Language is meant to communicate. If you need to know several, you have a communication problem.
As to the rest of the stuff, I retort "Battle of Waterloo".
I'm sure any history buffs of their European country could provide many, many more examples of their people "love to declare war or otherwise bully anyone they can while shouting rah rah patriot freedom?"
Really? No one will quote him on the Kindle's inevitable failure?
“Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
Yen isn't accepted at your local supermarket either. You would have to trade it for a local currency.
This is a widely practiced and understood phenomenon. The only reason you would have a problem with this is if you're requiring gold to have attributes that no other "value units" have.
I don't think you belong here. You're supposed to whine and bitch bitterly about "Kids these days".
I figure the future of education looks like this. Where anyone can sign up for courses, and if they don't get it, they can either drop it or hire a tutor.
1 teacher per subject per 300 students is an anachronism. It should have gone away when textbooks became ridiculously cheap to print.