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Re: OTR listees in Ca...
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> we should al speak mandarin - it's a complicated langauge - no
> tenses... which means you have to incredibly precise.
not really, you just infer the tense from the context, not really precision
at all. you usually say something to indicate whether it happened already
or it will happen in the future.
> actually, everyone should speak spanish - it's the best. (: and you can
> be more precise with /you/ and your tone can be conveyed with word and
> verb conjugations.
yes, the national standard language of the kitchen help...we would never get
any food anywhere without spanish. precision is overrated, my goal usually
is to be as vague as possible and leave the interpretation up to the
listener's imagination.
> actually, precision is possible with english, i just think that perhaps
> peopl ehave learned to be lazy with expression. why use a bigger word,
> when a bunch of little ones convey near to the same meaning?
bigger words don't necessarily bring precision, pretension maybe.
>because
> sometimes it is very good to be precise.
and sometimes its good to use complete sentences
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