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What languages do you speak?

Iberian (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, etc...)
28
12%
Semitic languages and other Middle Easter Languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Yiddish, Turkish, Farsi, etc...)
12
5%
French, French Creoles, Italian, Sicilian
41
18%
German/Dutch
45
20%
Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, etc...)
8
4%
Asian Indian languages (Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, etc...)
7
3%
East European Languages (Russian, Polish, Romanian, Greek, etc...)
23
10%
Japanese or Korean
10
4%
Nordic languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish)
17
7%
And of course, other (Please explain)
37
16%
 
Total votes : 228

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Postby The Blaatschapen » Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:11 am

Camelza wrote:
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I was talking about bars. Sorry, didn't make that clear.

Nevertheless ,there isn't a cheaper destination in Europe than Serbia(Moldova maybe, but still....)


Macedonia? Bosnia?

No clue. I've been to Serbia, indeed also not that expensive. But I've not been to these others :(
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Postby Arglorand » Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:12 am

Camelza wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
I was talking about bars. Sorry, didn't make that clear.

Nevertheless ,there isn't a cheaper destination in Europe than Serbia(Moldova maybe, but still....)

Belarus.

But it tastes like piss, I'm told.
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Postby Camelza » Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:18 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Camelza wrote:Nevertheless ,there isn't a cheaper destination in Europe than Serbia(Moldova maybe, but still....)


Macedonia? Bosnia?

No clue. I've been to Serbia, indeed also not that expensive. But I've not been to these others :(

Bosnia has the same prices, although a tiny bit lower(at least in Sarajevo) with Serbia ...and Macedonia is just weird(It's full of Casinos, brothels etc, owned bu not-so-nice Greek and Bulgarian "businessmen", making it quite expensive for Balkan standards, but in the meantime in the same levels as Serbia)

I've been to Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia and Albania from the Balkan Countries(not counting my country of residence, of course).

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Postby Horusland » Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:20 am

Camelza wrote:...not counting my country of residence, of course.

Which is?
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Postby Camelza » Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:20 am

Arglorand wrote:
Camelza wrote:Nevertheless ,there isn't a cheaper destination in Europe than Serbia(Moldova maybe, but still....)

Belarus.

But it tastes like piss, I'm told.

I wouldn't travel in an authoritarian state ...except pherhaps Iran, I'd love to visit Persepolis one day.

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Postby Camelza » Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:24 am

HorusLand wrote:
Camelza wrote:...not counting my country of residence, of course.

Which is?

The southernmost.

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Postby Dakini » Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:41 am

Skeckoa wrote:I kind have to pair up the languages in their families instead of individually as I would of preferred.

Japanese and Korean are in different language families. Finnish is in a different language family than the other Nordic languages (they are Indo-European and Finnish is an isolate or possibly related to Hungarian). Turkish and Farsi aren't Semitic languages.

Interestingly, Romanian is a Romance language so it is more closely related to French/Spanish/Italian/Portugese than it is to Russian (which is a Slavic language).

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Postby Immoren » Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:44 am

Dakini wrote:Finnish is in a different language family than the other Nordic languages (they are Indo-European and Finnish is an isolate or possibly related to Hungarian)

Finnish is hardly an isolate. :P

Camelza wrote:
Arglorand wrote:Belarus.

But it tastes like piss, I'm told.

I wouldn't travel in an authoritarian state ...except pherhaps Iran, I'd love to visit Persepolis one day.

Unrelated "perse" means "ass" in Finnish.
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Postby Surfistan » Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:56 am

I speaks boths the Dutch's and the English's, alsos I understands the German's and speaks a bits France's.

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Postby Arglorand » Sun Jul 07, 2013 7:57 am

Camelza wrote:
Arglorand wrote:Belarus.

But it tastes like piss, I'm told.

I wouldn't travel in an authoritarian state ...except pherhaps Iran, I'd love to visit Persepolis one day.

