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alright, a hell of a lot of people on here know different languages, so just for fun, tell me what languages you know, i'll start
i know english and a LITTLE bit of french, i used to know alot but i've basically forgotten.
i also know some albed :D Palyica es yfacusa
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Oui Vyem Al Bhed!
Just kiddin!
South Californian Beachside American English (We have our own seperate language variation of english. We're just cool that way)
I also know french from highschool and got some neighbors from canada who speak it in their house. I am self teaching myself Japanese and also want to learn Sweedish.
I also know basic HTML and Java :P What their programming LANGUAGES haha!
Some dwarfish and elvish (more written then spoken)
and a couple words of Klingon.
I know I-ish a geek ::)
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Punyeta naman oh gusto ko magkaroon ng bagong FF7 sa PS3. (Tagalog)
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I spoke Portuguese with near fluency. But I haven't really used it in about 3 years, and I have a really thick accent now :(
I also studied American Sign Language in college. That really came in handy for my first real job. I was the office manager at a vet clinic. We had a Deaf person come in, and when he realized I could sign, he referred all his friends to us!
I also studied Spanish in high school. That saved my butt one time, when I was lost at 3 in the morning in Florida, with a dead cell phone, and no quarters! I stopped at a gas station, and the attendant had to give me directions in spanish. High school was worth it for that alone! I would have never found my way. I was miles away from the friend's house I was visiting!
But as far as spanish itself goes, I can basically only understand it now. It's really hard for me to produce it - I just don't have the recall power anymore.
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Oui Vyem Al Bhed!
Just kiddin!
South Californian Beachside American English (We have our own seperate language variation of english. We're just cool that way)
I also know french from highschool and got some neighbors from canada who speak it in their house. I am self teaching myself Japanese and also want to learn Sweedish.
I also know basic HTML and Java :P What their programming LANGUAGES haha!
Some dwarfish and elvish (more written then spoken)
and a couple words of Klingon.
I know I-ish a geek ::)
ev e vyem yd Albed drah mad sa kad cdnilg po mekrdhehk *kadc cdnilg po mekrdhehk* ...uf :P
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I speak English, a little bit of Spanish.
I understand those, plus the following when written (but not spoken): Italian, French, and Portuguese. I can't really speak or write these languages, but I can usually figure them out when written without resorting to a translator.
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English, and a bit of Russian (forgot a lot of what I knew, and now know somethings I didn't before)
I think I'ma get myself some copies of Rosetta Stone for Russian and Japanese, and finally sit down and commit to them
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English and a bit of Spanish.
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English, Japanese, and a little C ;)
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English, Farsi, Spanish, and a little Japanese.
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Portuguese
English
Spanish
French
In that order.
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English and currently learning spanish, I intend to start learning japanese soon.
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ev e vyem yd Albed drah mad sa kad cdnilg po mekrdhehk *kadc cdnilg po mekrdhehk* ...uf :P
Jeced dra Thunder Plains silr. Lol
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Finnish, English, Swedish and German.
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I'm fluent in English and French, took 2 years of Latin, so I can pretty much decipher latin phrases with a bit of time (it's a really hard language), and I took 3 years of Spanish, I speak it a little bit and I can understand it pretty well if the person's not talking *too* fast. =)
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English, French, Latin and Ancient Greek, to varying degrees. I have a smattering of German, Japanese, Old English and Old Norse, and can generally understand written Dutch, Italian and Spanish thanks to their similarities to languages I already know.
