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For those who speak Esperanto.
Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton? Ajnulo? Mi apenaŭ lernas freŝdate, alioj konas?
Tachikaze
10-23-2005, 05:37
Sorry, I don't learn languages that require diacritics.
Tachikaze
10-23-2005, 05:58
Actually, I think Esperanto is a good idea, a lit Eurocentric, but a good idea.
I used to be fluent in Esperanto. I traded that skill in for a free coffee over at Starbucks.
Kaiser of Arabia
10-25-2005, 02:11
Was ist Esparanto?
I used to be fluent in Esperanto. I traded that skill in for a free coffee over at Starbucks.Traded it for free coffee? Don't you mean you traded it and $2.50 for free coffee? ~D
Papewaio
10-25-2005, 02:23
If I was going to be nerdish enough to learn a made up language I would go for I don't know Elvish or something more effeminate like French. ~;) ~D
But Pape, soon Esperanto will make all other languages obsolete! No need to learn Elvish or French; Esperanto will subsume them all. One of these days. Just you wait.
Alexander the Pretty Good
10-25-2005, 02:26
Personally, I'd be more interested in learning Wookie.
A friend of mine spent four years learning Elvish (read: Karelian) and it's the trump card he uses to out-nerd me. I decided to pick up Orcish to out-nerd him back, but it's awfully underdeveloped.
Kaiser of Arabia
10-25-2005, 02:52
A friend of mine spent four years learning Elvish (read: Karelian) and it's the trump card he uses to out-nerd me. I decided to pick up Orcish to out-nerd him back, but it's awfully underdeveloped.
Learn Klingon.
Learn Klingon.
Nah, Klingon's a cliché, and it's actually not useless. Many Klingon speakers (relatively many, that is...) have been hired, I've heard, in the UK for work as translators in insane asylums. Apparently, lots of people really think they are Klingon and refuse to speak anything else.
Kaiser of Arabia
10-25-2005, 03:02
Nah, Klingon's a cliché, and it's actually not useless. Many Klingon speakers (relatively many, that is...) have been hired, I've heard, in the UK for work as translators in insane asylums. Apparently, lots of people really think they are Klingon and refuse to speak anything else.
Hrm...maybe learn some abstract dialect like Styrian, Sudeten German, Luxemborgish, Bergenz, or somthing like that.
Byzantine Prince
10-25-2005, 03:31
I can speak Shqip. It's latin with orcish sounds and german pronounciantion.
solypsist
10-25-2005, 03:53
at least learn a language that's gonna score you some chicks.
i might start picking up Czech ~:smoking:
Kaiser of Arabia
10-25-2005, 03:56
at least learn a language that's gonna score you some chicks.
i might start picking up Czech ~:smoking:
German Chicks are hotter than Czech chicks I find.
Ja, wir sprechen Deutsch...nur ein Bisschen.
LeftEyeNine
10-25-2005, 03:56
Albanian language isn't it ?
Byzantine Prince
10-25-2005, 04:03
Yes. That's right.
Hrm...maybe learn some abstract dialect like Styrian, Sudeten German, Luxemborgish, Bergenz, or somthing like that.
Learning a German dialect is a silly idea. I'm actually trying to teach myself Scots Gaelic at this point, but without anyone else around who speaks it, progress is slow.
Duke Malcolm
10-25-2005, 17:49
Ciamar a tha sibh, NeonGod? (of the little Gaelic I know) Go on a wee holiday to the Western Isles one day and enjoy the rain and tour the distilleries...
Make an effort and learn Scots. Then you can say "Ah'll hae twa pehs, a plein ane an an ingan ane an aa"
Tha gu math, tapadh leabh. Ciamar a tha sibh fhein?
Ahem. "I'll have two pies(?), a plain one and another one (something something)."
Steppe Merc
10-25-2005, 18:28
Personally, I'd be more interested in learning Wookie.
WOOR WROO! ~D
Nah, Klingon's a cliché, and it's actually not useless. Many Klingon speakers (relatively many, that is...) have been hired, I've heard, in the UK for work as translators in insane asylums. Apparently, lots of people really think they are Klingon and refuse to speak anything else.
Qapla! :klingon:
If I could learn a language, it would be Ossetian or Pahlavi (Middle Persian).
Duke Malcolm
10-25-2005, 18:30
Tha gu math, tapadh leabh. Ciamar a tha sibh fhein?
Tha mi gu math.
Ahem. "I'll have two pies(?), a plain one and another one (something something)."
I'll have two pies (the most obvious part), a plain one and an onion one as well.
Hurin_Rules
10-25-2005, 18:31
If you really like Esperanto, I would recommend the great 60s movie, Incubus. It is the only feature film written and performed entirely in Esperanto (with English subtitles), and it stars none other than William Shatner.
Yes, it's true, and it's hilarious:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:3yI-hktNRNsJ:www.artseditor.com/html/september01/sep01_incubus.shtml+succubus+william+shatner&hl=en
I'll have two pies (the most obvious part), a plain one and an onion one as well.
Onion! Dammit, it was so obvious!
Duke Malcolm
10-26-2005, 16:32
Oh yes, but it is damned incomprehensible when spoken amongst other Scots phrases...
English assassin
10-26-2005, 16:35
German Chicks are hotter than Czech chicks I find.
This is so not true. This is like saying English chicks are hotter than Irish chicks. Much as I'd LIKE this to be true it just isn't.
Hungarian girls are hotter still but whether the additional hotness outweighs the fact that Hungarian is harder to learn than Czech is a moot point.
On the subject of Esperanto, if you want an international language not spoken by any particular country today, why Esperanto, and not Latin? After all:
Latin has actually been an international language
You get Latin literature thrown in for free
Latin may not be as regular as Esperanto but its not too bad, and you could easily "modernise" most of the irregularities away.
Duke Malcolm
10-26-2005, 16:42
But English has also been more of an international language than latin, and still is. I say all those peopl of the world should learn English...
Seeing as how nobody has made the arrogant American plug for languages, I, as an American, feel compelled to do so:
OMGZZ!! Enlgish roXors!!! Everyting owuld be easire if evryone spoke egnlish!!! no mroe stoopid akcents and stfuf!
Alexander the Pretty Good
10-27-2005, 01:14
I make a motion that the Babe thread features a competition between German and Czech ladies.
Seeing as how nobody has made the arrogant American plug for languages, I, as an American, feel compelled to do so:
OMGZZ!! Enlgish roXors!!! Everyting owuld be easire if evryone spoke egnlish!!! no mroe stoopid akcents and stfuf!
Dude, you gotta quit the Soy. It's no good, man.
It's not the soy, it's the national ego.
EDIT: Wait, actually, it is the soy sauce.
http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Sunnyvale/8639/img/walk_kikko.gif
why learn Esperanto I speak EngRish fluently!~;)
Meneldil
10-27-2005, 16:48
If I was going to be nerdish enough to learn a made up language I would go for I don't know Elvish or something more effeminate like French. ~;) ~D
Making this statement in English is well, rather silly ? ~;p
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