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Le language des finnois est nommé le finnois.

En tout cas vous vous débrouillez bien. Vous parlez tous deux langues et en baragouinez une troisième ...

Moi je ne peux qu'aligner deux-trois phrases en allemand. C'est tout.

Güten tag, ich spreche ein bischen Deutsch ! Aber ich bin nicht sehr güt. Ich habe Deutsche studieren für sieben yahre, aber meine spräche ist eine katastrophe.

Population below the poverty line is near equal.

Just a quick note on that, if Belgium is anything like France (where I live), then "poverty" isn't quite the same in Belgium and in the US, and it'll be interesting to compare both situations more extensively.

On top of my head, unlike the US, if you're poor in Belgium you still can afford to go to the hospital, you can forego having a car and use the public transportation, etc, you actually have access to a lot of services, paid by the government, that you couldn't really afford otherwise. In the US, all that falls on your shoulders.

Also, there's all the social laws and protection. Unemployment indemnities are higher, last longer, and low-pay jobs are better in many regards (vacations?). It's also more complicated to get fired. In the US, not only do you have to pay everything yourself, but your income is much less secure, and if you lose it, things can get ugly real quick.

So being poor doesn't quite mean the same thing in the US and in Belgium. Poverty is also not always defined in the same way - different governments have different ways to measure it. (Or am I saying something stupid and "poverty line" is an international standard ?). Anyways, I thought it'd be an interesting thing to note.

Quote from: SalmonGod on September 29, 2012, 04:35:35 am

A 13 year old in a poor quality public school compares her situation to one of Frederick Douglas' experiences, and is subsequently harassed out of the school system.

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Someone give this girl a medal.

I think someone actually did From the article, "The conservative Frederick Douglass Foundation gave Williams a special award" perhaps not a medal, but fitting nonetheless !

Cholerna łacina, przez nią połowę z was poniekąd rozumiem V:<

Ouais, c'est vrai, j'arrive vaguement à comprendre ce que racontent les hispanophones et les deux-trois membres qui tentent de parler en latin.

Posting to watch you make the game un-scary as possible !

Where do you come from, if I can ask ? I have never heard your accent before.

Also a Casbah is some sort of walled fortress, and by extension it's a neighborhood in Algiers.

Yeah, this is me. Due to an excessive amount of vehicular hijinks when I was younger, it takes quite a bit to scare me behind the wheel.

The only thing I'll really call people out on is drifting.

Sort of a similar thing happened to me. I've been to Algeria a couple times, and going back home everybody seemed to drive safely and gently in comparison.

Ah j'ai la flemme d'utiliser google trad pour comprendre ce qui se passe ici ! On parle de quoi ? C'est quoi le but de ce fil, à part parler plein de langues sans trop se comprendre ?

Huh, I always thought it was -6.

I just tend to always confuse whether I should add or retract X hours from where I live to know what time is it in New York / Los Angeles / whatever. I am not good with time zones.

Anyways, I'll try to pop in late at night for me and say hello today !