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Meant to upvote this. Started learning German in 2nd grade, but that's only because my dad was in the US Army and we were stationed in Germany at the time. Lear

by tiffani 16y ago

Meant to upvote this. Started learning German in 2nd grade, but that's only because my dad was in the US Army and we were stationed in Germany at the time. Learning a language at that age (and younger) should always be an option for kids as their minds are like sponges at that point. That early exposure always kept me interested in foreign cultures and their languages, too: Japanese, French, and of course, German. EDIT: Use of simile vs. metaphor for describing the kid brain when it comes to foreign languages. Semantics...

moron4hire 16y ago
if your mind was literally a sponge, I think you would cease to live.
- tiffani 16y ago
  ...it's a fitting metaphor. Meh.
  - moron4hire 16y ago
    then it's not literal.
    - AndyKelley 16y ago
      I have an idea for a website. literalpolice.com (I've already bought the domain name) A community of people who care about preserving the power of the word "literally." The site maintains a list of websites and people from the community who are assigned to them. When you are assigned to a website, your task is to have an account with as close to a variant as "LiteralPolice" as possible. You simply read the website as you normally do, and whenever someone abuses the word "literally," troll them for it. With enough community members, we could have literal police on every website! What do you think?
      - jcdreads 16y ago
        Check out the literal web log: http://literally.barelyfitz.com/ http://literally.barelyfitz.com/ Sadly, it seems to be dormant.
      - billybob 16y ago
        I think it's more fun to make emphatic use of "figuratively." As in, "wow, we FIGURATIVELY kicked their butts!"
    - pbhjpbhj 16y ago
      @AndyKelley - literally the worst idea since bagpipes.