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stephenWells Posts: 127 Joined: April 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 08 2006,09:37    In the context of AFDave's hopeless efforts to pretend he knows anything about languages, I thought it would be interesting to find out who speaks which languages around here. For collection purposes, let's say we'll list languages you can either read or understand, if not perfectly, then at least functionally. Let's not list things we have only a smattering of. My list: English (native) French Spanish Italian Latin Russian Over to you guys...

Ladlergo Posts: 32 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 08 2006,09:44    English (native) French

Arden Chatfield Posts: 6657 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 08 2006,10:05    English native Plus, with varying degrees of control: Russian German French -------------- "Rich is just mad because he thought all titties had fur on them until last week when a shorn transvestite ruined his childhood dreams by jumping out of a spider man cake and man boobing him in the face lips." - Erasmus

stephenWells Posts: 127 Joined: April 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 08 2006,10:14    Quote (Arden Chatfield @ June 08 2006,15:05) English native Plus, with varying degrees of control: Russian German French I hardly dare to ask what happens when you lose control of those...

Faid Posts: 1143 Joined: Mar. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 08 2006,10:17    Just the ones I'm fluent in? OK... English Greek ...aaand that's about it. -------------- A look into DAVE HAWKINS' sense of honesty: "The truth is that ALL mutations REDUCE information" "...mutations can add information to a genome.  And remember, I have never said that this is not possible."

jeannot Posts: 1201 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 08 2006,10:18    French (native) English Spanish (but I've forgotten a lot) I studied Latin (ave caesar, morituri te salutant )

Arden Chatfield Posts: 6657 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 08 2006,10:19    Quote (stephenWells @ June 08 2006,15:14)   Quote (Arden Chatfield @ June 08 2006,15:05) English native Plus, with varying degrees of control: Russian German French I hardly dare to ask what happens when you lose control of those... The French and Russian aren't so much an issue, but you do not want to know what happens when you lose control of German.     (And also a couple of very obscure languages that I've studied for a long time in the course of my linguistic research.) -------------- "Rich is just mad because he thought all titties had fur on them until last week when a shorn transvestite ruined his childhood dreams by jumping out of a spider man cake and man boobing him in the face lips." - Erasmus

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: June 08 2006,11:54    I speak English and Chick. Chick mostly consists of nodding.

Occam's Aftershave Posts: 5287 Joined: Feb. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 08 2006,12:00    English American Australian Canadian, eh? a smattering of Cat (mostly I speak, they ignore) -------------- "CO2 can't re-emit any trapped heat unless all the molecules point the right way" "All the evidence supports Creation baraminology" "If it required a mind, planning and design, it isn't materialistic." "Jews and Christians are Muslims." - Joke "Sharon" Gallien, world's dumbest YEC.

Arden Chatfield Posts: 6657 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 08 2006,12:08    Quote (stevestory @ June 08 2006,16:54) I speak English and Chick. Chick mostly consists of nodding. Did you pick that up from reading Big Daddy?   -------------- "Rich is just mad because he thought all titties had fur on them until last week when a shorn transvestite ruined his childhood dreams by jumping out of a spider man cake and man boobing him in the face lips." - Erasmus

Spike Posts: 49 Joined: Feb. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 08 2006,12:10    Hey! I was "Flood Controlled" just now! ****** I speak every language but Greek. (and you already know the punchline)

Russell Posts: 1082 Joined: April 2005 (Permalink) Posted: June 08 2006,12:32    I wouldn't claim to be "fluent" in anything other than English. I once passed an exam that allowed me to claim fluency in German - but that was some time ago. I had about 5 years of Latin, and was reasonably good at reading it, but never spoke it. Also took courses in Italian, Greek (koine), and learned a little Russian, a little Spanish, and a little (modern) Greek on my own. -------------- Must... not... scratch... mosquito bite.

GCT Posts: 1001 Joined: Aug. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: June 09 2006,00:59    American. I would say English too, but I used to play soccer with some British guys and I couldn't understand a single word they said.  (One was from Birmingham and the other from southern Scotland.) Edit:  And, I call it "soccer."  World Cup starts today!

