Comments by "Morgan Olfursson" (@morganolfursson2560) on "WatchMojo.com"
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I am so lucky , to have the best parents in the world .
I am Icelandic by my father (who is himself part Inuit and part Danish . My mother is British with a French grand father and a Russian grand mother . when i was a kid I was raised in Icelandic , Russian , Danish and French . While my grand mother was teaching me Inuktitut (which i still understand but i am not sure i speak it as much as i used to . When i was a kid my parents were partly living in Arizona with the Navajo and partly in northern Africa with the Amazighs for work and i had an Amazigh baby sitter who always spoke to my brother and I in Arabic and Amazigh , i still speak Arabic because i kept on learning it and worked in the Middle East for a while and i understand basic Amazigh . Then i lived in japan for nearly 2 decades , went to school there and married a Japanese and i speak read and write Japanese fluently and while i was in japan i also studied Chinese and lived about 3 years in China and speak Mandarin though i can't read it or write it very well as i get mixed up with japanese kanji which are basically Chinese characters , which is the meaning of the word Kanji itself but with a different reading .
So since i speak fluently Icelandic , Arabic, Japanese, Russian and Chinese , i speak 5 of the 10 most difficult languages in the world , and yet i can't manage to learn German and i think that Polish is even harder than Russian or Chinese . For me though the most difficult language is the one i speak the best , Icelandic because it is such a mess and we have sounds that i can't explain . I think Arabic is the most beautiful, Japanese the most poetic, Russian the most passionate and Icelandic the most illogical . I don't think Mandarin is actually that hard but you need to train your ears to make the difference between the tones , and that's why i think Chinese are so good with classical music especially the violin, because their language is one of the best training to have a perfect pitch ear or absolute pitch , i am not sure of the exact term.
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Thanks a lot Nature ... , sadly my kids do not share your views they are tired of learning different languages , they are fluent in Icelandic , Japanese , English and French but they find it hard to learn Russian On top of that we moved from London to Zurich and now we also have to speak and learn German , so it is a bit awkward at home . Speaking Icelandic or french with one parent, Japanese or English with the other , German at school or outside the house , and the Russian baby sitter who is instructed not to use any other language with the kids , i am starting to feel like i am torturing them a little . But i think speaking different languages is the greatest gift parents can do to kids , I hope they will understand that when they are older .
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@dynaa4168 The language that you speak doesn't determine your ethnicity . If so, then Basque people would be impossible to classify , same with Finnish people . And as for Northern Africans , nobody also has any clue where the Amazigh people language originates from and many of them look Scandinavian . So your comment is utterly ridiculous . Trying to explain what people are , based on the language they speak is not only silly, it is also dangerous .
I am from Iceland and though Icelandic is considered an Indo-European language with Germanic roots , i most certainly do not identify in the same category as Persians just because our languages are classified in the same category of Indo-European languages, as opposed to Arabs who have been mixing up with Farsi speaking people for centuries .This amalgam between language and ethnicity is so simplistic , it is beyond stupid .
Besides, being Persian is neither an ethnicity nor is it a language , it is simply being part of what was once called Persia , today Iran . And Iran is represented by almost a dozen of ethnic groups , including Azeris, Kurds, Arabs, Baluchis, Lors, etc... , and not all of them speak or understand Farsi , so reducing Persians to people who speak Farsi is also completely stupid . Especially since Iran also counts millions of Arabs who are just as Persians as the rest of the population of Iran . Persian is not a language it is the denomination of people from Persia (regardless of their ethnicity, while the language known as Farsi i the one classified as Indo-European , (this is not Persians who are Indo-European) and only uneducated english speakers , refer to the language of Persia as Persian, when in reality there are dozens of dialects spoken in Persia , by many different ethnic groups , all of them Being Persians in ancestry .
My comment was about ethnicity , not language . If Persians are called caucasians , then so are Arabs, not that i necessarily agree with it (for both Persians and Arabs, but i am against double standards and what works for one must work for the other .
The one i consider to be very much Caucasian however are the Amazigh people or Berbers, same with some Tuareg tribes. But some Amazigh people in particular have basically Scandinavian features and would not look out of place in Sweden or Norway , so i dare anyone to tell me that these people from Northern Africa are NOT Caucasian . For me they are even more Caucasian in ethnicity, language and culture than Spanish people, Southern French, Portuguese and Italians .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQHD1fZAvmA
Even their music sounds Celt and Scandinavian .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0KSVIVDMKM
Also Arabs are NOT an ethnic group, it is the denomination of people living or originally from the Arabian peninsula , which doesn't include a large part of northern Africa. And the Persian gulf coastline is also considered as part of Saudi Arabia which is itself part of the Arabian peninsula, which means that Persians from this coastline are also Arabs .
