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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (35563)	7/1/2003 4:13:00 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Maurice, <<Brain scans show that intelligent people, confronted with problems, do very little mental processing. Dumb people's brains blaze away at high energy levels, all over their brain, trying to solve the same problem.>> ... If so, jellyfish must be smart, though not as so as amoeba;0) Chugs, Jay

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (35563)	7/1/2003 10:31:35 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

It would also be really convenient for me if everyone used English, You mean American of course right, but I digress ;o) I cringe listening to sportscasters here using sked for schedule as if they didn't sound idiotic enough already with all the stupid euphemisms for winning. Now reporting politics here I hear newscasters using the ledge instead of legislature.. I really have to disagree here. I think English is a lazy language, becoming more so and more imprecise to boot. Unless of course you are talking about a law or worse still a contract. Maybe if English weren't so vague and full of holes these things could be spelled out in plain English instead of convoluted tomes of boring prose (like mine here). Then again maybe the Mandarin is no better; I don't know yet ;o) As to the French well. Folks here are always bastardizing French names so I guess that is becoming irrelevant too. No one pronounces even 'deja vu' properly. It always comes out as 'deja vous'. regards Kastel EDIT You can also imagine that as productivity makes people redundant an easy language for common tasks makes the remainder of the brain redundant .... I'm fading here .... oh no,,,

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (35563)	7/1/2003 9:42:06 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

¡Amo cualli, camapotoniliztli potoni pakeha! - ¡ihcuilotic huehuetlahtolli maquixtia mochi, achtopa cemanahuatl, tepehuani nahuatlatoltica hueitlamahuizoltica cemiac! 'At least Aztec has had its day' - ¡Tezcatlipoca choca! - the people are called azteca [but much more the mexica, Cortés had an hearing and/or comprehension problem, you may have noticed that on independence they did not call the place Aztéxico], what they speak is called nahuatl .... and it's far from dead, undergoing quite a revival in recent years .... there is good reason for this, not least some of the ancient wisdom embodied in the tongue ... for instance one classic saying would translate roughly, 'better to just hang around and suck ocean than suck at running the fed or the war office' 'teocuitlatl. Gold (literally, wonderful waste).' acoyauh.com