Language is the only place where I could claim some standing in this group. Sure as heck ain't knowledge of weed.
Odd thing: Never took a foreign language course in High School. Wound up learning fargin Mandarin for Unca Sugar. I had no idea I had a knack for languages (it is NOT an IQ thing... it is more like being able to paint, or write a song, or cartoon, or play an instrument.)
I remember when I took this test. There were 200 words in Kurdish with their English definitions next to them. We studied the sheet for ten minutes, then they took the sheet away and handed back another one with the Kurdish words all rearranged with no translations... just a blank line after each word.
We were told to write down as many as we could figure out.
This still gives me chills, pilgrims: For some friggin reason, I got 188 of them right.
Way more than half a century later, I could try to construct a brief sentence still. In Kurdish from just ten minutes exposure to the language:
Hindek tenek jin kulilk <-- I think that means "some thin women [are like] flowers"
Spelling is prolly wrong. The syntax probably ain't paid. But the words are there somehow.
Anybody speak this crap? I don't.
