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    My question/offer stands, now turning towards thou!
    I'm probably even poorer than Amidus Drexel over there. That's one of the perks of having a boyfriend though. I wonder if I can persuade him to buy me some snow..
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    Quote Originally Posted by LaZodiac View Post
    Completely understandable.

    Hey, when the snow comes back (because it will) do you want to negotiate on me selling coolers of snow to you? Because if you have the cash I'll totally do it.
    I am calling CSIS on you if you start selling our water to Americans. THIS IS HOW IT STARTS, ZODALICIOUS.

    If they, or the Australians* for that matter, want snow, then they can fork over the silver for tourism.

    *With the exception of Elemental, and Mynxae if he will stop boasting about his cute cuddly boyfriend



    *sits on a high throne of maple and ice, dying a flock of flags with blood to flap like hacked wings against the coming blizzards*
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    I am calling CSIS on you if you start selling our water to Americans. THIS IS HOW IT STARTS, ZODALICIOUS.

    If they, or the Australians* for that matter, want snow, then they can fork over the silver for tourism.

    *With the exception of Elemental, and Mynxae if he will stop boasting about his cute cuddly boyfriend



    *sits on a high throne of maple and ice, dying a flock of flags with blood to flap like hacked wings against the coming blizzards*
    Aww.

    Sorry Nibbles. It's just too hard to resist. I'll stop now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LaZodiac View Post
    Completely understandable.

    Hey, when the snow comes back (because it will) do you want to negotiate on me selling coolers of snow to you? Because if you have the cash I'll totally do it.
    I'd buy them, I've said so already.
    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    I am calling CSIS on you if you start selling our water to Americans. THIS IS HOW IT STARTS, ZODALICIOUS.
    Note that snow is somewhat more complex to obtain than just plain ice, and the southern hemisphere and equator areas want snow badly.
    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    *sits on a high throne of maple and ice, dying a flock of flags with blood to flap like hacked wings against the coming blizzards*
    *Approaches throne with a black matador cape, a burgundy vest, white shirt and black pants. Shortsword on hand and a venus flytrap pinned to the vest instead of a rose.

    "This is "El Golpe de Estado", Emperor of the Winter."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    *sits on a high throne of maple and ice, dying a flock of flags with blood to flap like hacked wings against the coming blizzards*
    *puts on Ski mask*

    Alright, see? This is a stick up. Fork over all your maple syrup and no one gets hurt.
    *bounds away with a comically oversized bag with the Maple leaf on it as some syrup leaks out*
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mynxae View Post
    Aww.

    Sorry Nibbles. It's just too hard to resist. I'll stop now.
    I'm just giving you a hard time, I don't really mind.

    Quote Originally Posted by araveugnitsuga View Post
    Note that snow is somewhat more complex to obtain than just plain ice, and the southern hemisphere and equator areas want snow badly.
    *Approaches throne with a black matador cape, a burgundy vest, white shirt and black pants. Shortsword on hand and a venus flytrap pinned to the vest instead of a rose.

    "This is "El Golpe de Estado", Emperor of the Winter."
    *flutters down from throne to nibble eyelashes*

    If you wish to enjoy snow, you must forswear your fresh mangoes and the indomitable verdiference of your subtropical gardens; your must forswear the inflorescence of hibiscus and the fertility of your vineyards, and suffer through the frozen darkness with the rest of us.

    I was going to try to transcribe the bit from the Simpsons episode where Bart calls Colombia to ask which way the water in their toilets drain, which is translated as "HE SAYS THE TIDE IS TURNING!" and the President shouts in Spanish "THE REBELS WILL SOON SEIZE THE CAPITAL! I MUST FLEE!" but I don't understand the Spanish to type out what he say. ;_____;

    Quote Originally Posted by Mutant Sheep View Post
    *puts on Ski mask*

    Alright, see? This is a stick up. Fork over all your maple syrup and no one gets hurt.
    *bounds away with a comically oversized bag with the Maple leaf on it as some syrup leaks out*
    *pounds the armrest of throne impotently* Grrrr! SHEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl View Post
    Eh, I was planning funerals from the time I was eight. Mostly songs, but hey.
    And how are you dissatisfied with parts of your curriculum (in your part of the world)?
    Same. Usually songs. But now I know exactly what I want. There'll be a procession and my coffin shall be placed in a suitably depressing carriage pulled by six grey horses to a mausoleum surrounded by landscaped parklands with plenty of flowering trees.
    And there'll be choral singing.

    Okay... I don't know exactly what I want.


