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  1. jimeve

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    Other than the totally incomprehensible languages, those using different alphabets, I find German amazing forstringingwordstogethertomakeonelongone.
     
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    Hard language to learn.
     
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    It is never a bad day when you learn something new.
     
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    Hmm, I'm not sure I would comprehend/enjoy a conversation with someone speaking Cockney, and I even struggle with making sense of Limburgs (a Dutch dialect in the far south of the Netherlands). Similarly, while my German is pretty much ok, I struggle to have a conversation with my neighbour who speaks Schwitzerdütsch (but not the Zürcher type, a lot harder than that lol).

    As for English being the global language, I blame it on the outcome of that second Dutch-Anglo war, we should have kept Nieuw Amsterdam, even this forum might be in Dutch then :wink:
     
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    I am older than dirt. But I do take an interest in languages as well. Observation does not necessarily mean to see in real time (re: your reference to my being “old” haha), an observation may be made by direct viewing OR, according to various online dictionaries, none of which I suspect would be in your bookmarks file, an observation is “noting a fact or occurrence for some scientific or other special purpose or simply referencing “the information or record secured such an act” (made by someone in prior times). Learn something new today young-un?


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    "Feelings of inferiority by Filipinos, possibly based on occupation by two countries for over 400 years."

    Was a conment of Notmyrealme.

    This made me wonder many times. The Spanish came the first time in the year 1521 (Magellan was a Portuguese though) to the Philippines and they stayed about 300 years. The South America countries were Spanish colonies between 1492 to 1832.
    So what I never understood why the Spanish language vanished in the Philippines whereas all South America countries (except Brasil) chose it as their national language. Could it be there were never as many Spanish here as in South America ?

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