POLL: The repercussions of a US attack on Iraq

Discussion in 'Politics' started by candletrader, Dec 8, 2002.

Which of these is most likely?

  1. Co-ordinated large-scale bombings of shopping malls and offices (similar to September 11, but not us

    12 vote(s)
    133.3%
  2. Biological attacks on schools, malls, airports etc

    5 vote(s)
    55.6%
  3. Highly co-ordinated machine gun mow-downs of crowds by suicide gangs

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  4. One person suicide bombings (similar to that carried out by Hamas) co-ordinated across numerous smal

    30 vote(s)
    333.3%
  5. Devastating car bombs set to go off amongst traffic queues of commuters crawling into work in the ru

    3 vote(s)
    33.3%
  6. It won't be as obvious as any of the above, but it will make September 11 look like a wasp bite com

    26 vote(s)
    288.9%
  7. No repercussions

    95 vote(s)
    1,055.6%
  1. fairplay

    fairplay Guest

     
    #641     Jan 18, 2003
  2. a german dialect. pffft. what trash. wild, i usually completely disagree with your political opinions, but at least i considered you sane. stuff like this makes seriously question that assumption.

    so the english language developed over time (as your informative, but out of place latest cut & paste tells)..... wow... what the hell has that got to do with anything?

    you don't seriously think that the german you speak today is exactly the same as the german spoken by the germanic tribes that originally settled central europe do you?

    fairplay, i can see you have no intention at all of growing up, do you? who CARES where the language started... the point is that it currently exists (and has done so for a good 1000 years, in various shapes)... and, whatsmore, it is the world's most important language now and for the forseeable future.

     
    #642     Jan 18, 2003
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    #643     Jan 18, 2003
  4. wild

    wild

    quote from fairplay,

    Thank you Mr Wild. I was told by a friend of mine in Australia, that the Germans had got their language from the English, just like the Australians. I hope what you are saying is true and well researched, as otherwise danial m and hapaboy will come after you.

    an Australian friend?

    is he sitting behind bars in that infamous convicts´ colony ... downunder in British Siberia ?

    or is he one of the poor aborigines ... slaughtered en masse by their British overlords ?

    regards

    wild


    Germanic Dialects

    http://www.webgerman.com/german/dialects/index.html

    About the history of Low Saxon

    http://www.rostra.dk/platt/platspro.htm#eng

    Yiddish

    http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/Yiddish/English/language.html
     
    #644     Jan 18, 2003
  5. fairplay

    fairplay Guest

     
    #645     Jan 18, 2003
  6. fairplay

    fairplay Guest



    Haha, not all Australians are that bad, and what you call "british siberia" has a real name: Woomera: Daniel M can tell you more about it
     
    #646     Jan 18, 2003
  7. stu

    stu

     
    #647     Jan 18, 2003
  8. wild

    wild

    fairplay,

    The English were a loose federation of German tribes - known to the Romans as Anglii, Saxones, Frisii and Jutae - who conquered large parts of the old Roman province of Britannia, between the Fifth and Seventh Centuries. The collective term 'Anglo-Saxon', by which they are more familiarly known, was invented by the Normans, as a legal definition of the people they had conquered.

    The Saxons began to appear as sea-borne raiders in the Third Century, along with the Franks. According both to Ptolemy and to Bede, they came from the lands around the lower Elbe. They were closely linked with the Angles, who lived immediately to the north of them, in Angeln. Grave-goods also reveal close connections both with the Thuringians and the Franks.

    Den "Garten Gottes" nannte Graf Adelbert von Baudissin unsere Landschaft als er sie 1864 bereiste. Es ist das Land Angeln mit der Geltinger Ostsee-Ferienregion, deren intakte, ursprüngliche Naturvielfalt Balsam für Leib und Seele ist. In diesem "Garten Gottes" Urlaub zu machen bedeutet reine, milde Seeluft atmen, baden und schwimmen in unbelastetem Ostseewasser und faulenzen im weichen Sand der Naturstrände.

    http://www.gelting.de/urlaub.htm

    Sea raids intensified throughout the Fourth Century, when the principal targets were Britain and northern Gaul. At the same time, it appears that the Saxons moved southwards into Holland; those Saxons who did not migrate to the British Isles remained in this region as an independent force until subdued by Charlemagne in the Eighth Century.

    http://www.chronique.com/Library/MedHistory/charlemagne.htm

    Less well documented are the Saxon settlements in Gaul - archaeology confirms significant habitation around Bayeux throughout the Fifth and Sixth Century.

    The Anglo-Saxons themselves remained well aware of their origins, even centuries later. In 738, for example, the English missionary, St Boniface, has the continental Saxons saying of the English: 'We are of one blood and one bone' - a fact which he employs in convincing his fellow countrymen to support his mission to these still-pagan peoples.

    http://www.stboniface.org.uk/whowas.htm

    ...
    Germanic Languages

    http://softrat.home.mindspring.com/germanic.html#newengli
    ...

    Where does Finnish come from?

    People often mistakenly assume that languages spoken in neighbouring countries are closely related. For this reason they ask questions like 'Is Finnish like Swedish?' or 'Does everyone in Finland speak Russian?'

    A simple answer to both questions is 'No.'

    Swedish - although one of the two official languages of Finland - and Russian belong to the Indo-European group of languages while Finnish is one of the Finno-Ugrian languages. The latter group also includes Hungarian, Estonian, Lapp and several lesser known languages spoken in Russia. The Finno-Ugrian languages share enough common lexical and grammatical features to prove a common origin.

    http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/finnish2.html

    regards

    wild
     
    #648     Jan 18, 2003
  9. fairplay

    fairplay Guest

     
    #649     Jan 18, 2003
  10. stu

    stu

    You are rambling all over the place with your panic cut & pasts Wild, hopelessly lost in a frenzy presumably in an attempt to attach some kind of worth to your german ancestory after losing 2 world wars and a footbal match to England in 1966.

    Your cut & paste
    Your previous cut & paste stated "mind you, English is just another German dialect"

    English would need to be closely related to German for it to be a german dialect.
    a.. It isn't.
    b. Your stupid c&p above states that neighboring languages are not closely related anyway
    c. You make yourself look farcical

    btw
    English is the universal language predominant for 2 reasons amongst others - the extending of the British Empire, the development of the United States into a super power.
    The vast majority of Internet documents, are in English. Not German....or Chinese!!

    In case you had forgotten this thread is supposed to be about US vs iraq. Another story where a third rate nation run by a dictator has to be subjugated by the US and its allies. Remind you of home too much 50 years ago, or did you run out of self- contradictory cut & paste on the subject ?
     
    #650     Jan 18, 2003