And don't talk about America, I live in America, but not in the USA.
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Anonymous2011-03-17 19:33
>>8
It's pretty obvious
a lot of the things you use, watch, or read are made (or the idea came from, maybe the physical product did not) in the US, and we rule the world economically
Japanese seems to be a pretty shit tier language to me. It doesn't allow for anywhere near the same level of expression as most languages. It's like they wasted all their time developing the writing system.
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Anonymous2011-03-21 19:53
No lie, English is the easiest language of all of the listed above. In about one year people get to be halfway to being fluent at it. Now, Portuguese and Spanish are not a bad tier. Proof? Try to translate, being a non-native speaker, the following:
Você sabe de onde eu venho?
Venho do morro, do Engenho,
Das selvas, dos cafezais,
Da boa terra do coco,
Da choupana onde um é pouco,
Dois é bom, três é demais,
Venho das praias sedosas,
Das montanhas alterosas,
Dos pampas, do seringal,
Das margens crespas dos rios,
Dos verdes mares bravios
Da minha terra natal.
Por mais terras que eu percorra,
Não permita Deus que eu morra
Sem que volte para lá;
Sem que leve por divisa
Esse "V" que simboliza
A vitória que virá:
Nossa vitória final,
Que é a mira do meu fuzil,
A ração do meu bornal,
A água do meu cantil,
As asas do meu ideal,
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Anonymous2011-03-21 21:03
>>18
Bullshit
English is one of the harder ones on there, Spanish and Italian are easy tier
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Anonymous2011-03-22 2:14
Japanese seems to be a pretty shit tier language to me.
Please hand over your world4ch posting license and vacate the premises, sir.
Car : USA
Airplane : USA
Gun : USA
Telephone & Cell-Phone : USA
Flashlight : USA
GPS : USA
Chewing Gum : USA
Jeans : USA
Credit Card : USA
Laser : USA
Cigarette : USA
4chan : USA
Not to mention popularizing absolutely every single thing you listed.
>>25
Car: Four years later in 1885, Karl Benz designed and built a car powered by gasoline. This car was made in Germany. This was the first ever car to be granted a patent in 1886. The rest is history and the world acknowledged Karl Benz as the "Inventor of the modern automobile". He also invented the first ever car with an internal combustion flat engine in 1896.
Airplane: Many people worked on various kinds of planes over the years, so no one person invented the airplane.
Gun: The Chinese had the first handguns, "fire-spears" and handcannons, technically known as guns with a "canon lock". Da Vinci just designed a "Automatic Igniting Device for Firearms", a more sophisticated kind of matchlock.
GPS: GPS or the Global Positioning System was invented by the U.S. Department of Defense (D.O.D) and Ivan Getting, at the cost of twelve billion taxpayer dollars.
Cigarette; No one could be said to have actually invented the cigarette
4chan - USA
4.5/12 isn't so bad, isn't it? Especially coming from a self-entitled American such as yourself, who just automatically assumes everything he uses is invented by his countrymen. How about actually doing some research beforehand, eh?
So, if you just come up with the CONCEPT, or sketch why something SHOULD work - you are credited with the invention???
Just because Einstein *theorized* about the laser does not make him the inventor. Theodore Maiman developed the actual technology.
The Wright Brothers built the first airplane that could ACTUALLY FLY.. therefore they are the inventors. So, in your opinion, fucking Da Vinci 'invented' the airplane because he was the first to sketch down his ideas?
LOL, by your standards, the time machine has ALREADY been 'invented' ... I mean, come on, the idea is there, right?
If someone builds a working model of something, you decide to give the invention credit to the first guy who thought 'this just might work' ?
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Anonymous2011-09-22 13:10
God Tier:
English
Chinese
Acceptable Tier:
Japanese
Russian
French
German
Bad Tier:
Italian
Shit Tier
Spanish
Portuguese
Flipino
Hebrew
fixd
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Anonymous2011-09-26 14:37
>>26
Part Brit, part German. E.g. Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, whose Nipkow disk was patented in 1884.
>>25
- Internal combustion engine (needed to make cars work in the first place): Germany. Nikolaus August Otto and Rudolf Diesel, to be precise. Otto's design was based on stuff Belgian Étienne Lenoir did while Yankees were too busy revving up for their civil war.
Also,
- Steam engine: Greece (prototype), Britain (working example).
- Democracy: all over the place. The word comes from Greek, after the Athenian version from some 2500 years ago. Theirs is just the oldest _documented_ version.
- Freedom: even more "all over the place" than democracy. And even older. "Let my people go", much?