mashed in maryland 10:24 Fri Jun 10
Anyone on here speak a really difficult or obscure second/third language?
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Looking at the ex-pats mainly.
Not really on about Spanish or German etc but for example anyone who lives in France/Spain speak any Basque?
Know there's a fair few on here in Thailand and the Philippines. Any of you lot manage to get by with the language(s)? Even if it's the equivilent of "una pinto del beer por favore" holiday talk?
Any oil/engineering bods know any Arabic or central Asian languages? Anyone able to hold a conversation in Hungarian? Japanese?
Anyone do a degree in linguistics or whatever and build up a reasonable knowledge of something like Chechen or Navajo?
Furnish me with chitty chatty bollocks coz it's a really slow day at work.
Anyone who says "I can barely speak English ho ho ho" is a worse nonce than Gary Glitter.
Talqılaw.
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Eddie B
10:25 Fri Jun 10
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I speak bollocks. Does that count?
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Lily Hammer
10:27 Fri Jun 10
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...men du nettopp sa "I can barely speak English ho ho ho," du skitten pedofil!
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ironsofcanada
10:42 Fri Jun 10
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Not really ever a reasonable knowledge and I have forgot most of it but...(spelling way off by now too)
Do shił ya'tee da, di'gees Bilagáana
("I don't like it" or literally "With me, it is not good, crazy white man.)
in Navajo
Or if you want a really long term for AIDS
Naaniih yich'ááh naabaahígíí baah dahoo'aahgo
lit. Disease of the disease fighter
Or a new word for cocaine
Níí'ii'nií
lit. You put it in your nose.
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Eddie B
10:42 Fri Jun 10
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It's OK stewardess, I speak Jive.
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BubblesCyprus
10:47 Fri Jun 10
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Mrs BC R.I.P Was Armenian gave a wedding speech in her language after 6 months of coaching by her Uncle in secrecy.Whole of her family well impressed/gobsmacked on the day!
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Far Cough
10:55 Fri Jun 10
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Speak a bit of Greek, understand what someone is saying more than I can speak
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,
10:59 Fri Jun 10
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Several posters on this Board are fluent in Polari.
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Dan M
11:01 Fri Jun 10
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Eddie B 10:42 Fri Jun 10
Ma momma dint raise no dummies, I took her rap.
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mashed in maryland
11:06 Fri Jun 10
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ironsofcanada 10:42 Fri Jun 10
Is it true Navajo is made up almost entirely of verbs and there are no nouns? Google seems to bring up various answers.
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mashed in maryland
11:06 Fri Jun 10
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People who misquote Airplane are worse than Millhouse.
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Swiss.
11:08 Fri Jun 10
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I speak French, Germany, Swedish,/Norwegian and Turkish.
Nothing obscure. In terms of pronounciation Swedish,/Norwegian is a nightmare. The vowel emphasis is very important and difficult to master
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mashed in maryland
11:15 Fri Jun 10
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Maybe not obscure but Turkish is notoriously difficult isn't it?
All those suffixes.
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East Auckland Hammer
11:15 Fri Jun 10
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Jive assist dude ain't got no brains anyhow.
Shiiiite.
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Swiss.
11:19 Fri Jun 10
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Turkish is easy. Very phonetic and no gender. All verbs are regular. French is bloody nightmare. I started on Croatian but whe I found out you have like 5 plurals for beer I gave up. I'd say unless its your mother tongue the Slavic languages are impossible
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Far Cough
11:21 Fri Jun 10
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I hate genders, German and Greek especially
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East Auckland Hammer
11:21 Fri Jun 10
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*jive ass
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ironsofcanada
11:27 Fri Jun 10
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mashed in maryland 11:06 Fri Jun 10
Never thought about it but, if you break down the words, I guess so.
Very poor language (in terms of number of words) so a lot of nouns are descriptive verb phrases. The cocaine example below.
And pronouns are usually just verb prefixes or suffixes.
They always told me that Bilagáanaa (white man or Anglo) means "talks a lot" but I have never seen any actual proof of that.
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Mad Dog
11:28 Fri Jun 10
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Chump don't want the help, Chump don't get the help
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joe royal
11:29 Fri Jun 10
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English in ilford is pretty obscure , esp please and thank you.
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mashed in maryland
11:33 Fri Jun 10
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Swiss. 11:19 Fri Jun 10
Yeah but the MO of the language, the grammar, and the whole creating a single word out of various different suffixes in a weird order thing surely offsets all that? Similar with Japanese. Like "bifherr oujhedwouhoi" (obviously not real words) can mean something like "I am going to the shop" but a slight difference in the second word will mean "I don't like going to the shop" or whatever. Hard to describe...
I've met a handful of people who speak a bit of a far eastern tonal language and the way they've described it is that the grammar is really simple. It's just 3 words, "I go shop", then maybe another word at the end indicating past or future tense etc.
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