[NATION.PK] In which the writer bemoans the fact that the language has rules, many of which make no particular sense and many of which are broken in a seemingly random manner, I'm not sure to what purpose.
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06/23/2015 00:00 ||
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Perhaps the writer suffers from verb irregularity.
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Reminds of trying to explain to someone from China the different pronounciations and meanings of root, rout and route, between England the USA and Australia.
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"The US and UK, two countries separated by a common language."
Having worked for multi-national corporations for 30 years, one American and one German, the most important fact is that English is the common second language. Meetings at HQ in Waldorf DR were usually held in English as there were so many nationalities present.
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In France you just cannot graduate as an IT engineer if your English is not good enough: success at the English exam is mandatory. In France of all places.
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JFM, my wife will be visiting France next month. Her French is limited to "bon jour" and "merci". I will tell her to seek out IT engineers if she needs help.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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English is the way it is because it's not one language, but every language it's been exposed to. What's the old line: "English doesn't borrow from other languages; it follows them into dark alleys, knocks them senseless and goes through their pockets".
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[NATION.PK] In May 2013, parliamentary elections were held in Pakistain. After five years of Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) government at the federal level, all signs pointed to a change of guard. Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) led by cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... vied for ascendency. For the first time in Pakistain's history, a civilian government completed its tenure and passed on the reins of government to a care-taker setup. PML-N was expected to do well in the elections due to its popularity in Pakistain's largest province, Punjab. PTI was expected to win enough seats to play a role as coalition partner. Election results surprised many observers as PML-N swept the stakes and gained enough seats to form a government on its own. PTI gained a majority in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... (KP) province and was able to form a coalition government in the state.
Imran Khan alleged massive rigging in PML-N's favour and demanded re-elections. The PML-N government dangled carrots in shape of promises but nothing substantial came forth. After a year of sloganeering, PTI decided to stage a long march towards Islamabad and to stage a sit-in until its demands were met. They were joined by an unlikely ally in the form of a maverick holy man named Tahirul-Qadri whose party Pakistain Awami Tehrik (PAT) had not participated in the elections. It resulted in something known as the 'June Plan', which envisaged the storming of the capital and protesting until the government packed up, à la colour revolutions.
Background deals with members of establishment were made beforehand through former spy chiefs. Mr. Qadri was supposed to arrive in Lahore on June 23 to spearhead the moment. The Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Government panicked beforehand and attacked his compound guarded by an armed militia of Qadri supporters. As a result, more than a dozen Qadri supporters including women were killed. The 'revolution' had found its first deaders.
In August, Imran Khan led a 'Long March' from Lahore to Islamabad. To the dismay of the planners, few people turned up for the actual march. Tahirul-Qadri led his supporters to join the march, as a plan B. The sit-in continued for many months and included an attack on the Parliament. Military top-brass summoned the stakeholders to defuse the situation. The 'revolutionary leaders' were overjoyed by the military's intervention but the final push never came. The sit-in became a place of daily entertainment with live music and festive atmosphere. National Media gave prominent coverage to every statement uttered by the leaders of opposition parties. The plan failed because junior military officers refused to take part in another putsch and other opposition parties demonstrated solidarity with the government for the sake of democracy.
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[SultanKnish] Staff Sgt. Ahmed Altaie was the last American soldier to come home from Iraq. His body was turned over by Asaib Ahl al-Haq or The League of the Righteous; a Shiite terrorist group funded and trained by Iran.
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Asaib Ahl al-Haq's obsession with American hostages was a typically Iranian fixation. Iran's leaders see the roots of their international influence in the Iran hostage crisis. Its terrorist groups in Lebanon had abducted and horrifically tortured Colonel William R. Higgins and William Francis Buckley.
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Most Americans have never heard of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, sometimes referred to as the Khazali Network after its leader, even though it has claimed credit for over 6,000 attacks on Americans. Its deadliest attacks came when the Democrats and their media allies were desperately scrambling to stop Bush from taking out Iran's nuclear program. Asaib Ahl al-Haq's ties to Iran were so blatant that the media could not allow it to receive the kind of coverage that Al Qaeda did for fear that it might hurt Iran.
...But Asaib Ahl al-Haq was not merely an anti-American terrorist group; it was an arm of the Shiite theocracy. As a Shiite counterpart to what would become ISIS, it had most of the same Islamic goals. While Obama was patting himself on the back for the end of the Iraq War and gay rights, Asaib Ahl al-Haq was throwing those men and women it suspected of being gay from the tops of buildings. When buildings weren't available, it beat them to death with concrete blocks or beheaded them. Its other targets included shelters for battered women, which the Islamist group deemed brothels, men who had long hair or dressed in dark clothing. And even while its Brigades of Wrath were perpetrating these atrocities, Obama and the Shiite Iraqi government embraced the murderous terrorist group. Doing everything ISIS does, just without YouTube.
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