I received comments twice from a reader in Chinese/Japanese/some similar script. Since I cannot read them, I do not post them. If they are genuine comments, my apologies to the reader.
Language is something that can be viewed as a release or as a prison.
For the articulate person, language is a release. You give expression to your thoughts or at least use language to organise your thoughts. If you are inarticulate, if you have poor language skills, it must be very difficult to have feelings, but not be able to express them, to even understand them since you do not have words for what you feel. You cannot understand what you do not have words for. It is a prison.
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Release or prison... nice contrast. By experience, I have known that the only way to get released from the prison is practise. Aside from this, you can always use google translate to check out those comments. It goofs up with the grammar sometimes, but works well for a single translation.
Most of these comments are hoax. Although you can simply translate them using http://www.freetranslation.com/ which will recognize the language and will try to translate it.
@RS Will try next time.
@Ranga Lack of language skills stunts the mind and makes people incapable of learning-it's a vicious cycle. What you are saying is true for a person who is, say for example, bad at expressing himself in English, but is adequately facile with his native language...that's different. I am talking about people who are poor at language skills - in any language..that's what makes it a prison.
True, I didn't read your post this way earlier. But I still feel that poor language skills across languages can be done away with by proper mentoring and practise during childhood.
I have also been receiving them. They are pretty dubious -- if you click not on the name but on the dots in the comment you reach a Japanese/Chinese porno site. So it's one of those. What he achieves by doing this is not clear.
@RB: I feared as much..if not porno, some junk site... hence deleted the comment, but on the off chance the comment was genuine, I'd apologised.
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