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"What about love?"

"Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate."

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Excessive amounts of chocolate consumed within a period of less than three hours is toxic to humans...

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.:Excessive amounts of love within a period of less than three hours is not good.

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"Your theories are the worse kind of popular tripe, your methods are sloppy and your conclusions are highly questionable. You're a poor scientist..."

"...but the students love us!"

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Two things...

speaking another language and speaking with a cool accent...

scratch that last one... speaking with an accent and sounding cool or cute...

It might be just me and my lack of speaking anything but Englsih fluently, but I am envious, I am impressed, and I am humbled by those that can speak more than one language...

so I have been victimized by my American upbringing and taught to speak the language of the country in which I was raised.

I think I was told once that I was never taught Tagalog because of either the fear of me getting confused or the fear of me having an accent.

Understandable, looking from the perspective of my parents, their desire for their children to assimilate into a country which was founded by white, european settlers who did not want to pay their taxes...

Accents and taglish would have, in their minds, segregated us even more...

Would things be different if I had learned Tagalog... sure...
Would things be different if I kept learning French... of course...
Would things be different if I took that four month long exchange program in Japan... most definitely...

but I did not, so there you have it.

I listen to Lorie speaking with her family in Vietnamese, and I am dumbfounded - and paranoid because I do not know if they are talking about me, and what they were saying if they were...

I listen to my mom talk to our family and friends, and I want to converse without sounding like an idiot - but that could very well be the case, even in English...

Everything sounds cooler to me when it is in another language...

mysterious...

complex...

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foreign.... :-P

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the same could be said about accents... people become more attractive than they allowed... people sound smarter than they are actually... phrases sound softer or carry more weight...

but then again, this is just me.

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in elementary school, I played this computer game in which I was mayor or president or something in the distant future...

the science in the game had created this nugget that gave all knowledge to all of the human children who ate it... kinda biblical, hunh? But the dolphins who got much smarter could not consume the nugget, so they had to go to school - but that is another story...

anyhow, does anyone know of a nugget that can allow me to be omni-lingual?

no?

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maybe in the future...

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five drops and then speak the words...

"Klaatu... Barrada... Nnn... nnn... Necktie!..."