I'm fluent in English and French, took 2 years of Latin, so I can pretty much decipher latin phrases with a bit of time (it's a really hard language)
f***ING THIS! ;D
No, srsly, Latin is hard to get into, especially since the authors tend to use such artificial constructions and seem to win kudos from being as hard to understand as possible. Props to Caesar for breaking this trend. A lot of what Mark Twain (http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html) said about German applies to Latin, especially this:
There are ten parts of speech, and they are all troublesome. An average sentence, in a German newspaper Ciceronean speech, is a sublime and impressive curiosity; it occupies a quarter of a column; it contains all the ten parts of speech -- not in regular order, but mixed; it is built mainly of compound words constructed by the writer on the spot, and not to be found in any dictionary -- six or seven words compacted into one, without joint or seam -- that is, without hyphens arse-licking and attempts to show the writer's intelligence by making references to obscure Greek myths whereof even the Greeks themselves were ignorant; it treats of fourteen or fifteen different subjects, each inclosed in a parenthesis of its own, with here and there extra parentheses which reinclose three or four of the minor parentheses, making pens within pens: finally, all the parentheses and reparentheses are massed together between a couple of king-parentheses, one of which is placed in the first line of the majestic sentence and the other in the middle of the last line of it -- after which comes the VERB, and you find out for the first time what the man has been talking about; and after the verb -- merely by way of ornament, as far as I can make out -- the writer shovels in "haben sind gewesen gehabt haben geworden sein pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo," or words to that effect, and the monument is finished. I suppose that this closing hurrah is in the nature of the flourish to a man's signature -- not necessary, but pretty. German books Latin historians are easy enough to read when you hold them before the looking-glass or stand on your head -- so as to reverse the construction -- but I think that to learn to read and understand a German newspapernything else written in Latin is a thing which must always remain an impossibility to a foreigner.
Greek is the far superior choice of Classical language. ;D
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Oh rait, I believe I heard you were studying Classical languages. That was my third option in university but I got accepted into anthro first. :P
And LULZ @ Mark Twain. :P It's so true, latin sentences are just a bunch of words put in a random order, with a verb at the end. Deciphering a single complex/compound sentence would take me about 15-20 minutes, given I have to look up the word's meaning and figure out what function it has in the sentence. Then put all the pieces together and make it sound right in French. (I was taking the course in a French school).
the writer shovels in "haben sind gewesen gehabt haben geworden sein pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo," or words to that effect, and the monument is finished. I suppose that this closing hurrah is in the nature of the flourish to a man's signature -- not necessary, but pretty.
Never really seen any of those... but I'm guessing it's like saying DESU in engrish! ;D ;D
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Oh rait, I believe I heard you were studying Classical languages. That was my third option in university but I got accepted into anthro first. :P
And LULZ @ Mark Twain. :P It's so true, latin sentences are just a bunch of words put in a random order, with a verb at the end. Deciphering a single complex/compound sentence would take me about 15-20 minutes, given I have to look up the word's meaning and figure out what function it has in the sentence. Then put all the pieces together and make it sound right in French. (I was taking the course in a French school).
And since everything moves so slowly, one forgets what has happened a few lines ago and there seems to be no narrative, meaning that one doesn't know what the hell is going on in the poem, everything is meaningless and lines take longer to translate because forgetting the lines that have preceded them means that everything feels out of context.
I reached a breakthrough with my Greek towards the end, when I could actually read everything quickly enough to appreciate the narrative and make use of the context; beuig able to read five lines every minute meant I could remember what was actually going on.
the writer shovels in "haben sind gewesen gehabt haben geworden sein pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo," or words to that effect, and the monument is finished. I suppose that this closing hurrah is in the nature of the flourish to a man's signature -- not necessary, but pretty.
Never really seen any of those... but I'm guessing it's like saying DESU in engrish! ;D ;D
Wikipedia's translation of Catullus' greatest work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16#Latin_text_and_translation) ;D (NSFW)
In case you couldn't tell, I'm one of those people who loves the dirty bits (another one of the Greek's plus points is that it has the delightfully indecent Aristophanes ;D).
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And since everything moves so slowly, one forgets what has happened a few lines ago and there seems to be no narrative, meaning that one doesn't know what the hell is going on in the poem, everything is meaningless and lines take longer to translate because forgetting the lines that have preceded them means that everything feels out of context.
This too. I can understand why it's dead language. :P
Wikipedia's translation of Catullus' greatest work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16#Latin_text_and_translation) ;D (NSFW)
In case you couldn't tell, I'm one of those people who loves the dirty bits (another one of the Greek's plus points is that it has the delightfully indecent Aristophanes ;D).
