I'm totally with you here. Olympiatoppen är basen för all uthållighetssport och norsk självklart det bästa språket för diskussion!

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+1

Yes, I was joking, sort of.

Esperanto, anyone?

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Naa gjoeres det mye bra jobb i Sverige ogsaa, men min svensk er ikke saa god. Da jeg bodde i Norge fulgte jeg alltid langrenn paa SVT. Mye bedre kommentatorer. Ellers saa tror jeg ikke det er stor forskjell mellom utholdningssport i Norge og Sverige. Norge har vaert bedre i langrenn og skiskyting menn i det siste, men jeg husker Wassberg, Svan og Mogren. Jeg husker ogsaa maratonloeperen Kjell Sthaal :-)

Dette er en av mine favoritt videoer Thomas Wassberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqgZKtGG8r8

Spam, spam, spam, spam

Damn vikings!

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My guess is a lot of pro triathletes should take marketing ques from him. They, being the pro triathletes, may see a 90% increase in their earnings.

If you actually follow what he's doing, you'll see he's helping pro's gain some exposure.

If I was an agent/coach/etc that had a bunch of pro's in Kona I'd be trying to get them booked on his Kona TV.

I'm pretty sure at IMLP there was more twitter activity about pay 7 deep & the pro's who were 7th then the actual race. Probably more twitter activity & more views on youtube of the 7th place awards ceremony than what WTC was able to get for any of the 1-6th place athletes in any/all media streams.

What was more valuable to their sponsors? Placing 4th overall or placing 7th overall? Who's athlete websites probably got more hits? Which = more eyeballs on their sponsors logos? 3rd OV or 7th OV?

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Like the old saying, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

Then there is placing 7th at IMLP, out of only 10, with a time fo 10:35, an hour behind first place, and 28th (or 41st) in your gender. In the grand scheme of things, the twitter activity here is just background noise to what Kim Kardasian had for for breakfast.

"What was more valuable to their sponsors? Placing 4th overall or placing 7th overall?"

Maybe, just maybe, neither has any value at all.

Wait ..he's not the *real* Starky, he's the not fake Starky. right? (It's all so confusing, I don't know what color the font should be).

Esperanto failed already. It failed because it was a manufactured language and they tried to impose it on people. :-)

Language comes from the people. It's constantly evolving because of the interaction of peoples around the globe.

English is a bad language (so many inconsistencies) but because of things outside our control, it has become people first or second language. German kids don't learn Cantonese, they learn English. Chinese kids don't learn French, they learn English. Kenyan kids don't learn Spanish, they learn English.

English is the world language. It's not the best language or even what I want (even tho I'm an English only speaker), but it IS the world language. Esperanto will never be, even though technically it has many advantages over English. Esperanto is the BetaMax of the language world ;-)

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"Happiness is a myth. All you can hope for is to get laid once in a while, drunk once in a while and to eat chocolate every day"

According to this list, http://en.wikipedia.org/...r_of_native_speakers, English is a poor 3rd behind Mandarin and Spanish.

This is why I chose Spanish as my 5th language (I can only speak #1 and #4 well, #2 I could get by with if I was in that country, #3 I have intentionally forgotten). Mandarin is just way too hard.

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Hence my point. English isn't best, but it's winning. Kinda like......oh, we can't mention his name anymore, now that he got stripped of his titles.

Even with Spanish Steak, Spanish won't win at the end of the day ;-)

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TriDork

"Happiness is a myth. All you can hope for is to get laid once in a while, drunk once in a while and to eat chocolate every day"

The number of chinese in china and the number of americans who speak english is roughly similar.

Regarding english inconsistencies--this is what makes it a beautiful language. This is the source of poetry. We have directly adopted words from dozens and dozens of various languages around the world. Choose a concept that you want to convey, and there are likely 3 or 4 words you can use, and you can choose based on the nuance, double meaning, or tone you wish to convey. Or you can just choose based on the rhythm or sound of the word.

Sure, that exists in other languages as well. But few have the diversity that comes from incorporating so many other languages' words.

You can't blame English for being a melting pot language. English is based on Latin, and so are most western languages. Other languages also take from other languages. 'le hot dog' in French (as much as the French try to stop that type of thing) and how often do we hear people speaking in other languages throw "internet" into the conversation

The use of English is a result of the British Empire. There were Dutch, French and Spanish Empires about the same time, but the British Empire juuuuuust managed to win out, due in no small part to their biggest colony getting powerful enough at just the right time, to pick up the ball and run with it. I'm speaking of course of the USA, who as we all know speak English of sorts.

The double whammy of the British Empire followed by the American Empire has cemented English as the world language, just as we've actually become a global village. It's not necessarily the best result, but it is part of the winning result.

I'm just glad that 'mushy peas' hasn't been exported around the world as completely as English has taken over!

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TriDork

"Happiness is a myth. All you can hope for is to get laid once in a while, drunk once in a while and to eat chocolate every day"

Pretty sure English is based on the Germanic language.

1. and Germanic is Latin based as well
2. the English (and their friends) beat the Germans twice in the last 100 years. The winners write the history books, so I doubt English is Germanic based :-)
3. I've heard that even Australian is English based
4. If the Chinese hadn't been so isolationist back in the day, they could have spread Chinese around the world. They certainly had the ability to do it, long before teh Europeans started charging around the world in square rigged ships. I think now however, even with numbers on their side, they have lost that chance. Lotsa Chinese speak English while a lot less people outside of China speak any of the Chinese languages/dialects.

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TriDork

"Happiness is a myth. All you can hope for is to get laid once in a while, drunk once in a while and to eat chocolate every day"

Correct. Having a significant portion of vocabulary influenced by Latin, does not make English a Romance language (like Spanish, Italian, French). Modern Englishis Germanic. It is an evolution of Old English which if you heard it spoken, you might confuse it with German.

Here are some nice charts showing that. Pretty amazing when you consider how small the indo-european branch of the entire language tree is.

As of this morning, I have sold a total of $15,096.22 from my online store. I haven't bothered to calculate profit, but I suspect it's mostly tied up in existing inventory. Because I use my vendor for all shipping and handling, my margins aren't fantastic. That's ok. I'm very focused on @MyRealCareer. This is just a creative side project.

If you want to make money, selling hats and tees is a dumb idea. If you want to generate buzz, connect with fans and further your marketing agenda, hats and tees are great. The #starkamaniacs love to snap and share pics and I post a lot of them on my website and instagram. Fun for the whole family.

I have future plans that could significantly impact my personal bottom line, but merchandising is only for laughs.

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i need you to get some more hats in stock so i can buy one! no snapback, just flex fit please. thanks

Placed a big re-stocking order today. Check back in a couple of weeks.

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Where's my budgie smuggler?

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