I was not going to learn Mandarin,
I steadfastly refused to do so..
Till I realised some of the wealth of the 141 Mandarin only speaking girls (Read Jess).
So now I am a humble slave of Mandarin studies....
Methinks a lot of linguist of this world started their educations because of these type of inspirations
Talk about objective learnings in the highest echelons of Academia.......
Arthur Miller, Paul Gauguin, Eric Clapton, etc have all been a party to this beak wetting sports....