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fiveeagles
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Vancouver
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 Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 11:10 pm Post subject: Bill O'reilly vs Olbermann, the gloves come out!! |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiFHIEd3sk4
After watching the whole video, both sides make me sick. On one side, you have the rabbid commentator who is ready to powerslam any one who talks against him and then the sneering, mocking, arrogant cheese head Olbermann.
Is this really what we have come too? God help us. |
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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 11:44 pm Post subject: Re: Bill O'reilly vs Olbermann, the gloves come out!! |
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| fiveeagles wrote: |
. . . the sneering, mocking, arrogant cheese head Olbermann. |
I've never seen Olberman looking like this:
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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You have not watched the late-night version, though.
He does. He puts cheese on his head, R.S. |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 3:18 am Post subject: |
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fiveeagles:
Thanks for the public service announcement. I missed that video clip. Sad indictment of these days, indeed.
By the way, where did you get that signature of yours? That's a great quote.
P.S. Do you (or anyone else here) happen to know what the name of that war story of the unit in Iraq is titled? It's been showing on one of the Korean movie channels but I always miss the beginning. It is very timely and well done. Is it "Fort Apache" or something? |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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fiveeagles
Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Vancouver
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:38 am Post subject: |
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| stevemcgarrett wrote: |
fiveeagles:
Thanks for the public service announcement. I missed that video clip. Sad indictment of these days, indeed.
By the way, where did you get that signature of yours? That's a great quote.
P.S. Do you (or anyone else here) happen to know what the name of that war story of the unit in Iraq is titled? It's been showing on one of the Korean movie channels but I always miss the beginning. It is very timely and well done. Is it "Fort Apache" or something? |
Ok, I looked it up for you.
Which language has a wider vocabulary?
I'd like to know which of these two languages has a wider vocabulary (bigger number of words): Spanish or English.
Thank you.
Clara Roca [email protected]
In terms of root words, English is almost certainly larger, because for so many things we have both a Latin root (often via old French) and a Germanic root (usually via Anglo-Saxon). Spanish, of course, has somewhat more Latin roots than we have, and probably a thousand or so Arabic roots (more if you count place names), and both languages probably have a few thousand miscellaneous borrowings, but I'm pretty sure English would end up with 30-30% more roots than Spanish. But I'm no linguist: could someone more expert weigh in? -- Jmabel | Talk 07:14, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
Well, I'm a linguist, but I must say I've never understood how to go about answering this sort of question, or the usefulness of asking it. Do we count every word that has ever appeared in print in either language? Do we include those insanely long chemical names? Or do we only include words that ordinary people use in everday conversation? And what about derived forms? Do we count house and houses as one word or two? Do we count sing, sang, sung, sings, and singing as five different words? If we do, Spanish probably has more words since its verbs are more highly inflected than English (cantar, canto, cantas, canta, cantamos, cant�is, cantan, cantaba, cant�, cantar�, cantando, cantado, etc. etc. etc.) And even if we say inflectional endings like those don't make separate words, what about derivational affixes? You can stick -ness onto almost any adjective in English to make a noun; are redness and shyness to be counted separately from red and shy? And so on. My professional opinion is the question is unanswerable. --Angr/tɔk tə mi 07:40, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
Angr makes some very interesting points there, without even mentioning the varying ability of a language to create compounds. Perhaps the question is really about the variety of possible idioms, nuances, and synonyms in a language. I once heard that a thesaurus had not been found necessary in any language other than English, but I don't know whether that's true. Shantavira 08:15, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
I don't think it is. I have Duden's Die sinn- und sachverwandten W�rter, which is essentially a German thesaurus. --Angr/tɔk tə mi 08:52, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
English, and the other Germanic languages, certainly have the potential to have the largest list of roots. This is due to a phenomenon called phonesthemia due to which one-syllable roots are motivated by family resemblance, e.g. glitter, gloss, glow, glimmer, etc. Scholars have estimated that about 50% of all one syllable English words are motivated in this way. This gives the English language the potential of having a very large inventory of roots. AFAIK, Romance languages largely lack this phenomenon, although, it is not completely absent.--Wiglaf 16:57, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
"English doesn't borrow words from other languages; it stalks them down dark alleys, knocks them over the head, and rifles their pockets for loose adjectives." -- unknown
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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igotthisguitarbutIcan'tlearntomakeittalk:
Your avatar would suggest that you long for self-exile like bin Laden. Sounds like a plan. Send us a postcard from the wilderness once in a while, for old time's sake, ya know.
And if you really think Bush will be subject to impeachment proceedings, then you're sniffing more glue than usual. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| stevemcgarrett wrote: |
igotthisguitarbutIcan'tlearntomakeittalk:
Your avatar would suggest that you long for self-exile like bin Laden. Sounds like a plan.
Send us a postcard from the wilderness once in a while, for old time's sake, ya know.
And if you really think Bush will be subject to impeachment proceedings, then you're
sniffing more glue than usual. |
MOCKINGBIRD!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird |
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