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Poll: If you had to lose one of your languages, which would you choose?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Well... Apr 5, 2017

Jack Doughty wrote:

I never heard the expression "Sophie's choice" before, but I assume it is the same as "Hobson's choice".
Hobson's choice - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson's_choice
In other words, one may "take it or leave it." The phrase is said to have originated with Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), a livery stable owner in Cambridge, England, who offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in his stall nearest to the door or taking none at all.


I was referring to the drama film with Meryl Streep (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie's_Choice_(film)...
 
Hege Jakobsen Lepri
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define "lose" Apr 5, 2017

Language attrition and language loss rarely involve any choice. '
Or maybe I read this wrong, maybe it's meant to be funny a long the lines of "if you had to choose, would you rather be deaf or blind?"
 
Mario Freitas
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Please be serious Apr 6, 2017

Watch it. Your children may be using your PC to post polls.
 
SafeTex
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Isn't there a moderator to weed out stupid questions???
 
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How does the tragic dilemma in Sophie's Choice Apr 6, 2017

Teresa Borges wrote:

Jack Doughty wrote:

I never heard the expression "Sophie's choice" before, but I assume it is the same as "Hobson's choice".
Hobson's choice - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson's_choice
In other words, one may "take it or leave it." The phrase is said to have originated with Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), a livery stable owner in Cambridge, England, who offered customers the choice of either taking the horse in his stall nearest to the door or taking none at all.


I was referring to the drama film with Meryl Streep (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie's_Choice_(film)...


even remotely compare with the utter nonsense of this most ridiculous of poll questions?
 
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