The revelation about classified docs discovered left at Biden’s think tank while he was VP certainly makes any sort of attempt to prosecute Trump for his several orders of magnitude more defensible sins regarding classified documents seem absurdly hypocritical (not that the regime has ever cared about being hypocrites I guess).
If you think crows are smart, you should look into what ravens can do. It’s almost scary. Crows look stupid compared to ravens.
If you think crows are smart, you should look into what ravens can do.
Basically the entire corvid family (which includes crows, ravens, jackdaws, and bluejays) are braniacs. They’re arguably smarter than parrots.
And smarter than your average Dem.
Kabuki theater from the GOP House: voting on a Fair Tax and eliminating the IRS and current tax code. As if this will actually happen. I doubt it would even happen if the GOP had the Senate and Presidency.
“And smarter than your average Dem.”
Probably more honest, too: “A Gallup Poll rated 17 professions according to ratings of honesty and ethical standards. Nurses are on top, while politicians wind up just above telemarketers. . . . Only 2% of Americans say the ethical standards of their elected representatives are ‘very high’ and only 7% say they are ‘high,’ according to a Gallup Poll.”
physicsguy, I agree the Fair Tax bill isn’t going anywhere. Other bills are aimed at 2024: We passed a bill to eliminate those 87,000 new IRS agents, but the Senate Democrats wouldn’t pass it.
Where it will begin to bite is if the House sticks to its guns on passing single-issue or single-department bills and refusing to take up Senate-generated monstrosities.
On crows: For unknown reasons, my English Springer Spaniel has a strong objection to big black birds. She’ll vigorously chase them out of the yard. If she sees them from inside, she’ll attempt to break down the door to get out to chase them.
She also chases Sandhill Cranes, Great Blue Herons, and Bald Eagles (!!). Fortunately she doesn’t catch them.
How much learning/training was involved to get to this level? What did the first time look like? What looks like animal reasoning is often habit or reading cues – or training the trainer…
You think crows are smart, you should look into Octopi.
“Biden’s think tank” wins the contest for “non-sequitur of the day!”
Next target the backyard barbie in all its manifestations, from air emissions to unsafe (charred) food. Let loose the dogs of war! Or the EPA, FDA, CPSA, …. Ugly?
For the planet and the children!
Barry Meislin and om: “Dr.” Jill cooks on a gas stove:
Brandon may have to make do with pudding cups and ice cream . . .
When I would go to the beach in San Francisco, I saw about as many crows as sea gulls.
It looked like the crows were starting to displace gulls. I wondered if I was seeing evolution in action.
Maybe not. Perhaps crows have always been at the beach, but I hadn’t noticed before. Though, I’m sure it wasn’t true and still isn’t on Florida beaches.
It looks like Kevin McCarthy is starting to Bring It to the Dems:
___________________________
Kevin McCarthy kicked Ilhan Omar, Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell off powerful committees, just as he said he would do in November. The move comes two years after Pelosi banned Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar from all committees.
huxley says, quoting Don Surber: Paybacks aren’t a bitch. Pelosi is.
Speaking of the former Speaker, has anyone seen any updates about her husband and his late-night “visitor”? David DePape disappeared from the headlines pretty quickly after the fracas.
Think dunk maybe
Shouldn’t be necessary to post this, really.
I mean it’s all so obvious.
Oh, what the heck…
“Biden Is Lying About The Jobs Data”— https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-lying-about-jobs-data
Opening grafs:
‘ The personal savings rate is near seventeen-year lows. Credit card debt is at record levels. Millions of prime-age workers have quit the job market, and full-time employment continues to wither.
‘ On the other hand, the Biden Administration wants you to think things have never been better.
‘ Last week, following the release of December’s jobs data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Biden crowed that “Real wages are up in recent months … and we are seeing welcome signs that inflation is coming down as well.” Biden concluded by saying “it’s a good time to be a worker in America.”
‘ Unfortunately, things aren’t nearly as good as the White House and its accomplices in the corporate media would have us believe….’
Reading between the stutters, “Biden”‘s message seems to be that since things could be so much worse, Americans should, right now, be happy, contented, satisfied.
Yep, that’s right…!
…because things WILL BE GETTING much much worse….
