Anyone ever hear about policy debate being part of another country besides the US? I'm sure there is, but i'm just curious. It'd be sweet to see some of these debates in different languages.

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hahaha spreading in German...hilarious

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i heard now in europe there is some parts where they r anti-american and some parts just totally hatin Bush so much that they would kill him. its strange to hear these things but heck Bush is a complete moron wat can u do?

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there is international debate.... the U.S. has a team... i'm not really sure how it's formatted, but its' similar to the policy debate that we do...I wonder if they bring along translaters haha...but i'm not sure what countries do it.

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i stilll think spreading in german would be funny

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Originally posted by tm11
there is international debate.... the U.S. has a team... i'm not really sure how it's formatted, but its' similar to the policy debate that we do...I wonder if they bring along translaters haha...but i'm not sure what countries do it.

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haha, sweet. Like the UN courts where they all have ear pieces that translate what everyone says. Haha, that'd be interesting to watch. I wanna see some swedish spreading, though german would be nice as well heh.

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Hehe...I'm from Germany...but I don't know what "spreading" means.....

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ok well spreading only happens in policy debate, if you have that in germany.
Because of the length of the speaches, debaters try to take advantage of the time to pack in as many arguments as possible, sort of like "spreading" the arguments down the flow sheet. IN order to pack in as many arguments as possible, they have to speak fast. REALLY fast. Have you ever seen an auctioner? Well, imagine that except like 5 times faster.

oh you can't leave out the double breaths

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Oh, ok. Then I've never heard it. But sometimes I speak very fast to, but I guess it's not as fast as that. Auctioners are normal.

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hmm...well, ill leave it at that its so fast that you would think its just a bunch of gibberish..like blahablahsdlakdlabalhralfaflnlabflbabl

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Hehe...I've heard fast speaking people but I guess it was never too fast for me. I only have problems with people speaking like they're drunken or having a very hard dialect AND speaking like they're drunken...

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