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[Syobon]

he apparently (i haven't looked into it much because i honestly believe anything at this point about the fucker) tried to imply that hillary clinton should be assassinated, which holy fucking shit

the man stands no chance at the presidency but the fact that he even got this far is horrifying beyond belief. i love the united states, i can't imagine living anywhere else, it's a beautiful country and i hold it very dearly, but i'm seriously considering leaving and never coming back.

The fact that people think Trump doesnt stand a chance at winning is the saddest part, I'd say he's almost the likeliest winner at this point.

He's being crushed in polls last time I checked. Instead of mellowing out and trying to appeal to the moderate crowd, he's going in the opposite direction. I don't believe he can win the election.


It is amusing that both presidential canditates belong in jail rather than at the head of the most poweful nation though. And by amusing I mean terrifyign.

[The Nightman]

I wish It could've came down to Rand Paul v. Bernie Sanders. I would have been pop flyin' with either one of them. But the two most crooked candidates won.

[Turbro]

Hillary, while yeah she should be in jail, is legitimately a fantastic candidate for president and is only comparable to Trump because Trump is the other candidate. I have no doubt she'll clinch the presidency, but it's going to be a hell of a lot closer than people are thinking. Republicans are die-hard voters to their party, I live in a pretty red area and the amount of people who think Trump is a shitty candidate but will vote him anyway because he's republican is terrifying.

At least we know Indiana is going blue in this election, they hate Pence that much.

[Syobon]

is legitimately a fantastic candidate for president

Why do you think that? She's just another corporate shill and a warmonger at that. I don't see many positive consequences at all to her getting elected. The rumours concerning her health are also worrisome.

[DarkSurfer]

A lot of it stems from Bernie latching onto Hillary after she won the primaries. Many people took offense to this and figured he was betraying everyone and flipflopping, but he real issue is she is his best bet to actually implementing his ideas. With him there he can have enough power to shove his plans in as best he can, rather than if he just fucked off and get shoved into a corner after the election. So, as horrendous as both of them are, Hillary is a better candidate if you supported Bernie since Hillary's not stupid enough to throw away someone as popular as he is. It's a sharks game.

[SaintCrazy]

If you assume that Hillary sticks to the general Democratic Party platform, I consider her an okay candidate. Still a criminal and I fully believe she's beholden to corporations way before the people, but I figure a Hillary presidency would just keep the status quo going. The status quo is shit to be sure, but Trump is way too volatile and too despicable of a human being, and I don't think the 3rd parties have what it takes this year to make any impact on anything. Maybe next election if they can actually hit the ground running and start a movement of some kind, but not this year.

[LucarioLuvsMinecraft]

School has started. 30 minute walks suck.

But i also have Spanish 1. Cuz colleges n stuffs. I decided to ask my teacher what toast means in Spanish.
It's "pan tostados" or something like that. Translates into "toasted bread" and fun stuffs. Don't google translate that though. I will not give shits if you try to prove it though that terrible translator.

[Riku]

Or someone could correct/confirm for you based on the fact that they actually speak Spanish.
We have, I believe, two native/household speakers, and I'm at least functionally literate in it, albeit not at any scholarly level.

[The Nightman]

I had Spanish 1 and 2 in HS, and was getting okayish at it, but not practicing it at all in the past 2 years means that the only thing I remember is how to ask people where they're from :/.

EDIT: Also, did the shade of green for the mod names change or am I just imagining it?

[Riku]

Not that I know of. I think it was always a warm, medium green.

[Ersatz]

I had a Spanish 100 class in college and it was fun. I helps when your first language is a romance language too since it shares the same grammar rules, verb tenses, persons (except one quirk), genders, and the vocabulary is full of cognates. Two of my coworkers are Colombian and I can generally follow them when they converse together.

[Riku]

If you know enough English words (just because we've borrowed such a ridiculous amount of duplicates and synonyms from other Indo-European languages), you can kind of do the same thing while reading, but most accents and conjugations won't match up enough to do it while listening (In regards to English and Spanish, I mean. My experience doesn't really allow me to comment on anything else).

I didn't know that French sounded close enough to Spanish for a native speaker to catch significant amounts of information while listening! Neat!

Although in my limited experience, and what I've been told from Columbian students and teachers in my department (so they might be a bit biased,) the most common Colombian accents are generally the "cleanest" of the Spanish accents to non-native speakers. They tend to include the most sounds with the clearest articulation.

[Rinoko]

I had a customer at work today that had a kid whose haircut I can only describe as Gary Oldman from The Fifth Element.

[The Nightman]

Not that I know of. I think it was always a warm, medium green.

I think my eyes were just tired from work, looks fine now that I've been relaxing for a few minutes.

I'd like to learn French, but my HS didn't offer it, and I don't have the dedication to try learning it on my own.

[Ersatz]

Although in my limited experience, and what I've been told from Columbian students and teachers in my department (so they might be a bit biased,) the most common Colombian accents are generally the "cleanest" of the Spanish accents to non-native speakers

I remember my coworker saying that too, although it varies between regions within Columbia. He told me about one of his friends who's from a region where 'x' is pronounced 's' and the last syllable is often silent. I can say my two coworkers do sound close enough to castellano, which is the accent I was thought and is standard and "clear".

I didn't know that French sounded close enough to Spanish for a native speaker to catch significant amounts of information while listening! Neat!

It's not like Norvegian and Danish, but if you have some language skills, it's quite close. There are simple substitution patterns that allow you to detect cognates (mostly on nouns and adjectives) and infer the meaning of a majority of words, and the wording is usually very similar.

I'd like to learn French, but my HS didn't offer it, and I don't have the dedication to try learning it on my own.

I'd say it's easier for an English speaker to start with Spanish since it's very straightforward to write and the orthography matches the pronunciation so you can focus on learning the grammar (genders, persons and verb tenses are the biggest differences) without being overwhelmed by the spelling, while French is particularly complex to write and the spelling rarely reflects the sounds, so learning to read and write it is a whole other ordeal. Reading French might not be so hard once you know the rules to tell which letter in any given word is actually pronounced and then how exactly and the hundreds of exceptions, but writing it properly is something that highly learned adults still struggle with. Also I think Spanish is easier to pronounce for non-native speakers. I think the only Spanish sound that might be problematic is the rolled r (the rest is just a matter of accent and tonic accents) and, depending on the Spanish accent you learn, x/j, while French has the guttural r, the four nasal vowels (an, in, on, un, although France differentiates some of them less and less ), the French u as a vowel and (!) as a consonant, the ø sound, the zh sound, the gn sound...