    Quote Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl View Post
    I often do.
    Often in my own posts.
    I'm rather good about derailing things. That and posting complete nonsense. See, I tend to hop rather rapidly (often in parenthesis) from topic to topic in a way that probably indicates my brain wiring is a little skewed. Maybe.
    I like it myself, but I tend to type as I talk (sometimes, not always (and I certainly don't talk about some of the things I talk about here in RL)) and this tendency does confuse/perplex/amuse/annoy the people with whom I'm talking.
    I haven't done a good-sized wall of text in a while either.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    I am calling CSIS on you if you start selling our water to Americans. THIS IS HOW IT STARTS, ZODALICIOUS.

    If they, or the Australians* for that matter, want snow, then they can fork over the silver for tourism.

    *With the exception of Elemental, and Mynxae if he will stop boasting about his cute cuddly boyfriend
    I'd gladly fork over silver if in order to visit Canada. After all, I've always wanted to go to Canada.
    But alas, I have not the precious metals to spend on travel.


    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    *sits on a high throne of maple and ice, dying a flock of flags with blood to flap like hacked wings against the coming blizzards*
    *places offerings of Golden Wattle and Cooktown Orchids before your throne*


    Quote Originally Posted by araveugnitsuga View Post
    *Approaches throne with a black matador cape, a burgundy vest, white shirt and black pants. Shortsword on hand and a venus flytrap pinned to the vest instead of a rose.

    "This is "El Golpe de Estado", Emperor of the Winter."
    No! Don't overthrow Kneenibble!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elemental View Post
    I'd gladly fork over silver if in order to visit Canada. After all, I've always wanted to go to Canada.
    But alas, I have not the precious metals to spend on travel.
    The saddest truth is that, even should you amass the wealth to visit Canada, my own shabby environs is the last place you'd want to visit. Lousy Prairie backwater with its century of failed dreams and gormless unwashed masses.

    Oy, I'm losing my perspicacity, I had to rewrite that sentence three times for it to make sense. I may need to go to bed.

    *places offerings of Golden Wattle and Cooktown Orchids before your throne*
    *Googles*

    Those colours would be gorgeous together.

    Mabel says hello, by the way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    The saddest truth is that, even should you amass the wealth to visit Canada, my own shabby environs is the last place you'd want to visit. Lousy Prairie backwater with its century of failed dreams and gormless unwashed masses.

    Oy, I'm losing my perspicacity, I had to rewrite that sentence three times for it to make sense. I may need to go to bed.
    I'm sure one merely needs to look beneath the surface.
    Whereabouts do you live? My brain seems to recall you saying that the prairies stretch endless to the West while also recalling that your city stands at the Western edge of them.
    Both can't be true...

    Anyway... Should I visit Canada, I will make certain to visit you despite how depressing you think the municipality in which you reside is.



    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    *Googles*

    Those colours would be gorgeous together.

    Mabel says hello, by the way.
    They would indeed be. But I chose them simply because Golden Wattle is the national flower of Australia and the Cooktown Orchid is the floral emblem of Queensland.

    And tell Mabel I say hello.
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    *sits on a high throne of maple and ice, dying a flock of flags with blood to flap like hacked wings against the coming blizzards*
    This sentence is why I love kneen so hard.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll View Post
    This sentence is why I love kneen so hard.
    But you loved him before he wrote that sentence...
    *gasp*

    You can see the future!?!?!?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mutant Sheep View Post
    Cynical Brits in media? Why, where have you gotten THAT idea, my dear?
    Oh, no idea. Just *deep breath* Monty Python, Blackadder, Red Dwarf, anything with Simon Cowell, Charlie Brooker, Yahtzee, Fawlty Towers, Piers Moron, Anne Robinson, half the people in That Mitchell and Webb Look, The Office, Ab Fab, Black Books, The Brittas Empire, Father Ted, The IT Crowd, Porridge, Only Fools and Horses, Not Going Out, Two Pints of Lager and A Packet of Crisps, Jimmy Carr, Bill Bailey, Yes, Minister and its sequel, Bottom, The Young Ones . . . I could go on.
    Oh, and then there are the shows that aren't comedy related or involve reality telly. Note: this is just tellybox shows. Don't get me started on literature or I actually will be here for hours.

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    [QUOTE=SaintRidley;14056525]Another really fun movie. Zydrate comes in a little glass vial (a little glass vial) and the little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery...

    Quote Originally Posted by Mynxae View Post
    I love that movie. I should rewatch it sometime... And the Zydrate gun goes somewhere against your anatomy, and when the gun goes off, it sparks, and you're ready for surgery, surgeryyyy...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elemental View Post
    Same. Usually songs. But now I know exactly what I want. There'll be a procession and my coffin shall be placed in a suitably depressing carriage pulled by six grey horses to a mausoleum surrounded by landscaped parklands with plenty of flowering trees.
    And there'll be choral singing.

