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Old 09-07-2012, 10:17 PM   #20478 (permalink)
Freebase Dali
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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck View Post
Malay is pretty flat and guttural

there are hardly "tones"

i'd say the Cantonese dialect of Chinese is the hardest to learn - it has 9 tones

use the wrong tone and the listener will be very offended

use the wrong tone for "fried crab" and it comes out as "smelly cunt"
If I called a woman a fried crab anywhere else but in Louisiana, I'd expect resistance.
But here, fried softshell crab is a delicacy, and it would only mean that she is f*cking delicious as f*ck
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