The reason? “It’s the policy, stupid”…
Crows will bring you gifts if they take a liking to you. Small shiny things, coins, smooth pebbles, etc. Really. They put them on your windowsill. And they’ll hang out nearby and watch to see that you find their gifts. If there are crows in your neighborhood, you can be sure they’re watching you and judging you. So be nice to them. If a crow is your friend, he/she will be your friend for life.
Clearly, the determinate factor in animal intelligence is not the size of the brain. It would be interesting to see the difference between a crow or raven’s brain and say a pigeon’s. The real question is why are crows and ravens so smart compared to their cousins? Though for that matter, compared to less intelligent animals? Plus, what benefit does that increased intelligence provide, when other animals thrive without it?
huxley,
I only recall seeing sea/beach type birds on Florida beaches. I think I do occasionally see a black bird (crow? raven?), but I can’t recall seeing many. In the areas near beachside eateries, where there are a lot of stray french fries, etc., it’s the beach birds that congregate; sanderling, plover, tern…
If a crow is your friend, he/she will be your friend for life.
IrishOtter49:
Great stuff!
I couldn’t help but remember Don Corleone’s words on friendship:
______________________________
What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you’d come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you.
______________________________
I can see a crow giving that speech.
The past two weeks I confess I’ve been watching, listening, reading English subtitles and crooning along (horribly) to French Ye-ye songs for five or six hours a day. Which, I suppose, sounds a bit crazy.
I can live with that.
The fever has broken and it’s something of a relief. It accomplished a purpose though. I’m now committed to French.
huxley,
It sounds like you may have happened onto the advice I was going to give you for learning a foreign language.
I was maybe about 2 years into my German study. Coming along alright. I could sort of speak and, if the person stuck to the parameters of the dialogues I studied I could often understand some of what others were saying. Around that time I was speaking with a native speaker. I was getting everything right. I sounded like an exam. It was also taking me about 5 minutes to speak each sentence. Finally, exasperatedly, during one of my prolonged sentences she interrupted me and said, in German, “Just say it! I know German isn’t your first language!”
What she meant was; “Stop trying to be perfect. I want to have a conversation, not study a textbook.” At that instant I thought about all the thousands of foreign speakers I’d spoken to in my life. Despite English not being their first language I had had a lot of fun, interesting conversations with people. And I thought about all of their ability in English. Many were not College educated. Some probably hadn’t graduated the equivalent of High School. All made mistakes. Even some of the very well educated folks, who had studied English for years, and spoke grammatically correct, still had thick accents. And I didn’t care one bit. What I cared about was communicating with them.
It was then I realized that I must have a thick and obvious American accent when I spoke German. I wasn’t fooling anyone. And fooling people was never my intent. My intent was always to have conversations with people who spoke German. So I started relaxing and stopped worrying about how I sounded, or if I was speaking correctly and it was a huge accelerant. My conversational ability started increasing in leaps and bounds after that. (And, sort-of through osmosis, my grammar and pronunciation even improved.)
Examples to follow…
Like French, German has gender. Unlike French it has three rather than two. And, unlike French or English, but like Latin, German articles, nouns and adjectives decline based on their use in a sentence. A masculine noun used as a direct object has a different ending than the same noun used as an indirect object. And so does its article, which also has a gender!
We English speakers struggle with gender. It’s probably hard for you to keep up with in French. Well, when I started speaking at a conversational pace, rather than a “perfect grammar” pace, I often didn’t have time to think about gender, or a noun’s usage in a sentence (nominative, genitive, dative or accusative) so I would just quickly say, “duh” for the article. Rather than stopping to ponder out if it were “der, die, das, des, dem or den” I’d just quickly say, “duh” and go right into the noun. I’m not sure people always noticed, but if they did they preferred speaking with me making that mistake than waiting five minutes for me to get it right.
In movies they’ll often do this with Italians when speaking English, “Boss, the motor she no work.” It’s a funny way for the writer to get across that it’s a foreigner speaking English. They add gender where we have none. Well, I do stuff like that with German. I may say the train “he” is late, rather than “she” is late, or the car, she is here, rather than the car, it is here. There is no confusion. People understand exactly what I mean and because I ignore the very difficult (for English speakers) concept of gender I can speak much more quickly. And, my accent is likely so thick even if I say, “The car, it has arrived,” it’s still going to be obvious a foreigner is speaking.
