Why Is Spanish So Damn Insignificant?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by whosurdaddy
No wonder Wiglaf is such an ignorant, xenophobic, misinformed fool. Look at his icon, it is an elephant holding a GOP flag. Looks like we have ourselves a Republican here.
Look Wiglaf, why don’t u go attend a Klu Klux Klan rally and burn some crosses if that will calm you dawn, or is the Klan too old fashioned for you, perhaps a Neo-Nazi group would suit you better. Seriously man, i didnt think people still thought like u in the year 2002. ¡Que tengas un buen dÃa!

This thread has degenerated to what low level now??

I am a moderate-liberal, but I cannot understand why you posted such a troll about Republicans.

You seem to equate the Republican party with ignorance, xenophobia, and the Ku Klux Klan.

I guess you just posted that bulls**t just to troll, not to be serious, right??

[MrWhereItsAt]

For the record, jasev, Wuggy accused me of being anti-English or Latin, or anti-human, or something like that - when I wasn't even here to set the record straight. I don't know how anything I said could be misconstrued this way, but Winky decided so, this it was true.

On a side note, I just got a popup saying I had a new PM. It was from the Wagster, but had been deleted by him. I wonder what he could have said? Maybe he had such a convincing argument that I would actually think he'd been reading my posts.


Nawww... maybe not.

[MrFun]

Ok, this is definitely not a serious thread, so I will add something else to see what Wiglaf has to say to this question I have -- just for some comic relief and because I'm bored.

I am taking a course in History of Ancient Philosophy right now, Wiglaf, and we are suppose to read the book, "The Republic" by Plato.

Now, I lived in Ecuador for three and half months this past summer to begin studying fundamental Spanish.

Gee -- I'm interested in Plato's written works AND I am interested in learning Spanish as a second language.

How do you reconcile that contradiction -- at least, this is some kind of contradiction in whatever world you live in.

This should be funny if Wiggy responds to this.

[MrWhereItsAt]

You'll need to wait a week.

I have an arts degree in Spanish, French and Classics, so I must be schizophrenic.

Maybe I'M Wiglaf's DL then... Or is he mine...

[FemmeAdonis]

Their language is pathetic

Oh look..how IGNORANT!! That's so cuuute.

[Ming]

Originally posted by MrFun
This should be funny if Wiggy responds to this.

Wiggy seems to be full of indecision today... He was posting to this thread, and then backed out.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Ming
Wiggy seems to be full of indecision today... He was posting to this thread, and then backed out.

I thought that MtG banned him.

[Ming]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
I thought that MtG banned him.

If he did... I missed it. He hasn't posted it in the ban log (yet).

And if he did, then wiggy really is silly for trying to post

[MrFun]

Wiggy sent me some dumb private message, but I when I tried to reply saying that an intelligent, serious response was not worth it, it did not go through because his box is full.

Anyway Wiggy, instead of responding to my PUBLIC posts here on this thread with PRIVATE messages, be consistent, and respond to public posts with public posts.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by MrFun
Anyway Wiggy, instead of responding to my PUBLIC posts here on this thread with PRIVATE messages,

That makes me think that one of the mods really did ban him.

[Ming]

Hmmm... MtG must have nailed him. I just checked and he is shown as banned. I guess MtG is behind on his normal paperwork

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
Love it or deny it, Spanish is here to stay. And I am quite looking forward to the day that many monolinguals (especially Americans) need to learn it for daily life.

How many languages do you speak? Do you look forward to the day when all New Zealanders have to learn Maori for daily life? How ridiculous.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Caligastia



How many languages do you speak? Do you look forward to the day when all New Zealanders have to learn Maori for daily life? How ridiculous.

To each culture, obviously their native language is the most important. Maori language is fundamentally important for the Maori.

But I think what we mean, Caligastia, is that a language like Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, or English are more globally important. We're not advocating to learn Maori, simply because that is not as globally important as Spanish, for example.

You seem to be using a strawman argument -- claiming that we are arguing in favor of something that we never did support.

[Caligastia]

I made the comparison because in both cases people have to learn two languages to function in daily life. This is a poor ideal to have IMO. Surely if you want to have a people that is united they must have a common language.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by MrFun
You seem to be using a strawman argument -- claiming that we are arguing in favor of something that we never did support.

Maori is the New Zealander equivilant of Spanish, Mr. Fun. I'm guessing that a signifigant minority in that country speaks it, which puts it at the same level as Spanish in terms of importance for the average citizen of New Zealand.