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Posted on: You Sing Terribly!
On March 19 at 12:14 PM by go_manly

I think you are taking bodawei's comment a little too seriously. You're from Aus, aren't you. You should know how loosely we use 'bastard' and 'bastar... Read more

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Posted on: You Sing Terribly!
On March 19 at 12:07 PM by dunderklumpen

Througout history swedish has been influenced by french and german but nowadays there is a strong influence from english. The direct use of english wo... Read more

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Posted on: You Sing Terribly!
On March 19 at 11:56 AM by changye

Here are some statistics on loan words in English. Out of 140,000 words, Anglo-saxon 14%, Latin 36%, French 21%, Greek 4.5%, Scandinavia 2%, Sp... Read more

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On March 19 at 11:52 AM by xiao_liang

Oh! The meal mentioned in this lesson is also one of my favourites! But I don't see the characters anywhere? I get 番茄 from the lesson, and I know 蛋...... Read more

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Posted on: Baseball
On March 19 at 11:50 AM by go_manly

Do you think we'd offend the Yanks if we called them Seppos? Anyway, to give a hint: A particular official in a baseball game should know the answe... Read more

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Posted on: 花木兰上集
On March 19 at 11:44 AM by kimiik

关于圣门贞德, 我觉得巾帼英雄的巾帼难合适一种盔甲英雄。用巾帼在甲上很奇怪(古怪)。 ;o) Read more

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Posted on: You Sing Terribly!
On March 19 at 11:38 AM by sydcarten

Describing the fusion of anglo-saxon with vocab from other languages as 'bastardisation' is a very negative and prejudicial term. I prefer to see i... Read more

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Posted on: Asking for a Raise
On March 19 at 11:32 AM by bababardwan

Agreed.As I said I'm not saying they have predictable stuff at all and yes they're often very funny for that very reason [not to mention others like t... Read more

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Posted on: Baseball
On March 19 at 11:27 AM by bababardwan

Drats. I thought because I'm not a Yank I was out of the homework.hehe,I can see you'd not be an easy one to try and pull an excuse on even though I c... Read more

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Posted on: 相亲活动
On March 19 at 11:17 AM by jimoya

哎哟！你的好友真厉害啊！可是从这个角度来说好像参加相亲活动也挺好玩的！ Read more