[NYC GOP Chick]

Actually, dubya, the Pretentious_Loony isn't so much the sophisticate that she wants us to believe that she is -- she just desperately strives for that putative status. A pathetic social climber, at best.

Personally, I'm glad the haughty hag is gone. That onslaught of articles in Portugese should have been enough to ban her snooty ass from here.

[NeoCaveman]

That onslaught of articles in Portugese should have been enough to ban her snooty ass from here.

I agree. If only we were mods...

[onyx]

Personally, I'm glad the haughty hag is gone. That onslaught of articles in Portugese should have been enough to ban her snooty ass from here.

Best laugh of the day, thus far. LOL!

[xsmommy]

and FRENCH, don't forget the FRENCH articles.

[Timesink]

Actually, dubya, the Pretentious_Loony isn't so much the sophisticate that she wants us to believe that she is -- she just desperately strives for that putative status. A pathetic social climber, at best. Personally, I'm glad the haughty hag is gone. That onslaught of articles in Portugese should have been enough to ban her snooty ass from here.

I've never understood why anyone either: a) is impressed by the fact that someone else speaks multiple languages or b) Thinks they're smarter than other people because THEY speak more than one language. ANYONE can speak multiple languages ... all it takes is either exposure to more than one language at a very early age or else the willingness to put time and effort into learning it as an adult. (And if you have the time and money available to "immerse" yourself - that is, jet off to a foreign country and live there for one to four months, forcing yourself to speak nothing but the indigenous tongue - you can become pretty much completely fluent just as if you had picked it up at age 3. This is how Celine Dion learned English even though she never even started until her early 20s, as an example.)

It's even less impressive if the other language(s) you speak are in the same family as your native tongue (and yes, English and Portuguese are both in the Indo-European family). At least if someone came along who spoke Icelandic, Japanese, Arabic and Xhosa, and learned them all as an adult, i'd give that person a little credit for the time and effort expended. But I wouldn't consider that person one iota more intelligent than me, because any one of us could learn them too, if we really wanted to do so.

I would, however, consider that person to be a raging egomaniac if one of the first things they made sure you knew about them is that they speak multiple languages. Assuming Pedantic_Bim was even telling the truth in the first place, it doesn't make her smart. It merely makes her gauche.