Joss was right... Mandarin is the language of the future...

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Boy did he kill his career. What a waste. He drove off a cliff and left his fans at a loss. Defending him would be almost as bad as defending Trump.

T

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Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Boy did he kill his career. What a waste. He drove off a cliff and left his fans at a loss.

are you talking about the tv movie career of Joss
?

I thought I would leave this as a language thread

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Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
A expertos y líderes mundiales les preocupa el cierre del estrecho de Ormuz

Noticias Telemundo

¿Por qué ustedes, "expertos", no se inclinan y les muestro dónde va el monte Ormuz?

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

¿Por qué ustedes, "expertos", no se inclinan y les muestro dónde va el monte Ormuz?

For a time all Great Leaders are experts

and then all Empires Fall?

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Saturday, April 11, 2026 12:42 PM (P)

22 years after this thread was created and the only time I hear people speaking Chink talk is in the movies.

I think English is going to do just fine.

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Monday, April 13, 2026 1:12 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
22 years after this thread was created and the only time I hear people speaking Chink talk is in the movies.

but how many places did you visit since...you went to Brazil, Poland, Japan, Bulgaria, Argentina, South Korea, North Korea, France, Cuba, Peru, Turkmenistan, Austria, Russia, Vietnam, Lebanon, Italy, Philippines since?

have u even been to a local Chinatown in NYC or California?

if you want to find language I'm sure you can also find Arabic or Hispanic cultures in the USA

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Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
22 years after this thread was created and the only time I hear people speaking Chink talk is in the movies.

but how many places did you visit since...you went to Brazil, Poland, Japan, Bulgaria, Argentina, South Korea, North Korea, France, Cuba, Peru, Turkmenistan, Austria, Russia, Vietnam, Lebanon, Italy, Philippines since?

No. I haven't. Are you making a claim that people are speaking Chinese in any of these countries? That would be the first time I've EVER heard anybody making that particular claim.

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have u even been to a local Chinatown in NYC or California?

You wouldn't catch me dead in California or New York. But if I did go to a Chinatown, I would expect that they spoke Chinese there. I believe that Chicago has one too, and I've never been there even though it's in my backyard.

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if you want to find language I'm sure you can also find Arabic or Hispanic cultures in the USA

Well yeah... We all know that. Thanks Democrats.

But this is a thread about Chinese, and the Mexicans and sand jawas don't speak it.

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Monday, April 13, 2026 3:55 PM (P)

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

No. I haven't. Are you making a claim that people are speaking Chinese in any of these countries?

Chinatowns are everywhere

in the 80s and 90s they got populated with people fleeing HongKong the fear of politics going back to mainland Communist China

the Chinatowns of Brazil, Canada, Mexico City Spanish or Portuguese Chinatowns and barrios chinos, or bairros chines, SouthAfrica Chinatown, London, England as well as major Chinatowns in Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, and Manchester, Berlin, Rome Italy, Adelaide Chinatown Australia, Sydney Chinatown, Melbourne Chinatown, Bangkok Chinatown, Jakarta Chinatown, Yokohama Chinatown Japan...they spoke mostly Cantonese in a lot of these places not Mandarin then Mandarin Mainland speakers started to go overseas.
In the 1950s, 60s, 70s and 80s people didnt speak much of China it was closed off, no phones, no robots, no space satellites, the immigrant culture of 'Little Italy' or 'Little Tokyo' or people went to a Jew Yiddish Hebrew area, that was more important, some Japanese became part of the USA
Korean Americans had an impact
the Konglish or Koreatown shooting off the rooftops they probably saved a city from burning to the ground during the LA Riots, there is still a big Koreatown in New Jersey, USA
also the USA is becoming more 'Somali'

eventually Chinatowns will fade and get replaced by some other immigrant communities...the might even return home if the West goes to shit

immigrant cultures arrive and you get more 'Mexico' Spanglish, Arabia-stani, Brazil, Hindu-towns, Singlish, Africa Haiti communities, Slavics, Russian, Scottish, Ukraine, Vietnamese, Balkan and other Ethnic enclave.
...keep wars going and you will find movements and invasions of desperate peoples across the world.
Currently the Canadians looks like a giant mix of Bangladesh, Libya, India, Iraq, Kenya and Pakistan

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Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
South Korea thinks Trump has lost his mind and is posting Narcissism is a self-centered religion gibberish

Yes. I'm sure that South Korea is a hive mind. I'm sure all they do is sit around thinking about Trump all day long like Ted and Second too.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Why 'English kindergartens' remain popular in Korea despite rising costs and government crackdowns

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Why would they crack down on this?

They are getting these kids reading more English by 6 years old than US Schools do by high school.

Good for the Koreans.

Americans are a bunch of illiterate apes. Especially anybody under 30 years old.

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