OH LULZ! :P No wonder I have never encountered this in school. :P And holy crap... look at those names. O_O Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus. I want an epic name like that! ;D ;D
This reminded me of some site I found with a list of Latin sentences that could "come in handy". It had very useless sentences like "Fornolum pani nolo" (I don't need a toaster) and I'm not even sure if that's even the right words, it's just from my memory. :P So if ever I try to sound like I know how to speak Latin fluently I say some gibberish like that, or agricolae lupus dominum vivis. ;D
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And holy crap... look at those names. O_O Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus. I want an epic name like that! ;D ;D
In Rome, only boys are allowed to have cool names. ;D
This reminded me of some site I found with a list of Latin sentences that could "come in handy". It had very useless sentences like "Fornolum pani nolo" (I don't need a toaster) and I'm not even sure if that's even the right words, it's just from my memory. :P So if ever I try to sound like I know how to speak Latin fluently I say some gibberish like that, or agricolae lupus dominum vivis. ;D
I remember buying this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/X-treme-Latin-Henry-Beard/dp/0755312953/ref=sr_1_43?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276220171&sr=8-43) once upon a time :P
Full of potentially useful stuff that I'm sure no Roman ever actually said.
I also borrowed this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Latin-Sexual-Vocabulary-JN-Adams/dp/0801841062/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276220364&sr=1-2) from my college's library (Hey! Don't look at me like that! It was essential for the course I was doing ;D)
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In Rome, only boys are allowed to have cool names. ;D
Awwh... :[ how about... Michus Maximus Chocobus Puellus! (puellus means girl rait? :P)
I remember buying this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/X-treme-Latin-Henry-Beard/dp/0755312953/ref=sr_1_43?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276220171&sr=8-43) once upon a time :P
WHOA!!! THAT'S EXTREME!!! :P :P
I also borrowed this (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Latin-Sexual-Vocabulary-JN-Adams/dp/0801841062/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1276220364&sr=1-2) from my college's library (Hey! Don't look at me like that! It was essential for the course I was doing ;D)
LULZ, your school offers interesting classes. I are jealous! Oh and now you need to find yourself a girl who can speak latin so you can talk dirty to her in latin. ;D
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i'm fluent in the language of women.
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i'm fluent in the language of women.
Hmmm? Sorry I didn't understand.
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Oh and now you need to find yourself a girl who can speak latin so you can talk dirty to her in latin. ;D
I know a lot of them! ;D
Unfortunately, there are also a lot of boys around here who speak Latin as well (and who have read the same stuff as me), so I'm nothing special ???
i'm fluent in the language of women.
Hmmm? Sorry I didn't understand.
Ooh, burn! :D
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u236/REIGNftSOLDIER/Random/kelso_burn.gif)
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i'm fluent in the language of women.
Hmmm? Sorry I didn't understand.
next time i'll make sure i post it when you're logged off =P
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Unfortunately, there are also a lot of boys around here who speak Latin as well (and who have read the same stuff as me), so I'm nothing special ???
Then you obviously need to come to Canada! ;D I have never met a guy in Canada who speaks Latin and has read that book. Therefore there are shurely none! :P And I went to an all-girl school, so obviously only girls know Latin in Canada.
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Unfortunately, there are also a lot of boys around here who speak Latin as well (and who have read the same stuff as me), so I'm nothing special ???
Aww, you're special to us.
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No, srsly, Latin is hard to get into, especially since the authors tend to use such artificial constructions and seem to win kudos from being as hard to understand as possible.
Enjoying your hexameters?
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No, srsly, Latin is hard to get into, especially since the authors tend to use such artificial constructions and seem to win kudos from being as hard to understand as possible.
Enjoying your hexameters?
Not any more! ;D
Well, I enjoyed my Greek hexameters; they were awesome. Homer ftw!
Say, Bosola , don't you know a little bit of Old English? I seem to remember the topic coming up before...
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i know like 0 languages. i'm good at body language though :]. i wink too much irl. and lots of faces too.
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I speak Spanish,English and a bit of German (familly :P)