07-17-2005, 03:54 PM
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#21 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Singapore
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| My turn! I'm a newbie, so be nice to me...
Read and speak: English, Latin, Classical Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese, Shanghainese Chinese,
Read: Renaissance Italian, Coptic (a wee bit), Classical Armenian (also known as Grabar), Slavonic and Russian (enough to get by in chuch), Romanian (again enough for church).  | 
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07-17-2005, 04:53 PM
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#22 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| Sorry, I don't think that is possible, what with all those languages! We MUST be envious and mean...  | |
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07-17-2005, 05:35 PM
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#23 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The Desert
Posts: 499
| Graci, esskreemr!
English is my first language. I'm a beginner in Esperanto and I have terrible French.
-Da Mose
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07-17-2005, 06:10 PM
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#24 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: DC & Vancouver
Posts: 2,068
| I peak-say ig-pay atin-lay.
And I communicate in ASL and I have a basic knowledge of French (not that great... I don't work hard enough at it).
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My loverboy asked (in American Sign Language) what I was looking at on the computer:
Me: A fencing forum.
LB: A fisting forum?!
Me: God, NO! FENCING!
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07-17-2005, 06:13 PM
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#25 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
Posts: 12,754
| Jojagog poproratotaror sosvovenonsoskoka... 
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07-17-2005, 06:29 PM
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#26 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen Swedish and Norwegian are very closely related. | Yeah, considering they're the SAME LANGUAGE.
*Ducks to avoid angry nationalists*
Just kidding. Really though, they're mutually intelligible, like:
Belorussian and Russian
Spanish and Portugese
English and Lowland Scots
Serbian and Croatian (which actually ARE the same language, spoken)
-Da Mose
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07-17-2005, 06:35 PM
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#27 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by Moses Yeah, considering they're the SAME LANGUAGE. | No, they're not the same language.
As an example, comparing swedish and -- say -- norwegian would be more like comparing polish to russian. They're closely related, but not the same language.
Danish is close to swedish and norwegian too, but still a unique language.
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07-17-2005, 06:46 PM
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#28 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen No, they're not the same language.
As an example, comparing swedish and -- say -- norwegian would be more like comparing polish to russian. They're closely related, but not the same language.
Danish is close to swedish and norwegian too, but still a unique language. | Yeah, I thought I made it clear that I knew that when I said: Quote: |
Originally Posted by Moses Just kidding. Really though, they're mutually intelligible, like: | -Da Mose
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07-17-2005, 06:49 PM
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#29 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
Posts: 12,754
| Ah, sorry! 
Guess you didn't duck low enough... 
(And anyway, now you know they're different for sure!  )
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07-18-2005, 04:59 AM
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#30 | | Senior Member
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Posts: 1,663
| Fluent: English, Russian, Ukrainian
Can get by with some difficulties: Czech, Hebrew
Passive vocabulary only (read & understand speech, but can't speak myself): Slovak, Polish, Yiddish
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07-18-2005, 07:40 AM
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#31 | | Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Austin, TX
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Basic: German
Can Decipher: Ancient Greek - Which appears to be rather overrepresented in this thread. | 
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07-18-2005, 03:50 PM
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#32 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Singapore
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Originally Posted by KD5MDK Can Decipher: Ancient Greek - Which appears to be rather overrepresented in this thread. | Well, there you go! Fencers are a smart lot | |
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07-18-2005, 08:55 PM
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#33 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: DC & Vancouver
Posts: 2,068
| Ot-nay all-ay encers-fay are-ay mart-say.
Post on this board more and you'll see.
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My loverboy asked (in American Sign Language) what I was looking at on the computer:
Me: A fencing forum.
LB: A fisting forum?!
Me: God, NO! FENCING!
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11-20-2005, 09:07 AM
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#34 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Fresno CA
Posts: 5,277
| I speak Hungarian (whoa, what a wonder), English (again) and Italian fluently.
I've just started Swedish, had one year of Latin (now I just get what's written and I know most of the medical phrases)... Ah, and two years of German, but now I just understand it read or spoken, and tho I can't really make up sentences, I can still get around with it. Also, I've learnt a few polite things in Serbian.
Important words (like fencing, foil, saber...) in way more languages.  | |
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11-20-2005, 02:30 PM
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#35 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Posts: 665
| Fluent: English
Can read/speak with some difficulty: Gaelic (Irish)
In the process of learning: Russian
Swordwench: It did. Most Americans don't know what you're talking about when you say the word "Gaelic" so they've decided to supposedly make it easier on everyone by simply calling it "Irish".
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11-20-2005, 06:15 PM
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#36 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Under the sea
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Yes, but there's Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic...maybe others as well. | They are a bit like Swedish and Norwegian - closely related and mutually intelligble, but different (same with Manx, but there are about 3 Manx speakers on the planet), Welsh is like comparing English to, say, Dutch, where there are common ancestry, and you can understand certain words and phrases, but they are very different. Cornish, I think (but don't know for certain) is like Welsh.
For the record, I speak English, Bollocks, and Drunkenese very fluently, can get by in French and German, and can swear in a couple of other languages
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