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    Those two guys speak like that in the movie Airplane.

    Leeza: It might be a port city or close to the Black sea. Near Poti maybe. I'd have to check again though, but I've read about it in a book. It is a very small town, and EVERYONE is Russian Orthodox. Ok, this was all off topic.

    EDIT: Ok, there's a map and I was wrong.

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    Fo shizzle, my nizzle.

    My mom's family always switches up the languages they speak whenever they converse. They go back and forth between English and Spanish, and sometimes ask me if I understand what they're saying. More often than not, I don't.

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    Kola is the peninsula northeast of Finland. Norway and the Soviets didn't use to have a land-border before the wars cause we had another arm there, called the Petsamo area known for its mines. Murmansk is pretty close to that area.

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    Yes, Mother Finland's left arm is still missing 'cause Russia stole it.
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    No, MAIDEN Finland. >:O Sweden is the old crone, Moder Svea. *_*

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    Oh yeah, that hag. ;-)
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    What's Norway? Anyone know? I know England is that funny Bull-guy, and I guess the US is Sam, but what is Norway? Oh yeah, and Ireland is the harp, right? There must be some list on the net or something.

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    Wikipedia to the rescue! Blast, it only gives the lion as Finland's symbol. Well, at least OUR lion has a gauntlet and a crown.
    Last edited by Nait; 02-21-2004 at 07:43 PM.

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    Make your own forums about how great Finland is and I'll join, just stop talking about it here.

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    Oh yeah, Yama is a Knight now-a-days. Fine.

    I tend not to switch languages when I speak with people, except if it's someone I know who knows swedish but of who I am not sure whether he or she prefers swedish. Here, have a chart:

    http://www.geocities.com/naitsirk85/languages.html

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    I listen to it. I speak it occasionally, just for fun. I have no problem with it

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    There's this girl at my school who speaks some Japanese and tries to have conversations with me and others in that language, when she knows we don't speak any of it. I think that's impolite and annoying. I don't mind language-switching, as long as everyone involved in the conversation can understand it.

    I wish I spoke other languages besides English. I really want to become fluent in Spanish, but the language department at my school isn't that great and it's going very slowly. I also dislike my teacher, and that doesn't help. =\ And I like ebonics.

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    I don't mind, provided I can understand it.

    Sometimes, when I talk to my old German teacher, she speaks in German and I respond in English. Mostly because I'm too lazy to think of the German words. *nods*

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    There's a girl at my school who does that, mixing english with spanish, and I have no idea what she's saying half of the time. I don't mind it though.
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    I can tolerate some ebonics to an extent. When people take it to the extreme, that's when I get annoyed. I have to cope with ebonics for an entire 45 minutes in my chemistry class and it drives me insane.

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    Everyone In my family has spoken english for hundreds of years. We don't speak anything else.

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