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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #765 on: November 20, 2007, 03:25:51 PM »
Quote from: odeon on November 20, 2007, 03:04:22 PM
Quote from: Lucifer on November 20, 2007, 01:15:04 PM
Quote from: odeon on November 20, 2007, 12:39:43 PM
Quote from: Lucifer on November 20, 2007, 12:38:43 PM
er, can't remember.  possibly, just revenge in general.  you know - random revenge, sort of thing.

um... i'll get me coat...

 :-[

:laugh:

Random Revenge. I like that.

i bet you will...   :eyebrows:

it could involve, er, empiricism.   :eyelash:

My kind of science. :laugh:

ker-CHING!!!

:woohoo:

:bananas:
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #766 on: December 29, 2007, 06:49:26 PM »
How many languages do you speak?
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #767 on: December 29, 2007, 11:22:44 PM »
Quote from: parts on December 29, 2007, 06:49:26 PM
How many languages do you speak?

You're trying to get his pants down, because you know that he can only count to twenty one after he loweres his pannnts.

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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #768 on: December 30, 2007, 05:51:55 PM »
Quote from: parts on December 29, 2007, 06:49:26 PM
How many languages do you speak?

Depends on your definition but Finnish, Swedish, and English well enough to fool most people, enough German to fool a deaf Russian, some Spanish, and some Middle Egyptian (my pronunciation is probably horrible). Also, I speak some Danish and Norwegian but have no problem understanding what they say because Swedish is similar to them both. Oh, and I understand some Estonian because I speak Finnish (Hungarian's more difficult, though).

So anywhere between 3 and 8. :P
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #769 on: December 30, 2007, 08:45:17 PM »
Wow. :plus:
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #770 on: December 31, 2007, 06:02:30 AM »
Quote from: renaeden on December 30, 2007, 08:45:17 PM
Wow. :plus:

Wow is right I only know English,  a few words in Spanish and how to swear in Serbian
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #771 on: December 31, 2007, 09:26:17 AM »
Thanks, guys. I'd like to know how to swear in Serbian. :)

My Dad used to work as an interpreter and was very gifted. I suppose I have some of his language genes.
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #772 on: December 31, 2007, 09:34:35 AM »
It's an amazing talent.

Did you pick most of it up
when younger, or do you still
study them?
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #773 on: December 31, 2007, 09:39:21 AM »
I picked up Spanish and Middle Egyptian in later years and the others while in my teens. Er, except for Finnish since I was born in Finland.

I'm thinking about learning Russian, too, and maybe Portuguese. There are some good, free FSI courses available.
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #774 on: December 31, 2007, 10:19:47 AM »
Neat. I had assumed that, with your background,
you'd have gotten most of them earlier. I can't
even really imagine being able to learn so many,
so late.
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #775 on: December 31, 2007, 08:00:13 PM »
It was a question of opportunity and interest. We moved to Sweden when I was 11 and I had to learn Swedish by immersion. English came after--I focussed on one language at a time. Also, I wasn't interested at first *because* my father worked as an interpreter. :laugh:
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #776 on: December 31, 2007, 09:54:29 PM »
 :laugh:

Well, there goes any argument for it NOT
being genetic.
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #777 on: December 31, 2007, 10:39:41 PM »
What language do you think in before you translate it to the spoken or written word.  These things fascinate me
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #778 on: January 01, 2008, 06:47:22 AM »
Quote from: parts on December 31, 2007, 10:39:41 PM
What language do you think in before you translate it to the spoken or written word.  These things fascinate me

I think in images or in the language I'm using at the moment. If I'm translating, I normally think in the target language. I tend to default to the language I used last, otherwise.
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Re: odeon's ask away-thread
« Reply #779 on: January 01, 2008, 11:46:47 AM »
If I started a "Computer questions from stupid fucking idiots and geek wannabees"  thread, would you support it?





(I have a couple of BIOS issues to resolve, trying to revive an old box, but I am semi-confounded. I know it is something simple and in clear view, but I am blind to it. More experience is needed. The old buddy if mine who I have counted on for years has had a severe heart attack and may die, soon. I found out when I tried to call him, last night. He has not been conscious in over three days, now. A story for another time, though.)










Rememmber,we are mostly verry dangerous and adrift in space with our questions.
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