<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 October 2012 23:46, David Mercer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmercer@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmercer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
>From personal experience, I cannot imagine a language superior to English. </blockquote><div><br>What. A. Bunch. Of. Pure. Twaddle.<br><br>I can't even <b>imagine</b> the mentality it would take to hold that view while working in a field whose foundation is formal logic and maths. (Or has "proof by lack of imagination" reached beyond its roots as a logical fallacy somewhere?)<br>
<br>And to hold English, of all languages, up as the ultimate in superior languages goes far beyond ignorance and far beyond arrogance.<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I took French for 7 years and still can't speak a lick of it. Then I tried my hand at Mandarin, and the result was a mixture of French and Mandarin, since my brain has room in it for only two languages: English and "Other". Now someone wants to throw Hungarian comments into the mix? My brain is about to explode...<br>
</blockquote><div><br>So your mental limitations are grounds to do everything in your language. Got it. (You do realize that <b>retarded</b> people—and I mean <i>clinically retarded</i> here, not Internet retarded—in multilingual environments can speak more than one language, right?)<br>
<br>There's something verging on the sociopathic here. "I can't learn other languages. It's too hard for my brain. So I think the 6.5 <b>billion</b> other people whose first language isn't English should be the ones who learn another language." Your lack of empathy given your own experiences in learning a foreign language is simply astonishing to the point of being pathological. Seriously, dude, look at what you've said above and ask yourself why it is that it's OK for you to force others to learn your language when you've <b>just acknowledged how hard it is to learn a foreign language!</b><br>
<br></div></div>-- <br>"Perhaps people don't believe this, but throughout all of the discussions of entering China our focus has really been what's best for the Chinese people. It's not been about our revenue or profit or whatnot."<br>
--Sergey Brin, demonstrating the emptiness of the "don't be evil" mantra.<br>