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junodog4
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- #21
- Posted: 07/30/2012 15:18
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| RFNAPLES wrote: | 
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This is the first cartoon that Naples has posted that I've agreed with in a long while...
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junodog4
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- #22
- Posted: 07/30/2012 15:20
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| RFNAPLES wrote: | 
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What the hell? Another Naples image I like... Geez, I'd better go visit the Green Party website before I turn into a Republican...
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Wombi
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- Posted: 07/30/2012 15:40
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| junodog4 wrote: | | What the hell? Another Naples image I like... Geez, I'd better go visit the Green Party website before I turn into a Republican... |
Just see his very last one on the Gun Control thread that should more than even things out.
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cartoken
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- Posted: 07/30/2012 22:48
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| HigherThanTheSun wrote: | Why are all the announcements at the stadium in French?
I think it's going to be great. |
because the founder of the Olympic games (revival) was french : Pierre de Coubertin
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junodog4
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- Posted: 07/30/2012 22:59
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| Jhereko wrote: | | Just see his very last one on the Gun Control thread that should more than even things out. |
No doubt. He sure likes to put the disc on 'Republican' and hit repeat...
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Guest
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- Posted: 07/31/2012 10:39
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| cartoken wrote: | | because the founder of the Olympic games (revival) was french : Pierre de Coubertin |
All the announcements during the World Cup in South Africa were in French too. Whilst I don't doubt your reasoning, I think it's more likely that, traditionally, French is seen as a fairly universal language.
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Polythene Pam
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- Posted: 07/31/2012 10:47
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Okay Mandarin obviously not spoken as widely as French, Still why not in, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Arabic, Japanese or German. All of which are spoken more than French (There are probably others). Just saying if French is seen as such a universal language, perhaps that is a slightly outdated view?
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HigherThanTheSun
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- Posted: 07/31/2012 10:50
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French is the language of the IOC because of Coubertin like Cartoken says. It's true that French was for some time the international language and it's still on our passports.
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- Posted: 07/31/2012 10:51
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| Polythene Pam wrote: | | Okay Mandarin obviously not spoken as widely as French, Still why not in, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Arabic, Japanese or German. All of which are spoken more than French (There are probably others). Just saying if French is seen as such a universal language, perhaps that is a slightly outdated view? |
Yeah, it's a hugely outdated view, but they did colonise large swathes of Africa and it's likely that, at the turn of the last century, a lot of intellectuals in England, America and continental Europe spoke French as a second language.
But as you rightly say, it's pretty outdated.
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| HigherThanTheSun wrote: | | French is the language of the IOC because of Coubertin like Cartoken says. It's true that French was for some time the international language and it's still on our passports. |
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19loveless91
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- #30
- Posted: 07/31/2012 17:02
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yay we got a medal. A gold one at that
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