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Originally posted by gophtc
we dont learn to accentuate in America, not in public school at least
if you don't speak English as a first language, you prolly had to study it and stressed the specifics more than us. I learned more specifics while learning Spanish in high school than I did about the English language.
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i learned more specifics, as well as the generalities, while studying latin for four years in high school...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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