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[Glitterby]

Hi hype.. I haven't seen you online in forever... what are your plans for the summer?

[hype]

Originally Posted by Glitterby

Hi hype.. I haven't seen you online in forever... what are your plans for the summer?

Hi there, it's been really loooooooooooong since I last seen and talk to you. How's everything been? There is no summer in my country, just hot hot day everyday! I'm still enjoying my schooling as much as possible, of course trying to coop with the projects till my semester break!

[TakeMeForCola]

have you seen 300? ive just watched it i thought maybe you might like it seens as its your mediwar pic lol write back

TakeMeForCola

[hype]

lol. I have watch 300 already.. It's the most awesome movie I have seen for a while. Definitely the best movie I have ever watch. Their actions, their fightings, their quotes, the way they speaks, totally awesome! It's definitely a worth to watch movie, especially when you see it in the big screen cinema!!

[Yuuji]

In order to learn more about other cultures (and worldviews), may I ask how you came to learn English?

Especially given the fact that your contemporary use of it online is quite good. And if you didn't give you location and nationality I would have assumed you were American (North East, or Californian).

[hype]

Originally Posted by Yuuji

In order to learn more about other cultures (and worldviews), may I ask how you came to learn English?

Especially given the fact that your contemporary use of it online is quite good. And if you didn't give you location and nationality I would have assumed you were American (North East, or Californian).

It's in my profile, I'm from Singapore. Well, Singapore has a rather high standard of living and our first language is English. Most of the educated here knows English but do not really speak them well. Most of us communicate using our second language here. So practically I start learning my English when I first started school like 13 years ago.

[TakeMeForCola]

Originally Posted by hype

lol. I have watch 300 already.. It's the most awesome movie I have seen for a while. Definitely the best movie I have ever watch. Their actions, their fightings, their quotes, the way they speaks, totally awesome! It's definitely a worth to watch movie, especially when you see it in the big screen cinema!!

yea i watched it in the big screen but i have a question:

the army that they say had "300" men in it, i heard that there wasnt realy a "300" man army that compleatly pwned that there was a army of "1000" that owned and that the "300" army size is a over exaduration but i'm not sure do you know anything off it?

[Yuuji]

Originally Posted by hype

It's in my profile, I'm from Singapore.

True.
But I wasn't sure about nationality.
I mean, I live in a different State then where I grew up. I will always consider myself a New Yorker, even though I'm many miles from it now while I go to college.

Well, Singapore has a rather high standard of living and our first language is English.

First language?
Do you mean first language learned in school?

Let's see....I find listed here:
Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The the official languages are Mandarin, English, Tamil and Malay.

If I may ask, which one did you learn first?

Most of the educated here knows English but do not really speak them well. Most of us communicate using our second language here. So practically I start learning my English when I first started school like 13 years ago.

Ah, understood.

Admittedly, even though I've been to Japan thrice, I still cannot carry a conversation in Japanese. But I know enough words to get around Tokyo easily enough.

Right now my efforts is upon learning Koine Greek (Ancient Greek from 300bc to around 400ad). After I finish that, I plan to go back to learning Japanese.

Otherwise I only know two languages: English and Bad English.

...I did say I was from New York.

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the army that they say had "300" men in it, i heard that there wasnt realy a "300" man army that compleatly pwned that there was a army of "1000" that owned and that the "300" army size is a over exaduration but i'm not sure do you know anything off it?

The 300 were all from Sparta.

There were about 7000 other Greeks who were also there. But the vast majority of them were not Professional soldiers like the Spartans were.

More information here: Battle of Thermopylae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There is always a question of what constitutes '1 soldier for this fight. For example, although 300 Spartan Hoplites went, apparently 900 of their servants went with them. How they are 'counted' is debated.

For example the 'million' men the Persians had, not all were combatants, or land-combatants, or were even present at the battle.

The actual land force was probably around 300,000-400,000. The sea forces had around 1200 warships, with each warship containing about 150 men. That adds another 18,000 men. And this does not count supply ships, or any other support troops (as the Persians did have to secure the hundreds of miles of newly conquered territory between Thermopylae and the Persian Empire.

I could go on and on on this.
But probably the information from Wikipedia is a good place to start.

Unfortunately too many times with Ancient History the Historians will not always agree, and even the operational definitions have a bad habit of changing.

[hype]

Thanks Yuuji for answering it. Yeah 300 is talking about the 300 great Spartans warriors.

And Yuuji, because my country specify on multi-racial and so we set English as the main and first language, so as to be able to communicate well with other races and religion. The first language I learn was Mandarin, since we usually speak langauge of our own races as we prefer to it. There are many dialect to my race too, and some of the ppl use it as their primary langauge at home. We are rather complicated, lol. So it's not easy to totally understand what Singaporean is talking but usually we communicate with ppl who are not of the same race group in English.

[TakeMeForCola]

Originally Posted by Yuuji

The 300 were all from Sparta.

There were about 7000 other Greeks who were also there. But the vast majority of them were not Professional soldiers like the Spartans were.

More information here: Battle of Thermopylae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There is always a question of what constitutes '1 soldier for this fight. For example, although 300 Spartan Hoplites went, apparently 900 of their servants went with them. How they are 'counted' is debated.

For example the 'million' men the Persians had, not all were combatants, or land-combatants, or were even present at the battle.

The actual land force was probably around 300,000-400,000. The sea forces had around 1200 warships, with each warship containing about 150 men. That adds another 18,000 men. And this does not count supply ships, or any other support troops (as the Persians did have to secure the hundreds of miles of newly conquered territory between Thermopylae and the Persian Empire.

I could go on and on on this.
But probably the information from Wikipedia is a good place to start.

Unfortunately too many times with Ancient History the Historians will not always agree, and even the operational definitions have a bad habit of changing.

cheers thats prity much resolved it lol ohh yea hype whats your best bit mines the battle at the end but for a screen shot proberly the one were at the end he just stands there infront of over 5000 arrows head for him and he's like common!!! lol whats yours?