You have to understand what words mean before posting comments. Arab and/or Persian as words do no mean what you seem to believe they mean , same with Language and Ethnicity. And you also have to do your research regarding historical migrations and what they involved in terms of consequences in ethnicity , but also not mix up indigenous people with the different wave of migrations or invasions which may have followed and understand the differences in ethnicity within a same country or region within the country . If you don't understand that , then we must also classify Spanish people as Arabs since Spain was invaded by the Moors and was Muslim for over 400 years .
So next time do your homework, before wasting my time .
I am the son of an archaeologist, and theologian (father) , anthropologist and ethnologist (mother) and Historian (Grand father) and i have spent my entire childhood reading thesis on Northern Africa , Persia and the Arabian peninsula but also the fertile crescent civilizations from the Sumerians to the Ancient Egyptians to the modern Middle East . Plus i have spent several years between Northern Africa and the Middle East and all the way to India due to my work .
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You seem very young , and you are clearly smart , I am sure you can reach your goals . I am thoroughly jealous, you can speak Hindi and Bengali , how lucky of you . Still working on my German and Spanish myself , i am sure i just need to understand how it is put together and then it will be ok. A member of my family is a dressmaker and tailor , she can create the most magnificent garments . I think learning languages is like leaning couture . A couture piece or a 17th century crinoline looks amazing and the more you look at it, the more you wonder how someone managed to turn flat fabric into a masterpiece . But,... If you unstitch every part and remember what goes where and how and when, then you can remake the garment yourself (even with basic stitching skills). Same with languages , you need to understand how it was and is created ,understand every part of it and how all the parts go together ,and then the better you can stitch, the better and faster you learn the language . Sadly this doesn't apply to a Saree and that is why i find Hindi so difficult , because a Saree requires no stitching and no cutting .
I am still learning how to stitch . I know people who speak 20 languages absolutely fluently and they do it effortlessly , those are real alien creatures for me . I do it very slowly and very painstakingly .
I wish you the best in your language learning process , let's not give up when it gets hard . As the Japanese saying goes , "Perseverance only begins when it gets hard and you get tired" , I know, this proverb is so depressing ;) .
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Thanks a lot Cheyenne Seeeokjinnn , gosh is that your real name , if so , how lucky you are ! Where is it from , you must have one hell of a family tree yourself . Is it easy to learn German for someone from Luxembourg and Holland ? I imagine your french is really good , Dutch are way too humble . Good luck with Japanese , it seems hard at first but it gets better . My advice to you when you learn Japanese , do not try to translate anything from your language to Japaneseand do not compare the language , the structure, the grammar, the semantic the syntax are completely different so you need to immerse yourself in the Japanese language , it worked for me , i started making real progress when i stopped trying to compare it to another language, then it became rather easy . Until you start learning out to count things and the onomatopoeia !
Strangely enough i am doing the only job that requires no language at all . I'm a veterinarian and ethologist and i wish i could communicate with animals , that would make my job way easier. Imagine if we could just ask the cat the dog or the hamster where they feel pain and what are the symptoms they experience .
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Your grammar is more than good , please do not apologize Szikla Granit . I couldn't agree more with what you wrote . The best part of learning languages is to open your mind to other cultures and it automatically destroys racism or any form of prejudicial behaviour toward other cultures or people , because learning languages is the best cure to xenophobia . On top of that, and this is my personal opinion , it allows me to express my thoughts in words that do not exist in one language . When we all gather during the holiday and we all speak a different language trying to make one another understand each other , i am always baffled by how limited languages are and how learning more than one , allows you to really accurately express yourself . For example the Inuits have nearly 50 words for Snow , but someone coming from a country where it never snows has no word for it . We all take for granted in the west that there are 5 different tastes , Sweet, Salty, Bitter, Sour and Spicy (for the Japanese there are 6 different tastes . Amai-Sweet , Shoppai-Salty , Nigai Bitter, Suppai-Sour, Karai-Spicy and Umami that we can't translate in any western language . Same with colours , there are about 60 different words for colours in the English vocabulary . The Bedouins and Tuaregs of the Sahara have less because not so many colours existed in that area yet they have much more words for Blue and Sand than there are in English or French . But strangely (because the great north is not very colourful) the Inuits have more colours than the British and the French , because they have a different colour word for every shade of white , every shade of grey , every shade of blue and every shade of black and they have the northern lights. The Japanese have about 500 words for colours coming from the Heian period and its frenzy of silk dyes and colour combinations and the Chinese have even more . That is why learning different languages is not only fun, it is so useful .
