Lord Language Resurrection.

[GreyICE]

Err... no.

There are excellent reasons to learn English, Mandarin, or Spanish as a second language.

Arabic would be on that list if there if the nature of the cultural divide weren't such that people are afraid to bridge it. It will be on the list some day.

French and German are spoken by large numbers of people; Italian less so (though it sounds beautiful). Russia is simply too tacky to communicate with. All of them are on the down escalator.

Hebrew - no reason to learn it at all. I suppose if you're stuck in a cultural rut, it's an ok hobby language, but it really has absolutely nothing to offer the rest of us.

Your beliefs would embarrass an insane person.

Ya missed Chinese and Hindi. Given as how the Chinese speaking population outnumbers the German speaking population by, I dunno, a few hundred million or so, seems kinda important.

 

[Hokulele]

Ya missed Chinese and Hindi. Given as how the Chinese speaking population outnumbers the German speaking population by, I dunno, a few hundred million or so, seems kinda important.

Er, Mandarin is the predominant language in China. There is no language called "Chinese" per se, but there are many different languages one can find regionally.

 

[Complexity]

Ya missed Chinese and Hindi. Given as how the Chinese speaking population outnumbers the German speaking population by, I dunno, a few hundred million or so, seems kinda important.

I know. I was restricting myself to the languages that he had mentioned in that post. He didn't mention them, I didn't mention them.

Why I bothered at all is one of the Great Mysteries.

He's sort of like the kid in the corner in the Blair Witch Project, except that he mutters incessantly about Hebrew in an attempt to ward off the darkness and what must come next.

 

[Nationalcosmopolitan]

You say the problem is that people have not chosen their culture freely, and then propose an elaborate scheme by which parents will be induced to impose your linguistic theory on their children.

None of us are free to choose the culture we're born into, but we're free to choose how to deal with it, and whether to maintain it. "To design a world..." is not a formula for either freedom or true diversity.

None of us are free to choose the culture only but also citizenship, set of native languages, set of lifestyles, set of professions, set of working places, set of creative and other sorts friends and partners and many others important sets of valuable things.
To think honestly and deeply nobody chooses freely anything-impotent things and values what he really need.
I am a social inventor of symmetry of working weeks and free weeks life style.
Every person has a right to work some weeks and the same quantity of weeks he will be free from job.
It means that every man including school children has 26 weeks of creative vocation in a year.
This so called “Fifty percent job time – Fifty percent free time lifestyle” gives possibility to every person in his 26 weeks a year of freedom to learn new languages, new professions, to live in new countries and to adopt to different national cultures and languages.
I call 26 weeks of freedom of every person in this symmetrical life style – GLOBAL NEOSHABAT.
To give GLOBAL NEOSHABAT to every person we will give the really freedom to choose freely not only the bottle of vodka in the shop but all most impotent values in the free individual person life.
Set of languages – is just one but most impotent of those values because it makes a person to live in comfort in every world wide national culture.
Worldwide using of GLOBAL NEOSHABAT life style will solve energy, transport, ecology, and lifelong education problems too.

 

[Hokulele]

So you understand global economics as well as you understand linguistics. Got it.

 

[Complexity]

What a remarkable man!

I'll let my employer know that I'm starting my 26 weeks of creative vocation guaranteed to me under GLOBAL NEOSHABAT today.

Do we have to use the dorky pseudo-Hebrew name for it, however?

Damn. My employer just got back to me. Said if I don't come in and work, I'm fired.

Set of languages – is just one but most impotent of those values because it makes a person to live in comfort in every world wide national culture.

Emphasis mine. Dweebish.

N.C. - I'd encourage you to concentrate on learning one language well enough to express your ideas in, but I don't think your ideas are worth expressing in any language. Please find a better hobby. Drop the Hebrew stuff - it's never going to happen. Drop the religious stuff - it's embarrassing.

 

[SezMe]

I am a social inventor of symmetry of working weeks and free weeks life style.

You're putting us on, aren't you Nationalcosmopolitan? You're using a random word generator to create your posts, right? I mean, you've really hooked some posters into taking your ideas seriously but I think it's time to fess up. Come clean, claim victory for having all the skeptics reply to your nonsense, and close out the game and thread. Well done.

 

[Nationalcosmopolitan]

There is 35 hours job week in French today.
Many people work from Monday till Whansday for 10 hours and 5 hours on Tuesday and half of Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday they free from Job.
So we can say that they have 50% of days job time and 50% of days free time life style.
My social proposal – let us go little bit further.
Let us give people to work 6 days a week 10 hours a day. Let us give in this week Friday for Muslims, Saturday for Jews, Sunday for Christians as a free from job day and all other week free from job at all.
So we have 4 working shifts – the day shift and the nightshift every week and the 30th hours working week.
This idea gives the really possibility to work symmetrically quantity of weeks and to be free from job the same quantity of weeks.
Week will become the social quanta of time.
Except good page people will have the “second currency” - 26 weeks of creative vocation a year and one free day in they’re working week.

