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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Setekh on October 06, 2003, 07:07:19 am
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I'm just curious. I just like the names of certain languages, particularly French (studying WW1 for a year was partly responsible for that). You can take into account how easy it is to learn (as we found out a few threads ago :p), how it sounds, how the letters look like, whatever. Try to include a reason. :D
(I only included the languages that popped into my head just then... I'll add another one if you can think of a major one I've missed. :))
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well, for conversations, it ought to be English, for reading, English too. and for writing storys,English.
but for making something sound cool, Latin. and for making things look like your smart, write in the Greek alphabet.
btw, when i opened this thread it was about programming languages.
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English, cos I speak it.
German, cos it's really easy to read and speak (spellings are pretty much phonetic, so there's no confusion. It's not a very pretty language though, like French is).
Japanese, cos it's really weird (it's not a Germanic language, like most of the others, so you can't really compare it to them - except Chinese, of course). :)
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For speaking, english, for writing, estonian and for dirty talk, well...russian. What else did you expect? ;)
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Python. Closely followed by C++
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Math, specifically predicate calculus. ;)
For a spoken language I like Japanese, mainly because it's my primary language.
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English, because you can pretty much say exactly what you mean to say. :)
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Love Russian. And russian girls = uber.
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english, and german. very similar, easy to learn
Mik: :lol:
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Originally posted by Sandwich
English, because you can pretty much say exactly what you mean to say. :)
Even if you have to take a few more words to say it... *grumbles about the Greeks having four words for distinct type sof love* ;)
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I could swear they had five words for love.
The serious answer to the question is Japanese, German and English. I love the melodic, elegant sound of Japanese. German is just terribly sexual to me (I don't know why) so I like it. English... well, English, becuase of its absurd grammar, silly mechanics, foolish spelling and general ambiguity lends itself to mad poetry in a way that I think few other languages can match. Poe's "The Bells" would be fare poorly in another language, I think.
Python and C++ are still my favorites though. ;)
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Really? I only know four: storge, agape, eros and philia (however you spell that one).
I can stand up for Python - that's what SPIRE's written in. C++ is FS2's language, right? So it can't be too bad either. ;)
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Originally posted by Hunt Smacker
Love Russian. And russian girls = uber.
Glad it's not just me who thinks that :) I just love that accent :)
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spoken: Japanese, mainly because it's my primary language
secondary: english
3th:Chinese
odd reason latin,french i like those
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I voted for english since itäs quite an universal language. But sure Finnish is on the top of the list too (because being my native language of course). And let's add Japanese to the list just for Anime/Manga sake :p
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French coz, well, makes getting foreign girls easier than any other language :p
otherwise, I like japanese coz it sounds nice, and english coz it's so easy to learn and use.
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Originally posted by Venom
French coz, well, makes getting foreign girls easier than any other language :p
Click me (http://www.theonion.com/onion3510/european_romantic.html)
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I've voted Russian, as it sounds so bloody great. As DG pointed out in another thread, German and Russian are great to shout in, whether you know what you're saying or not.
Even goodbye sounds threatening.
DOSVIDANYA!
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swedish. it's my primary language, and I liek it a lot. easier to grasp, that way. but I'm pretty fluent in english, thanks to my computer interest.
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English easy to learn and sounds good
German i hate
Estonian hard to learn easy to speak (since i do all the time)
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Estonian, because we've got 9 (nine) vowels.
Russian, because nothing is better to curse in.
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Originally posted by Setekh
Really? I only know four: storge, agape, eros and philia (however you spell that one).
I can stand up for Python - that's what SPIRE's written in. C++ is FS2's language, right? So it can't be too bad either. ;)
SPIRE is written in Python? Now, I'm truly interested. We should compare notes one day. Maybe sometime after I move to Oz (soon! like within the next 18months).
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Originally posted by Stunaep
Estonian, because we've got 9 (nine) vowels.
