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Posted by Nilet on Tue Aug 19 23:57:26 2014, in response to Re: An Article Worth Reading: Why They Hate Israel, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Tue Aug 19 23:38:54 2014. Your closed mindedness is getting in the way of any potential for constructive conversation. You should see about changing that.I take it this is standard boilerplate you type at the beginning of every post in an Internet Waor because taking it on its merits, it's far more applicable to you than to me. It is foolish to speak a foreign language less than perfectly on a message board where the discussion is not usually in that language... No. That the language isn't commonly used on the message board actually makes imperfections more acceptable, since there's no expectation that I should speak it at all. ... and where you are going to be judged for your inability to use the language... See, you're admitting to your closed-mindedness right there. Most people don't "judge" other people for being less than perfectly fluent in an arbitrary foreign language. ... on top of anything else ridiculous you might say. Luckily, I haven't said anything ridiculous. You can't claim the same distinction, while Gamera rarely if ever says anything that isn't ridiculous. As you point out, you haven't had any practical reason to speak Hebrew lately, and therefore, you should probably avoid doing so for less than useful endeavors. Gamera started it. Would you have preferred that I respond in English? That I pretend not to understand? Fact is, that entire exchange was meaningless in any language. My inability to speak Icelandic has no bearing on this conversation since I would never claim to be familiar with the language, I have never been to Iceland, and have no plans at present to do so. Well, I would never claim to be fluent in Hebrew, I've never been to Israel, and any plans to do so are on hold indefinitely (because travel is expensive and Israel doesn't have good trains). So I suppose if I were to address you in Icelandic, I would have every right to expect perfect fluency from you? If you responded in broken but generally intelligible Icelandic, it would make you "foolish?" |
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