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On 06/03/2016 18:20, Ted&Alice Street wrote:
> Alex W. wrote:
>
>> On 06/03/2016 13:57, Ted&Alice Street wrote:
>>> Alex W. wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 06/03/2016 12:35, Ted&Alice Street wrote:
>>>>> Alex W. wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 05/03/2016 15:27, Ted&Alice Street wrote:
>>>>>>> Alex W. wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Creative trolls seem to appear only occasionally. One that
>>>>>>> comes to mind is Max Varaszlo, who used to troll
>>>>>>> alt.politics.homosexuality roughly ten years ago. Have you
>>>>>>> heard of him?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm afraid I have not had the pleasure of his online
>>>>>> acquaintance.
>>>>>
>>>>> I googled him must now (Varazslo, not Varaszlo -- I blame my
>>>>> Polish study) and found he was active as one of the atheists in
>>>>> alt.atheism during the 90's.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Polish study?  Impressive.  That language always seemed to suffer
>>>
>>> Not in the least impressive. I took a con ed class just so I could
>>> exchange a greeting or two with some of the old timers where I used
>>> to live. The only thing I kept from it was the ability to properly
>>> pronounce Polish words (and Russian words too, after I learned the
>>> Cyrillic alphabet). Otherwise I know no Polish at all.
>>
>> Knowing what the words mean that you so expertly pronounce would be a
>> great help, I would think...  :-)
>>
>>
>
> Hell yeah. But it took me long enough just to learn Spanish. So unless
> I happen to move to Poland ...

... you had better hope no-one taught you any rude words telling you 
it's a friendly greeting.

This happens.

Do not ask me how I know this.


>
>>>> from a severe shortage of vowels to me.  My own studies in that
>>>
>>> No question about it. They're able to string more consonants
>>> together in one unbroken clump than any other language I know of.
>>
>> And then the sneaky bstrds don't even actually pronounce half those
>> consonants!
>>
>
> Lol. Actually, they do. It's a phonetic language.

Let me get this right -- your Polish mate "Bob" Brzenczyszczykiewicz who 
originally hailed from Pszczółczyn pronounces all those consonants?

The mind boggles.


>
>>
>>>
>>>> regard never went any further than ordering golabki and vodka...
>>>
>>> Ha. But I'm sure you're multi-lingual, right?
>>>
>>
>> English, German, French, plus some mostly forgotten remnants of 10
>> years of Latin and six years of Greek.  Why do you ask?
>>
>
> Cuz you're so damn cool, I knew you had to also be multi-lingual.
> That's friggin awesome, Alex! :)

It's good to be a cunning linguist...

To be honest, my French is rusty -- haven't used it much in recent 
years.  Plus, I have this bad habit of intentionally using the worst 
possible English accent to annoy pesky French waiters.  What can I say? 
  Pissing off the French is a national tradition.


>
>> Oh, and I did once start to learn Elvish, but I'm not sure that
>> counts.
>
> You did? Haha. That's also cool! Quenya, right? Why did you want to
> learn it?
>

Having rad TLOTR at least 75 times (that's when I stopped counting, and 
I may have been just a tad obsessive) I figured I might as well learn 
it.  At least, it struck me as a far more sensible choice than leaning 
Klingon which is clearly a made-up language from a cheesy American TV show.

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Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-05 13:55 +0000
  Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-05 15:27 +0000
    Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-06 09:52 +0000
      Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-06 12:35 +0000
        Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-06 13:02 +0000
          Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-06 13:57 +0000
            Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-06 16:55 +0000
              Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-06 18:20 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 09:57 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice" <ted.smasher@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 09:23 -0800
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 18:31 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-08 23:46 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Ted&Alice Street" <sam.tedesco@notgmail.c> - 2016-03-09 22:38 +0000
              Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-03-06 19:02 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-06 19:22 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love Don Martin <drdonmartin@comcast.net> - 2016-03-06 15:15 -0500
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love Olrik <olrik666@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 00:11 -0500
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love Don Martin <drdonmartin@comcast.net> - 2016-03-07 18:30 -0500
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 12:03 +0000
                Re: www.thescienceforum.com/ is a forum you might love Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2016-03-07 19:32 +0000

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