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>>> Forget it Chuckie. I don't do pig latin.
>> It's French.
>
> Ya. That's what I said. Pig Latin.
>
>> A) my question was about the meaning of the term " pwned ",
>> which was something that you provided.
>>
>> B) >>Qu'est-ce que c'est que ça ?<< translates to "what"???
>
> What a stupid way to say "what". English is the de facto (like that
> Chuckie?)
> world language.
How do you figure? Numbers?
Tell you what, Mandarin Chinese is what you want to be loocking for.
Also, and much more im****tant, english as monolingua is on the decline.
It should be codified into law and English should be
> made the mandatory world language. It should be illegal to teach any
> other.
Tell you what. 1984 was a long time ago.
Also, the question WHY?
It's not the first time some complete BOZO tried to (or suggested to)
implement such a "law". Find out who that was and see if you think you
are in good company.
>
>> C) Americans are the only people that are proud of their ignorance.
>
> You're just pissed because English is becoming so widespread.
> Dinosaurs like you will soon become extinct.
In fact, english is not "becoming" anything. It is declining.
Also, on a tiny side note (*grin*) you know why it is called "english"
don't you?
>
>
>> (E.g.: it took you more than two centuries to understand the metric
>> measurement system ... even the British were much faster.).
>
> The metric system is gay.
It's logical.
Has some historic errors, but has since been defined and is no longer
dependent on these historical figures. The scale is logical. Decimal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
Same as temperature scales, actually. I know a funny story how this guy
Fahrenheit came up with his scale. You know, it's the only one that
actually makes sense.
(0 degrees: He figured that this one day was as cold as it can possibly
get. 100 degrees: Stuck it under his armpit. Did run a fever that day,
obviously)
Centigrade: Simple. Freeting point and steaming point of water at
sealevel.
Even MORE logical: Kelvin.
0 Kelvin: As cold as it CAN get. Uses the scalea of the centigrade
scale. So, 0 centigrade = roughly 273,3 kelvin.
In this country, we still use some figures not from the International
System of Units. But eventually, we will. We still, for example, measure
blood sugar in grams/ml.
(And not in mmol/l)
Same for hemoglobin. gram/l and not mmol/l. Which REALLY was a surprise
for me when I first was told the hemoglobin of a patient.
So, while english may well be the language of science today (and it is)
it is not set in stone that it forever will be.
Tokay
--
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is
what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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