    Okay... I don't know exactly what I want.
    Suitably depressing?
    You know, over here a really popular song to play at funerals is 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life', and for irony's sake 'Another One Bites the Dust'.
    (Also, 'My Way' by Frank Sinatra.)
    See also: cynical/darkly humorous Brits.

    But from the sounds of it, that seems fairly certain.

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    Bah! A mind that wonders is a sign of genius!
    And also surprisingly good for working out things...
    My tortuously circuitous thinking does lend itself to some interesting revelations at times. Or at least something fascinatingly warped.

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    No! Don't overthrow Kneenibble!
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    Also, he has darling tastes in clothes and most come over to the UK as soon as is feasibly possible because he's just that fabulous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    *flutters down from throne to nibble eyelashes*

    If you wish to enjoy snow, you must forswear your fresh mangoes and the indomitable verdiference of your subtropical gardens; your must forswear the inflorescence of hibiscus and the fertility of your vineyards, and suffer through the frozen darkness with the rest of us.
    *Pulls rapier from belt holder and points it in your direction

    Slander and lies, the mango is for those lost in the jungles; my hibiscus shall flower in a conservatory; vineyards I do not own, merely their by-products; this frozen darkness is a lie as well, for the lights of the Aurora Borealis touch upon you while I must conform with the visage of clouded skies and rains so mild they make my fantastic overcoat remain mostly unused in the everyday of living.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    I was going to try to transcribe the bit from the Simpsons episode where Bart calls Colombia to ask which way the water in their toilets drain, which is translated as "HE SAYS THE TIDE IS TURNING!" and the President shouts in Spanish "THE REBELS WILL SOON SEIZE THE CAPITAL! I MUST FLEE!" but I don't understand the Spanish to type out what he say. ;_____;
    Spanish is simple, take Latin add a latin touch to it.[/QUOTE]

    Golpe de Estado means coup d' etat almost literally, etat being estado or state and coup being golpe; Spanish even shortens it to just "Golpe" which is how it is also shortened in French. This is only natural considering both languages share a common ancestry and similarly insane Language Academies.

    HE SAYS THE TIDE IS TURNING!
    DICE QUE EL CAUDAL ESTÁ CAMBIANDO!

    THE REBELS WILL SOON SEIZE THE CAPITAL! I MUST FLEE!
    LOS REBELDES CAPTURARÁN LA CAPITAL! DEBO HUIR!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Elemental View Post
    I'm sure one merely needs to look beneath the surface.
    Whereabouts do you live? My brain seems to recall you saying that the prairies stretch endless to the West while also recalling that your city stands at the Western edge of them.
    Both can't be true...

    Anyway... Should I visit Canada, I will make certain to visit you despite how depressing you think the municipality in which you reside is.

    They would indeed be. But I chose them simply because Golden Wattle is the national flower of Australia and the Cooktown Orchid is the floral emblem of Queensland.

    And tell Mabel I say hello.
    A happy coincidence, then, because that buttery yellow and that purplish-pink march fabulously together, especially set off by green.

    I live in Winnipeg, which is perhaps 2/3 from the west end of the Prairies. To be fair, it's not altogether as horrible as I like to declaim -- I just need to move to a better neighbourhood. Every city has its underclass of subhuman cretins, I suppose, it just seems like the overly abundant inmates run the asylum around here.

    Mabel says she wants to bite your eyebrow, which is her preferred form of affection. It tickles pleasantly

    Quote Originally Posted by Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll View Post
    This sentence is why I love kneen so hard.
    *huuugs*

    Quote Originally Posted by CurlyKitGirl View Post
    Kneen is the most fabulous personage around.
    Also, he has darling tastes in clothes and most come over to the UK as soon as is feasibly possible because he's just that fabulous.
    My visit to the UK is inevitable. I have not-altogether-distant family somewhere in England, and I wish to visit the places whence my grandfather came such as Lincolnshire Cathedral where he used to play the organ. I often suffer pangs of homesickness for the country I have never set foot in, a kind of diaspora for an unseen homeland.

    [Once I left a phone message for my mother in a RP accent, and she did the same back to me -- and to hear my mother speaking in that accent was as if I heard her true voice for the first time. She sounded beautiful and I wanted to hug her.]

    I shall certainly wear my blue velvet coat and a garish handkerchief when, at that time, we become acquainted over claret, mademoiselle.