And, the more, normal paced conversations you have with people the more words you use, the more words you hear, the more you get used to hearing the words spoken properly by them which makes you a better and better speaker. In time, you’ll find yourself using the proper gender more and more often not because you’ve memorized the gender but because you’ve heard the word used in sentences properly often enough that it only sounds correct when you use the proper gender.
We should make that crow President- higher IQ.
RTF:
You are doubtless familiar with Mark Twain’s essay, “The Awful German Language”:
Twain got one thing wrong, however: “To continue with the German genders: a tree is male, its buds are female, its leaves are neuter; horses are sexless, dogs are male, cats are female — tomcats included, of course . . . .” Now while it is true that the generic German noun for “cat” is feminine (“die Katze”)– unlike the Romance languages, in which the generic “cat” is masculine (“le chat,” “el gato,” “il gatto”) and the speaker must specify that a particular cat is female (“la chatte,” “la gatta,” etc.), the German speaker must indicate that a particular cat is a tomcat by referring to him as “der Kater.” For example, the “Puss in Boots” character (“Le chat botté,” in Charles Perrault’s seventeenth-century French version) is “Der Kater mit den Zauberstiefeln” in German. Now since Twain was a noted cat lover (see https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mark-twain-liked-cats-better-people-180965265/), it is remarkable that he did not perceive the sensitivity of the German language to tomcats.
Feline concerns aside, I found standard High German much easier to learn than the Pennsylfaanisch Deitsch (aka “die Muddersproch”) dialect of my home county. The dialect has changed down the years by the loss of the dative case, the adoption of English loan words, and the historic lack of a spelling standard. OTOH, Kutztown State University still offers a minor in Pennsylvania German Studies. If you want to practice German on a casual basis, just come to southeastern Pennsylvania.
@ Barry > ” “Biden” targets grandmothers:
“Biden admin moves to ban gas stoves, citing clean energy policy, switch will cost U.S. households; … It’s about to get real ugly…”
Meanwhile, there is a bipartisan call in Congress for an alternative to having Americans buy an electric stove, which costs about $400.
Lawmakers have asked the commission to consider requiring warning labels, range hoods and performance standards and say gas-stove emissions a “cumulative burden” on black, Latino and low-income households that disproportionately experience air pollution,
You know what else is a cumulative burden on black, Latino and low-income households?
Buying $400 stoves that don’t work when the grid is down because of useless solar and wind energy “sources”.
You can have my gas stove when you pry the skillet from my cold dead fingers.
Alex Stein has one of the most fascinating hobbies of all time. It’s always something different. Latest episode:
The sadness is palpable, likewise the flag desecration.
}}} We English speakers struggle with gender.
Yeah, I despise this crap. Sorry, why is a “table” whatever the eph gender it is?
English does have its issues, but it’s more the size of the vocab and the inane spelling…. ah… “rules”** than the grammar, which is moderately elementary.
That’s why, if you want a moderately serious language to learn, I assert that Japanese is it. Yeah, you’ll need to learn Kanji, but that’s only if you want to write and read it. 😀
Hilarious.
Shaw must be totally jealous to see that improvement on his Simplified Alphabet.
“but that’s only if you want to write and read it”
PA Cat,
Yes, very familiar with Sam Clemens’ writing on German. I am a huge fan of his writing.
RTF–
I like to think that Sam Clemens was standing behind St. Peter to greet his fellow cat lover, Benedict XVI, when the Pope Emeritus showed up at the Pearly Gates– and that Sam promptly gave Josef Ratzinger plenary absolution for having been a native speaker of German.
his line about your livelihood and property being in danger, when the legislature is in session, is right on point,
…And Congress being our only native criminal class.
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Crows are very smart and can count to three.
Crows are my favorite bird. Big personalities.
The revelation about classified docs discovered left at Biden’s think tank while he was VP certainly makes any sort of attempt to prosecute Trump for his several orders of magnitude more defensible sins regarding classified documents seem absurdly hypocritical (not that the regime has ever cared about being hypocrites I guess).
If you think crows are smart, you should look into what ravens can do. It’s almost scary. Crows look stupid compared to ravens.
If you think crows are smart, you should look into what ravens can do.
Basically the entire corvid family (which includes crows, ravens, jackdaws, and bluejays) are braniacs. They’re arguably smarter than parrots.