Renier Posts: 276 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 09 2006,01:22    English Dutch German Afrikaans

MidnightVoice Posts: 380 Joined: Aug. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: June 09 2006,03:39    English (native) American (fluent) French (poor and rusty) KiSwahili (poor and rusty) Smattering of Turkish Forgot all my Latin -------------- If I fly the coop some time And take nothing but a grip With the few good books that really count It's a necessary trip I'll be gone with the girl in the gold silk jacket The girl with the pearl-driller's hands

JMX Posts: 27 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 09 2006,03:47    German (native) English (fluent) Dutch (not as much as I'd like to) Plattdeutsch (old Northern German language, see Dutch) French (forgot almost everything) Latin (see French)

guthrie Posts: 696 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 09 2006,04:14    English. (Although I have a bit of Scots, a bit of french and some german.  Not enough to be worth mentioning)

George Posts: 316 Joined: Feb. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 09 2006,04:58    Americano-English (native) Hiberno-English (fluent, except in north Dublin dialect) Spanish (fluentish) Irish (enough to order a pint in the Gaeltacht)

ericmurphy Posts: 2460 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: June 09 2006,06:18    English (native), and enough French to sound like a complete idiot. I had a French friend of mine exhaling beer through her nose conjugating French verbs once. -------------- 2006 MVD award for most dogged defense of scientific sanity "Atheism is a religion the same way NOT collecting stamps is a hobby." —Scott Adams

PennyBright Posts: 78 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 09 2006,09:03    English only, I'm afraid. -------------- Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. - Shakespeare (reputedly)

Wesley R. Elsberry Posts: 4991 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: June 09 2006,09:30    English Spanish - I can read enough Spanish to get around when travelling, and understand simple, very slowly spoken Spanish -- the sort you never actually find. About Portugese - I visited Portugal for a conference in 1998, and I found enough overlap with Spanish to be able to work out basic travel instructions, advisories, etc. on the trip. Diane and I spent a night in Milfontes, which apparently is a tourist spot for the Portugese. We rented a suite for the night from a fellow, though he didn't speak English and we certainly didn't speak Portugese. We managed to communicate sufficiently well anyway. -------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker

deadman_932 Posts: 3094 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 09 2006,10:59    English, Spanish (fluent) French (pretty fluent) Italian and German (based on the can you at least read it/translate it criteria) I also speak Fundyese, Phlegmish and Drunk. -------------- AtBC Award for Thoroughness in the Face of Creationism

steve_h Posts: 544 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 09 2006,15:39    English (fails to impress) German (could do better). Other (can order beer)

Henry J Posts: 5786 Joined: Mar. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: June 09 2006,16:30    Me speak only the English. (Er, the American version of it.) What few words of Spanish (from high school) and German (from college) that are still stuck in my memory aren't nearly enough to translate anything. I do though recall reading a BB post from a lady from Portugal who moved to N.J. She decided to bring up her kids speaking English, and not teach them Portugese unless/until they got old enough to decide such things. Then one day she noticed that they had somehow learned how to swear in Portugese. And apparently quite well, too. Henry

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: June 09 2006,16:35    Oh, Drunk. Forgot about that one. I'm fluent in Drunk. It's a unique language. It's the only language where whatever you said, you regret the next day. Quote Then one day she noticed that they had somehow learned how to swear in Portugese. And apparently quite well, too. My friend Anna moved, at the age of 5, with her parents to Germany. For some reason, she pouted and very obstinately refused to learn German. She said she then became enraged one day, about a year after the move, when her mom asked her a question, and she replied, and afterwards realized her mom asked her in german.

Seven Popes Posts: 190 Joined: Mar. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 13 2006,15:20    Swiss german, Zurich accent. Started learning english at  at 3 1/2, watching Sesame Street with my mother.  Parents transferred to USA with intention of only staying 2 years.  Didn't work out that way.. -------------- Cave ab homine unius libri - Beware of anyone who has just one book.

Chris Hyland Posts: 705 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 14 2006,00:02    English Gibberish

Nebogipfel Posts: 47 Joined: April 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 14 2006,00:57    UK English Dutch I have recently been obliged to learn Management, but I generally prefer my more fluent dialects of C++ and Tcl.

stephenWells Posts: 127 Joined: April 2006 (Permalink) Posted: June 15 2006,07:53    Quote (Nebogipfel @ June 14 2006,05:57) UK English Dutch I have recently been obliged to learn Management, but I generally prefer my more fluent dialects of C++ and Tcl. There's a point. How many machine languages do we muster, too? I'll put in for Fortran90, C++ and a smattering of Python. Mostly under UNIX/Linux environments. Note to all respondents so far: your data will be tremendously helpful for task assignment when we take over the world. Forward the conspiracy!

Henry J Posts: 5786 Joined: Mar. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: June 15 2006,10:59    Oh, if computer languages are being included here, then add C and C++ under VMS to my previous list (which was just {English}). Henry

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