Posted on 04/28/2011 12:41:05 PM PDT by decimon
Bahasa Indonesian is ok, while Japanese is crazier.
Pax Romana...the gift that kept on giving.
Given her age one can only imagine the indignities she suffered prior to execution.
I hope they treat her remains with proper respect.
She was someone’s daughter.
Still people in Australia learn those ‘crazy’ & complicated languages.
Kevin Rudd (former Australian PM) is fluent in Mandarin.
Back in 80’s & 90’s I personally knew of several friends & acquaintances who eagerly studied Bahasa Indonesian, Japanese. At the time, Japanese & Indonesian were more popular compared to Mandarin.
Unsurprisingly, in Australia, we definitetly have more South East Asians (or those w/ that heritage) than *say* Africans or people from the ME. It goes back to the late 80’s, continuing in the the 90’s. Their numbers, along w/ those from India, *appear* to have increased in the last 10 yrs or so, especially in major cities such as Sydney, Brisbane & Melbourne.
then they are braver and smarter folks than me!
I never ventured much beyond indo-European languages except when I knew a bit of Arabic and learnt some Kannada.
My sister-in-law is a Japanese linguist and when I hear about the complexities of Japanese I swoon ;-p
Mandarin is crazy to my mind as a person who knows alphabetic languages, I can't fathom or understand a pictographic language
I can't fathom or understand a pictographic language
Pictographs, as you know, aren't unique to Chinese or Japanese. "The first Declaration of Human Rights Cylinder" by Cyrus the Great was also written in Cuneiform script (a system/type of pictographs).
Well, yes, Khorush did — but I’m talking modern languages here
Suicide by Roman Centurion....
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