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Che Hermez
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Posted - 2005.01.12 12:08:00 -
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l33t sp34k! is teh woR57zor!
PER SCIENCIA AD ASTRA
ETHICS IS JUST ANOTHER EXCUSE TO STAY WEAK
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Danton Marcellus
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Posted - 2005.01.12 12:12:00 -
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 Originally by: Estios
I reckon Dolphin would be pretty hard to grasp
Dolphin ain't hard, it's all peace, love and understanding, the only thing ****ing dolphins off is the troubles they go through trying to smoke a 'herring'.
Basque is it hard due to it being unique or for it having advanced grammar?
Convert Stations
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Latex Mistress
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Posted - 2005.01.12 15:00:00 -
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Originally by: Stormking
Japanese is actually relatively easy as far as the spoken element goes - but it's one of the most difficult, if not *the* most difficult, as far as the written system goes.
So desu ne.
I don't know so many people point to Japanese as "the most difficult language". I usually ask them if they'd ever been there. After year two, I was conversational (with classes), after year six... I was a kind of circus attraction: "Oh, look at the fluent foreigner - isn't he adorable!?!?"
If ECM is an act of aggression, why am I not on kill mails?
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Haxar
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Posted - 2005.01.12 15:16:00 -
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Originally by: Latex Mistress
[...] "Oh, look at the fluent foreigner - isn't he adorable!?!?"
But still a Gaijin. 
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Scroto Baggins
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Posted - 2005.01.12 20:12:00 -
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Lisp :) Actually, the basics are pretty simple, but true mastery takes some effort. Perl is the same way. There's simple, commoner Perl... Then there's guru-Perl.
Depends on the scope of what you're trying to write, of course. Java is a fairly simple language, but a 100000 line Java project is infinitely less complex to understand than 100000 lines of x86 ASM code.
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Nafri
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Posted - 2005.01.13 19:27:00 -
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must be the guys over in finnland
isolated language with nearly no connections to other languages
english is pretty easy to learn, your times are simple, its generally a very simple language imho.
alone this you = "Du" or "Sie" is strange, most languages make a difference when your talk to friends or strangers, or olders or youngers.
Asking someone "Kannst du mir bitte den weg sagen?" is unfriendly
"K÷nnen sie mir bitte den weg sagen" is the right version to ask a stranger
or this simple past thing: most words just ending with "-ed"
Wanna fly with me?
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Benedictus Setaro
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Posted - 2005.01.13 22:29:00 -
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Strangely enough quite a few English people tend to use a plural 'you' in the form of 'yous' or 'youse' depending on how you want to transcribe it. Either way it rhymes with 'use'.
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skilz
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Posted - 2005.01.14 03:11:00 -
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I think Assembly (ASM) or C is pretty hard 
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Hafthor
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Posted - 2005.01.15 08:47:00 -
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The more variety of phonetics in your native language the easier it is to learn any other language. Writing is another thing entirely.
I'm Icelandic (pale and blond on top of that) but when I lived in Denmark I got repeatedly asked if I was Spanish. Apparently Icelandic has that RR sound that people identify as Spanish. I've also found it much easier to repeat tongue tying tricks from other languages than foreigners trying the Icelandic ones. I've always contributed this to the fact that Icelandic has a bit more phonetic variety than most languages I'm familiar with.
As for which language is hardest to learn, hardest one I've ever tried was Chinese where "a" can mean five different things depending on your tone. I'd love to try out some of those African clickity click ones, don't think I'd be very successful there either. 
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Weco
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Posted - 2005.01.15 17:33:00 -
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Originally by: Vegeta
You don't know what grammar is until you've learned Icelandic.
Nah, just take a swedish word and put "us" in the end of it and voila, you have icelandic :P
I'd have to go for the asian languages as to be the most different and probably the hardest to learn. Since they dont have any letters, now thats some wicked grammar. 
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