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Offline Corsair

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Arabic: The new Russian?
on: June 16, 2004, 11:45:25 pm
Ahlan habibis. Ana adroos arabi.
Yeah, I'm spending the summer at a university learning Arabic. Coincidentally, there was this article in The New York Times yesterday.
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Less than a year after the Soviet Union launched a satellite named Sputnik in October 1957, America answered with a counterstrike. It was a piece of legislation, the National Defense Education Act, which aimed at harnessing brain power rather than weaponry for the cold war.
...
Now, nearly three years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda and amid a turbulent occupation of Iraq, Congress and the Bush administration have failed to endorse and endow a similar cohort of civilian experts in the languages of the Muslim world.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/16/education/16education.html
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Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
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Offline Knight Templar

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Reply #1 on: June 17, 2004, 12:14:14 am
I miss the Cold War. :(
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Reply #2 on: June 17, 2004, 12:14:23 am
I know a few select phrases in Arabic, such as "Give me your ID", "Open the door", and "Stop or I'll shoot".

:nervous:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Knight Templar

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Reply #3 on: June 17, 2004, 12:16:11 am
Why does that not suprise me? :p
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Reply #4 on: June 17, 2004, 12:36:40 am
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Originally posted by Sandwich
I know a few select phrases in Arabic, such as "Give me your ID", "Open the door", and "Stop or I'll shoot".

:nervous:


and "I don't realy know arabic, I simply know the phrases "Give me your ID", "Open the door", and "Stop or I'll shoot" and this explanation that I don't realy know arabic, and despit the aparent aptitude that I may apear to be speaking it in, I truely hear nothing but giberish when it is spoken, and only hours upon hours of repeditive practice has alowed my to remember these few phrases"
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Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #5 on: June 17, 2004, 12:38:09 am
lol.

(Car drives towards Sandwich's position)
"Stop or I'll shoot!"
(Driver stops car)
"Open the door!"
(Driver opens door, Sandy checks for hidden weapons)
"Give me your ID"
(Driver hands Sandy the ID, Sandy hands it back)
...
(Awkward pause)
...
(English) "Move along, move along..."
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Offline Rictor

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Reply #6 on: June 17, 2004, 01:09:17 am
How about "My, thats a lovely shirt you're wearing Mr.Rashid, how about me meet up later for a falafel over at Ali's."

...no?
 

Offline Nico

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Reply #7 on: June 17, 2004, 01:44:21 am
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
I miss the Cold War. :(


How can you miss something you've most likely barely known? :doubt:
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Offline Flipside

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Reply #8 on: June 17, 2004, 02:54:54 am
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Originally posted by WMCoolmon
lol.

(Car drives towards Sandwich's position)
"Stop or I'll shoot!"
(Driver stops car)
"Open the door!"
(Driver opens door, Sandy checks for hidden weapons)
"Give me your ID"
(Driver hands Sandy the ID, Sandy hands it back)
...
(Awkward pause)
...
(English) "Move along, move along..."



...These are not the WMD's you're looking for? :nervous:
 

Offline kasperl

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Reply #9 on: June 17, 2004, 08:20:36 am
Really, once I get some time free (when I graduate most likely) I'll see about a course in either Arabaic, Russian or some Chinese language.

I doubt I'll pass, I really, really suck at French and German, and can only speak English through years of daily usage.
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Offline Tiara

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Reply #10 on: June 17, 2004, 09:16:34 am
Am currently taking a course in the Chinese language. It's WAY harder then it seems :p
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Offline Rictor

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Reply #11 on: June 17, 2004, 11:11:42 am
anyone tried those Primsleur (sp?) teach-yourself things? I downloaded one for Arabic (first one I saw) off SN, and tried it for about 20 minutes. Do they at all work??
 

Offline Corsair

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Reply #12 on: June 17, 2004, 11:14:13 am
Seems that most Americans (at least in my class) can't speak the language for beans...especially if they're from the South.

Of course, if you're from the South, you probably don't speak English too well either. :D

Rictor: I'll meet you for a falafel if you want. Mmmm...falafel...
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

Offline Knight Templar

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Reply #13 on: June 17, 2004, 03:03:08 pm
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How can you miss something you've most likely barely known? :doubt:


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Reply #14 on: June 21, 2004, 04:51:36 pm
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Originally posted by WMCoolmon
(Awkward pause)
...
(English) "Move along, move along..."


More like:

(Sandy motions with head and gun to proceed through the checkpoint). ;)

Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
How about "My, thats a lovely shirt you're wearing Mr.Rashid, how about me meet up later for a falafel over at Ali's."

...no?


Falafel? Yuk! Don't you tourists know that falafel will make you feel awful??!? :p

I'd take a schawarma over a falafel any day. Meat vs. chick peas? No competition! :D
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Corsair

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Reply #15 on: June 21, 2004, 05:25:17 pm
I like falafel.
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
 

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Reply #16 on: June 22, 2004, 12:38:43 am
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...make you feel awful...


:D
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Tiara

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Reply #17 on: June 22, 2004, 03:54:59 am
I don't think they get it, Sandie :D
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Reply #18 on: June 22, 2004, 11:54:52 am
I think you're right. How obvious should I make it?
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Corsair

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Reply #19 on: June 22, 2004, 02:32:25 pm
I did get it. I still stand by what I said. I like falafel.

Bad puns, however... ;)
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Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.
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