#4329704 - 01/19/17 06:08 PM
Re: How many languages do you speak fluently?
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PanzerMeyer
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and a bunch of programing languages (dead tongues).
Fortran and Cobol FTW!
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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#4329709 - 01/19/17 06:30 PM
Re: How many languages do you speak fluently?
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Awwww, You guys beat me to it.... English, Fortran, Cobol, C (but not that new-fangled C# stuff), Perl & Python. I also have some German, French (from the public school system of Canuckistan), and some Esperanto. Cheers, 4 <S!>
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#4329735 - 01/19/17 08:16 PM
Re: How many languages do you speak fluently?
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and a bunch of programing languages (dead tongues).
Fortran and Cobol FTW! If you bought a flight ticket lately, chances are you talked Java to a COBOL speaking system, so not that dead after all. Real languages, Spanish and English. Perfect the former, very imperfect the later. I'd love to speak Latin too, but then what the hell do you do with it? My approach to languages (or anything else, really) is a practical one. It's a means to and end. And there's no ultimate goal that requires Latin.
When you're feeling sad, just remember that somewhere in the world, there's someone pushing a door that says "pull".
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#4329744 - 01/19/17 08:57 PM
Re: How many languages do you speak fluently?
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English and Brooklynese. "Ah'll moida ya', ya' joik!" Translation: I'm not happy with what you have just done.
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#4329750 - 01/19/17 10:01 PM
Re: How many languages do you speak fluently?
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some english and french - unfortunately none fluently
"everything lives by a law, a central balance sustains all"
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#4329821 - 01/20/17 03:49 AM
Re: How many languages do you speak fluently?
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Fluent in both English and French, a very decent Mandarin, plus some fairly effective Cantonese and Taiwanese slang.
Cheers, Slug
"Major Burns isn't saying much of anything, Sir. I think he's formulating the answer..." - Radar - M*A*S*H
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#4330064 - 01/20/17 10:24 PM
Re: How many languages do you speak fluently?
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Hmmm. Fluently?
1) Authentic Frontier Gibberish 2) Nonsense 3) A euphemism for "lies and bluster" that rhymes with Fullspit.
I speak those three fluently
I was once conversational in French. Today, in France, I would not die of exposure or of hunger or thirst. Provided a kind bi-lingual Frenchwoman decided to help me.
I hope one day to master "English", but since speaking the language with any accuracy seems pointless...
What kind of car is that? What does it matter? When I drive it, I'm Steve McQueen
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#4330217 - 01/21/17 06:29 PM
Re: How many languages do you speak fluently?
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We English don't have to speak foreign lingo. We just HAVE TO SHOUT LOUDLY! and Johnny foreigner will understand.
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#4330411 - 01/22/17 02:52 PM
Re: How many languages do you speak fluently?
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I had thought that I spoke English well until I met an Englishman. However , I can cuss in 4 other languages. Tell the Brit that English is a living language.
What kind of car is that? What does it matter? When I drive it, I'm Steve McQueen
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#4330660 - 01/23/17 04:10 PM
Re: How many languages do you speak fluently?
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Hmmm. Fluently?
1) Authentic Frontier Gibberish
What was it you said about the new sheriff again? The Jedi Master
The anteater is wearing the bagel because he's a reindeer princess. -- my 4 yr old daughter
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