Language, do you speak it?

[Cramulus]

The Texas Board of Ed made us take the AAVE sections out of our textbooks before we could sell them in TX. 

[Phox]

The Texas Board of Ed made us take the AAVE sections out of our textbooks before we could sell them in TX. 

[LMNO]

Whut's AAVE?
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[AFK]

Elvish.

Thank you, a thank you very much. 

Quenya or Sindarin?

Black Speech baby!

[Cramulus]

Q:

Whut's AAVE?
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A:

Black Speech baby!

ETA: "Ebonics"

[Jenne]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.

I disagree. It's inflected, but it's not terribly more difficult than Spanish.

Speaking as a former French linguistics major, yes, it's about the same to learn as Spanish.  But not nearly as useful living in the US.

Jenne,

Who's used French in 1) Colombia 2) Tahiti and 3) Europe (of course), but lives in what used to be MEXICO.

[Jenne]

latin is super useful because it boosts your English vocabulary. but it is a very difficult language to learn.


Spanish is probably the most useful, if only to understand what the people at the bodega are saying about you.

Agreed on both accounts. However, I have a personal... erm... we'll call it a "dislike," for the spanish language. Hearing someone speak spanish is like fingernails on a chalk board for me...

Really? 

That's interesting.  Wonder why.  I mean, this was the same reasoning I used to take French in h.s. and college, and now I sincerely regret my choice.

[LMNO]

Five bucks it was an ex-girlfriend who was latino.



Or, he got jumped by the Latin Kings.

[Cain]

I found French slightly more difficult than Spanish, actually.  Not much, but I noticed a definite difference in learning them both.

Incidentally, I suggested Indonesian because it was designed to be easy to learn, because it was invented after the country was granted self-rule, to give a common tongue to all the inhabitants of thousands of disparate islands, many with different languages.

[AFK]

I didn't have a choice in high school when it came to taking a language.  It was French or French.  And of course, it was French French, which was fine and dandy until you tried to use it to speak to all of the Canadian French people living in town.  

The pointing, and laughing.....

[Suu]

French sounds like ducks quacking to me. I don't hear the "language of Love" I hear the language of Quebecois trying to get a free meal in the United States.

[LMNO]

I found French slightly more difficult than Spanish, actually.  Not much, but I noticed a definite difference in learning them both.

Incidentally, I suggested Indonesian because it was designed to be easy to learn, because it was invented after the country was granted self-rule, to give a common tongue to all the inhabitants of thousands of disparate islands, many with different languages.

Which brings to mind... ESPERANTO!

[Cain]

I found French slightly more difficult than Spanish, actually.  Not much, but I noticed a definite difference in learning them both.

Incidentally, I suggested Indonesian because it was designed to be easy to learn, because it was invented after the country was granted self-rule, to give a common tongue to all the inhabitants of thousands of disparate islands, many with different languages.

Which brings to mind... ESPERANTO!

Except some people actually speak Indonesian.  I mean, people with jobs and who get laid.

[LMNO]

Yeah, but this is Cuddlefish we're talking about here...

[AFK]

French sounds like ducks quacking to me. I don't hear the "language of Love" I hear the language of Quebecois trying to get a free meal in the United States.

Canadian French does have more of a blue-collar lilt to it compared to French French.