And yet, a Tennessee hilljack can travel to Oz-tralia and communicate with the folks there, despite the fact that he and they pronounce things very differently.
In any case, we have already demonstrated that your original assertion was based on a false premise, so I see no point in continuing this. Have a nice day.
Nothing is pronounceable in English. You basically cannot import any non-English word from any other language and have it sound remotely the same. The set of available sounds is both small and weird.
Bzzzzt, wrong.
In fact, English has a rather high number of phonemes, compared to most languages.
This has made it quite easy for English to adopt words from other languages, which in turn has given English an unusually large lexicon compared to most other languages, as well.
I leave it as an exercise to the reader to look up all the synonyms we have for "dog" in English, and then determine which languages they came from.
Do you really not have anything better to do than sit round waiting for your chance to Diss That Meme! and thereby try to look cool and sophisticated and perhaps even a bit jaded and stuff?
ProTip: It works lots better if your reply is to a post in which the meme is actually misapplied.
Hong Kong is in China, but is not quite like the rest of China.
HK does have free speech and freedom to assemble--I myself have seen Falun Gong open-air meetings there numerous times, with no intervention from the authorities. (I've visited there 4-5 times in the last 7 years.)
The Pledge of Allegiance is not jingoistic in any way. That's some sort of weird European hangup over something that's little different from singing a national anthem.
Bull fucking shit. Anyone who actually grew up in the US knows better than that.
It is jingoistic, nobody else does anything remotely like it, and when you get right down to it, it's weird.
WHAT THE OP SAID: China happens to back a rogue state with nukes and missiles that occasionally saber-rattle about evaporating cities if their extortion demands aren't met.
WHAT YOU ASKED: How is China a "rogue state"?
WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE ASKED: Which "rogue state" is it that China backs?
Americans don't care. Democracy requires intelligence. The increased breeding among fat, smug, anti-intellectual, racist, TV-junk-food-and-monster-truck-engorged white trash is lowering the intelligence of our country.
Who says he had to fly directly to HK from the US?
And in any case, lots of people go to HK for lots of reasons. For example, it's a pretty popular tourist spot. Why should visiting there raise any warning flags? US citizens don't even need a visa--just grab a flight and go, you're good for 90 days. And you do not pass through PRC customs or border controls when you fly in from overseas--HK maintain their own.
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Please don't bother with VLC. You wouldn't enjoy it.
Now you know why I'm considering a switch to Red Flag Linux: I'm hoping that the Chinese backdoors will cancel out the ones from the NSA.
Or at least keep them busy.
No. The sentence is correct as written.
Please stop now.
I've worked (mostly) from home for the last 15 years or so.
Guess what? Deadlines mean exactly the same thing to me as they do to anyone else.
And yet, a Tennessee hilljack can travel to Oz-tralia and communicate with the folks there, despite the fact that he and they pronounce things very differently.
In any case, we have already demonstrated that your original assertion was based on a false premise, so I see no point in continuing this. Have a nice day.
Star Trek meets The Office in "The Naked Policy".
Oh, the horror. The horror...
Stop. Making. Shit. Up.
Who the fuck modded this Insightful??
If you're referring to Monty, he's from Finland.
Nothing is pronounceable in English. You basically cannot import any non-English word from any other language and have it sound remotely the same. The set of available sounds is both small and weird.
Bzzzzt, wrong.
In fact, English has a rather high number of phonemes, compared to most languages.
This has made it quite easy for English to adopt words from other languages, which in turn has given English an unusually large lexicon compared to most other languages, as well.
I leave it as an exercise to the reader to look up all the synonyms we have for "dog" in English, and then determine which languages they came from.
Why smear all the good people who've used and/or worked on MySQL over the years like that?
Say instead, "He's pulled a Widenius," and give credit where actually due.
Do you really not have anything better to do than sit round waiting for your chance to Diss That Meme! and thereby try to look cool and sophisticated and perhaps even a bit jaded and stuff?
ProTip: It works lots better if your reply is to a post in which the meme is actually misapplied.
Teacher really liked you best, didn't she?
Are you nuts?
What he did, is not something benjfowler would do.
TFTFY.
Hong Kong is in China, but is not quite like the rest of China.
HK does have free speech and freedom to assemble--I myself have seen Falun Gong open-air meetings there numerous times, with no intervention from the authorities. (I've visited there 4-5 times in the last 7 years.)
ProTip: Think before you spout.
So I guess marrying that Chinese girl means I'll become a traitor to the US, since she's an "enemy" national?
The US government isn't engaging in economic espionage...
Sez you.
That would be "dead corpse."
No, that would be redundant.
Crackpot or no, you're certainly adept at raising up strawmen.
The Pledge of Allegiance is not jingoistic in any way. That's some sort of weird European hangup over something that's little different from singing a national anthem.
Bull fucking shit. Anyone who actually grew up in the US knows better than that.
It is jingoistic, nobody else does anything remotely like it, and when you get right down to it, it's weird.
WHAT THE OP SAID: China happens to back a rogue state with nukes and missiles that occasionally saber-rattle about evaporating cities if their extortion demands aren't met.
WHAT YOU ASKED: How is China a "rogue state"?
WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE ASKED: Which "rogue state" is it that China backs?
ANSWER: North Korea.
PROTIP: Not all verbs are the same.
Don't you think that maybe, just maybe, the Red Menace thing is getting a bit long in the tooth?
we're not talking a copyright of a book, we're talking...
copyright of a...
(I'll let you finish. Go ahead, shill-boy, we're waiting.)
Americans don't care. Democracy requires intelligence. The increased breeding among fat, smug, anti-intellectual, racist, TV-junk-food-and-monster-truck-engorged white trash is lowering the intelligence of our country.
TFTFY.
Who says he had to fly directly to HK from the US?
And in any case, lots of people go to HK for lots of reasons. For example, it's a pretty popular tourist spot. Why should visiting there raise any warning flags? US citizens don't even need a visa--just grab a flight and go, you're good for 90 days. And you do not pass through PRC customs or border controls when you fly in from overseas--HK maintain their own.
Yes, we have discerned that you are an old-time Red-baiter.
That's not a very helpful worldview, given the current century and all.