If you could eliminate one human need, what would it be?
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^^ Zero. I speak what i know.
I know quite a bit of English, I've studied a good amount of Spanish, and i know the basic foundations of Arabic, Portuguese, and Latin. I could put together sentences in 5 languages, more than just "my name is this" or "where is the bathroom".
And how many million Missouri "hicks" are there? A few million out of 300 million Americans?
I know quite a bit of English, I've studied a good amount of Spanish, and i know the basic foundations of Arabic, Portuguese, and Latin. I could put together sentences in 5 languages, more than just "my name is this" or "where is the bathroom".
And how many million Missouri "hicks" are there? A few million out of 300 million Americans?
Yes...Missouri hicks are not a large part of the American population...however...in nine cases out of ten, people live in areas that are for all intents and purposes linguistically homogenous. Only areas of very concentrated ethnicity do you see multilingual signs, announcements, or hear alternate languages spoken as the norm.
^^ Somewhat, but not quite. Due to the Muslim occupation of the Iberian peninsula (Spain & Portugal), both Spanish and Portuguese have quite a bit of Arabic borrowings. Italian tries much harder to use Latin borrowings, such as adjectives, adverbs and so on.
@W.D.
So you call roughly 1/2 of the American population in Texas, New York, Florida, California, Louisiana (Creole/French), New Mexico, Arizona, Hawaii (Hawaiian), et al "linguistically isolated"? Who's being the redneck conservative now?
Out of Washington state's 5.5 million population, over 770 thousand speak a language other than English at home. Languages are all around us, and it doesn't take force-feeding of dual-language television/newspapers/etc to realize that.
@W.D.
So you call roughly 1/2 of the American population in Texas, New York, Florida, California, Louisiana (Creole/French), New Mexico, Arizona, Hawaii (Hawaiian), et al "linguistically isolated"? Who's being the redneck conservative now?
Out of Washington state's 5.5 million population, over 770 thousand speak a language other than English at home. Languages are all around us, and it doesn't take force-feeding of dual-language television/newspapers/etc to realize that.
Tadou, Italians do not TRY to use Latin borrowings, they DO...and so does Spanish along with every other LATIN BASED language in the world. Because they are all just that, LATIN BASED languages.
This is the reason I walk up to a Spanish speaking lady at my work, and spit some Italian at her, and she knows what I'm talkin about even though she doesn't know a lick of Italian.
This is the reason I walk up to a Spanish speaking lady at my work, and spit some Italian at her, and she knows what I'm talkin about even though she doesn't know a lick of Italian.
^^ Friend...you missed what i was saying. You are talking to the wrong person about Latin-Based languages; ive been studying Romance languages for the past 2 years solid. (Can you name at least 10 of them without looking at a book?)
Subito = Subito in Latin...in Spanish its Ahora
Quindici = Quindecim in Latin...in Spanish its Quince
And the list goes on.
I'm not talking about noun/verb borrowings, i'm talking about adverbs and the like.
Italian is the closest form to vulgar Latin that we have today.....closer than the Arabic, Slav and German filled French, Portuguese, Rumanian or Spanish, by far.
Go to WikiPedia and look up "Interlingua" and see what that language most resembles....and you will see.
Subito = Subito in Latin...in Spanish its Ahora
Quindici = Quindecim in Latin...in Spanish its Quince
And the list goes on.
I'm not talking about noun/verb borrowings, i'm talking about adverbs and the like.
Italian is the closest form to vulgar Latin that we have today.....closer than the Arabic, Slav and German filled French, Portuguese, Rumanian or Spanish, by far.
Go to WikiPedia and look up "Interlingua" and see what that language most resembles....and you will see.
Interlingua sample: the widely-translated Lord's Prayer (also available as an MP3 file (http://www.wikipedia.com/upload/paternoster-ia.mp3)):
Nostre Patre, qui es in le celos,
que tu nomine sia sanctificate;
que tu regno veni;
que tu voluntate sia facite
super le terra como etiam in le celo.
Da nos hodie nostre pan quotidian,
e pardona a nos nostre debitas
como nos pardona a nostre debitores,
e non duce nos in tentation,
sed libera nos de malo.
Nostre Patre, qui es in le celos,
que tu nomine sia sanctificate;
que tu regno veni;
que tu voluntate sia facite
super le terra como etiam in le celo.
Da nos hodie nostre pan quotidian,
e pardona a nos nostre debitas
como nos pardona a nostre debitores,
e non duce nos in tentation,
sed libera nos de malo.
I'm hoping so. I'd be lying if i said i wasn't learning them primarily for the income, but learning X number of languages is still learning X languages, I suppose.
If everything else falls through--the rap career, the music store, becoming a manager, running a studio, et al--I want to be a substitute language teacher. Spanish was about the first thing that made me give a shit about school, the reason i'm in college right now
If everything else falls through--the rap career, the music store, becoming a manager, running a studio, et al--I want to be a substitute language teacher. Spanish was about the first thing that made me give a shit about school, the reason i'm in college right now
