Russian (with a little Greek) at the same time. Russian’s grammar is satisfyingly complex while being somewhat familiar if you know a smattering of Spanish grammar. It’s also fun to learn to read. Never mastered but spent spare time at work and home studying it from ‘in the late 90s. [around 25-29 yrs old]
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Switching to Turkish. I’ve heard its fun because it has a lot of French loanwords yet is different enough to be interesting.
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I’d say Arabic but then you get the Castilian vs Mexican/Puerto Rican/South American Spanish problem : there’s a LOT of Arabics.
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I’m in the USA. We think Manitobas were mistaken for Mermaids by colonizing ships and pirates and in Florida, boaters often hurt Manitobas with their drunken speedboating ways.
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It’s a shame I have stunted US Geography education. Still never learned the provinces of Canada.
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My tells me Canada isn’t real. It’s a fantasy just over the rainbow but there IS a country called Canadia. His teachers don’t believe him either but he may be right.
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He’s 12 + class clown. He likes triggering adults and regular kids by mixing up obvious facts.
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His latest is talking about the dust bowl of ’77.
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The unspoken part of the question:
” Can men and women truly be just friends [without requiring one, the other or both to be gay]?”
It’s a fancy version of the “fellas is it gay…” meme.
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