bit special. Only 275 people speak it. It's a language isolate. Almost every language is either accusative (like English) ergative (like Basque) or split-ergative (like Georgian). Only Sooke and Piraha aren't, you can't create a relative clause, they are the only two non-relational languages. Sooke is one of the 192 languages of Vancouver Island. Piraha is spoken in the middle of Brazil, thousands of km away. And no-one knows why. MidnightBlue |
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Post by Penguin45 on May 3, 2016 22:49:45 GMT
Well, the Sister-Beast is Head of Languages at a Middle School down in Dorset, where they have enough trouble with good old plain English. French principally, but Spanish, Italian, German as well. A working understanding of Russian, HochDeutsch (?), Portugese and smatterings of the Scandinavian stuff. She's a clever lass. However, knows nothing about cars and is a truly terrible driver. We can't all be perfect, I suppose.
Chris.
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midnightblue
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Post by midnightblue on May 6, 2016 21:12:57 GMT
Well, the Sister-Beast is Head of Languages at a Middle School down in Dorset, where they have enough trouble with good old plain English. French principally, but Spanish, Italian, German as well. A working understanding of Russian, HochDeutsch (?), Portugese and smatterings of the Scandinavian stuff. She's a clever lass. However, knows nothing about cars and is a truly terrible driver. We can't all be perfect, I suppose. Chris. I went to school for several years in Dorset. Iwerne Minster. HochDeutsch is High German, the generally accepted way you spell it and write it, perhaps you were thinking of Plattdeutsch or Allemanisch? Plattdeutsch is what they speak near Aachen and Allemanisch is what they speak in Austria and Switzerland. Germans can understand them, but foreigners who have only learned Standard Hochdeutsch haven't a clue. Your sis sounds very gifted, however I think too much time can be devoted to learning languages. If you start off with two or three, I think that's enough. By then you aren't learning language, you are learning the whole *concept* of language. And you need to do this as a child. After that it's easy to learn a lot more. A useful knowledge of how the internal combustion engine works, and how an electric motor works, are to my mind not really taught that well to kids these days. The curriculum is so crammed with Politically-Correct stuff that there is no time for Ohm's law or even F=ma. --- I don't know if this might be useful but: if you sit in an upright position, with the backrest almost vertical, this is naturally the way a woman sits. It also means that the seat-belt is constantly uncomfortable against her breasts, especially if she is lactating, or has any tenderness of breast. You can get a little plastic gadget which deals with this, it costs about £ 2 I think. In the event of an accident it is designed to break, and the seatbelt will hurt but will still protect her. It is legal. It sounds to me like your sis wants one. I'll go outside when it it light and warm and read off the manufacturer's details. My female relatives are generous of breast, and they find it best to adjust the clip before a long journey. It's not a waste of time to do this. Girls don't like it if they are unduly restrained, nor that their going to bash their heads on the dashboard. By 'girls' I mean adult girls. Which I have an awful feeling my twins are going to be. MidnightBlue |
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