Russian, because nothing is better to curse in.
so i am not the only on to curse in foreign languages more then in his own?
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I don't curse. I can't come up with enough swearwords when I'm cursing, so I usually repeat 5-6 swedish swearwords...
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/me get's brainwave
let's list the most common cursewords in your language and add an english translation. add an extra section for insults.
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English is the only language I speak, so I guess it's that.... otherwise, I'd say either Spanish or Catalan, as i want to learn one of those.
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Originally posted by kasperl
/me get's brainwave
let's list the most common cursewords in your language and add an english translation. add an extra section for insults.
ok.
swedish - english translation
fan - the devil
satan - the devil
jävlar - devils
jävla - f-ing
skit - ****
helvete - hell
förbannade - cursed
so, a rant might go something like
"satans jävla skithelvetes förbannade helvete"
which could be translated into something that would be like that f-word rant in boondock saints.
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ok, here's dutch
godverdomme - goddamit
verdomme - dammit
hel - hell
kanker - cancer
kankerlijer - cancer sufferrer. used as an insult
tering - some other disease
tiefus- yet another illness
kolere - same as above
klootzak- asshole
lul-prick
did i miss anything?
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why not?
kurat - devil
vitt - pussy
perse - ass
türa - cock
munn - cock
riist - cock
vänt - cock
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is that estonian or russian?
and check your pm's
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[color=66ff00]Guys cool it, if you must do this then make it a game, name the language and list the words but no translations. If anyone has the inclination to they can look them up for themselves.
BTW Kas, calling someone a cancer sufferer as a derogatory term is way below low.
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(Hi, this is my first post here btw)
MAIN LANGUAGE: English
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, Russian, German, French, some Spanish.
FAVOURITE LANGUAGE: Russian, because I am a self-confessed Russophile :) but also because it's both powerful, romantic, and balls-out aggressive.
German is also good for confusing Year 7's by leaping ou of the bushes at school screaming "HALTE! HANDE HOCH!" with a big stick held in my hands like a sub-machine gun.
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Indeed.
"Du bist eine Pfanenkuchen" works well for that, as well.
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I misread that and thought you said "You are gingerbread"....
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I voted Russian because that is my language and I think it is great for many purposes.
BTW, Russian "swear language" or "words used when swearing" is called "mat". verb - "materitsya" (to mat )
you know how in the US some people, mostly girls, say "like" between any two words?
well, some guys in Russian school talk like that, only with mat throughout their speech instead of "like..like..like..like".
Here is a couple of jokes
(roughly remember that one)
Scientists discovered that one of the reasons Americans defeated the Japanese in WWII is because the average word in English is 4 letters long and the average word in Japanese has 10 letters. So americans could give orders much faster.
The average word in Russian is 6 letters long. However, when mat is used the effectivenes of speech is multiplied 2-3 times...
Another one:
Scientits invented a clock that moves 1 minute forward each time a swear word is heard. They put it in the office, after a day the clock moved 15 minutes. They put it in the army barracks: a soldier comes in and says: "It's cold as it is, what idiot put that fan on the wall?"
Denis
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Originally posted by The Jackal
I misread that and thought you said "You are gingerbread"....
Well it's not so far off, really.
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hehehe.... I like that second one.
I did once know the Russian for 'I saw your mother in the park on her knees working for the rent money' (It was an insult used in a book I read between two Russians shouting at each other from neighbouring apartment blocks, which I decided to have translated into Russian but forgot it)
it worked well on ignorant fat townies but nearly got me beaten up when several Albanians standing at the bus stop a little further down the road heard it and thought I was shouting at them...
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Guys cool it, if you must do this then make it a game, name the language and list the words but no translations. If anyone has the inclination to they can look them up for themselves.
BTW Kas, calling someone a cancer sufferer as a derogatory term is way below low.
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ok, sorry.
and it's a normal expression, i just copied some often used curses and insults.