Thanks so much for your comment, can i ask where your name originates from ?
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Hey Stephanie , you are a terrific mother , and your daughter is right to be grateful , you offered her one of the most valuable gifts , and this is really smart of you , not to let their heritage die out . French is such a beautiful language when it is spoken properly . Thanks to you she is or will be able to read Moliere , Corneille, Maupassant, Zola, Descartes, Jules Verne, Pagnol , Flaubert , Proust, Sagan, but also Rimbaud, Voltaire, Verlaine, Rousseau , Baudelaire , is priceless . French literature is one of the most amazing and one of the most important . But she can also understand the message behind the songs of Barbara, Piaf, Jeanne Moreau , Georges Brassens , even the more contemporary Mylene Farmer who has amazing lyrics and the amazing sense of humour of people like Coluche, Devos, Desproges , Bedos , Sylvie Joly and understand her real heritage . But the most beautiful thing she can ever read in French is this (and the French were the first to ever declare this . "Tous les Hommes naissent et demeurent , egaux en dignite et en droits, ils sont doues de raison et doivent agir les uns envers les autres dans un esprit de fraternite, les distinctions sociales ne peuvent etre fondees que sur l'utilite commune. La liberté consiste à pouvoir faire tout ce qui ne nuit pas à autrui : ainsi, l'exercice des droits naturels de chaque homme n'a de bornes que celles qui assurent aux autres membres de la société la jouissance de ces mêmes droits. "
Merci pour votre commentaire Stephanie , votre grand mere et vos parents on eut la bonne idee de vous donner un nom Francais dont vous pouvez vraiment etre fiere , la culture Francaise passee (tout du moins) est d'une des plus importantes de l'histoire moderne. Ce pays est le berceau des premieres idees et pensees , de liberte, d'egalite et de justice pour tous et pour cela il faut absolument en preserver la culture et la langue .
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nimber 5 , ninjutsu has nothing to do with Ninja and Ninja has nothing to do with what us Japanese call Shinobi.
Number 4 , Ninja or actually Shinobi were not assassins , Samurai were .
Number 4, if you needed James bond to know about Ninja you shoudl not brag about it , especially if this is your bible on the topic because you couldn7t be further from the truth .
Number 2 is legit though chronologically a little inaccurate , because of the era Chiyome and the Takeda clan are not exactly (read not at all) the same .
and finally nimber one made me laugh to tears . This man has been denounced as a fraud by the Japanese historians and genealogists long before you even made this video, there are at least 20 people in japan who come out every year as the last ninjas and all of them are automatically and quickly debunked . This man is just one of them . It is a common joke in Japan to tel someone to open his own ninja school and get money from ignorant tourists by pretending to be the last one .
Anyway , Mojo, time to care about accuracy rather than views because eventually too much innacuracy will do you more arms than good, and a law suit for libel can cost you a lot of money and the shut down of your entire account .
Youtube won't protect you.
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I was really not joking, i don't give a flying fuck what society says, if a kid tortures an animal i will do to that kid the exact same thing he or she did to that poor animal and feel nothing about it . And then make sure his or her parents see the end result . I love my kids my parents , my family my partner and my friends because i know they are good people , but other than that i am not an altruist and i am not a philanthropist i have no compassion for human beings whatsoever and i would never hesitate hurting a person to help an animal .
My neighbours have the stupid habit to let their kids play freely around the house , and also their dogs , but they are warned , and i made sure they understand i am being serious, that if some day i have to chose which one to avoid running over , the dogs will be the first and only choice . I will avoid the dogs and run over the kids if both are in front of the car , i will not avoid the kids or throw my car into a wall or a tree i will run over the kids . Trust me, except for the people i care about, no other human being should expect empathy from me . What society dictates is the very last of my concern . If a person, adult or kid, skins an animal . i will skin that person , and i'm a vet , i can keep that person alive for a week without a single layer of skin and the entire dermis exposed .
I am a real animals right activist , not some peta bullshit , i have a lot more human blood on my hands than it is safe to admit on the internet . I haven't killed a kid yet , but only because i have never seen a kid kill an animal in front of me .
