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Old 8th March 2010
Nirbo Nirbo is offline
Real Name: Nicholas Kirby
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I've always loved the argument "you have to know too much." It's pretty much synonymous of "I'm too lazy/can't be bothered to learn."

Do you have any idea how much you have to know to have a commanding use of the English language. Vocabulary, grammar, obscenities... it's a staggering amount of information. Granted some people aren't masters of the literate arts and most of it is passively learned but just look at the work involved in learning it as a second language (any language is applicable here, particularly if it comes from a different language tree than your native.)

Just sayin'. My FreeBSD is weak, and my Russian professors can speak better English than me because I am a lazy SOB.
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