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Yeah, I've got some pics and some vids. I guess I'll dig them out of my camera and computer and post them here (if I remember). He build the car himself from scratch, too. OH, and he's eighty years old, doing this drag racing. :D

He's one helluva guy.

Wow
btw I thought drag racing was illegal or something. Is it like an annual event there?

Has anybody here successfully learnt (or learning) the Japanese language? I had tried in the past but my practice slowly died down lol. I've heard it's the toughest language to learn, or was it Chinese?

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Wow
btw I thought drag racing was illegal or something. Is it like an annual event there?

Has anybody here successfully learnt (or learning) the Japanese language? I had tried in the past but my practice slowly died down lol. I've heard it's the toughest language to learn, or was it Chinese?

Apparently Mandarin Chinese is the hardest to learn, followed by English.

Yes, English is the second-hardest to learn.

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Yes, English is the second-hardest to learn.

People who have been speaking it their entire lives makes plenty of mistakes, and a great amount of people don't even know all the basic rules. This isn't even mentioning the plethora of exceptions to rules, rules, and contradictions of the English language. I believe it.

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Yes, English is the second-hardest to learn.

Feels amazing knowing that, doesn't it?

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People who have been speaking it their entire lives makes plenty of mistakes, and a great amount of people don't even know all the basic rules. This isn't even mentioning the plethora of exceptions to rules, rules, and contradictions of the English language. I believe it.

Was that a typo? If so
Awkwaaaaaaaaaard xD

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People who have been speaking it their entire lives makes plenty of mistakes, and a great amount of people don't even know all the basic rules. This isn't even mentioning the plethora of exceptions to rules, rules, and contradictions of the English language. I believe it.

You are legitimately the first person to believe me when I say that

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You are legitimately the first person to believe me when I say that

http://list25.com/25-of-the-most-difficult-languages-to-learn-in-the-world/5/
http://en.people.cn/102774/8399030.html

Five seconds hit me up with this. Iono if this is trustworthy but it doesn't look like it's the second hardest. Definitely hard, but...

Things that make me way more angry than they should: Lunch meats.

Why is it that some collosal nig nog at the deli has always managed to get the stack of perfectly cut meat placed into the ziplock bag all jostled and fucked up? I understand we aren't machines but I expect my lunch meat to have less folds than origami and all they have to do is not force it in there like fumble fucks. But no, zero effort so the lunch meat resembles a babies paper plane attempt.

See, when lunch meat is stacked right and simply slid into a bag that accommodates its size, it's smooth and easy to peel off.
But now my turkey is a shredded fucking mess! FUCK! I'm just trying to pull a slice of it out of the bag but goddamnit it's so folded up it wont peel it all just rips in your hands like fucking tissue paper. GRRRRRRRRR!

Why even slice it up so finely if it's just gonna get ruined a few moments later by an inept food worker mashing this shit into a bag like a retarded kid mashes the square piece into the circle hole?



What a goddamn waste.

haha what the fuck, how do they struggle with that? all the meat is stacked when it gets sliced.

I mostly get salami and pepperoni though, not exactly the most foldable of the lunch meats

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Apparently Mandarin Chinese is the hardest to learn, followed by English.

Yes, English is the second-hardest to learn.

I don't know where you guys are coming up with this stuff, certain languages are more difficult to learn depending on what your native tongue is, there's no such thing as one universal "hardest language to learn"

English is easy with Reverso. Please don't kill me.

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Apparently Mandarin Chinese is the hardest to learn, followed by English.

Yes, English is the second-hardest to learn.

Good thing I know both naturally.

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English is easy with Reverso. Please don't kill me.

We're not going to kill you. We're just going to hurt you really bad. (evil Joker laugh)

Iunno, I've heard from plenty of different speakers of other languages that English was super hard for them to learn, like stupid hard. A linguist held a panel event at my school and even he said that "English is widely accepted as the most difficult language to learn for most outsiders". It's pretty interesting.

I learned english in a year when I was five and people have still been telling me my english is better than 80%-90% of non native english speakers. I couldn't say if my swedish mother tongue helped me in learning it or not.

Although I suppose I can't quite compare, since I was forced to learn the language because the school I went to was an english speaking school. People tend to learn quickly a language if their environment forces them to do so.


Also mandarin can suck my dick. While speaking it was never overly difficult for me when I started it, the writing is such an erection killer and I've since moved over to spanish.

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From what I've heard, seems like the difficulty stems from the amount of fucking up the language we do rather than its' complexity We slur almost everything, we brake ...

Well, that supports your point. XD

I think it has to do with what's your mothertongue is. For me, Malay is rather simple and converting to English is pretty simple because it has latin letters. The rules and exceptions and shit is still pretty hard though.