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Old 08-14-2006, 06:09 PM
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Matt,

Keep repeating the lie and until it becomes 'true'.

Who's strategy was that?
Yours, apparently. You've brought up this frankly idiotic "is this board a front for the Republican Party" accusation several times.

I wonder why? Maybe if you keep repeating it, some folks will start to believe it?

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Old 08-14-2006, 06:59 PM
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Love in the Time of Cholera is the only Marquez I've ever read, but right now I'm giving "El Hobbit" a try...Tolkein is actually translated in Spanish, hehehh.
Tolkein is translated into everything.

My dad is reading the autobiography of GGM, and he talks about people my grandparents knew...
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Old 08-14-2006, 08:00 PM
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well i have finished 4 years of Latin and the prospect of starting a new language is kind of unnerving.
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Old 08-14-2006, 08:05 PM
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well i have finished 4 years of Latin and the prospect of starting a new language is kind of unnerving.
Dude! If you know latin really well, Spanish, French, Italian, Portugeuse and Romanion should be CAKE!
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Old 08-14-2006, 08:16 PM
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I heard German is one of the most infamous in terms of all the different tenses to know. Though I usppose it would be interesting to learn as it is the stem of which English came.
Yeah, the tenses can be very difficult to learn because you really have to study and memorize it all, there are only a few shortcuts, but I still find English grammar even more difficult.
 

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