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All living beings communicate but only humans are capable of communicating by way of speech and use different languages. While the bark of a dog and the roar of a lion constitute oral communication, it cannot be compared to the sophisticated and well developed verbal communication of humans. Have you ever wondered where all this originated or where the myriad words came from? Millions of words in different languages are used everyday by people across the world to mean the same thing, what the English call milk, is lait to the French, milch to the Germans! The fascinating thing about language is that it seems to have been there forever and is taken for granted by most of us.
Historians state that language must have originated somewhere between 30,000 and 100,000 years ago but are not sure as there is no hard evidence on this subject. They are also not sure of how the ability to communicate using language developed but propose various theories on the subject. Some believe that language ability in humans developed as part of the evolutionary process while most believe that it was because of the need to adapt to the surroundings and develop. According to the second theory proposed by historians, humans were blessed with a bigger brain that was capable of articulating thought, which was then translated into words. Whether this theory is true or not cannot be proved. However, it was seen that initially man was a lone animal who later formed groups and hunted together. This was seen as the beginning of the need for communication. Initially, gestures and non-verbal communication was successfully used but soon this was not enough and man created language. Theories state that initially language consisted of animal sounds accompanied by gestures. These inarticulate sounds then transformed into simple words, which later developed over the years into languages. Some historians use biblical references to prove that verbal communication was present right from the time of Adam and Eve and even Moses!
Language is never static and undergoes constant change. So, the vague words and gestures that were once used, got more sophisticated over time and became what we know today to be the ancient and old languages. Incidentally these are all dead languages and not used in active communication today. Most of the languages we know today find their base in these ancient languages. While it is not clear which is the oldest spoken language of the world, given the lack of evidence regarding spoken languages, languages like Classical Sumerian, Classical Latin, Classical Greek, Classical Tamil, Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Chinese and many such languages are classified under this category as most are not really used in daily speech but only add literary value. Most modern languages find their roots in these classical languages and these linkages can be seen even today.
The English language finds its roots in the Indo European group of languages, which encompasses Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Old Irish, Gothic, Old Church Slavic and Lithuanian. For example, Mother in English, can be traced to the Latin mater or Sanskrit maatra or the old Irish mathir, or the Greek mater, to name a few. Ancient words often undergo change and find relevance in modern languages today. Any modern word of today can be linked to an old Latin or Greek or even Sanskrit word, showing that languages of today are also linked in some way. For instance, the German use the word mater and in Hindi it is Mata, all coming from probably the same roots.
Given the vast expanse of the world, it is not possible to count the exact number of languages used but a rough estimates claim that there are more than 6000 languages and this count is ever increasing! Statistics show that there are about 200 languages in the world that are spoken by over a million native speakers and there are some languages that barely have one person speaking it, en route to becoming extinct! Several indigenous languages of Australia and Africa are slowly becoming extinct, with barely one or two speakers. On the other hand, we have languages like Mandarin Chinese, which is perhaps the most spoken language in the world with over a billion native speakers. According to a survey conducted by the Summer Institute for Linguistics in 1999, Mandarin Chinese was the most spoken language with Spanish and English coming in the second and third place. The top ten spoken languages in the world also included Bengali, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian and German, while French came in at the eleventh place. However, these denote only primary and native speakers and not the secondary ones. Once the secondary speakers are included, though Chinese remains at the top, English is in second place with over 480 million speakers. The top ten include Spanish, Russian, French, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali and Japanese, in that order with German being the 11th in number. The survey also revealed that the most influential language, the world over, was English with French and Spanish coming in at the second and third place respectively.
Why Are There So Many Different Japanese Bandai Godzilla 2000 Toys?
So what is Godzilla you ask? To find the answer to this question you must go back to the beginning...
One dark night in 1954, Toho producer Tomoyuki Tanaka was on a plane thousands of feet above the waves of the Pacific Ocean. Toho's most recent idea for a movie had been shelved and he needed to come up with a new idea quickly. As he stared down at the sea below him, an idea struck him: what if a giant monster rose from the depths to attack Tokyo!? With the great success of giant monster movies such as King Kong and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, such a movie was a stroke of genius. Soon, with the assistance of a team of now legendary men, including director Ishiro Honda, score master Akira Ifukube, and special effects man Eiji Tsuburaya, they began to make their movie. But the creature needed a name. Though it will forever be unknown exactly how the name came about and myths will circle it eternally, the Japanese words gorira (gorilla) and kujira (whale) were combined and the beast became known as Gojira, which in turn became, in the west, Godzilla.
The original Gojira was a radioactive lizard trying to destroy humanity. He was then dissolved in weird foam in his first movie by humanity, destroyed like all the other monsters we've come to know from that time period of cinema. Yet, he came back for more movies. Movie after movie, the huge demon's size and manner seemed to change. His strengths, intelligence, weaknesses, and some of his abilities were subject to change as well. Sometimes being as smart as a human, communicating with other monsters, other times being animalistically smart. From hero to villain to hero in movies that seemed to barely keep anything straight. In one movie he breathed his signature bad breath to destroy what remained of Tokyo after appearing to fight a monster even more bent in tearing the city apart as a joke to consistent fans about his inconsistencies. Sometimes the reason he can fight armies is because of a hard carpace, other times because of some hyper-healing ability. Not even his blood can stay the same, sometimes green when he bleeds. Other times, red like everything else.
