From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61378
Date: 2008-11-04
> From: Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...>The subjective in Spanish is very easy:
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Scandinavia and the Germanic tribes such as Goths, Vandals, Angli and Saxones.
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 3:15 PM
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick McCallister"
> <gabaroo6958@...>
> >
> >
> > Actually, right now I'm back in the US,
> brainwashing people into speaking
> > Spanish, the One True Language, as opposed those
> lesser, more debased
> > forms of modern Latin.
> >
> > Arnaud, try traveling. Get out of Dogpatch and see the
> world
> >
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>
> To be frank,
>
> Spanish is really awesome,
> with this frightening subjunctive and hundreds of pages of
> rules,
> regular, half-regular, semi-regular according to
> half-non-regular, etc...
> it's worse than French !
> The Parisian suburbs have made that French language
> manageable in the end,
> Even though the Academie has succeeded in making the
> orthographe a heap of
> Latin shit.
>
> If I have to choose,
> I prefer English, no doubt.
> This language had the luck to be far enough from Latin !
> and the luck to be close enough.
>
> Arnaud.
>
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