Why Bother Learning Spanish At All?

[Ed Normile]

Why would any sane person want to learn the Spanish language? Just for fun, maybe. I feel its a waste of effort and as a language its very un-PC, especially in these days of conservation. The language has many more letters to accomplish the same phrase than the English language, so its definitely wasteful on many levels, sure its a waste of letters, but it also wastes both papers and ink and bandwidth etc.

Take for example the simple question , Which way is center street ? 22 letters and 1 punctuation mark, translated to Spanish it becomes , ¿Qué camino es la calle del centro? 27 letters and 2 punctuation marks! Thats five extra letters and an extra punctuation mark. What a waste, talk about saving the planet, think of all the extra paper a book or even a letter to the editor would waste using this language, think of the extra trees cut down to print all the extra letters in any work written in the Spanish language. Where is the cry from the environmentalists demanding the banning of this wasteful language? What about all the extra lead pencils the kiddies have to use learning to write this language, all the extra ink wasted by the average Spanish person writing a letter. Its no wonder these people talk so fast, they have to, just to have time to accomplish anything else.

ed

[Maximilianus]

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Edited May 25, 2011 by Maximilianus

[MIKolbe]

Ed!!

I am impressed with your ability to count.

YAY Ed!!!!!

now if we could only get you not to drool when Michael McDonald comes on the TV.....

[Ed Normile]

[quote name='MIkolbe' timestamp='1306318716' post='2245707']
Ed!!

I am impressed with your ability to count.

YAY Ed!!!!!

now if we could only get you not to drool when Michael McDonald comes on the TV.....
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Aww, Mikolde, ya love me, don't ya?

ed

[Maximilianus]

You know Ed, more than half of Spain probably had similar thoughts when they decided to make castillian the official laguage over all the other spanish laguages, only I don't think the punctuation and letter counts differed much.

¡Olé!

[Vincent Vega]

Ed has a point. Why bother learning Spanish, when you could learn Portuguese? A última flor do Lácio, inculta e bela. :gosto:

[Maximilianus]

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Ed has a point. Why bother learning Spanish, when you could learn Portuguese? A última flor do Lácio, inculta e bela. :gosto:
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Parece galego.

[MIKolbe]

[quote name='USAirwaysIHS' timestamp='1306395093' post='2246145']
Why bother learning Spanish, when you could learn Portuguese? [/quote]

because the spanish are better than the portuguese.

[Pontifite 7 of 10]

No me gusta

[MIKolbe]

quiete lo seco

[dominicansoul]

me no caves nada

[MIKolbe]

tu no sabes nada

[dominicansoul]

[quote name='MIkolbe' timestamp='1306418744' post='2246181']
tu no sabes nada
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SI!!!

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='MIkolbe' timestamp='1306408522' post='2246164']
because the spanish are better than the portuguese.
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Perhaps it is so, but the Brazilians are better than all of the other Latins.

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='Maximilianus' timestamp='1306397363' post='2246149']
Parece galego.
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Parece que dizes "Te amo Maria".