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Wheeee posted:Being able to communicate with the future owners of your employer and their management team. There's a bunch of 40-somethings who learned Japanese with that logic. I can see learning Mandarin if you're in New York or another state with many Mandarin speakers, or if you actively plan to work with a Chinese company. Not because you believe that China will economically dominate America one day, that's much less useful than learning fluency in Spanish.
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I don't think the people that learned Japanese used that logic. edit wait 40-somethings? Yeah maybe, but they can't number more than a thousand.
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Nintendo Kid posted:No it's dumb. Spanish in particular but French or Italian as well are far more useful, because you have actual people speaking it producing media that can be used. I teach Latin and I think both sides of this argument are pretty ridiculous.Most here are arguing about utility and the difference between one language and another is not that great if you factor in history and culture. Most anecdotes talk about Latin being a good second language to learn, since the grammar is easily organized and that organization is transferable to other languages. I don't really understand what you mean when you say that things have changed since Latin, though. Neither people nor languages are that different. On another note, what is the language ability for the candidates? Last round, Huntsman knew Mandarin, which didn't help him at all and I think Perry knew Spanish? Will there be a Spanish-language debate? Fell Fire fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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Aliquid posted:I don't think the people that learned Japanese used that logic.
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mooyashi posted:but I guess I learned a lot about syntax and also that you can just string descriptions together into frankenwords rather than coming up with something whole cloth I was searching for Gaimans American Gods on Audible.co.uk the other month. For some reason, German language versions show up in some of the results. The German version of the book was 3 hours longer than the English.
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Ulf posted:I assure you they did. The expat scene in Tokyo is still full of them. They all have that as their origin story, and some of them are now working in their mandarin. Lul origin stories. They got bit by animu spikers?
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Ulf posted:I assure you they did. The expat scene in Tokyo is still full of them. They all have that as their origin story, and some of them are now working in their mandarin. Yes. Growing up in the US in the 80's there was definitely a streak of paranoia that the Japanese with their superior manufacturing and roaring economy were going to buy up everything.
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Apr 25, 2015 14:29
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The Macker is campaigning/fundraising for Hillary in SC today. That brings her delegate count up by one, though there was never much doubt about him.
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Paolomania posted:Yes. Growing up in the US in the 80's there was definitely a streak of paranoia that the Japanese with their superior manufacturing and roaring economy were going to buy up everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djMYTM1p318
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Paolomania posted:Yes. Growing up in the US in the 80's there was definitely a streak of paranoia that the Japanese with their superior manufacturing and roaring economy were going to buy up everything. There were even movies about it!
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Paolomania posted:Yes. Growing up in the US in the 80's there was definitely a streak of paranoia that the Japanese with their superior manufacturing and roaring economy were going to buy up everything. https://youtu.be/UlEFqR4SaVA?t=38 A 30-second encapsulation of 1980s American paranoia about Japan.
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Fell Fire posted:
Jeb and Rubio would probably be the only attendees. I don't know if Cruz actually speaks Spanish.
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Brigadier Sockface posted:Jeb and Rubio would probably be the only attendees. I don't know if Cruz actually speaks Spanish. Most Canadians dont.
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I got contacted by someone from the Pat Quinn campaign about a Hillary fundraiser in Chicago. Does he still have a convention vote as an ex-governor?
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:There were even movies about it! that's your example?
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Apr 25, 2015 17:00
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It's happening! 's running.
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The X-man cometh posted:I got contacted by someone from the Pat Quinn campaign about a Hillary fundraiser in Chicago. Does he still have a convention vote as an ex-governor? Nope. You can review the superdelegate selection rules here. McAuliffe, in addition to getting in by being a Governor, is a superdelegate for life, since he was a DNC chair.
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Joementum posted:It's happening! Wonder if he'll split the technocrat funding stream Rand Paul is counting on.
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Joementum posted:It's happening! He's about to get his rear end handed to him in a couple of weeks. In 2011 he cut corporate taxes by $2 billion, raised taxes on poor people and old people, cut a billion from school aid fund and called it shared sacrifice. Our roads are falling apart so now he's trying to get people to vote on May 5 to approve a hike in the sales tax to maybe fix roads (the first four years will pay for paying debt on road repairs). Progressives, Liberal Democrats and tea party all plan on voting no. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-0zaKcWj0
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Paolomania posted:Yes. Growing up in the US in the 80's there was definitely a streak of paranoia that the Japanese with their superior manufacturing and roaring economy were going to buy up everything. This is why half of cyberpunk has Japan as a looming corporate power, including Shadowrun and Blade Runner!
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Growing up in Michigan in the 80s Japan was way scarier than the USSR, although given how things turned out with US and Japanese car makers it wasn't entirely baseless.