And smarter than your average Dem.
Kabuki theater from the GOP House: voting on a Fair Tax and eliminating the IRS and current tax code. As if this will actually happen. I doubt it would even happen if the GOP had the Senate and Presidency.
“And smarter than your average Dem.”
Probably more honest, too: “A Gallup Poll rated 17 professions according to ratings of honesty and ethical standards. Nurses are on top, while politicians wind up just above telemarketers. . . . Only 2% of Americans say the ethical standards of their elected representatives are ‘very high’ and only 7% say they are ‘high,’ according to a Gallup Poll.”
https://nypost.com/2023/01/10/members-of-congress-rank-only-above-telemarketers-in-poll-on-ethics-honesty/
“Biden” targets grandmothers:
“Biden admin moves to ban gas stoves, citing clean energy policy, switch will cost U.S. households;
“Natural gas stoves are used in about 40% of U.S. homes.”—
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/biden-admin-moves-ban-gas-stoves-citing-clean-energy-policy-switch-will
It’s about to get real ugly…
physicsguy, I agree the Fair Tax bill isn’t going anywhere. Other bills are aimed at 2024: We passed a bill to eliminate those 87,000 new IRS agents, but the Senate Democrats wouldn’t pass it.
Where it will begin to bite is if the House sticks to its guns on passing single-issue or single-department bills and refusing to take up Senate-generated monstrosities.
On crows: For unknown reasons, my English Springer Spaniel has a strong objection to big black birds. She’ll vigorously chase them out of the yard. If she sees them from inside, she’ll attempt to break down the door to get out to chase them.
She also chases Sandhill Cranes, Great Blue Herons, and Bald Eagles (!!). Fortunately she doesn’t catch them.
How much learning/training was involved to get to this level? What did the first time look like? What looks like animal reasoning is often habit or reading cues – or training the trainer…
You think crows are smart, you should look into Octopi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLv1NsX7Ztk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKWssIQplw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=303S9kOxd0c
And, face it, just challenge a squirrel to get a nut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg5wznn3IBE
“Biden’s think tank” wins the contest for “non-sequitur of the day!”
Next target the backyard barbie in all its manifestations, from air emissions to unsafe (charred) food. Let loose the dogs of war! Or the EPA, FDA, CPSA, …. Ugly?
For the planet and the children!
Barry Meislin and om: “Dr.” Jill cooks on a gas stove:
https://twitter.com/ChristinaPushaw/status/1612798737851768832
Brandon may have to make do with pudding cups and ice cream . . .
When I would go to the beach in San Francisco, I saw about as many crows as sea gulls.
It looked like the crows were starting to displace gulls. I wondered if I was seeing evolution in action.
Maybe not. Perhaps crows have always been at the beach, but I hadn’t noticed before. Though, I’m sure it wasn’t true and still isn’t on Florida beaches.
It looks like Kevin McCarthy is starting to Bring It to the Dems:
___________________________
Kevin McCarthy kicked Ilhan Omar, Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell off powerful committees, just as he said he would do in November. The move comes two years after Pelosi banned Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar from all committees.
Paybacks aren’t a bitch. Pelosi is.
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2023/01/mccarthy-cleans-house.html?spref=tw
___________________________
Messr. Surber has a way with words.
huxley says, quoting Don Surber: Paybacks aren’t a bitch. Pelosi is.
Speaking of the former Speaker, has anyone seen any updates about her husband and his late-night “visitor”? David DePape disappeared from the headlines pretty quickly after the fracas.
Think dunk maybe
Shouldn’t be necessary to post this, really.
I mean it’s all so obvious.
Oh, what the heck…
“Biden Is Lying About The Jobs Data”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-lying-about-jobs-data
Opening grafs:
‘ The personal savings rate is near seventeen-year lows. Credit card debt is at record levels. Millions of prime-age workers have quit the job market, and full-time employment continues to wither.
‘ On the other hand, the Biden Administration wants you to think things have never been better.
‘ Last week, following the release of December’s jobs data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Biden crowed that “Real wages are up in recent months … and we are seeing welcome signs that inflation is coming down as well.” Biden concluded by saying “it’s a good time to be a worker in America.”
‘ Unfortunately, things aren’t nearly as good as the White House and its accomplices in the corporate media would have us believe….’
