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I just watched A Clockwork Orange again and I can't seem to remember why I thought of it as the best movie ever.
It's a great story. And I love how it is narrated by the violent Alex and all.
But I don't think I would call it the best movie anymore.

Thought that might just be cause I saw it too close to the previous time I watched it.

Fight Club is one of my favourites. Along with A Clockwork Orange of course. Also, The Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs and American History X are among my favourites.

I feel like such a cheat now that I've seen A Clockwork Orange again and didn't found it be as good as I remembered.

But like I said, maybe I watched it too close to the previous time.

You mean "mom" instead of the regular "mum"?

And I don't like the fact that every verb can be written with "-ise" as well as "-ize".

I mean, where does that 'z' come from? Granted, some original English verbs can be written with a 'z' in Britsh English as well, but that doesn't mean you should turn everything into "-ize".

Sigh

You realise we sound like two grumpy old men, right?

I see.

Rugby is more of a real sport than football. Football is more like a game, but it's a sport of the people, unlike tennis.
American Football is just weird. I don't understand why they started calling it football anyway, since they don't kick the ball most of the times...

You are absolutely right about me not knowing whát the hell your on about.
But it sounds pretty interesting over there. All those islands.
And the Maori, that's like the Aboriginals of New Zealand?

I had never heard of Nouvelle Caledonie in my life until you mentioned it.
So I looked it up.
Turns out it's some old colony of France.

What's the importance of that island?

Esperanto is an artifical language created in 1887 by Ludwig L. Zamenhof to improve international communication.

Although English seems to be the world language today, Esperanto was meant to be like English is now. But I'm not going to go into detail about why an existing language surpassed Esperanto's success.

It's a mixture of Germanic and Roman languages, though it's really an entire new language. But it was made so it would be really easy to learn, which it is. The number of people that speak Esperanto (apart fomr their native language of course, since it's not actually used in business relations etc.) is estimated to be several millions.

I haven't heard of him yet. But if he's still alive, I'm not surprised.
I learn about Charles Sanders Pierce and Ferdinand de Saussure, but not about this guy.

I'm surprised he didn't mention Esperanto when Ali G came up with the idea to invent a new language. Esperanto was developed by Ludwig L. Zamenhof in 1887.

Just thought I'd spread the knowledge I'm obtaining for my exams.

I have no idea whatsoever about what Chomsky might be.

Is it a guy or a language? Or Both? O_o

And I knew about the comparisons. We had a paper with some of them on it in High School on the wall of the economy class, but there are some funny new ones in your thread.

Haha yeah so true, well she is dead now.

..Yes it goes on and on my friend, some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they continued singing it forever just because. This is the song that never ends....

Haha Lamb Chops woot woot used to love that show.

"It's cool, I've always thought it was Edge, or Shadow"

Suprisingly enough it is in fact Meier Link haha. Just rendered to the point of where it is unoticable unless you know what he really looks like.

Probably Bureaucratic Socialism.

Liked it? Funniest thing I'd seen in a while.

second part of response:

I quite like what I'm studying. It's really something I'm into. But interesting or not, it's still tough as hell sometimes. I barely had to study in High School and got good grades easily, so it's extremely hard for me to study for days in a row just for 1 exam. Sometimes I wonder how all the people who got lower grades than me in High School pass all their exams.

But High School doesn't matter now... It's not like in the US, where the grades you get in High School determine what kind of colleges you can go to. A lot of kids **** up in High School anyway.

And they should.

But yeah, I feel guilty for not passing my exams while 1. I'm really into what I have to study and 2. I know I just have to work for it.

It's great to study shitloads about what you find interesting, but you still have to know every little detail of those shitloads when exams arrive. O_o

Not everything I study is as interesting though! And I have to know the entire literary history of Western Europe, from Homeros to James Joyce.
What I'm actually studying is Linguistics & Literature. They come in a pack for the first three years. But I already know I'm going to pick Western Literature or something similar for the final two years. Linguistics does have its intriguing sides, but there's so much BS to be studied, and in some way the literary science interests me more. I feel bad for the interesting parts of Linguistics, but there's just too much crap (Phonetics mainly) to fully like it. But that might change over the course of 3 years...