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whats your fav animal

Cats - no kidding!

How many levels does the building you live in contain?

Including attic, three.

Do you play any musical instruments?

no, I learned to play the flute when I was 10 years old but forgotten it when I quit maybe a couple of years later

When did you ride a bike last time?

One that actually moves? Years ago. But I ride the stationary bike as part of my workout at least 4 days a week.

What is your favourite flavour of ice cream?

the fun off ice cream is the choosing of a certain flavour, meaning that it is more fun to change the flavour than having the same one.
so the favourite one must be the one I choose more than others? hm, maybe moka then
(or should i say the bitter orange I had last week? but I only had it once cause it was new)


do you sometimes have difficulties choosing and an angry shopkeeper impatiently waiting for you?

Sometimes choosing is tough with so much choice around but I do ok. An impatient shopkeeper or an angry one sounds somewhat stupid, imo, because he'd better should try to keep his customers coming.

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Shopping.... um, what was the last non food thing you bought? Plus are you satisfied with it?

a 16GB MicroSD memory card for my BlackBerry I got on eBay for 20 bucks and yes i am super happy with it. good ol' sandisk

Are you glad i am active on WP again?

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yeah, i like your enthousiasm (although i did not notice you weren't there for a while, I'm so damned subject focussed that I forget about the people behind the subjects, sorry!)

Does that happen to you? That you forget the people cause you're too focussed on the subject?

Yes, I have what you describe also a bit but I think I don't forget to whom I replying to, thou. I do have a somewhat nasty habit that I tend to go off topic easily and write what fits my lane. Get a bit off road, I suppose and I tend to be somewhat egocentric. Also getting a growing annoyance how much I use the word 'I' in a sentence. Don't know how to fix that.

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Probably not explainable but Dutch, French, other languages don't do this. But why do the English write 'I' with a capital letter in written language? Or does it bother you that some here don't?

I'm one of those who do not always uses capital letters, for I or other words, so for the annoyance no
Why it is so in English no idea, I'm Dutch speaking myself
(and I also have the so many I's in a sentence, and have a theory about it, maybe I can explain that someday)

So I pass the question to the next one
Same question

Not sure. It doesnt bother me except when my little cousin does it. He will have to write sentences for spelling and write i saw a ball

Since RandomKid didn't ask a new question, I'll try to answer the last one.

I assumed it was because "I" is referring to a person and is used instead of the speaker's name. This doesn't explain why "he" or "she" doesn't get capitalised. Everything I looked up said it was because I is a personal pronoun, so maybe its being personal gives it special status.

That's the thing about the English language I suppose, though. Lots of exceptions to rules. Maybe the capitalisation is a remnant of an older, more universal rule or something. I like it though. Using i looks dirty to me.

Do you find all the bizarre rules and daft exceptions in English to be annoying?

There aren't really that much exceptions a/o bizarre rules if one compares the English language with for instance the French, the German and the Dutch language. For me French is the most difficult one to get a grip on because it's quite different due to the fact it's a Roman based language. German has quite a few similarities with Dutch but it has for instance 3 articles, (without 'a and an' here) 'Der, das and die', for masculine, feminine and neutral. Dutch has two ~de and het, English one ~ the. I think the English is qua grammar the most logical of these three German based languages also.

Oh, an other thing what wonders me sometimes is that the English has different pronunciations while using the same vowel. I understand the use but the 'i, e and a' can be quite different pronunciation wise. French has this even more so but with the Spanish language and the Dutch one speak exactly all the letters there. No swallowing the end of a word, not pronouncing it. Blah (3x).

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This is actually going on at the moment, I think but what do you think about the idea that all humans around the globe should learn English, next to there native language of course, so we could all communicate better and solve things better this way? (other advantages as well)

As handy as it would be - especially for native English speakers - I don't like it. English isn't, as far as I know, the most commonly spoken language, so why English? Also, why would everyone need to learn a universal language, if they will mostly be talking to their countrymen who would speak the native language anyway. It would wind up either: being pointless because most wouldn't get much practice with English and so suck at it; or eliminate native language, and so native culture. That would be awful.

Of course, I doubt there would be a universal language for a long, long time anyway. Politics would get in the way.

(It's interesting you say there's less bizarre rules in English, Erminea. Here, we are always told (in French class) that English is a language of contradiction compared to others, and so others should be easier to learn. Could it be... that school has lied to me? Surely not! )

So, on subject of language. What's your favourite poem?

Let me tell you a story to chill the bones
About a thing that I saw
One night wandering in the everglades
I'd one drink but no more

I was rambling, enjoying the bright moonlight
Gazing up at the stars
Not aware of a presence so near to me
Watching my every move

Feeling scared and I fell to my knees
As something rushed me from the trees
Took me to an unholy place
And that is where I fell from grace

Then they summoned me over to join in with them
To the dance of the dead
Into the circle of fire I followed them
Into the middle I was led

As if time had stopped still I was numb with fear
But still I wanted to go
And the blaze of the fire did no hurt upon me
As I walked onto the coals

And I felt I was in a trance
And my spirit was lifted from me
And if only someone had the chance
To witness what happened to me

And I danced and I pranced and I sang with them
All had death in their eyes
Lifeless figures they were undead all of them
They had ascended from hell

As I danced with the dead
My free spirit was laughing and howling down at me
Below my undead body
Just danced the circle of dead

Until the time came to reunite us both
My spirit came back down to me
I didn't know if I was alive or dead
As the others all joined in with me

By luck then a skirmish started
And took the attention away from me
When they took their gaze from me
Was the moment that I fled

I ran like hell faster than the wind
But behind I did not glance
One thing that I did not dare
Was to look just straight ahead

When you know that your time has come around
You know you'll be prepared for it
Say your last goodbyes to everyone
Drink and say a prayer for it -circle of dead best food?