Reading between the stutters, “Biden”‘s message seems to be that since things could be so much worse, Americans should, right now, be happy, contented, satisfied.
Yep, that’s right…!
…because things WILL BE GETTING much much worse….
The reason? “It’s the policy, stupid”…
Crows will bring you gifts if they take a liking to you. Small shiny things, coins, smooth pebbles, etc. Really. They put them on your windowsill. And they’ll hang out nearby and watch to see that you find their gifts. If there are crows in your neighborhood, you can be sure they’re watching you and judging you. So be nice to them. If a crow is your friend, he/she will be your friend for life.
I am not kidding about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS-0X3SLSCY
Clearly, the determinate factor in animal intelligence is not the size of the brain. It would be interesting to see the difference between a crow or raven’s brain and say a pigeon’s. The real question is why are crows and ravens so smart compared to their cousins? Though for that matter, compared to less intelligent animals? Plus, what benefit does that increased intelligence provide, when other animals thrive without it?
huxley,
I only recall seeing sea/beach type birds on Florida beaches. I think I do occasionally see a black bird (crow? raven?), but I can’t recall seeing many. In the areas near beachside eateries, where there are a lot of stray french fries, etc., it’s the beach birds that congregate; sanderling, plover, tern…
If a crow is your friend, he/she will be your friend for life.
IrishOtter49:
Great stuff!
I couldn’t help but remember Don Corleone’s words on friendship:
______________________________
What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you’d come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you.
______________________________
I can see a crow giving that speech.
The past two weeks I confess I’ve been watching, listening, reading English subtitles and crooning along (horribly) to French Ye-ye songs for five or six hours a day. Which, I suppose, sounds a bit crazy.
I can live with that.
The fever has broken and it’s something of a relief. It accomplished a purpose though. I’m now committed to French.
huxley,
It sounds like you may have happened onto the advice I was going to give you for learning a foreign language.
I was maybe about 2 years into my German study. Coming along alright. I could sort of speak and, if the person stuck to the parameters of the dialogues I studied I could often understand some of what others were saying. Around that time I was speaking with a native speaker. I was getting everything right. I sounded like an exam. It was also taking me about 5 minutes to speak each sentence. Finally, exasperatedly, during one of my prolonged sentences she interrupted me and said, in German, “Just say it! I know German isn’t your first language!”
What she meant was; “Stop trying to be perfect. I want to have a conversation, not study a textbook.” At that instant I thought about all the thousands of foreign speakers I’d spoken to in my life. Despite English not being their first language I had had a lot of fun, interesting conversations with people. And I thought about all of their ability in English. Many were not College educated. Some probably hadn’t graduated the equivalent of High School. All made mistakes. Even some of the very well educated folks, who had studied English for years, and spoke grammatically correct, still had thick accents. And I didn’t care one bit. What I cared about was communicating with them.
It was then I realized that I must have a thick and obvious American accent when I spoke German. I wasn’t fooling anyone. And fooling people was never my intent. My intent was always to have conversations with people who spoke German. So I started relaxing and stopped worrying about how I sounded, or if I was speaking correctly and it was a huge accelerant. My conversational ability started increasing in leaps and bounds after that. (And, sort-of through osmosis, my grammar and pronunciation even improved.)
Examples to follow…
Like French, German has gender. Unlike French it has three rather than two. And, unlike French or English, but like Latin, German articles, nouns and adjectives decline based on their use in a sentence. A masculine noun used as a direct object has a different ending than the same noun used as an indirect object. And so does its article, which also has a gender!
We English speakers struggle with gender. It’s probably hard for you to keep up with in French. Well, when I started speaking at a conversational pace, rather than a “perfect grammar” pace, I often didn’t have time to think about gender, or a noun’s usage in a sentence (nominative, genitive, dative or accusative) so I would just quickly say, “duh” for the article. Rather than stopping to ponder out if it were “der, die, das, des, dem or den” I’d just quickly say, “duh” and go right into the noun. I’m not sure people always noticed, but if they did they preferred speaking with me making that mistake than waiting five minutes for me to get it right.