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The five letters of her name in French Jolie means beautiful so angelina jolie is literally a beautiful little angel , and boy does she deserve that name ! Brainy , stunningly beautiful and an angel with kids and suffering people around the world . She is by far the number 1 , two are Theron and Johansson ex-aequo But Rachel was and will always be an icon , the number one and especially 2 are bullshit , you see girls like this everywhere , even crawford, there is no sexappeal there just some airhead bimbo , sexyness is in the brain not in the silicone . And where the fuck is Salma Hayek , or the Japanese beauty Kuroki Meisa or the french model Noemie Lenoir , or the french actress Isabelle Adjani
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part 2
Depuis lors – soixante-quinze ans – jamais une assemblée parlementaire n'a été saisie d'une demande de suppression de la peine de mort.
Je suis convaincu – cela vous fera plaisir – d'avoir certes moins d'éloquence que Briand mais je suis sûr que, vous, vous aurez plus de courage et c'est cela qui compte.
On peut s'interroger : pourquoi n'y a-t-il rien eu en 1936 ? La raison est que le temps de la gauche fut compté. L'autre raison, plus simple, est que la guerre pesait déjà sur les esprits. Or, les temps de guerre ne sont pas propices à poser la question de l'abolition. Il est vrai que la guerre et l'abolition ne cheminent pas ensemble.
La Libération. Je suis convaincu, pour ma part, que, si le Gouvernement de la Libération n'a pas posé la question de l'abolition, c'est parce que les temps troublés, les crimes de la guerre, les épreuves terribles de l'occupation faisaient que les sensibilités n'étaient pas à cet égard prêtes. Il fallait que reviennent non seulement la paix des armes mais aussi la paix des cœurs.
Cette analyse vaut aussi pour les temps de la décolonisation.
C'est seulement après ces épreuves historiques qu'en vérité pouvait être soumise à votre assemblée la grande question de l'abolition.
Je n'irai pas plus loin dans l'interrogation – M. Forni l'a fait – mais pourquoi, au cours de la dernière législature, les gouvernements n'ont-ils pas voulu que votre Assemblée soit saisie de l'abolition alors que la commission des lois et tant d'entre vous, avec courage, réclamaient ce débat ? Certains membres du Gouvernement – et non des moindres – s'étaient déclarés, à titre personnel, partisans de l'abolition mais on avait le sentiment à entendre ceux qui avaient la responsabilité de la proposer, que, dans ce domaine, il était, là encore, urgent d'attendre.
Attendre, après deux cents ans !
Attendre, comme si la peine de mort ou la guillotine était un fruit qu'on devrait laisser mûrir avant de le cueillir !
Attendre ? Nous savons bien en vérité que la cause était la crainte de l'opinion publique. D'ailleurs, certains vous diront, mesdames, messieurs les députés, qu'en votant l'abolition vous méconnaîtriez les règles de la démocratie parce que vous ignoreriez l'opinion publique. Il n'en est rien.
Nul plus que vous, à l'instant du vote sur l'abolition, ne respectera la loi fondamentale de la démocratie.
Je me réfère non pas seulement à cette conception selon laquelle le Parlement est, suivant l'image employée par un grand Anglais, un phare qui ouvre la voie de l'ombre pour le pays, mais simplement à la loi fondamentale de la démocratie qui est la volonté du suffrage universel et, pour les élus, le respect du suffrage universel.
Or, à deux reprises, la question a été directement – j'y insiste – posée devant l'opinion publique.
Le Président de la République a fait connaître à tous, non seulement son sentiment personnel, son aversion pour la peine de mort, mais aussi, très clairement, sa volonté de demander au Gouvernement de saisir le Parlement d'une demande d'abolition, s'il était élu. Le pays lui a répondu : oui.
M. le garde des sceaux. Le plus haut magistrat de France, M. Aydalot, au terme d'une longue carrière tout entière consacrée a la justice et, pour la plupart de son activité, au parquet, disait qu'à la mesure de sa hasardeuse application, la peine de mort lui était devenue, à lui magistrat, insupportable. Parce qu'aucun homme n'est totalement responsable, parce qu'aucune justice ne peut être absolument infaillible, la peine de mort est moralement inacceptable. Pour ceux d'entre nous qui croient en Dieu, lui seul a le pouvoir de choisir l'heure de notre mort.
Pour tous les abolitionnistes, il est impossible de reconnaître à la justice des hommes ce pouvoir de mort parce qu'ils savent qu'elle est faillible.
Le choix qui s'offre à vos consciences est donc clair : ou notre société refuse une justice qui tue et accepte d'assumer, au nom de ses valeurs fondamentales – celles qui l'ont faite grande et respectée entre toutes – la vie de ceux qui font horreur, déments ou criminels ou les deux à la fois, et c'est le choix de l'abolition ; ou cette société croit, en dépit de l'expérience des siècles, faire disparaître le crime avec le criminel, et c'est l'élimination.