    Quote Originally Posted by araveugnitsuga View Post
    *Pulls rapier from belt holder and points it in your direction

    Slander and lies, the mango is for those lost in the jungles; my hibiscus shall flower in a conservatory; vineyards I do not own, merely their by-products; this frozen darkness is a lie as well, for the lights of the Aurora Borealis touch upon you while I must conform with the visage of clouded skies and rains so mild they make my fantastic overcoat remain mostly unused in the everyday of living.
    The Aurora is a beauty not to be adequately described, most certaignly, as is the beauty of a full moon glittering in an expanse of virgin snow laid in mounds on naked boughs. There are also frequent and fantastic thunderstorms during summer of which the endless prairie horizon gives perfect viewing.

    How about this -- when the inevitable blankets of opaline snow are laid, I will give you photography.

    Please don't stab me *tries to fluff out and look cute*

    Spanish is simple, take Latin add a latin touch to it.

    Golpe de Estado means coup d' etat almost literally, etat being estado or state and coup being golpe; Spanish even shortens it to just "Golpe" which is how it is also shortened in French. This is only natural considering both languages share a common ancestry and similarly insane Language Academies.

    HE SAYS THE TIDE IS TURNING!
    DICE QUE EL CAUDAL ESTÁ CAMBIANDO!

    THE REBELS WILL SOON SEIZE THE CAPITAL! I MUST FLEE!
    LOS REBELDES CAPTURARÁN LA CAPITAL! DEBO HUIR!
    Hahahahaha. Thank you. I love that scene.

    I heard a construction worker shouting in Spanish yesterday -- I think his accent was Mexican, but I am not certain -- and it made me think about how old Romans would have sounded shouting. The cadence of Spanish makes me think of Latin the most, of the three biggest Romance languages, even more than Italian [I get very, very few opportunities to hear Portuguese though].

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    The Aurora is a beauty not to be adequately described, most certaignly, as is the beauty of a full moon glittering in an expanse of virgin snow laid in mounds on naked boughs. There are also frequent and fantastic thunderstorms during summer of which the endless prairie horizon gives perfect viewing.
    Looketh, this are the reasons I yearn for fleeing from my land of births (an of ironic not origin); to the places where one can have the wonders of nature without having to leave the concepts of civilisation.
    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    How about this -- when the inevitable blankets of opaline snow are laid, I will give you photography.

    Please don't stab me *tries to fluff out and look cute*
    Seems like a fair tradeoff, a life for a photograph.
    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    Hahahahaha. Thank you. I love that scene.

    I heard a construction worker shouting in Spanish yesterday -- I think his accent was Mexican, but I am not certain -- and it made me think about how old Romans would have sounded shouting. The cadence of Spanish makes me think of Latin the most, of the three biggest Romance languages, even more than Italian [I get very, very few opportunities to hear Portuguese though].
    From said episode I myself prefer the one making fun of Argentina, if only because it's actually plausible considering it's track record.

    I believe it would have depended on the region and the origin of said shouter. A Roman in Spain wouldn't have sounded much different than a modern day Spanish speaker; unless you mean Roman as one born in Rome, in which case there would have been more hand gestures rather than words.

    I've never felt Portuguese to be close to Latin, it's certainly more melodic and I believe it has a wider gamma of sounds to work with. My main contact with it is mainly through Bossa Nova lyrics which is not a good way to judge a language though. My understanding is that if you know Portuguese you understand Spanish but not the other way around.

    Of the romance language apart from obviously Spanish I've had a relatively constant contact with Italian (due to my mother's side being entirely Italian) and the variations from my grandparents native regions.
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    Well this is odd...

    Is MSN working for anyone else who has MSN? Because for me it's not working.

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    Well this is odd...

    Is MSN working for anyone else who has MSN? Because for me it's not working.
    Testing......

    ... Oddly no =/
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    Testing......

    ... Oddly no =/
    Atleast its not me. That's good to know.

    So, hey, random question to everyone, but I've been getting a lot of texts from my phone provider telling me I'm allowed to upgrade my phone now, and I'm wondering...is it worth it? Because as it is, my cool little Samsung Flip Phone from like a billion years ago is in perfect condition, and does everything I want it to do.

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    In a word..... No.
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    Atleast its not me. That's good to know.

    So, hey, random question to everyone, but I've been getting a lot of texts from my phone provider telling me I'm allowed to upgrade my phone now, and I'm wondering...is it worth it? Because as it is, my cool little Samsung Flip Phone from like a billion years ago is in perfect condition, and does everything I want it to do.
    Personally, I'd say never spend money on something you don't actually need. Heck, if I wasn't required by my college to get this new laptop, I'd still be using my 8-year-old one that used to my my mother's, or the 11-year-old desktop that used to be my dad's.
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    Well my understanding was that it's a free upgrade.

