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What's your native language? |
Martin Kalbfuß
Member #9,131
October 2007
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http://remote-lisp.spdns.de -- my server side lisp interpreter |
OICW
Member #4,069
November 2003
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My primary language is Czech, obviously. I'm also fluent in English, in which I speak with american accent (can't tell you which one) which is something I'm not very proud of - I'd like to speak with british accent - and I accredit it to watching movies and TV Shows in original and mostly w/o subtitles. On high school I was taught German. Sadly enough, today I understand a written word, I could write something with some effort towards mistake correction. I understand a little from spoken German, but I doubt I'd be able to speak. Though a week in Germany would probably brush off the rust from my German skills. I know a little Czech. You have my respect, because Czech isn't an easy language to learn, more so to speak, thanks to pronounciation of "r" and "ř" plus other characters with punctuation. [My website][CppReference][Pixelate][Allegators worldwide][Who's online] |
jhuuskon
Member #302
April 2000
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Finnish is what is called an agglutinative language - the meaning of individual words are altered by suffixes attached to the root word, and not by other words. Also, you can stack the suffixes. e.g. There are 15 noun cases and they can be stacked to a degree. So yeah, typing finnish wears your space bar less than most languages. Also, you can make coherent sentences on the go as word order has very little role in meaning of a sentence and usually the best word order can be chosen solely for the purpose of emphasis. You don't deserve my sig. |
Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001
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I had to copy this from an early thread, because of corrupted scandinavian letters: Go Finnish! 15 cases! OTOH you can form new words out of old ones: (fi: ) järjestys epäjärjestys järjestää järjestelmä järjestelmällistää järjestelmällistyttää järjestelmällistämäisyys järjestelmällistyttämäisyys järjestelmällistyttämättömyys epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyys epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellä epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsä epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkin epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkään epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkäänkö epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkäänköhän ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest. |
Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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@Johan You have just assured that I will never even attempt to learn Finnish.
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Mika Halttunen
Member #760
November 2000
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Finnish is my native language. I understand and write English quite well, but I suck at speaking it.. Neil Black: Don't worry, that's an extreme example, I don't think anybody uses those latter cases. Hopefully.. |
Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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If I knew the language I would use those latter cases all the time.
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Indeterminatus
Member #737
November 2000
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German natively. So yeah. When I look at my friends, I'm the least language-proficient. _______________________________ |
Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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Indeterminatus said: So yeah. When I look at my friends, I'm the least language-proficient. If I succeed in learning German I'll know two languages, and I'll become the most language-proficient of my friends. Although I'll have to compete with the one who speaks Spanish non-fluently.
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ReyBrujo
Moderator
January 2001
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I speak Spanish natively, English well enough for others to understand me, got some knowledge about Portuguese (did a small course but didn't like it) and have been studying Japanese for a while. -- |
Crazy Photon
Member #2,588
July 2002
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Similar to ReyBrujo, native Spanish, fluent English, some Portuguese, a few Japanese words, hopes to learn Japanese and German someday. ----- |
Vanneto
Member #8,643
May 2007
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Slovenian is my primary language. I can speak English fluently. I also understand and can speak German. This is pretty much it. In capitalist America bank robs you. |
Johan Halmén
Member #1,550
September 2001
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A really weird video to the sound of a kantele playing our national anthem, then follows a soundtrack with an actress reciting the poem of the anthem. In Finnish. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Years of thorough research have revealed that what people find beautiful about the Mandelbrot set is not the set itself, but all the rest. |
Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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OICW said: You have my respect, because Czech isn't an easy language to learn, more so to speak, thanks to pronounciation of "r" and "c" plus other characters with punctuation.
Pronunciation isn't really the problem (although words such as krk and prst are a bit weird and čtyři is a bit of a tongue-twister). Dutch has two sounds most foreigners (and some Dutch people |
CursedTyrant
Member #7,080
April 2006
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Polish is my native language. I speak English (I prefer British English) altough I also know Italian (still learning, but it's going well), Latin and a bit of Greek (the attic dialect, or whatever it's called, tough I don't know it as well as Latin. I am studying Classical Philology after all --------- |
Kibiz0r
Member #6,203
September 2005
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C++ --- |
Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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CursedTyrant said: Latin and a bit of Greek (the attic dialect, or whatever it's called, tough I don't know it as well as Latin.
Oh, are we doing dead languages too? |
Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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Quote: C++ I'm dumb!
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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A mix between American and Canadian English, if there is such a thing. I know a little French, but I try to forget... -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
Evert
Member #794
November 2000
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The quote system seems to be confused. I never said C++... |
Neil Walker
Member #210
April 2000
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Maybe it was your sub-conscience. Evert said: All invaders must die
Neil. wii:0356-1384-6687-2022, kart:3308-4806-6002. XBOX:chucklepie |
Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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bamccaig said: Evert didn't say that. Ooh, my first bug in the new system!
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Oscar Giner
Member #2,207
April 2002
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bamccaig
Member #7,536
July 2006
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Neil Black said: Ooh, my first bug in the new system!
He was, however, the first person to post a capital C. -- acc.js | al4anim - Allegro 4 Animation library | Allegro 5 VS/NuGet Guide | Allegro.cc Mockup | Allegro.cc <code> Tag | Allegro 4 Timer Example (w/ Semaphores) | Allegro 5 "Winpkg" (MSVC readme) | Bambot | Blog | C++ STL Container Flowchart | Castopulence Software | Check Return Values | Derail? | Is This A Discussion? Flow Chart | Filesystem Hierarchy Standard | Clean Code Talks - Global State and Singletons | How To Use Header Files | GNU/Linux (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo) | rot (rot13, rot47, rotN) | Streaming |
Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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bamccaig said: So perhaps Matthew's squirrels only check for alpha[numeric?] characters. In that case, I wonder if it would pick up a longer quote that contained C++ somewhere in the middle?
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