Avian Influenza Virus (6 Viewers)

[/usr/bin]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++


You know, everytime you say or think that, I would like you to consider that when we post in English; we do not only have to think and write in another language besides our mother tongue, but we also have to adjust our choice of words and interpretations to that of the American culture, due to the large amount of Americans here (I'm not saying that's a bad thing; if you all had been British, we would've had the same phenomenon, only with British culture - it is natural for the behaviour of a group of people to adjust to the the culture of the language that is spoken, as long as there is a fair amount of native-speakers from a certain culture in that group).

It takes a big effort to do that, and clearly from many a discussion I've had in this place; it's quite impossible to make myself understood the way I would like to, largly because I struggle to do so in any other way but the Dutch way.

It's not just about language. Remember that please, even though I can see it would annoy you to see posts in a language you don't understand.

I do the opposite.. I'm more fluent in English than in Arabic, sadly.. :undecide:

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[JCK]

++ [ originally posted by Nawaf ] ++


I do the opposite.. I'm more fluent in English than in Arabic, sadly.. :undecide:

I think we all are, not in the spoken dialect (which cannot be written properly though)

 

[/usr/bin]

++ [ originally posted by Jeeks ] ++


I think we all are, not in the spoken dialect (which cannot be written properly though)

Yeah.. though I know a few people my age who are amazingly fluent in Arabic, English, French, and Italian.. :dazed:

 

[Slagathor]

French... the hell would you need that for?

 

[JCK]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
French... the hell would you need that for?

I gave up on French 2 years ago. Good thing I still know a bit to manage in a French speaking country.

 

[Slagathor]

France?

 

[JCK]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
France?

And parts of Belgium.

 

[/usr/bin]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
French... the hell would you need that for?

The people in question have been born in Jordan.. A large population of the Shaam countries (the countries around Lebanon) speak very fluent french..

 

[Slagathor]

++ [ originally posted by Nawaf ] ++
The people in question have been born in Jordan.. A large population of the Shaam countries (the countries around Lebanon) speak very fluent french..

Why?

++ [ originally posted by Jeeks ] ++
And parts of Belgium.

Nuh, don't need it there. Not if you speak Dutch, anyway.

 

[JCK]

++ [ originally posted by Nawaf ] ++


The people in question have been born in Jordan.. A large population of the Shaam countries (the countries around Lebanon) speak very fluent french..

It is because they were colonizing us, not Palestine anyway as they were colonized by the British.

 

[Slagathor]

++ [ originally posted by Jeeks ] ++
It is because they were colonizing us.

Oohh. Really? The French enforced their language too? Funny, thought only the British and Spanish did that :undecide:

 

[JCK]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++

Nuh, don't need it there. Not if you speak Dutch, anyway.

English will do in Brussels, but it is nice to use the French.

 

[/usr/bin]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++


Why?

See Jack's answer..

 

[JCK]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++


Oohh. Really? The French enforced their language too? Funny, thought only the British and Spanish did that :undecide:

Well Erik, there is something other than enforcing the language. Schools and other organizations were improved at these times.

Then the universities that were founded in Lebanon (the best in the region) were founded by French missionaries.

Nowadays the country is almost divided in two parts, one is French speaking and the other is English.

The schools teach all the subjects in either English or French (depending on the school), except for the Arabic language and literature

 

[Slagathor]

++ [ originally posted by Jeeks ] ++
Well Erik, there is something other than enforcing the language. Schools and other organizations were improved at these times.

Then the universities that were founded in Lebanon (the best in the region) were founded by French missionaries.

Nowadays the country is almost divided in two parts, one is French speaking and the other is English.

The schools teach all the subjects in either English or French (depending on the school), except for the Arabic language and literature

Kinda sucks... lingual divisions are so often the roots to massive problems.

 

[/usr/bin]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++


Kinda sucks... lingual divisions are so often the roots to massive problems.

Yeah.. The world would be much better if we ALL could speak the same language..



.....Gibberish anyone?

 

[mikhail]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++
Kinda sucks... lingual divisions are so often the roots to massive problems.

Yep. It boggles the mind to see people calling for a revival of their language. I'm sure there are other examples, but I get to see the pro-Irish morons at work. As of recently, every document the EU produces has to be in Irish as well as the familiar English, French, German, Spanish... Lithuanian, Czech, etc. This is in spite of the fact that there isn't a single example in the country any more of a person who can speak Irish but not English. The translation of documents is done for openness and transparency (which the EU is sadly lacking in), not promoting a dead language at the expense of tax-payers everywhere. .

 

[JCK]

++ [ originally posted by Erik ] ++


Kinda sucks... lingual divisions are so often the roots to massive problems.

We are talking second language here, not a lingual division.

We all speak the spoken Lebanese, we all know Arabic (to a certain extent, I just got a headache thinking about it) and we know at least one other language (French or English).

French being the more popular, but French schools teach English as a third language and English schools teach French as a third language. I didn't like the third language But later on when I joined university, I got to be friends with French-educated poeple and thus started to improve what I have studied in school, until I gave up.

 

[Cronios]

++ [ originally posted by AtotheB ] ++


Can u pleaz, say tha t, agian pleaz?

Thats odd,he didnt replied yet,
i thought he did it, just to be asked for...

 

[Cronios]

++ [ originally posted by Don Bes ] ++
well, its official in romania now

$hit, exactly when KFC brought the "mexican twister" here in Romania:down: