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SFandH
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sure you do
feo, fiscal, firma, filosofía, sofá, etc.
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mtgoat666
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Open a Spanish dictionary and look at the words that start with F. Ask a 6 year old to pronounce the words for you. Please report back hear with the
sounds you hear. Did you hear an "f" sound?
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DavidT
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Alternative facts
There is a palm tree in Baja which proves climate change is a lie, therefore you do not use the letter f in Spanish to make the f sound.
Sarcasm? I address that in my tag line
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Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
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motoged
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Good catch 
Don't believe everything you think....
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Paco Facullo
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When it comes to making logical sense The English language is stupid.
If it weren't fur spell check I'd be a writin like the OPs original post, that I was able to read just as fast as if spelt correctly.
I am far from stupid ( well in some ways we all are )
I am a avid reader and read way more than watch TV , alas spelling is still difficult. It just isn't lodgical. It should be spelled the way it
sounds BUT doesn't a lot of the time.
.I belive it was Gallager or Carlin that did an English language skit.
or both.
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Cliffy
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I read somewhere a long time ago that most daily city newspapers were written for the 6th grade level of education and the Wall Street Journal is
written to 12th grade level. Maybe by now they have moved down a grade or two?
Basic skills are missing in today's education, reading , writing and arithmetic. Just sit in on some entry level job interviews- kids who can't
communicate very well.
As noted, proof reading as opposed to spell check- a big difference.
Spelling and vocabulary in a casual setting? No big deal. Spelling and vocabulary in a more formal setting? All the difference in the world.
+1 for looking up all the words presented in a tome, that you are not familiar with (have at it with this sentence :-) This is a casual forum,
correct?
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surabi
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Yeah, doesn't matter if you can spell or use punctuation or grammar correctly in your native language, doesn't matter if you can't do basic math
without a calculator, doesn't matter if you don't do your own research, but just take as fact whatever you hear or read, as long as it bolsters your
own preconceived ideas, doesn't matter if you bother yourself to learn the language of a country you move to.
Take some selfies, fire off a tweet, welcome to the brave new world.
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redhilltown
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Portecitos!!!!!!!!
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David K
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Santa Ynes or Santa Inez rather than the founder's Santa Ynez or grammatical Santa Inés. LOL
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David K
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Sounds like a red wine from Lisbon!
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Barry A.
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Quote: Originally posted by surabi  | Yeah, doesn't matter if you can spell or use punctuation or grammar correctly in your native language, doesn't matter if you can't do basic math
without a calculator, doesn't matter if you don't do your own research, but just take as fact whatever you hear or read, as long as it bolsters your
own preconceived ideas, doesn't matter if you bother yourself to learn the language of a country you move to.
Take some selfies, fire off a tweet, welcome to the brave new world. |
LIKE!!!! Well said! Kudos Excellent
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Surabi, I don't see anything brave about your world. I'll stay in mine where arts, science, philosophy, engineering live and thrive to make life
worth living -- it all begins with the language of the discipline and if you can't start there, where would be a better place to start?
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| Quote: Originally posted by Osprey | | Surabi, I don't see anything brave about your world. I'll stay in mine where arts, science, philosophy, engineering live and thrive to make life
worth living -- it all begins with the language of the discipline and if you can't start there, where would be a better place to start?
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Osprey, I was being sarcastic.
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Must have hit the mark because your joke sounded like a few of my gringo neighbors. I'm guilty of the language thing myself in a way but I speak
almost perfect Pueblo --- I listen to how my Mexican neighbors speak and I echo that, best I can. Many of them can't read a Mexican newspaper but
they are hardworking fishermen and farmers and laborers and their language is simple, like their lives.
I pay particular attention to non-verbal stuff and I do that too. It's their texting and they have been doing it since the first pilgrim arrived eons
ago.
Comes natural to me now. Some newby gringo gets into a long diatribe about "what's wrong with Mexico" and I find myself totally focused on something
interesting as hell just an inch from my big toe in the dirt of the street.
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My KISS hypothesis:
Live like your gonna die tomorrow and learn as if you were to live forever
Es Todo Bueno
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[rquote]=1082137&tid=86733&author=David K
Sounds like a red wine from Lisbon! [/rquote]
WOW...Now Lisbons have their own approved wine.
The ldgerthpvi7m$ community has come a long way.
[Edited on 6-5-2017 by DENNIS]
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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DENNIS
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logical sense is redundant.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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AKgringo
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And common sense is becoming an oxymarooon!
Edit; That is the Bugs Bunny auto-correct spelling, not mine!
[Edited on 6-5-2017 by AKgringo]
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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