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Saul Luizaga wrote:
> This is just what I needed, thanks, I'm taking English classes,
Congrats. I have a terrible time with foreign languages. I had to cheat to
even pass French class in high school. (altho I was surprised how much came
back to me 30 years later when I visited France.)
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I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Darren New wrote:
> http://phd.pp.ru/Texts/fun/english-poem.txt
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Most excellent!
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Darren New wrote:
> Saul Luizaga wrote:
>> This is just what I needed, thanks, I'm taking English classes,
>
> Congrats. I have a terrible time with foreign languages. I had to cheat
> to even pass French class in high school. (altho I was surprised how
> much came back to me 30 years later when I visited France.)
>
Then you are not far from understanding Spanish, French is a brother of
Spanish and AFAIK also English, having relatively common origin.
You have a good memory then.
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From: Saul Luizaga
Subject: Re: And here a youtube version for foreigners like me...
Date: 20 Oct 2009 20:46:08
Message: <4ade59d0$1@news.povray.org>
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TC wrote:
> After trying to get my tongue untangled,
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> (which out of my mouth now dangled),
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> On to YouTube did I hie,
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> And behold, there did espy:
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> A young maiden, bright and fair,
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> With golden shimmer in her hair,
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> Undauntedly she offered battle,
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> Against the poem she'd test her mettle,
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> And victorious she has been,
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> A true pronunciation queen.
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1spqX4sIDo
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In deed very good, and is more help to me, thanks.
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Saul Luizaga schrieb:
> Then you are not far from understanding Spanish, French is a brother of
> Spanish and AFAIK also English, having relatively common origin.
Well, /part/ of English is a brother to French; some other part is
brother to German, and yet some other is brother to Danish, Irish or Welsh.
The British Isles, despite their geographic isolation, have had their
share of (successful) invasions and occupations, making English a
hodgepodge of languages: To the originally Celtic-speaking population
(being the root of Welsh and Breton), the Romans brought Latin, the
Angles, Saxons and Jutes contributed Germanic languages, the Scots
(which were originally of Irish origin) added Gaelic, the Danes brought
another Germanic language, and the Normans introduced French. It appears
that it was not until medieval times that English became anything close
to a stable language.
Western (left of the Rhine) and mediterranean continental Europe, on the
other hand, saw a long Roman occupation, leaving a strong Latin
footprint in all the languages, that dominates over all the other
influences these languages have assimilated over time (be it Germanic
languages in France and Spain during the Migration Period, or Arabic in
Spain during Moorish occupation, or the original native languages spoken
before the Roman occupation).
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Interesting, I knew little about it but this clarifies things, thanks.
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> http://phd.pp.ru/Texts/fun/english-poem.txt
Sedulously eschew obfuscatory and tautologous hyperverbosity, prolixity
and sesquipedalian loquaciousness, espouse elucidation.
--
- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
>> http://phd.pp.ru/Texts/fun/english-poem.txt
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> Sedulously eschew obfuscatory and tautologous hyperverbosity, prolixity
> and sesquipedalian loquaciousness, espouse elucidation.
>
I actually know what most of those words mean. Other than prolixity and
sedulously.
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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> >> http://phd.pp.ru/Texts/fun/english-poem.txt
> >
> > Sedulously eschew obfuscatory and tautologous hyperverbosity, prolixity
> > and sesquipedalian loquaciousness, espouse elucidation.
> >
> I actually know what most of those words mean. Other than prolixity and
> sedulously.
I also assume that, unlike me, you know how to pronounce all those words?-)
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Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>> Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
>>>> http://phd.pp.ru/Texts/fun/english-poem.txt
>>> Sedulously eschew obfuscatory and tautologous hyperverbosity, prolixity
>>> and sesquipedalian loquaciousness, espouse elucidation.
>>>
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>> I actually know what most of those words mean. Other than prolixity and
>> sedulously.
>
> I also assume that, unlike me, you know how to pronounce all those words?-)
>
Indubitably ;)
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Best Regards,
Stephen
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