08-25-2004, 04:45 PM
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#1 | | Registered User
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| Second language?
If you had the opportunity to learn a second language, one that might possibly maybe some day be of use in your fencing endeavors, which language would you pick?
((By the way, your response should be limited to a SECOND language choice, not a third, fourth and fifth language smorgasbord. Makes picking just one a teensy bit harder.))
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08-25-2004, 04:57 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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| French, Chinese and Japanese. I know a bit of French, and I know NOTHING about Chinese or Japanese, but there's lots of those people in Vancouver, so it'd be useful, but in fencing... I don't know. | |
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08-25-2004, 05:05 PM
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#3 | | Member
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| For fencing....
French. Useful for directing in the USA - nobody knows what you're saying. 
IRL, I've studied Russian. | |
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08-25-2004, 05:06 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
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| Ooh I'm interested in Russian, as well! Well... I'm interested in a lot of languages, actually. | |
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08-25-2004, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by CsmaCD French. Useful for directing in the USA - nobody knows what you're saying.
IRL, I've studied Russian. |
French, of course. Half the terms are in French. Unless French is already your first language, I don't see that there is any other real choice!
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08-25-2004, 05:35 PM
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#6 | | Senior Member
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| For fencing? Italian... I already know enough French to get by, but I would love to be bale to read some of those old Italian texts in their original. I also studied German and know enough old German to translate older texts fairly well.
Other than fencing uses: Russian (to read Dostyevsky) and Czech, because I think that the Czech Republic is trying to make itself a player in the EU.
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08-25-2004, 05:40 PM
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| Second language? You mean not everybody speaks more than one language?  
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08-25-2004, 05:53 PM
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| In the US, I'd have to say Russian (which I still know a bit of from college). The number of high-level coaches from the former USSR who have landed over hear makes it quite practical, so far as fencing is concerned.
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08-25-2004, 06:00 PM
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#9 | | Member
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| i'd have to say spanish, since we are right next to the border and most foreign people in my area are from mexico. i'm trying to get a couple of my friends from mexico to do fenicng  | |
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08-25-2004, 06:01 PM
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| I'd say french, so I could go train in france.
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08-25-2004, 06:02 PM
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#11 | | Senior Member
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| Esperanto.
(I'm taking a course in french in Sept though)
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08-25-2004, 10:11 PM
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#12 | | Senior Member
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| Umm.. Probably latin.. which is my second language.. lol... or at least.. i am learning it.. not the most practical.. but still a lot of fun!!!
And.. you can insult people in latin.. and no one understands! muah ha ha! | |
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08-25-2004, 10:21 PM
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| I always felt that of all the languages, it would be satisfying to curse in German after bad ref calls and missed attacks. | |
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08-25-2004, 10:35 PM
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#14 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Victor I always felt that of all the languages, it would be satisfying to curse in German after bad ref calls and missed attacks. | German is indeed like that. | |
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08-26-2004, 02:18 AM
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Originally Posted by RogueNine German is indeed like that. | Except the fundamental German swear word is scatalogical, and most people understand it. You can say things like "Himmel Herr Gott Sac(rament)" or "Heiland Sac(rament)" which sound impressive, but are sort of the equivalent of saying "Jesus Christ" or "Oh God."
I always liked the Swedish "Fahn."
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08-26-2004, 03:23 AM
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#16 | | Senior Member
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| I'd like to learn hungarian.
IRL I speak spanish as a second language, and swearing in it IS fun woot
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08-26-2004, 05:41 AM
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| Russian. I'd love to know what all those coaches, officials and fencers at big tournaments are saying... | |
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08-26-2004, 12:05 PM
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#18 | | Member
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| How about in Klingon!
(Director) Subwl' Su'?
(Fencers) Hlja'
(Director) Quapla!
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(Director) Mevyap!
(Director) HIvDuj DoH Utlh Ray.
Roughly: "Warriors ready? Yes. Go! ... Stop! Attack is off target"
source: http://members.aol.com/jpklingon/uta/GALDict.html
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08-26-2004, 03:23 PM
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#19 | | Senior Member
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| hehe, aww I want to learn so many languages, but Russian is the one that I'd pick. (and I'm learning it now) But I want to learn others.. French, Italian, Spanish (..not Mexican Spanish, European Spanish), Polish, German, Arabic, and Potugese.
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08-26-2004, 03:24 PM
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#20 | | Member
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| chinese:
You think american culture & english as a "world language" is pervasive just wait -- a country with over a billion people, that's just starting to blosom into a global player is bound to have a huge effect.
That being said, that is a future goal. Right now I'm learning Italian. | |
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