I come from a land down under, where beer does flow and men chunder

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Going to replace the music soon, so if you still wanted any from the last post, grab it. Other than that, not much interesting to say. But there’s a lot of it!

Comments

[zenkatsuo]

After all my tales of woe about the difficulty of english it probably won't fly to claim it's not such a hard language to master. German is much tougher despite its similarity. Just having some grasp of Rammstein lyrics is cause for celebration.

...Have you ever seen Due South? Or The Invisible Man? Uum.

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Heh. I hope I master my English someday; it'd be kind of sad if I didn't seeing as it's pretty much the only language I speak fluently! I think the issue is, as some folks above have pointed out, that English is still very much a language without clear rules, and is constantly changing anyway, which is why I think it's got a good stake on being one of the difficult ones. But of course, being who I am, I've automatically got a bias to my point of view.

Hmm. I know vaguely of Due South but I've never seen it; and I'm wholly unfamiliar with the INvisible Man, unfortunately. Pick something else?

[zenkatsuo]

People wouldn't know I study general linguistics if I didn't scream curses at the Dutch every time the english language bites me in the ass. And with a lot more martial vigor than I curse the Japanese people for incorporating all the difficult gay kanji into their writing system from the Chinese.
Those Dutch were a sick bunch.
I am, of course, too biased, but some linguist just refuted the hardness of finnish as a national myth, which is a damn dirty lie.

I'm not sure if I should be happy or sorry for you for not seeing them. They are both very gay and full of crack. The Invisible Man I recommend from the bottom of my heart.
I don't suppose you've seen any Black Adder... Ack, as a rule, if it's somewhat stupid or gay (and I've seen it) I most probably love it. Hey, what about JAG?

[thorne_scratch]

I scream curses at the Dutch just for fun! Well, no, not really. And yeah, I side with Chinese over Japanese; I'm sort of obligated to.

I'll check 'em both out. I have seen some JAG and Black Adder, but I don't really have any ships from there or any real opinions. Bother. Uh. Hmm. Maybe we should try movies. Or books. But I'm sure there's a tv show we've both seen that I can talk about. I mean, if worst comes to worst, I'll talk Oz or something.

[zenkatsuo]

All Dutch women prance around topless, men make out in parks and, if you want something else, there's cheap beer and fluffy, smiling sheep bouncing on technicolor grass. My theory is that people scream curses at the Dutch out of envy! And naturally none of my preconceptions about the Dutch come from actual experience.

Indeed, I'm not entirely sure one could (or would want to)have ships from Black Adder. Um, I'll throw something in the air, like movie-verse X-Men, The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett (I sincerely recommend these books if you haven't had a chance to read them), there's always HP and Oz (I honestly had a memory lapse about there being other characters besides Beecher and Keller...). I wish I had a proper fandom I could be gung-ho about. Or you could just tell me to go hell.

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Man, after all you've said, now I really kind of want to visit the Netherlands. Shit

[zenkatsuo]

I think one of my old friends actually became Dutch from living in Netherlands too long.

Thank you. This was very interesting. And also for not telling me to go to hell.