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tonality presents special challenges in learning eastern/asian languages

yeah, and a few hundred dialects. I assume the thread originator knows whether he is learning Mandarin or Cantonese.

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

deep thoughts and Virendra7, like oil and water, mutually exclusive

Pay your bills on time and you shouldn't have too much of a problem. Works better than indignancy. Except when there is a snafu, and a burden of prooving innocence to get it corrected.

diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy"... until you find a rock

A Committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

Well, it's fun music to play (at least on guitar), and there are still a few songs that get my blood pumping ("Take your Whiskey Home", "Meanstreets", "Eruption"), but the hits are over-played, and getting old for me.

I dunno why. He seems to have veto bug now.

I suspect Bush will veto it.

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It's easier to learn a 2nd foreign language once you've learned your first. Also, it is easier to learn a language in the same family then one in a totally different one. Chinese is one of the more difficult ones for an English-speaker to learn, along with Arabic. It also helps to have a decent understanding of grammatical concepts, and often you have to learn a foreign language or two to get that since our schools don't do a very good job of it in the states, coupled with the fact that our language is "impoverished" as very weakly inflected.

No, not Chinese, but several other languages. Do you already know a foreign language?

A lot of bands are. The video is not impressive, however.

Either the recording quality sucks or Van Halen sounds like crap.

Don't worry, I'll share one with you.

he wants you. badly. 8D

I will when it comes it's a song... why the big bad middle finger? I know it's a song silly man YOu got the finger cus there is no way to throw horns I thought you thought I was cursing you... by a lightning strike from God or Zeus, or death penalty (that's what the song is about)

yes, child molestation should result in life in prison for one offense, or death for multiple offenses/victims. I can think of almost no worse crime.

I will when it comes it's a song... why the big bad middle finger?

I'd rather live in a society where the known perpetrator is executed than allowed to have children, or to abort them if they are conceived.

Ride the lightning, baby!

excellent. back in form. I especially love the floating, misplaced comma, and the nonterminating ellipses FOLLOWING the question mark.

Please write properly so we can all understand you: blac kwater isar epublican-bac kinreligi ousri ghtfanatics upport inmer cenaryfo rce

Jump into the fire!