kopak wrote: 
Now you've done it.

 swell_sailor wrote: 
Well, plenty of languages with a different sound system are spoken throughout the world, so I couldn't write a list down (and annoy the others). What I can tell you is that English or French are rather poor compared to Swedish for instance. In some countries of Africa / Asia, people use words very differently ; by giving a same syllabic word several tones or stresses, they change the meaning of the word, which is very hard to understand for Europeans.

 kopak wrote: 
Can you tell me which languages these might be? I don't know the subject. I'm just curious, and I'm guessing you might know the answer.

 swell_sailor wrote: 
Indeed.
Indeed.

 kopak wrote: 
So, miss smarty pants, which languages, theoretically, offer the greatest advantage when it comes to learning new languages, all other things being equal. This would be the language with the greatest variety of sounds, yes?

Teasing you with the smarty pants bit.  

 swell_sailor wrote: 
Fortunately, it is Summertime on the other side of the planet. Soon.

 swell_sailor wrote: 
It's a mere conspiracy against America.

 kopak wrote: 
Huh?

 swell_sailor wrote: 
There's an interesting theory about how babies acquire the capacity to produce words. To be short, it is said that every carpentillar has the ability to learn any language in the very beginning. It's like we sort sounds which are not used in the language we learn to speak. Because of our environment, we only keep a few necessary sounds. This theory can also explain why people whose tongue contains many sounds seem to be more gifted in learning languages. Though it would be too simple an explanation. Because of course, environment and education matter as well.

 kopak wrote: 
I think winter has that covered.

 kopak wrote: 
These mistakes seem to be made less often by those whose native language is not english, which is why I suspect it has to do with how we learn language, and when. 

But I'm just a stupid caterpenter pondering beyond what I probably should.

 swell_sailor wrote: 
Don't tempt me please, I have very little time.

 swell_sailor wrote: 
If they are, then you might be VV's alt.

Why are of and have, and then and than, so confusing to the online community?

Example:

"I must of seen it differently then you." 

Is it because we learn language by hearing it long before we learn to write it?

Are Mumford and Sons, Fleet Foxes, and The Great Lake Swimmers the same band?

 GeneP59 wrote: 
Not if you don't find the crescent wrench.

 GeneP59 wrote: 
I don't know.

  
To look for the crescent wrench?

Do I really have to go to the junkyard?

 GeneP59 wrote: 
In your tool box. To the left.

Where is my crescent wrench and where am I going?