It is Jewish social invention the Holy Seventh Day – Saturday for Jews, Friday for Muslims and Sunday for Christians.
And this social invention has given possibility to different human beings from animals.
Than were two, in French three free from job days a week.
Not Christians, Not Jews, Not Muslims were oppose six, than five, than 3.5 working days week – all world religious consensus about human being’s freedom!!

So let us do the last little step in this great trend to achieve really freedom and we are in the GLOBAL NEOSHABAT 50% job weeks – 50% freedom weeks symmetrical environment.

 

[Complexity]

You know, you silly little man, that most people can't afford a 50% reduction in their income.

Also, there is a great deal to be done - who is going to pick the 50% of the work that just won't get done?

Is an employer expected to keep paying full benefits for an employee who is only working and producing half of what he was before?

Will that employer need to employ twice as many people to get its work accomplished. Of course, there aren't going to be all of these qualified people available, so it won't be able to hire most of the additional people it needs.

Will that employer be able to afford the benefits for the additional people who also won't work more than half of the time?

There aren't nearly enough skilled people in many areas. Are you prepared to not have an operation because no surgeon is available?

Why would someone become a surgeon in your world? All those years of education and training, and then you're only able to work part time.

What if some one wants to work more than half time?

What makes you think that most people would know what to do with so much extra time, other than watch TV? Are you aware of the number of people who die fairly shortly after retiring due, I think, to the loss of structure in their lives and the loss of relationships with coworkers?

Do you have any idea how important work is?

And you're prepared to scrap all of this in order to teach Hebrew to kids.

You are such an incredible tool.

I'm so glad that none of your ideas will ever be taken up by anyone else.

 

[jimbob]

Further sig material:

There is 35 hours job week in French today.
Many people work from Monday till Whansday for 10 hours and 5 hours on Tuesday and half of Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday they free from Job

 

[Hokulele]

I will admit, it is amusing to see people who think, "If I like it, everyone must like it, and therefor it will work in the real world."

Bread and circuses anyone?

 

[Complexity]

I will admit, it is amusing to see people who think, "If I like it, everyone must like it, and therefor it will work in the real world."

Bread and circuses anyone?

Not only that, but he seems to take it for granted that it is proper and fitting that his ideas be imposed upon the rest of us.

 

[six7s]

What makes you think that most people would know what to do with so much extra time, other than watch TV?

I understand what you're getting at C, but I suggest that your use of the word 'think' is, in that context, somehow wholly inappropriate

I'm so glad that none of your ideas will ever be taken up by anyone else.

Reading the disjointed themes in NC's post, I wonder if, instead of aiming to increase his/her critical thinking skills, NC is merely using this forum to bounce ideas from a rough draft for some bizarre horror story

Science friction, double feature

 

[Complexity]

I understand what you're getting at C, but I suggest that your use of the word 'think' is, in that context, somehow wholly inappropriate

Oops! Accidentally generous. Won't happen again.

Reading the disjointed themes in NC's post, I wonder if, instead of aiming to increase his/her critical thinking skills, NC is merely using this forum to bounce ideas from a rough draft for some bizarre horror story

Science friction, double feature

I think he's merely proselytizing, or trying to.

But if you're right, I don't think he's going to pull it off. Not enough humor, let alone quality humor.

 

[jimbob]

There is plenty of humour. Just not intentional.

Almost makes up for the lack of BAGO...

 

[six7s]

Oops! Accidentally generous. Won't happen again.

To atone, simply recite all of the prime-numbered books in teh Torah, in Gujarati, standing on one leg, on a merry-go-round, facing Mecca at all times

 

[jimbob]

Anyway, there proberly is some neurological activity. I is a mathematical genis and physicists dont kno mathematics like what I do, how do you turn 2.5 into an improber fraction?

 

[bruto]

Bruto, as I have said before, it mightn't be the qualtiy of English, but of thinking. Nationalcosmopolitan might be equally competent in his/her own language.

A sobering thought. Maybe it's like flipping a coin. Can't master one language? Learn another, and maybe eventually you'll hit one.

 

[Complexity]

To atone, simply recite all of the prime-numbered books in teh Torah, in Gujarati, standing on one leg, on a merry-go-round, facing Mecca at all times

Can't. Just can't.

Gonna think about the primes later this evening, though, if that's all right.

That's important.

 

[Complexity]

Anyway, there proberly is some neurological activity. I is a mathematical genis and physicists dont kno mathematics like what I do, how do you turn 2.5 into an improber fraction?

Actually got a shiver down my spine.

Spooky...