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Quorum posted:This is why half of cyberpunk has Japan as a looming corporate power, including Shadowrun and Blade Runner! They also had a colonel go batshit rogue and seize California under a dictatorship. So there's that. e: in Shadowrun, just to be clear 
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Chokes McGee posted:They also had a colonel go batshit rogue and seize California under a dictatorship. So there's that. And elves took over Oregon, so it's not the most realistic.
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The X-man cometh posted:And elves took over Oregon, so it's not the most realistic. Oregonians are the closest we have to elves, tbh.
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Apr 25, 2015 18:34
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Is there a livestream of this lovely Iowa event happening today?
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Quorum posted:This is why half of cyberpunk has Japan as a looming corporate power, including Shadowrun and Blade Runner! Yeah it's almost quaint looking at a game like BattleTech where Space Japan is a major power but Space China is basically an also ran.
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Joementum posted:It's happening! This is going to be amazing, I am so excited, this will be fun
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Dr. Tough posted:Yeah it's almost quaint looking at a game like BattleTech where Space Japan is a major power but Space China is basically an also ran.
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Joementum posted:It's happening! What is he going to run on? Doesn't he have a hilariously terrible record even for a Republican.
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Axetrain posted:What is he going to run on? Doesn't he have a hilariously terrible record even for a Republican. Terrible in the regular sense, but also not terrible enough to be a real crazy contender.
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Axetrain posted:What is he going to run on? Doesn't he have a hilariously terrible record even for a Republican. Being whatever palatable name they've created for being anti-union. Also although everyone on D&D seems to hate the Detroit city manager thing it could probably play well with the certain swing groups (IE suburbs which hate the way their major city is run.) edit: I'm shocked he's jumping in though. Walker has the exact same base as he does AND more "accomplishments" in their shared specialty of union loving AND national recognition AND years of additional free publicity in portions of Iowa which get their news from neighboring Wisconsin. Not to mention a head start and so far successful roll out. This is starting to turn into the strongest field since the 2008 Democrats, which was probably the strongest field since... uhhh the 1980 Republicans? Cliff Racer fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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Aliquid posted:I don't think the people that learned Japanese used that logic. When my mom went back to school for her degree in the late 90s she took Japanese since she needed to take a language and she was the only person in the class whose reason for taking it wasn't "anime" when the teacher asked. HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:He's about to get his rear end handed to him in a couple of weeks. In 2011 he cut corporate taxes by $2 billion, raised taxes on poor people and old people, cut a billion from school aid fund and called it shared sacrifice. Our roads are falling apart so now he's trying to get people to vote on May 5 to approve a hike in the sales tax to maybe fix roads (the first four years will pay for paying debt on road repairs). Progressives, Liberal Democrats and tea party all plan on voting no. Sounds like he's going to get the backing of most Republicans for delivering all that freedom to his state  Nessus posted:I remember one cyberpunk universe where the dominant world power was a Russo-Japanese alliance of some sort, the Chinese had been punked by plague and military fractiousness, the US was a dictatorial hellhole, and the exciting rising power was a fusion of Chile and Argentina. X-Crawl has an (immortal?) Emperor Ronald Reagan and I think JFK was an orc?
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Come watch Iowa Faith and Freedom conference http://www.c-span.org/video/?325573-1/iowa-faith-freedom-coalition-summit
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Come watch Iowa Faith and Freedom conference *turns on* *Marco Rubio saying "American Century"* Jesus gently caress republicans are so inbred they just run around the same set of FAITH+GOVERNMENT conventions saying the same poo poo to a different group of white people
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Jazerus posted:https://youtu.be/UlEFqR4SaVA?t=38 I was really hoping this was going to be a Blade Runner clip.  Evil Fluffy posted:When my mom went back to school for her degree in the late 90s she took Japanese since she needed to take a language and she was the only person in the class whose reason for taking it wasn't "anime" when the teacher asked. I tried to take learn Japanese in grad school because Japanese rhetoric is super understudied and it would have been a good way to do something few others in comp/rhet were doing, but gently caress learning a non-romance language in, accelerated classes even over the summer (also I suck hard at foreign languages - I have 4 years of college German, can't speak poo poo, and my written translation skills have already atrophied to almost nothing). Anyway most of the class was undergrads who were there for the animes. Karnegal fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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Rubio: we need to stop giving degrees for jobs that do not make money. We need college to sit down each student and tell them how much they will make so they do not spend thousands of dollars to major in basket weaving
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Really, why wouldn't Snyder, Scott, Kasich, and Walker just all rally around one of them instead of all of them running? They're all basically the same.
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Joementum posted:It's happening! In a stunning turn of events, every state now gets appointed its own emergency manager. 
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"Rand Paul is the finger in the dyke"
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