In movies they’ll often do this with Italians when speaking English, “Boss, the motor she no work.” It’s a funny way for the writer to get across that it’s a foreigner speaking English. They add gender where we have none. Well, I do stuff like that with German. I may say the train “he” is late, rather than “she” is late, or the car, she is here, rather than the car, it is here. There is no confusion. People understand exactly what I mean and because I ignore the very difficult (for English speakers) concept of gender I can speak much more quickly. And, my accent is likely so thick even if I say, “The car, it has arrived,” it’s still going to be obvious a foreigner is speaking.
And, the more, normal paced conversations you have with people the more words you use, the more words you hear, the more you get used to hearing the words spoken properly by them which makes you a better and better speaker. In time, you’ll find yourself using the proper gender more and more often not because you’ve memorized the gender but because you’ve heard the word used in sentences properly often enough that it only sounds correct when you use the proper gender.
We should make that crow President- higher IQ.
RTF:
You are doubtless familiar with Mark Twain’s essay, “The Awful German Language”:
https://www.viaggio-in-germania.de/awful-german-language.pdf
Twain got one thing wrong, however: “To continue with the German genders: a tree is male, its buds are female, its leaves are neuter; horses are sexless, dogs are male, cats are female — tomcats included, of course . . . .” Now while it is true that the generic German noun for “cat” is feminine (“die Katze”)– unlike the Romance languages, in which the generic “cat” is masculine (“le chat,” “el gato,” “il gatto”) and the speaker must specify that a particular cat is female (“la chatte,” “la gatta,” etc.), the German speaker must indicate that a particular cat is a tomcat by referring to him as “der Kater.” For example, the “Puss in Boots” character (“Le chat botté,” in Charles Perrault’s seventeenth-century French version) is “Der Kater mit den Zauberstiefeln” in German. Now since Twain was a noted cat lover (see https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mark-twain-liked-cats-better-people-180965265/), it is remarkable that he did not perceive the sensitivity of the German language to tomcats.
Feline concerns aside, I found standard High German much easier to learn than the Pennsylfaanisch Deitsch (aka “die Muddersproch”) dialect of my home county. The dialect has changed down the years by the loss of the dative case, the adoption of English loan words, and the historic lack of a spelling standard. OTOH, Kutztown State University still offers a minor in Pennsylvania German Studies. If you want to practice German on a casual basis, just come to southeastern Pennsylvania.
@ Barry > ” “Biden” targets grandmothers:
“Biden admin moves to ban gas stoves, citing clean energy policy, switch will cost U.S. households; … It’s about to get real ugly…”
That one was debunked almost immediately.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/10/no-new-study-does-not-link-gas-stoves-with-asthma-in-children/
The mocking took a little longer, but has momentum.
https://notthebee.com/article/biden-admin-is-considering-banning-gas-stoves-in-your-kitchen-to-keep-you-safe
This from JtN is almost funny —
You know what else is a cumulative burden on black, Latino and low-income households?
Buying $400 stoves that don’t work when the grid is down because of useless solar and wind energy “sources”.
You can have my gas stove when you pry the skillet from my cold dead fingers.
Alex Stein has one of the most fascinating hobbies of all time. It’s always something different. Latest episode:
Dontarius Vs Ukrainian Protesters
The sadness is palpable, likewise the flag desecration.
}}} We English speakers struggle with gender.
Yeah, I despise this crap. Sorry, why is a “table” whatever the eph gender it is?
English does have its issues, but it’s more the size of the vocab and the inane spelling…. ah… “rules”** than the grammar, which is moderately elementary.
That’s why, if you want a moderately serious language to learn, I assert that Japanese is it. Yeah, you’ll need to learn Kanji, but that’s only if you want to write and read it. 😀
——
** Needless:
Maihem In Ce Klasrum (1946)
https://www.angelfire.com/va3/timshenk/codes/meihem.html
@ OBloodyHell > “Maihem In Ce Klasrum (1946)”
Hilarious.
Shaw must be totally jealous to see that improvement on his Simplified Alphabet.
“but that’s only if you want to write and read it”
PA Cat,
Yes, very familiar with Sam Clemens’ writing on German. I am a huge fan of his writing.
RTF–
I like to think that Sam Clemens was standing behind St. Peter to greet his fellow cat lover, Benedict XVI, when the Pope Emeritus showed up at the Pearly Gates– and that Sam promptly gave Josef Ratzinger plenary absolution for having been a native speaker of German.
his line about your livelihood and property being in danger, when the legislature is in session, is right on point,
…And Congress being our only native criminal class.