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    Well my understanding was that it's a free upgrade.
    Read the small print, it's probably not as much free as "free" (as in "free phone, expensive subscription"). Companies seldom do something out of pure altruism, and modern moble phones ("smart"-phones) cost quite a lot.
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    Read the small print, it's probably not as much free as "free" (as in "free phone, expensive subscription"). Companies seldom do something out of pure altruism, and modern moble phones ("smart"-phones) cost quite a lot.
    Good point. I'm fine with my old flip phone anyway. Nothing's more stylish and "future techy" then flipping open your phone like a comminicator.

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    Some phone plans do include an upgrade without a change of the terms of the contract as part of the contract because of the expected lifespan of the phones involved.

    What, exactly, is the case here I can't determine because I have no knowledge of Canadian cellphone companies or how or if they differ from the ones here in the U.S.

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    I believe it would have depended on the region and the origin of said shouter. A Roman in Spain wouldn't have sounded much different than a modern day Spanish speaker; unless you mean Roman as one born in Rome, in which case there would have been more hand gestures rather than words.

    I've never felt Portuguese to be close to Latin, it's certainly more melodic and I believe it has a wider gamma of sounds to work with. My main contact with it is mainly through Bossa Nova lyrics which is not a good way to judge a language though. My understanding is that if you know Portuguese you understand Spanish but not the other way around.

    Of the romance language apart from obviously Spanish I've had a relatively constant contact with Italian (due to my mother's side being entirely Italian) and the variations from my grandparents native regions.
    This is all very interesting to me, thank you. You're a fascinating character.

    The few times I have heard [Brazilian] Portuguese, especially given the nubile male speaker, I had to visit the fainting couch for a while. I have also heard it told -- though by whom, or why, I remember not -- that it sounds the most Latiny. Now you tell me otherwise, and I am inclined to credit you more than my sketchy recollection.

    Of Romance, I am only acquainted with French; but I think of it as greatly deviated from its Latin progenitor: it does not make me think of machismo Romans the way Spanish does, nor does it sound at all in its lickable cadences like I imagine Latin to have had.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LaZodiac View Post
    So, hey, random question to everyone, but I've been getting a lot of texts from my phone provider telling me I'm allowed to upgrade my phone now, and I'm wondering...is it worth it? Because as it is, my cool little Samsung Flip Phone from like a billion years ago is in perfect condition, and does everything I want it to do.
    Not only is the contract going to be expensive to compensate for the equipment being free, but there is a chance the new phone will have features you never use and make the features you did use practically inaccessible if the time gap between phones is too big.

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    The few times I have heard [Brazilian] Portuguese, especially given the nubile male speaker, I had to visit the fainting couch for a while. I have also heard it told -- though by whom, or why, I remember not -- that it sounds the most Latiny. Now you tell me otherwise, and I am inclined to credit you more than my sketchy recollection.

    Of Romance, I am only acquainted with French; but I think of it as greatly deviated from its Latin progenitor: it does not make me think of machismo Romans the way Spanish does, nor does it sound at all in its lickable cadences like I imagine Latin to have.
    My mother and my sister have returned today from their voyage to Brazil; their experience confirms my recollection of Portuguese speakers understanding Spanish to a decent degree but not vice-versa, their video recordings are also rather enlightening in terms of informal Portuguese being spoken and why one should not ever enter a favela.

    I do coincide that French is rather different from Latin, even if part of it is due to my bias against French.

    The closest I have heard to Latin is one particular variation of Italian (or it may be a language of its own seeing as Italian "dialects" do seem to be independent languages according to academics, which has the side benefit of allowing me to qualify for polyglot.) which I heard from an uncle living in Sardinia, which I happened to understand slightly better than my mother who is fluent in Italian (mainly by virtue of hints of knowledge of Latin).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kneenibble View Post
    This is all very interesting to me, thank you. You're a fascinating character.

    The few times I have heard [Brazilian] Portuguese, especially given the nubile male speaker, I had to visit the fainting couch for a while. I have also heard it told -- though by whom, or why, I remember not -- that it sounds the most Latiny. Now you tell me otherwise, and I am inclined to credit you more than my sketchy recollection.

    Of Romance, I am only acquainted with French; but I think of it as greatly deviated from its Latin progenitor: it does not make me think of machismo Romans the way Spanish does, nor does it sound at all in its lickable cadences like I imagine Latin to have had.
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