09-19-2020, 05:10 AM
(09-19-2020, 04:27 AM)kdog Wrote: I can understand some words from other countries just because the sound similar or I just figure it out. Same with sign language. I have always been interested in the origins of language and writing. I have always wondered at some of the vast differences. I know, due to isolation for many thousands of years. It would help to have a simple common language in our global society.
Soros speaks the synthetic language Esperanto, and promotes it as the One World Language...
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’