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Originally posted by kasperl
/me get's brainwave
let's list the most common cursewords in your language and add an english translation. add an extra section for insults.
you must be jocking, there would be something like a whole page of swearings in french, and counting only the ones I know AND remember. I'm sure there's more swearing words in french than all in the other languages put together.
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i only used the most common ones, if i really start looking i think i can ammas a couple of pages.
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Originally posted by Setekh
I can stand up for Python - that's what SPIRE's written in.
Wow...any particular reason why you chose that one?
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English. I can learn it easily. I also like Italian, it is a nice language, but its grammar is quite hard.
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dammit mikhael, you beat me to it ;)
Actually, my favorite:
10.1000.1110.1.10011.11001
2.8.14.1.19.25
B.I.N.A.R.Y
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Well first of all, I love Serbian because it is my mother language. Then I have English and that's all for me, so I voted on other because Serbian is number 1 for me. :D
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*wonders why Japanese isnt included as one of the main languages, so rather than be indignant and vote other, votes for english*
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Japanese. I just love a language that soft-spoken and still powerful and full of variety.
English is the next because it actually has an easy to use and learn basic vocabulary, and also because it's very depictive.
ß íå çíàþ ïî÷åìó òû òàê ëþÿò ïîôðóññêèé ÿçýûê.
:D
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English is supar.. spanish sucks. Russian always seemed cool to me as well as French.
And Kasperl: :wtf: Cancer Sufferer? :wtf:
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Bork, bork, bork!!! (http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/)
and
Elmer Fudd (http://www.google.com/intl/xx-elmer/)
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
English is supar.. spanish sucks. Russian always seemed cool to me as well as French.
it doesn't count when you only speak one language and only know a little of another language :rolleyes: ;)
I liked French and Mandarin... French is a very soft, soothing language, and it's beautiful to speak and listen to, while Mandarin is extremely expressive and emotional. Spanish i never liked, probably because more people speak it here nowadays than speak English :doubt:
English is also a good language though ;)
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yeah, I hate spanish too ( got a 4/20 for my bachalauréat - the one major exam in the life of a french. Useless to get a job, but makes you about useless if you don't have it, go wonder... ).
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i reckon it'd be pretty cool to be able to speak fluently in ancient egyptian or mesopotamian or some other random old time language... too bad no one'd understand you, though.
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Originally posted by mikhael
SPIRE is written in Python? Now, I'm truly interested. We should compare notes one day. Maybe sometime after I move to Oz (soon! like within the next 18months).
I'm something of an idiot when it comes to the coding itself - I do pseudo-coding and the like, but very little of the actual groundwork in the code. My brother, though, wouldn't have it any other way - so I let him go with Python. And boy am I glad, it's damn powerful. :)
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
And Kasperl: :wtf: Cancer Sufferer? :wtf:
as i said above, insulting people with diseases ain't my idea, i just noted what were commun insults and curses. cancer ain't really the first, it started with some things that i can't translate.
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In Miami, Spanish ownz. Then again, the population is mostly hispanic. English and Spanish were both my first language. I was born here, but parents weren't so spanish was the language I spoke at home. Decades later, I think I speak 70% spanish and 30% english.
W/ my girlfriend, her family, and my family I speak spanish. With my friends I speak english, but at work I do both. I took a couple of years of French in highschool but that was too long ago for me to remember :D
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Originally posted by icespeed
i reckon it'd be pretty cool to be able to speak fluently in ancient egyptian or mesopotamian or some other random old time language... too bad no one'd understand you, though.
well, speaking it is indeed a bit useless, but reading old langauges is always fun, that's why i have latin and did a year of ancient greek
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Has anyone said anything about Welsh yet?
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Has anyone said anything about Welsh yet?
no, and with good reason.
what langauge as the front of the word change, instead of the end?
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Originally posted by The Jackal
I misread that and thought you said "You are gingerbread"....
Sie sind Lebkuchen.
Der Affe ist auf dem Bus.
