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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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 Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:16 pm Post subject: An epiphany I had recentwise |
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| What governs language? Is it tial to some unknown law, or, is it arbitraness? Is language pervaded? If so, to what extent? We are fortunile to have a language, the English language, that is so flexish that at any given moment, a new word can just �pop up�. I mean, given the right circumstence, a word can be created and used within a community in a matter of weeks! Ah, what a language we have; so beautative, so moldible. |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: city of paper
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I hope that you're not going to start claiming that your frequent malaproprisms and other linguistic gaffes are actually attempts at coining new words. |
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kimchi story
Joined: 23 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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You say potato, I say...pomme de terre?
While the faculty for language is universal among people, language itself (the specific designation of certain sound/images to represent a specific thing) is arbitrary and formed by consensus. I like to think that anyway. |
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Hosub
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Apples of the Earth..damn so much better than "Po-Tae-toe" ;[ |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Whatever it is that you're reading, you haven't understood it fully yet... |
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PimpofKorea
Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Location: Dealing in high quality imported English
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I only love swear words..and the only creativity I possess is the ability to concoct new swear words and constantly reinvent new ones. Actually when i study Korean..the only words I can remember the easiest are insults or swears....thats the stuff I started learning when I got here fresh off the raft. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
| I hope that you're not going to start claiming that your frequent malaproprisms and other linguistic gaffes are actually attempts at coining new words. |
Nope. Not trying to invent new words. Just felt like using some malapropisms in a different way (i.e. take the same suffix meaning of a different derivational morpheme from the same family and apply it in a way that is syntactically correct but semantically wrong). |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:45 am Post subject: |
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| Attempting a cubanics paradigm shift through sheer force of will and spastic use of the dictionary? Wouldn't it just be easier to learn English? You were hired to teach the language, weren't you? |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| Wouldn't it just be easier to learn English? |
En vez de ser un amo en una lengua, prefiero ser avanzado en tres lenguas. �Me entiende? �Hay, que tipo de preguntas es esto? Por supuesto entiendes. Tu eres el flotaro! |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| Please refer to my final sentence. |
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Rey Mysterio 619
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
Location: 619 Connect
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:46 am Post subject: |
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| cubanlord wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
| Wouldn't it just be easier to learn English? |
En vez de ser un amo en una lengua, prefiero ser avanzado en tres lenguas. �Me entiende? �Hay, que tipo de preguntas es esto? Por supuesto entiendes. Tu eres el flotaro! |
Wow, you speak Spanish. Congrats mate - real big accomplishment, learning an easy language such as that. What next - you're going to tell us how to say 'thank you' in Japanese? |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Rey Mysterio 619 wrote: |
| cubanlord wrote: |
| flotsam wrote: |
| Wouldn't it just be easier to learn English? |
En vez de ser un amo en una lengua, prefiero ser avanzado en tres lenguas. �Me entiende? �Hay, que tipo de preguntas es esto? Por supuesto entiendes. Tu eres el flotaro! |
Wow, you speak Spanish. Congrats mate - real big accomplishment, learning an easy language such as that. What next - you're going to tell us how to say 'thank you' in Japanese? |
당신은 이 언어를 좋아할는가 것입니다?
No sea celoso. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh man, are the socks are coming out of the bureau these days. Aigoo. |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| Oh man, are the socks are coming out of the bureau these days. Aigoo. |
llol.  Dude, I was thinking the same thing! lol.
Yes, I was hired to teach EFL (though...I have been working hard to improve my English skills).  |
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