From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!! Date: 1997/11/19 Message-ID: <64vs87$1ms@corn.cso.niu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 290858376 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456A374.5BF2@public.hz.zj.cn> <347067B8.46@lysator.liu.se> <64qllr$c45@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> <3471428A.6193@erdw.ethz.ch> <64sql2$k0@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> <64suum$5oo$1@weber.videotron.net> Reply-To: system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu Organization: N.Ill.U. Physics Dept. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "John Rickard" wrote: >Davide Bionda wrote: >>"John Rickard" wrote: >why should I waste my time RE learning a language I have understood >and spoke since around 1-3 years of age? >>>there are not more chinese speakers than english. >>>if you have not relized it but the english language it the most >>>widely used language as a standard. why? cause us americans want >>>it that way ;) >>Then you should try to learn it ;-) You know, when I first read this, I thought John was having a bit of fun and was a bit taken aback by the responses he got, then I read his reply to a comment from one of our French-Canadian collegues and I started to understand... ================================================================================ "John Rickard" >J-S Payette wrote: >>I've never learn english and I talk better than you. >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^And you should so you can learn proper >vocabulary skills. Given the construction of the above sentence/phrase I wouldn't be so quick to be critical of others' language abilities. At least you're capitalizing. >>Now about Pascal and C let me tell you that in some case (strings and file >>manipulation, most object handling) Pascal is way better and I know both >>language (unlike you!!) >And how do you know what languages I know? I don't know about languages, but given the amount of formatting I had to do to make this message legible I would say you don't know much about newsreaders. >So if you want a fight about who knows more we can skip the whole >programming aspect and take this a intelectual level and have a >battle of the wits. And I can promise you I will win. I think that is best left without explicit comment :) >- >Damn near any idiot can program. But it takes a Genius to become >successful at it. >- >hardly, I can prove rather easily that I can speak my language better >than you. I mean I have only been speaking it since I have been able >to speak. Please go find a style book and look up continuity and making transitions. >As for talking better than me... Try reading you message and tell me >you don't talk like a 12 year old. Try rereading your messages and understand that: 1) you can't take a joke, 2) your intuitive grammer sucks 3) some people might think your emotional age matches Jean's skills at his 2nd written/spoken language. Chill, Robert Morphis@physics.niu.edu Real Women change tires abuse@uu.net postmaster@uu.net Real Men change diapers security@uu.net