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Originally posted by Ulundel
Wow...any particular reason why you chose that one?
Probably for its readability, intelligent design, excellent object model, broad built in module support, ease of integration with other languages and wide platform support.
Oh, yes. And it rocks. ;)
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Originally posted by Krackers87
Sie sind Lebkuchen.
Der Affe ist auf dem Bus.
yeah, if you're going to call people ginger-bread, you better be polite about it.
good thing I don't ride the bus that often. everytime I do, that monkey can't keep his mouth shut.
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English is the best communicative language in my opinion, but I love the artistic nature of Japanese and Chinese writing, it has a charm that makes all these straight lines etc look ugly :D
Flipside :)
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German: Mein Kolben Backen sind mit Reis gefüllt.
French: Mes joues de bout sont remplies avec le riz.
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Originally posted by mikhael
Probably for its readability, intelligent design, excellent object model, broad built in module support, ease of integration with other languages and wide platform support.
Oh, yes. And it rocks. ;)
You know, that reads almost just like the list of capabilities I planned for SPIRE when I first wrote her up. :) The first three were my brother's idea, but module support and integration with other languages were really important for the way I knew SPIRE was going to be built - brick by brick, adding new capabilities as soon as I imagined their need in a render. I also have the rudimentary ability to use PhotoShop plugins with my 2D engine, which has helped me immensely. Basically though, Ulundel, my brother chose it. :nod:
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Originally posted by Setekh
Basically though, Ulundel, my brother chose it. :nod:
He couldn't have picked better unless you or he demanded speed, over flexibility. :D
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Originally posted by mikhael
He couldn't have picked better unless you or he demanded speed, over flexibility. :D
I prefer power at the cost of patience (which is not really a cost at all, IMHO) over weak speed. ;)
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C++.
As soon as I saw this thread, I thought 'C++'. Just typical that someone beat me to it...
BTW, will Visual C++ 6 code work under VC.NET? I hope it's not compulsory to use the .NET framework yet, because I like my nice familiar Windoze API but I'm buying VC.NET soon.
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I like the Greek alphabet - they have cool names for all their letters. What have we got? "A", "B"... :p
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JFK óå åõ÷áñéóôþ ãéá ôá êáëÜ óïõ ëüãéá üóïí áöïñÜ ôá åëëçíéêÜ!
Quite possibly the best language in the world (Yea right galore, dies down),
but still,
The fact that some latin hedgehogs couldn't figure it out doesn't mean it is difficult. Not by a long shot. It is easily pronounced (once you know how, and you read what you see. Yep, that 's right, NO special pronounciations like englisn)
So, for JFK letters of the alphabet as follows... :)
Áëöá
Âçôá
ÃÜììá
ÄÝëôá
'Åøéëïí
ÆÞôá
¹ôá
ÈÞôá
Éþôá
ÊÜðá
ËÜìäá
Ìé
Íé
Îé
¼ìéêñïí
Ðé
Ñü
Óßãìá
ÔÜõ
¾øéëïí
Öé
×é
Øé
ÙìÝãá
Êáé ãéá üðïéïí ìðïñåß íá êáôáëÜâåé áõôÜ ôá ëüãéá, ìÜèåôå ðþò äåí åßóôå ìüíïé óå áõôüí ôïí áããëïêñáôïýìåíï ðëáíÞôç.
Yep, not alone out there! :nod:
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ok, wtf is that font your using? itr appears all garbled here.
try using MS-Symbol.
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I should have known that Greek would not be supported.
Show up fine on my machine though!
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well, if you use the ms-symbol font i can see and type Greek fine.
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1st Language: English. I read in it, i write in it, and i think in it.
2nd Language: Hindi. Born with it, lived with it and enjoy it because few westerners (or other easterners for that matter) can understand it out of India :D
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I tried learning Hindi from a couple of my friends, once. I think I know how to say "live long, my friend". Don't know how to type it, though... :D