I'd actually love to visit Belarus. Reportedly, the country has some pretty places I'd love to see.
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Postby Camelza » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:03 am

Arglorand wrote:
Camelza wrote:I wouldn't travel in an authoritarian state ...except pherhaps Iran, I'd love to visit Persepolis one day.

I'd actually love to visit Belarus. Reportedly, the country has some pretty places I'd love to see.

Well, I first want to visit India, Iran and Nepal.

...India is huge though, I'll propably visit the north-west only(if I ever do the trip).

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Postby Britanno » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:03 am

Nothing but English because I am an arrogant bastard who can't be bothered to learn another language.
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Postby Risottia » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:09 am

Camelza wrote:
HorusLand wrote:Which is?

The southernmost.

That might be:
Greece (considering the continent)
France (considering regions: Réunion)
Britain (considering overseas territories: South Sandwich Islands)
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Postby Phocidaea » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:13 am

I understand you're not exactly going for a high-quality linguistic survey, but I'd point out that Finnish is about as related to Swedish or Icelandic as English is to Chinese, while French, Italian, and the "Iberian languages" are pretty close.

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Postby Horusland » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:16 am

Dakini wrote:
Skeckoa wrote:I kind have to pair up the languages in their families instead of individually as I would of preferred.

Japanese and Korean are in different language families. Finnish is in a different language family than the other Nordic languages (they are Indo-European and Finnish is an isolate or possibly related to Hungarian). Turkish and Farsi aren't Semitic languages.

Interestingly, Romanian is a Romance language so it is more closely related to French/Spanish/Italian/Portugese than it is to Russian (which is a Slavic language).

Interestingly? Not really. As much as Russia tried to make a Russian majority in here, only 5% of Romanian words are Slavic. :)
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Postby Horusland » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:17 am

Immoren wrote:
Camelza wrote:I wouldn't travel in an authoritarian state ...except pherhaps Iran, I'd love to visit Persepolis one day.

Unrelated "perse" means "ass" in Finnish.

City of ass? Well, that's strange.
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Risottia wrote:
Camelza wrote:The southernmost.

That might be:
Greece (considering the continent)
France (considering regions: Réunion)
Britain (considering overseas territories: South Sandwich Islands)

Southernmost in the Balkans.
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Postby Blekksprutia » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:19 am

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Postby Aequalitia » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:21 am

Well, my first language is Dutch, my second is (American) English. For the rest I don't serious can speak and write in other languages.
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Postby Camelza » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:22 am

Risottia wrote:
Camelza wrote:The southernmost.

That might be:
Greece (considering the continent)
France (considering regions: Réunion)
Britain (considering overseas territories: South Sandwich Islands)

The one with the 2000 islands.

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Postby Regnum Dominae » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:30 am

English, Spanish, and Java.
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Postby Arglorand » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:31 am

Regnum Dominae wrote:English, Spanish, and Java.

Java as in Javanese or as in Jawa from Star Wars?
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:33 am

Arglorand wrote:
Regnum Dominae wrote:English, Spanish, and Java.

Java as in Javanese or as in Jawa from Star Wars?


Or perhaps Java, the computer programming language.
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Postby Arglorand » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:35 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Arglorand wrote:Java as in Javanese or as in Jawa from Star Wars?


Or perhaps Java, the computer programming language.

Or that, which Arglo was too stupid to think of first.
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Pros: Dunmeri independence, abolition of the Empire, the Daedra, Morag Tong, House Redoran, Ashlander interests, abolitionism, Dissident Priests, canonisation of St. Jiub the Cliff Racer Slayer.
Cons: Imperials, the Empire, the False Tribunal, Dagoth Ur, House Hlaalu, Imperials, the Eight Divines, "Talos", "Nords", Imperial unionism, Imperials.

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Postby Surfistan » Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:35 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Arglorand wrote:Java as in Javanese or as in Jawa from Star Wars?


Or perhaps Java, the computer programming language.


Wich would be cool if all computer programmers spoke against each other.

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