Chapel The Evergreen
Gung-Ho Gun

What I really need to do is get on Skype and talk to some people who speak some actual Chinese.

Do you want me to send you my Anki deck with lines from the Iliad on one side and translations on the other? That's my primary tool for learning ancient Greek. So far, I can pretty much just read the first 50 or so lines of the Iliad, but my Ancient Greek is still weak. It's stronger than my Chinese, though, which is pretty much limited to a few set phrases.

This blog is what I use for inspiration:

http://www.fluentin3months.com/

Dude knows 8 different languages, learned them all by simply going out and talking to people. He has a good attitude, and reminds me that learning a language really is not that hard, you just have to put a little effort into it.

The other day, I heard someone complaining about how difficult English was. Of course, I responded "No, you know what's the most difficult language? Ancient Greek." Then I explained that every word could have hundreds of possible forms. He looked at me like it was the craziest thing in the world, to know a bit of Ancient Greek. I think it took him a while to recover, but when he did he said "Oh, so it's like Chinese?"



Chinese is pretty much the opposite of what Ancient Greek is, it's an analytical language with no conjugation or declensions, many words are one syllable, almost all that aren't are two syllable (really one word and another word next to it to help distinguish meaning from homonyms). I feel kind of sorry for him though, who would expect that they're sitting next to the one guy who knows a little bit of both Ancient Greek and Chinese?

I don't pay attention to ILA or any responses to him.

I suggest that rule in the Announcements section be amended sooner rather than later.

OIC. An ex post facto decision, based no doubt on everyone's friendship with that piece of shit Voltaire.

You mods should be ashamed.

It's still listed as permitted on the announcement thread. And it falls under "someone all of a sudden turned into an asshole when you weren't anticipating them to..."

What about this?

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- Mods can ban users even after threads are created (it's just the way the plugin works). If you forgot about somebody to add to your ban list, or someone signed up a new account to troll you, or someone all of a sudden turned into an asshole when you weren't anticipating them to, just ask us and we will remove them from the thread for you. (Note: we will only take requests from the thread starters)

Please remove Thithicus's posts from my thread and ban him from commenting any further.
The insanity of blaming Islam

Why are you going to have to quit if your boss dies? Is he old?

I suppose you've got to think long term. But your current job does have a lot of sweet perks, like being able to take time off and go on crazy road trips. What'll you be doing in the metallurgical lab?