How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free. The answer my friend is blowing in the wind.I just want to stay with you forever...

friendship means: U happy, I happy...U sad, I sad...U cry, I cry...U lagh, I lagh...U jump down from building ,I countinue to laugh!!!

By following my heart I came to you, I only forget to take something back with me. For my thoughts are still with you...

Love is like war........Easy to start...........Dificult to end............. Imposible to forget.........

What I feel for you, is realy true. You got to know, I need you so. When you are gone, I cann't go on. Cann't you see that you are the only one for me?

Love is like playing piano. First you must learn to play by rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart...

Please remind me to remind you about remindering me to send you this reminder that remind me of remindering you that you never have to remind me to remember YOU, I WILL ALWAYS DO !

When things goes wrong, when sadness files your heart, when tears flow in your eyes, always remember 3 things:
1. I'm with you...
2. Still with you...
3. Will always be...

You must be a good runner because you always run in mind. You must be a good thief because you have stolen my heart & I am always a bad shooter because I MISS YOU ALWAYS...

We wast time looking for perfect lover instead of creating perfect love - Tom Robbins

I have the "I", I have the "L", I have the "O", I have the "V", I have the "E", So please can
I have "U" ?

There is no special reason for sending this msg, I just wanna steal a single moment of your busy life & hope I can make you smile & say: I MISS YOOOOOOOU !

I am in hospital now, after 5 minutes, I will be transfered to a surgery room. The doctor told me, I will die if I stop RECEVING YOUR SMS...

I wrote ur name in sand but wind wash it away.i wrote ur name in the sky but cloudes wash it away.finally i wrote ur name in my hurt as no one will take it

Positive picture come from negativee developes in dark room, so if u find urself lonely & in dark, understand that God is working on a beautiful picture 4 u !!!

The question is not who is going to let me, the question is who is going to stop me !

Every lover is a loser, the first thing you lose is ur heart, the more you lose the deep your love...

If i were to describe true love i would describe it as what a snowman did to a snow woman, he gave her a warm hug and they melted in each other arms...

Heart truly in love never lost hope, it doesn,t matter how far the distance(km), how long the time(hrs), it believe in the promise of true love...

The word TRUST is the basis of the relation but a small mistake made, can change its entire meaning like just a missing of 'T' can 'RUST' the relation !

Night is longer that day for those who Dream & Day is longer than night for those who make their DREAM come true... Wish you good night & Sweet Dream !

The greatest gift you can give to someone is your TIME... Because when you give someone your Time, You have given her a portion of your life that you'll never get back...

You learn to love someone when you find what makes her smile, but you can never truly love someone until you know what makes her cry...

Life is not worth living until you have find someone to die for... And life is not worth dying once you have someone to live for... strange but true...

LOve does not require two peopel look at each other, but that they look together in the same direction...

I wrote your name in sand but wind wash it away! I wrote your name in the sky but clodes wash it a way! Finally I wrote your name in my heart as no one will take it...

My silence does not mean i forget you. My disappearance does not mean i do not care about you, our distance does not mean we are far, my dear you are always in my heart...

Love is Like a Golden chain that links, our hearts together and if you ever break, that chain you'll break my heart 4ever!

To love is nothing! To be loved is something! To love and be loved is everything...

143 is nomerically saying "I MISS YOU". What if i asked you 23423 same as "DO YOU MISS ME TOO?", would you answer me 312 same as "YES I DO"

Love can be express in many ways. one way i know is to send it across the distance to the person who is reading this...

Every tear is a sign of brokenness. every silence is a sign of loneliness, every smile is a sign of kindness, every sms is a sign of remembernace...

Love is like \"missed call\".It stops when U try 2 catch.But Frndship is like \"sms\"Bcoz it comes & stays inside Ur Inbox until U delete it.So its upto u2 keep & value a friend!

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE."

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one, who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After the friend recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE."

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?"

The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."

LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND, AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE

estimate that there are about 5,000-6,000 different languages spoken in the world today.  The imprecision in this estimate is largely due to the fact that some dialects are in the process of diverging and it is not clear that they have reached the stage of being separate languages.  If two people find each other's speech unintelligible, they are usually thought to be speaking different languages rather than dialects.

There are about 200 languages that have a million or more native speakers.   Mandarin Chinese is the most common, being spoken by around 874,000,000 people as a native language.  English is a distant third with approximately 341,000,000 native speakers. 

	Countries in Which English Is an Official Language (red areas) (click here to see a detailed listing)

English is far more world wide in its distribution than all other spoken languages.  It is an official language in 52 countries as well as many small colonies and territories.  In addition, 1/4 to 1/3 of the people in the world understand and speak English to some degree.  It has become the most useful language to learn for international travel and is now the de facto language of diplomacy.  In 2001, the 189 member countries in the United Nations were asked what language they wish to use for communication with embassies from other countries.  More than 120 chose English, 40 selected French, and 20 wanted to use Spanish.  Those who wanted English to be the common language included all of the former Soviet republics, Viet Nam, and most of the Arab world.  English is also the dominant language in electronic communication.  About 75% of the world's mail, telexes, and cables are in English.  Approximately 60% of the world's radio programs are in English.  About 90% of all Internet traffic is as well.  However, the percentage of Internet users who are not native English speakers is increasing rapidly, especially in Asia.