Cette justice d'élimination cette justice d'angoisse et de mort, décidée avec sa marge de hasard, nous la refusons. Nous la refusons parce qu'elle est pour nous l'anti-justice, parce qu'elle est la passion et la peur triomphant de la raison et de l'humanité.
Demain, grâce à vous, la justice française ne sera plus une justice qui tue. Demain, grâce à vous, il n’y aura plus, pour notre honte commune, d’exécutions furtives, à l’aube, sous le dais noir, dans les prisons françaises. Demain, les pages sanglantes de notre justice seront tournées.
À cet instant plus qu'à aucun autre, j'ai le sentiment d'assumer mon ministère, au sens ancien, au sens noble, le plus noble qui soit, c'est-à-dire au sens de « service ». Demain, vous voterez l'abolition de la peine de mort. Législateur français, de tout mon cœur, je vous en remercie.
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Merci Ryad , i think every culture, every country every language is so damn worth studying about , my dream would be to live 600 ears with a functioning brain so i could learn more .
You come from an Amazing country with a very rich History . A sad one too ,because of the war with France and the colonialism, and war of independence, which has left a huge scar had terrible consequences , but also a fantastic country with so many cultures and types of people , from the Kabyles and the Berbers , the Tuaregs and Bedouins culture. The rich oral tradition , the amazing legends of the desert , the folklore , the traditional Music or even the modern Rai , the rich textile and jewelry tradition, the breathtaking beauty of the Sahara. There is so much more about Algeria than what people know or believe because of bullshit massmedia so called culture. . And my favorite is by far the unexplained paintings of Aliens in the caves of Tassili and other southeastern Algerian sites .
So you know what Ryad , Enorme respect pour toi et ton pays de la part d'un Islandais .
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Иван Неплохов Privet! Prijatno poznakomit'sja.
I don't read it very well I just understand and speak it ! I am not that good at reading it and definitely not at writing it , and i would never damage a language as beautiful as Russian which is one of my all time favorite Mne ochen zhal!
I could do a google translate or ask my mother but that would be dishonest .
I did understand bits of it , and i thank you , and agree with what i understood. Indeed each new language broadens my horizon and my vision of the world and i will do my best to transmit it to my kids,
They do already learn how to write and read Russian so they willbe better than me soon . Sadly i do not have the cyrrilic alphabet on this keyboard so i can't even try to answer to you in Russian .
But thank you very much for your comment .
spasiba Bollshoy
I so envy you too , for being able to read it prefectly, i would love to read Vasily Zhukovsky, Tyutchev, Goncharov and especially Turgenev and Dostoïevski , in the text in Russian , not the translation . You are so lucky for that .
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Hey Mustafa . Thanks a lot for your message . I unfortunately do not speak Turkish so i can't really say anything about the language . I only know that i love the country, which i visited several times , as one of my best friends is Turkish his name is Yildirim , still living in Denizli which is so convenient because when i visit him we can often go to Pamukkale, for me probably one of the most beautiful places i have visited . But honestly everything is beautiful in Turkey , Antalya has the most majestic sea shores , the Tower of Babel like Uchisar Castle is breathtaking , the troglodyte dwellings of Cappadocia are so damn beautiful . I also love your cuisine , and i think people do not realize that turkish cuisine is, along with the chinese and french cuisine one of the top three most elaborate, varied and complicated cuisine in the world . Your country has an amazing history , and your language is unique. I know it's structure is closer to Basque and Japanese than any other language , which makes Turkish a very difficult language to learn and also a very mysterious one . I was lucky enough ,because of my job, to visit eastern Turkey , near Iraq and Syria , and all the Kurdish areas and this is so sad to see these places and people facing so much hardship , because those people were the most welcoming , and generous i have met in this part of the world and the natural sites can bring anyone to tears with their wild beauty . You come from and live in a unique country Mustafa , be proud of it , and yes learn Kurdish because this language and the people who riginated it and are still
speaking it must be protected and the best way to protect them is to understand them first .
And thank you for what you said about my family . I realized that i never explained why we traveled that much and they have this obsession with languages . My father is an archaeologist and my mother is an ethnologist and anthropologist and works for the Unesco in the department on intangible world heritage and its preservation, and nothing is more of an intangible world heritage and deserves more to be protected and preserved than languages .
I am just a veterinarian and ethologist , but i work for the WAP (world animal protection) so i do travel a lot , mostly war torn areas though , because war is not only about people , and animals pay the bill as well. My dream would be to speak their languages but it is unfortunately not possible yet , that's why i became an ethologist .
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