Because the first two films were in black and white, American poster makers went with their own instincts and painted the Big G a deep forest green. Enter King Kong Vs. Godzilla, his first colour feature, and lo and behold, the radiation spawn is charcoal gray. Too late to stop the merchandising mishaps: to this day almost every model, toy and comic book still paints him the colour of money.
Godzilla (or Gojira, ???) refers to a series of kaiju (strange beast or monster), or more specifically Daikaiju (giant monster), films made in Japan. Godzilla is believed to have originally been intended by Toho to represent the United States of America (being superior in its destructive capability) and took the form of a radioactive prehistoric reptile. Given that his origin (in the 1954 film) was the ocean, Godzilla can be considered not just a monster, but a sea monster. Godzilla died at the end of the original 1954 film. Subsequent films in the series ret conned the first movie by assuming that Godzilla wasn't killed, and that the body of the monster was never found.
The series was revamped in 1985 with "Godzilla 1985"; this movie was created as a direct sequel to the 1954 film, and ignores the continuity of the previous sequels. Known as the Heisei series (for the ruling emperor of the time), the continuity ended in 1995's Godzilla vs. Destroyah after a run of seven films. The reason for the continuity shift was based on a realization that the marketing of the movies had removed the reason it was so loved. When it was discovered that Godzilla was popular with children, sequels were toned down in obvious screen violence, and Godzilla was made out to be a good guy instead of an indestructible abomination of the mistakes of Man. Characters such as "son of Godzilla" (a diminutive chubby replica who blew smoke rings) were introduced. However, the further Godzilla was taken away from his roots, the less popular he became. Hence, Godzilla 1985 brought the series back to form.
Depending on your opinion, either the 1970s were not kind to Godzilla, or fans are not kind to the Godzilla of the 1970s. The films of that era are often dismissed as cheap, poorly made, and generally pathetic or childish. Godzilla was in full “super-hero” mode. Little kids in micro-shorts were running wild, but not nearly so in control as they were in the old Gamera films. A lot of serious Godzilla fans hang their heads in shame at the mere mention of some of these titles.
Contrary to what the English dub of the original Godzilla, King of the Monsters would have us believe, Godzilla was never "over 400 feet tall". What follows is a history of Godzilla's height, or correctly, increase in height. In the 1954 Japanese original, Dr. Yamane estimates that Godzilla is 50 meters tall (167 feet). Godzilla destroys Tokyo, but is later killed by the Oxygen Destroyer. A second Godzilla appears in the next movie: Godzilla Raids Again (1955). This creature is also 50 meters tall and would remain this size for the following Godzilla movies through to Terror or Mecha Godzilla (1975).
In 1984, Toho presented Godzilla (Godzilla 1985 in the U.S.) as a direct sequel to the 1954 original, thus ignoring the existence of the 14 other films in the series. At the same time, the height of the new Godzilla was increased to 80 meters (267 feet). Toho probably did this to make Godzilla appears more imposing alongside Tokyo's modem skyscrapers. Godzilla is also 80 meters tall in Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989). In Godzilla vs. King Ghidora (1991), futurians attempt to prevent Godzilla's creation. However, their complicated time-travel plan backfires, and Godzilla is reborn in 1992, now towering at 100 meters (334 feet). Godzilla is this size in Godzilla vs. Mothra, released in the U.S. as Godzilla and Mothra: Battle for Earth (1992) and the following sequels; Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla (1993), Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) and Godzilla vs. Destroyah (1995). When the series returned after the TriStar fiasco with Godzilla 2000, the King of the Monsters returned to the 80 meters (267 feet) version, and has stayed at that height ever since. These changes in Godzilla's height has meant a little confusion for collectors, especially when trying to estimate Godzilla's scale in relation to his height.
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Do you like my Haikus (Japanese poetry 5-7-5 syllables)?
(this one is called St Patricks Day)
Scotland is lovely
Nice people and scenery
St Patricks Day rocks
(This is called Tony's Lie)
Tony Blair has lied
And British soldiers have died
Their mothers have cried
(Nick Griffin's Nightmare)
Nick G had a fright
He had a nightmare last night
That he was not white
(This is calle The Old Man)
I met an Old Man
I asked him what do you do
He told me Fook You
(This is called Ode to CE )
Love Current Events
Like the people and comments
But trolls I deplore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku#Syllables_or_.22on.22_in_haiku
The Emerald Isle
St Patrick is a "paddy"
Andrew for Scotland
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“It’s all about the garden and not about the lawn,” said Dr. Denny Weiss as he summed up the gardening projects on the property he and his wife Jan nurture year after year. The couple was one of the featured gardens in the third annual Master Gardener Garden Tour in the Yankton area.
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