Re: "Usefull languages"

En réponse à J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...>:

>
>     ::confused look, then mischievious grin::
>         a.> I found it via the URL you gave me.
:))) (Damn expressions! :)) )

>         b.> IMHO it is a better constitution than most - including the
> American one. I really like the fact that the Dutch constitution was
> actually
> created by the input of the people living in the Netherlands rather than
> just
> an elitist cabal of politicians, capitalists, technocrats,
> militarists,
> police, priests, etc. creating a constitution behind closed doors and
> then
> foisting it on "their" people and saying: "we know what is best for you,
> so
> stop whining about 'democracy' and shutup."
>
Hehe, something quite impossible in Holland :)) (I mean the "shut up"
part :)) ).

>
>     LMAO being a person with A.D.D. (Attention Deficit Disorder,
> formerly
> known as "hyperactivity" ;) , I have always been easily distracted. So
> as
> soon as I could read, I was reading EVERYTHING in sight. I had to
> learn
> pretty damn quickly to read either softly or silently ;)
I actually never went through a stage that I had to read loudly. In fact, I
knew how to read years before I learnt to write (and I learnt to write at 6).

>     BTW I learned to read from the _Curious George_ series and
> Sendak's
> _Where the Wild Things Are_. My Mum thinks this explains a lot about my
> early
> childhood development and core-character.
>
Well, according to my Mum, I learnt to read on bottles of orange juice :)) . Or
at least I was able to read them already when I was 4 :)) . I still remember
distinctively reading (silently) a text about clowns in kindergarten (I was 5
or so). It seems we got reading lessons pretty soon in my town :)) (and even
then I was faster, at least according to my parents :)) ).

>
>     One of my favourite items in my linguistics collection is a brochure
> that
> came with my French press for coffee-making :) The brochure is in 12
> languages! (Mostly European languages, but Japanese, Russian, Korean
> and
> Chinese are also represented).
>
Like on Kinder Surprise IIRC :)) .

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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