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MicahEvelynnRyzu: (I'm done)
MicahEvelynnRyzu: -.- I'm thinking of learning European.
FuzMysticBloodskullz: eastern or western, XD
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Bonjour Mein Amiga.
QnDebShadow: Shai
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Deb, I'm not sure if I'm going to stay on. Just... I can laugh at this, but at the same time it kinda pisses me off.
QnDebShadow: what, that shes still learning?
MicahEvelynnRyzu: No
MicahEvelynnRyzu: I'm learning Native American = I'm learning European.
QnDebShadow: Not everyone knows as much as others
FuzMysticBloodskullz: if im not mistaken, no 2 tribes spoke the same language, correct?
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Correct
MicahEvelynnRyzu: The language is usually the name of the tribe.
MicahEvelynnRyzu: IE Cherokee speak Cherokee.
FuzMysticBloodskullz: some did share simillar diolect though right?
MicahEvelynnRyzu: But Eastern and Wester Cherokee even changed.
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Much like the Spanish and Mexicans.
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Two different languages, but there are some common words between them.
FuzMysticBloodskullz: yes
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Even the Irish and Scotish had similar words.
MicahEvelynnRyzu: And that was thanks to the Vikings mostly...
FuzMysticBloodskullz: i have some native american in me. my great great great grandmother came from a tribe that inhabited New York
FuzMysticBloodskullz: which one i do not know
MicahEvelynnRyzu: My ancestors managed to hide with my Scot and Irish background to avoid the Trail of Tears.
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Mom took a DNA test and found out we even have Inuit in our blood.
FuzMysticBloodskullz: cool
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Do you see where I'm coming from, though, Deb?
QnDebShadow: no, because its like you expect people to know as much as you do and get upset when they dont
QnDebShadow: i dont know any of this stuff either
MicahEvelynnRyzu: No, I expect for someone to know the name of the language they're learning.
MicahEvelynnRyzu: I'm trying to learn ASL. My girlfriend's dad is completely deaf. She's helping me a lot, but the first thing she told me--that I didn't know--is that ASL has it's own dialect from state to state.
MicahEvelynnRyzu: I don't say I'm learning Sign Language. I say I'm learning American Sign Language.
QnDebShadow: so instead of making fun, couldnt you try to help her like your friend is helping you?
MicahEvelynnRyzu: The difference between her and I... is that I don't look at language as a joke. I wasn't making fun, I honestly wanted to know what tribe she was learning. And then she didn't care enough about the tribe to know which she was using.
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Language is scary, powerful, and dangerous. In some parts of Native American heavy states like Nevada and Oklahoma, you can get seriously hurt if you use the wrong language.
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Old tribe wars still continue, Deb
MicahEvelynnRyzu: You use the wrong language and they'll think you're just mocking them and shoot.
MicahEvelynnRyzu: And they DO know how to hide a body.
QnDebShadow: well, like we all know that, i sure didnt. Look, she may not be native american, she may be just learning, at least she admits it
MicahEvelynnRyzu: If she's learning then she'll know the name of the language she's learning.
MicahEvelynnRyzu: You don't go into a spanish class and not know the name of the language.
QnDebShadow: maybe its self taught, maybe she doesnt know the exact tribe....yet. There could be many reasons. It sounds like she is just starting out with this chara. Maybe a little help is what she needs
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Fuz, how many languages do you speak?
FuzMysticBloodskullz: just english
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Deb, how many do you speak?
QnDebShadow: 1
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Did either of you take a language class in school?
QnDebShadow: no
FuzMysticBloodskullz: all they offerd was spanish, and my dad basicly said he would pull me out of school if i took it
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Ouch.
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Deb, you're over 50, right?
QnDebShadow: mhm
MicahEvelynnRyzu: And you're telling me that your school didn't make you take French or Spanish?
QnDebShadow: was not a requirement
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Which state did you attend high school?
QnDebShadow: WI
MicahEvelynnRyzu: You needed english, math, and what other credits to graduate?
QnDebShadow: history, science, chemistry
QnDebShadow: language was an elective like home ec
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Science in general?
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Or did you have to take seperate classes for things like Biology and whatnot?
QnDebShadow: mhm like biology
QnDebShadow: biology wasnt a year long course
MicahEvelynnRyzu: When you took a Biology class, did you mistaken it for Chemistry?
QnDebShadow: i always thought they were all a part of science
MicahEvelynnRyzu: When you took a biology class did you mistaken it for chemistry?
MicahEvelynnRyzu: Mistake it*
QnDebShadow: Micah, i know what you are doing, and what i said before still stands. Some of us, me mainly, are not as smart as you. I feel like you are looking down at me, at her, and quite frankly its pissing me off
MicahEvelynnRyzu: I'm not, I have a point that I don't think you quite see yet.
QnDebShadow: and you dont see mine.