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#136538 12/27/04 10:41 PM
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eta... yew'd bedder stop 'afore pfranz gets a hold of this... D'Oh... too late...


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Taking the final p off the url helps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putonghua


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Thanks for the link, bro.

87 per cent with college degrees are fluent...

That accords with the assertion by three post grad Chinese students my parents invited to lunch on Christmas day - "we speak Chinese" is how they described their language choice (using English desciptions). fwiw, they were also urbanites ("we don't see the countryside much!")


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I agree it would be a shame if jheem had been "driven" away, Of Troy, but he hasn't.

"Rumor has it" a lot of things, but rumor is generally not worth repeating.

We all come and go for a lot of reasons, Of Troy. Some of us are more likely to stay when we are maligned than leave.

jheem has never been maligned by anyone. Perhaps he doesn't enjoy being in the midst of a feud. If that is the way jheem feels, we would both of us do better by jheem by ending the feud.

In any case, I have no reason to feud with you, Of Troy, or anyone else, and I won't. It's that simple.

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if i may ask, who is jheem?

puto te esse stultum

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Please pardon this digression, all –

puto te esse stultum

Is your signature directed toward all who read it, bluefruitbowl? It certainly gives that appearance. In the interest of civility, you might reconsider the wisdom of such an insult.



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signature directed toward all

someone care to translate for us Latin challenged?



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‘Puto te esse stultum’, directly translated, means: I think you to be a fool.


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thanks, J.



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Ok Bluefruitbowl, tell us - Just whom do you think a fool?
Plutarch? If so, why" If not, whom?


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