Oracle of Delphi

Ummmm, that was a million years ago, time to move on Gramps!

Just so you know, that's not where your brain is! Great to see you back!

Happy Birthday!

Automaker racing to get first plug-in hybrid on the market by 2010 DETROIT - General Motors already has five hybrid vehicles on the road, but it is banking its future on a radical departure onto the green road: By 2010, the automaker hopes to have a plug-in electric passenger car in customers' driveways. I love delivering the unexpected. And right now, the unexpected is a General Motors vehicle that uses no fuel,” said Bob Lutz, GM's vice chairman of product development, who introduced the Chevrolet Volt concept car to enormous attention in January at the North American International Automotive Show in Detroit. For Lutz, who was brought out of retirement six years ago to rethink GM's product line, the Volt is quite a turnaround. Better known as the father of the high-powered gas-guzzling Dodge Viper, Lutz, 75, once dismissed Toyota's gas-electric hybrid Prius as a publicity stunt. But now U.S. automakers, who just five years ago were pushing behemoths like the Hummer, find themselves racing to catch up with Japan to put fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly “green” cars on the road. Today, 90 percent of all hybrids sold in the United States are Japanese, and half of them are Priuses. In response, GM has cut more than $7 billion in annual costs, shed more than 34,000 hourly workers and rolled out more than 20 new models in the last two years in an attempt to regain sales lost to Asian competitors. Article continues: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19938313/

Reptile

To better reflect where I work and to whom my loyalties lie, and most importantly who signs my check. I have switched my C&G skins to Opel. Opel über allies! And the smilely faces look better with yellow!

Is that in Europe?

Americans need to put the same protections on their vehicles as Japan does, then watch what happens.

Learning English or any other language easily, depends on the age of the person. For you and I, we came here at a young age so it was easy for us to learn English, but there is a point, a no return point if you will, that it becomes almost impossible to learn another language. Especially if you're poor and don't have the resources and the family support to do so. How many times have you seen little Latin American children translating English into Spanish for their parents and grand parents and vice versa? When I was in college I did my Senior thesis on the assimilation of Spanish by American English in the USA. It showed that if the president were to seal the borders and not allow another new Latin American in to the USA, by the 3rd generation the descendants (grandchildren) of those that were speaking Spanish when they arrived would no longer be able to speak Spanish. In effect they would have been totally assimilated into American English and forgotten Spanish altogether. One of my brothers was born in Germany as I was, and my mother is German and speaks English with a very thick German accent, yet my brothers children can not speak one word of German and my mother still struggles with English at times and she has been here almost 30 years. It would be easy to point fingers and say look at all those lazy Latinos, but it has more to do with age and brain function than being lazy. IMHO!

Isn't this the same brown that is on the current full size GMC and Chevrolet pickups, 81U?

Sorry to hear about your foster mom! My condolences! What country did you come from if you don't mind me asking?

That's my same argument with English, let's see there are 300 million American speakers and 60 million British speakers, so which version is more valid?

Whatttttt? What about me? Am I not a perfect Human Being in every sense of the word?

Merda em toda a língua cheira ainda o mesmo!

Ahhh, the book has arrived! Let the reading begin!

You need a history class! :AH-HA_wink: Sicily was more or less a Spanish possession. Check this link it will explain the history and then you will see why the language is similar. http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art186.htm

When you were in English class, was it any more fun learning the rules of English? I know English wasn't much fun for me, in fact English is not even my 1st language, German is.

My question is could we bottle that as a scent and sell it like they do the new car smell!

Really, you do know that the majority of English words have Latin roots? Some words are actual Latin words such as exit, super, circus, recipe, agenda, ultimatum, versus, plus, minus, percent, the list goes on and on. You speak Latin every day, you just don't realize it.

That is because all these languages are children on the ancient Roman language of Latin, as is Romanian!

Merda in Portuguese!

Exactly!

I had that problem twice in my life. I learned Latin 1st, then Italian, no problem there. Then I learned Spanish and that's where my problems began, there is not much difference between otto and ocho, cuantos anos or quanti anni, then one day it just clicked but I learned Castilian Spanish, which is like speaking Spanish with a lisp. I then had problems speaking Castilian Spanish in South America, first they don't use Vosotros and the accents are way different such as in the word llama which I pronounced like yama, in South America the same word is pronounced like jama and in Puerto Rico they for some reason don't pronunce the rolling RRRRRs, they for some reason become silent R's. But this too became second nature once I lived in Mexico and Ecuador. Good luck Paulie, I'm sure you will get it, it just takes a little time and then one day it will just click. For me I know I have a language down pat, once I dream in that language.

I think they should have called that color, bowel movement.

I'm afraid, very afraid!