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kittinSol -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/14/2009 3:25:38 PM)

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ORIGINAL: 4u2spoil

English has a lot of French influences as well.



Oui are ze champions.



FullCircle -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/14/2009 3:32:10 PM)

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol
Clockwork Orange. It's full of weird linguistics, and it's so much more relaxing than Planet [8|] .

That film reminds me of a clock I made in CDT once because it was orange. The film I'm a bit squeamish about since it combines 70's fashion and the most annoying classical tune of all time.
 
 
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kittinSol -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/14/2009 4:00:40 PM)

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Barbarisme!



GreedyTop -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/14/2009 4:05:13 PM)

damit.. now I wanna see the movie again



BKSir -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/14/2009 4:29:13 PM)

The obvious English, but also Spanish, German (which helps on a lot of other languages), Italian (frightfully similar to Spanish), and enough Russian, Cantonese, Japanese and Vietnamese to not starve to death or have to sleep/pee in the streets.  Oh, and enough Navajo to get my ass kicked. 



kittinSol -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/14/2009 4:31:28 PM)

Putain de bordel de merde, I had no idea there were so many polyglots here. I feel destitute now, with my paltry skills (granted: what little I have is of qualité supérieure [8D]) .



BKSir -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/14/2009 4:40:05 PM)

Don't be.  Try going to Denmark sometime.  Most everyone here is put to shame.  I've yet to meet a single Dane that wasn't thoroughly fluent in at least 4 languages.  God bless a decent educational system.



DarkSteven -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/14/2009 5:46:26 PM)

Enough Spanish to get my ass kicked at any bar between here and Tijuana.  And a half dozen words in French, German, Navajo, Arabic, and Chinese.  And odd words of Hebrew and Yiddish.



SylvereApLeanan -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/15/2009 12:37:52 PM)

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ORIGINAL: 4u2spoil
English has a lot of French influences as well. Moreso in the vocabulary than structure. But if you take the King James bible as an example of old English, many of those things could be directly translated and not lose their meaning - i.e. "for they know not what they do" as opposed to something like "they don't know what they're doing."



Very true.  English is heavily influenced by French and by Latin, since Latin was the language used by the church.  Linguistically speaking, however, English is more closely related to German and Arabic than to Latin or any of the Romance languages.  My Linguistics professor speaks Old English.  Listening to him sounded a lot like listening to people speak when I was in Germany.
 
Reading Beowulf and Chaucer's Canturbury Tales in the original Old English with in-line translations really brought the point home for me.  The most interesting part was how quickly I caught on and Old English started to read much like modern English with some funky spelling variations.



Lordandmaster -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/15/2009 1:08:50 PM)

English is completely unrelated to Arabic.

And to 4u2spoil: The King James Bible is not written in Old English.  Old English is much older than that.  Beowulf is a good example of Old English.  It's unintelligible without years of study.

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ORIGINAL: SylvereApLeanan

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ORIGINAL: 4u2spoil
English has a lot of French influences as well. Moreso in the vocabulary than structure. But if you take the King James bible as an example of old English, many of those things could be directly translated and not lose their meaning - i.e. "for they know not what they do" as opposed to something like "they don't know what they're doing."


Very true.  English is heavily influenced by French and by Latin, since Latin was the language used by the church.  Linguistically speaking, however, English is more closely related to German and Arabic than to Latin or any of the Romance languages.



lronitulstahp -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/15/2009 1:40:50 PM)

OY!!!!  i forgot, i know a teeny bit of Hebrew and some Yiddish....plus i speak New Yawkuh, and Lawng Island....i can also understand and translate Suth'ren



SylvereApLeanan -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/15/2009 2:12:27 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

English is completely unrelated to Arabic.



You're right; Arabic is part of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages as opposed to the Indo-European family.  I was thinking "middle east" and wrote Arabic when it should have been Iranian.  My bad.



tammystarm -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/15/2009 2:17:28 PM)

english spanish french and a tad iranian



Daddysredhead -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/15/2009 2:20:58 PM)

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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Putain de bordel de merde, I had no idea there were so many polyglots here. I feel destitute now, with my paltry skills (granted: what little I have is of qualité supérieure [8D]) .


Bien sur!  [:)]



DarkSteven -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/15/2009 2:23:15 PM)

There is no such language as Iranian.  It's called Farsi.



YoursMistress -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/15/2009 2:42:11 PM)

I can speak English and pig Latin quite acceptably, I can fake my way through French, and know just a little Japanese and Chinese (Mandarin, if you're interested Steel).  I've been know to paste online phrasebook Dutch into conversations, but not with great success. 

yours



SylvereApLeanan -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/15/2009 2:56:35 PM)

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

There is no such language as Iranian.  It's called Farsi.


Uh, no, this is incorrect.  Iranian, as used in linguistic geneaology, should not be confused with the language of modern-era Iran.
 
The Indo-European family tree shows Iranian as a branch of Indo-Iranian, which is one of the primary branches of Proto-Indo-European.  Iranian then branches off into Kurdish, Pashto, Avestan, and Old Persian, among others.  Old Persian then branches into Modern Persian and Farsi is one of approximately ten languages that make up the Modern Persian group of languages.



Lordandmaster -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/15/2009 7:44:06 PM)

Yes, that's right.

English is not particularly closely related to Iranian, but they are both Indo-European languages.



Masterfulwayz -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/15/2009 7:47:22 PM)

I like to think I am a VERY Cunning linguist .. grins-
I love the fluidity of the romantic languages, but the intellectual notes that the germanic languages bring out is yumm too..



Masterfulwayz -> RE: What Languages do you Speak? (3/15/2009 7:49:03 PM)

The vanilla cone is OH so funny next to Me.. lol even..
thai, English of course, SPanish fluently, French, and some german..
languages are beautiful silent languages mmmm.. yum.
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