[discostu]

There was a thread a couple days ago that indirectly responded to that. French was (up until earlier this week) considered the language of diplomacy, ie the "international language". French is losing that position though because nobody likes the French or their dorky language that only pronounces half the letters. English has been the most used language for a long time but French was always considered the important one. Thanks to the spread of capitalism the world is realizing that the one that's most used is most important. Between the two the languages are spread far and wide enough that you've got pretty solid odds (probably over 50%) that any randomly selected person on the planet speaks one of the two languages.

[DJ88]

I've spent enough time debating you and the point is this:

I have my opinion, you have yours. You want to say you win because you "know more" than I do? Go ahead, if that makes you happy. As a matter of fact, I'll put in bold letters so that you can pat yourself on the back for being the brains of this "Olympic Skating Controversy". Is that what you want? It's your way or the highway, correct? Just to get it over with, to let you have your way and make you look like you won, here it is:

BY DEFAULT, DICOSTU WINS THE DEBATE OF WHO WON THE GOLD MEDAL IN THE OLYMPIC PAIRS SKATING. HE COMES TO THIS CONCLUSION BASED ON HIS "RATING" OF THE TECHNICAL AND ARTISTIC SCORES. HOWEVER, EVEN TODAY THE FRENCH JUDGE IS NOW ADMITTING SHE WAS "PRESSURED" AND "MANIPULATED" IN THIS COMPETITION TO VOTE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. BUT THAT DOES NOT MATTER, DOES IT?

There. Happy now? I'm not arguing with you anymore. I don't CARE what you think. If you post to me, I won't post back. It's not that I'm not able to debate you, I just get tired of the same things being said over and over and over.

Let the IOC figure it out...and apparantly, they will. Whether or not they change the results, which probably will never happen, this has managed to put a "black eye" on the Olympics and it is NOT something that will go away and never be talked about again, as you "think". You're off base with that one. As a matter of fact, that's all ANYONE is talking about right now.

But like I said, YOU WIN. That's all you wanted, so I give it to you.

But just like the Gold medal, it doesn't matter. It's just a game.