Yeah, seeing my early even more pitiful knowledge of English brings warmth to my cold, dead heart too. --Nonimportant 18:40, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
How exposed are you to English compared to Spanish in Brazil? Still, you were the one who caught my use of "would have" instead of "would of" (dang mistaking it for would've)User:Serprex 21:13, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
Would you be surprised if I said I'm more exposed to English than to Spanish? I hope not. Canada and the USA have drawn the good sticks, here in Latin America, we couldn't even have newspapers while we were colonies, let alone industries and an independent government. The colony of Brazil has always looked at the Empires for guidance, first Portugal, then England and now...Movies, games, store names, people names, softwares: English is everywhere while we barely even read a word in Spanish. And that's because I live in a small town that isn't even on the map. In the school I study, that landed first in my town for the National Middle Teaching Exam, two of the students of my class boast the honour of never having read a book, and my English teacher is at a worse stage than I was when I wrote 2084. Still, the influence of English is ever-present even here in the middle of nowhere, while few schools even teach Spanish (mine does, the Spanish teacher is better than the English one, though). In the bigger cities, knowledge of English is a factor that can eliminate contestants for most jobs, while few require Spanish...sad, I know, but true. By the way, I got myself THE ENGLISH VERSION OF NEUROMANCER! WOHOOO! --Nonimportant 15:44, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Who needs to read books when we have Microsoft Sam? And yes, Yankee Imperialism seems to have taken the world. The world having a universal language is something the modern age requires, though English might not be the best choice. If all wasn't so culturally backwards compatible, we could be speaking Lojban and counting with bases of 12. Such dreams are not to be though, and so we'll never have the pleasure of doing math with a truly composite radix
I read Neuromancer for my G9 book report string thing. Unfortunately I took up reading before going to bed, and thus whenever Gibson started going off into crazy stuff I'd get lost. Reading books in single digit sittings really helps comprehensionUser:Serprex 01:33, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
Duuude, one knows the American government needs a better PR agency when even the Canadians start badmouthing "Yankee Imperialism". And don' t get me wrong, I have nothing against English, it's, in fact, an incredibly practical and easy to use language. As an added bonus great stuff was written in it, from Twain to Adams. I certainly would have a hard time if, say, mandarin was the One Language. Also, the decimal numerical system is the greatest numerical system ever invented and all that disagree should move to ancient Rome. --Nonimportant 20:14, 22 August 2008 (UTC)