In reality, the distribution of languages globally is very complex and difficult to easily describe.  Numerous migrations of people over the last several centuries have resulted in most large nations now having many different languages.  There are at least 165 languages spoken in the United States today.  Consequently, it is somewhat misleading to describe the U.S. as being an English speaking country.  The same caution applies to other multicultural nations as well.

Some parts of the world have unusually high concentrations of different languages.  There are around 900 native languages spoken by the 5-10 million people of New Guinea and its neighboring islands.  That is roughly 1/6 of all languages being spoken by far less than 1% of the world's people.  Other language high density areas have been native California and the Caucasus Mountains north of Turkey and Iran.

The majority of the languages in the world are unwritten and many of them are disappearing.  About 1/2 of the world's languages are no longer spoken by children.  This is the first step in the extinction of a language.  About 2,000 languages now have less than 1,000 speakers.  The most threatened are the indigenous languages of Australia and the Americas.  By the end of the 20th century, about 200 Australian languages survived, but more than 1/2 had less than 10 speakers.  Two dozen had a single elderly speaker.  Young Aborigines now predominantly speak English, especially in urban areas.  There has been a similar pattern in California where Indian languages disappeared at the rate of nearly one a year during the late 20th century.

There are no "primitive" languages.  All languages have a system of sounds, words, and sentences that can adequately communicate the content of culture.  The languages of the so-called "primitive" peoples are often very complex in their grammatical structures.  There seems to be no correlation between a language's grammatical complexity and the technological level of a society or other aspects of culture.  However, cultures that have more complex, diverse economies and advanced technologies have larger vocabularies.  For instance, English has roughly 615,000 non-technical words.  If slang and specialized technical words are added, English has more than 2,000,000 words and is growing at a rate of hundreds to thousands every year.  By comparison, German has about 185,000 non-technical words, French may have less than 100,000, and Spanish even fewer.  The major reason that English has so many more non-technical words is the fact that as it evolved from its Germanic roots, it acquired words from more than 240 other languages.  However, it is unlikely that any one individual knows the meaning of all English words.  Most Americans only use 800-1,000 words in everyday conversation.  A typical American college student knows 20,000-30,000 words by the time he or she graduates.  While this is 20-37 times more than the average person who has not gone to college, it is still less than 2% of all English words.

Every language can create new words to describe new situations and objects.  Therefore, it is not surprising that all languages change through time.  None is static.  However, they change at different rates at different times in response to new social, cultural, and environmental situations.  Some nations strongly resist the acquisition of new words from other languages.  This has been the case with the French government's response to the relentless invasion of English words in recent decades, especially in pop culture and technology.  However, young people in most developed nations eagerly embrace new words regardless of attempts by their governments to retain "language purity."

George Orwell`s six simple rules for all writers of English

 

-Never use a metaphor,simile,or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in prtint.

-Never use a long word where a short one will do.

-If it is possible to cut a word out,always cut it out.

-Never use the passive voice where you can use the active.

-Never use a foreign phrase,a scientific word,or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

-Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

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A small crack appeared on a cocoon

A man sat for hours and watched carefully the struggle of the

Butterfly to get out of that small crack of cocoon 

Then the butterfly stopped striving

It seemed that she was exhausted and couldn't go on trying

The man decided to help the poor creature

He widened the crack by scissors

The butterfly came out of cocoon easily, but her body was

Tiny and her wings were wrinkled

The man continued watching the butterfly

He expected to see her wings become expanded to protect her

Body But it didn't happen!

As a matter of fact, the butterfly had to crawl on the ground

For the rest of her life, for she could never fly.....

The kind man didn't realize that God had arranged the

Limitation of cocoon, and also the struggle for butterfly to

Get out of it, so than a certain fluid could be discharged

from her body to enable her to fly afterward.

Sometimes struggling is the only thing we need to do.

If God had provided us with an easy life to live without

Any difficulties, then we became paralyzed couldn't

Become strong, and could not fly.

A man went to a barbershop to have his head cut and

his bread trimmed. As the barber began to work, they

began to have a good conversation they talked about

so many things and various subjects. When they

eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber

said:

            "I don't believe that God exists" 

"Why do you say that" asked the customer.

"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize

that God doesn't exists. Tell me if God exists, would

there be so many sick people? Would there be

abandoned children? If God existed there would be

neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving

a God who would allow all of these things."

The customer though for a moment but didn't

want to start an argument. The barber finished his

job and the customer left the shop. Just he left the

barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long,

stringy, dirty hair and no untrimmed bread. He 

looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned

back and entered the barbershop again and he said

to the barber:

   "you know what? Barbers do not exist"

"How can you say that?" Asked the surprised barber.

         "I am here, and I am a barber.

             And I just worked on you"

"No" customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist

because if they did, there would be no people

with dirty long hair and untrimmed breads,

like that man out side."

         "Ah, but barbers Do exist!

                 what happens, is,

          people do not come to me."

"Exactly!"  Affirmed the customer. "That's the point!

                God, too, Does exist!

what happens, is, people do not come to Him and do

notlook for him. That's why there's so much pain and

 suffering in the world."