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Geek Culture / How many languages can you speak?

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David R
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Posted: 7th Dec 2007 18:25
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English,
little bits of Hungarian (Mum's side of the family is from Hungary)
and random Urdu phrases (Kamm karr!)


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Posted: 7th Dec 2007 19:50
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Grownuptime...?
Please tell me you do not mean what I think you mean.



Oh God, you do, don't you?


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Venge
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Posted: 7th Dec 2007 20:06
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Quote: "Please tell me you do not mean what I think you mean.



Oh God, you do, don't you?"


Yes! Paying taxes! The horror
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Matt Rock
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Posted: 7th Dec 2007 20:38
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I don't know what you guys are talking about, me and Butters were talking about buying a new sports car. It invokes jealousy and anger amongst your peers and, uhh.... you need to be a grown up to afford one. And every time I take out the garbage... I... get... a sports car? That'll do

btw, completely unrelated conversation that has nothing to do with anything:

INH, Pod 9's download works again. The filefront link is fixed. It dropped Pod 9 but kept EE up, can't figure out why. Anyway, we'll have a mirror up later today at some point as well .

Okay, back to discussing the grownuptime function


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Tom J
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Posted: 7th Dec 2007 20:53 Edited at: 7th Dec 2007 20:53
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English
German (a bit)
Basic (but I personally dont count that)

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Pus In Boots
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Posted: 7th Dec 2007 22:01
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English
A oui bit o' french
And the language I command my legions of deadly storm troopers with.

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Dr Schnitzengruber
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Posted: 7th Dec 2007 23:01
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My native language is binary but I'm learning a bit of English.

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Zombie 20
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Posted: 8th Dec 2007 02:28 Edited at: 8th Dec 2007 02:31
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Quote: "Certainly not, that would be asking if you can go to the bathroom.
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hehe woops


[quote]grownuptime()[quote]

Yeaaaaaaaah! Okay, I'm done now..or am I?


Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee cappacino, JAVA!
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Posted: 8th Dec 2007 04:33
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@Dr. Shnitzel: 1010010110111001001010101011100101? 1001110110100111101101.
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AndrewT
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Posted: 8th Dec 2007 05:55
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I can only speak english. That's 'cause our foreign language classes at school realllllly suck. We learn how to count to ten then move onto a new language.

asdsdfaghkdlgahdfkj.
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Les Horribres
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Posted: 8th Dec 2007 09:21
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Personally supprised at how often chinese comes up (Given that it's supposedly the most difficult language to read)

Me personally? I barely speak english as is, and my mastery of Spanish and Japanese ain't much to boast on either.

Therefore, I have determined the only language I truely understand, is Math.

1 + 2 = 11 QED



Ohhh, I'm bored... why did I even come back to these forums?

Its not who you are or what you've done... its WHY you did it and how far you are willing to go.
If you fear speaking for yourself, make use the words of others while discovering your own voice.
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 8th Dec 2007 14:41
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I find Chinese symbols/Japanese Kanji is easy to learn, you just need to perceive the symbols - most symbols/letter in language derive from a picture that over the years has been stylize to hell, the letter a for example is a bull's head turned upside down, which derived from the symbol Phonecians used for a bull. Learning their symbols means partly to see around the stylization and see how certain symbols are made up of others symbols - the most obvious being the symbol for 'woods' is the symbol for tree doubled and put side by side and a 'forest' is the tree simple double and ordered as a triangular format. 'Brightness' consists of the moon and sun symbols merged and 'manpower' is man and power.

I love Nancy DrewG, but not insert brain here
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Posted: 8th Dec 2007 15:52
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Quote: "INH, Pod 9's download works again. The filefront link is fixed. It dropped Pod 9 but kept EE up, can't figure out why. Anyway, we'll have a mirror up later today at some point as well .
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Yaaay!
<It's HUGE!>


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 8th Dec 2007 17:47 Edited at: 8th Dec 2007 17:48
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Well now to help my project I am learning Icelandic and Norwegian so:

Halló! Ég heiti Seppuku. Hvað heitir þú?


God dag! Jeg heter Seppuku. Hva heter du?

Though I'm not going deep into learning them yet, though I'd like to, I just need patterns, grammar and access to the vocabulary to get my uni project underway. So far I've found the Icelandic language course great for grammar - heiti, heitum, heitir, heitið, heita...but I'm having a hard time with pronunciation, but that comes with practice and listening.

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BMacZero
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Posted: 12th Dec 2007 04:27
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I'm in Spanish 2. That's it .
Oh, I suppose I can speak pig latin.


"Ok, so that wasn't funny. I don' have any good Christmas jokes."
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Posted: 12th Dec 2007 04:46
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I took 2 years of Spanish, this year I decided to drop it for an off-hour because I can't stand the teacher...

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