How many languages have you mangled?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Vietnamese
Cambodian
Thai
Spanish
Italian
German
French
Tagalog
Greek
Turkish
Hebrew
and English
(at least)

[Bella Fortuna]

Whaddaya got?

[klr]

Only English, Irish and French. And the last two are rusty, to say the least.

Now, as for computer languages ...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Note that I didn't say, "speak well". Mangled means MANGLED.

[klr]

Note that I didn't say, "speak well". Mangled means MANGLED.

Oh well, I can mangle French and Irish on demand. In fact, most so-called "Irish speakers" (of which I am not one) mangle the language on a near-continuous basis. C'est la vie.

[Tero]

The North end of Europe is somewhat comprehensible to me, in text. The more you go south, the less sense I make of it. I can also cover USA and Canada. Stop at Mexico.

Also, I make almost no sense of Icelandic, it is too old and too far removed from the rest up there.

[Rum]

I am a terrible linguist, but even so I speak English, French enough to get by and very rusty Cantonese.

[Svartalf]

Mangled... Latin, Ancient and modern Greek, Spanissh, Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Hebrew... and of course Frenglish

I've studied some others, but haven't practiced them or used them in enough horrible multilingual jokes for mangling to be qualified.

[Svartalf]

I am a terrible linguist, but even so I speak English, French enough to get by and very rusty Cantonese.

but are you at least a cunning linguist? or am I too nosey?

[Clinton Huxley]

I can speak just enough French to make my beastly demands understood and no more.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I can speak just enough French to make my beastly demands understood and no more.

Surely if you yell loud enough they would understand English?

[Clinton Huxley]

I can speak just enough French to make my beastly demands understood and no more.

Surely if you yell loud enough they would understand English?

Sometimes they pretend not to understand you, just to get on your wick. The French seem to have particular trouble in understanding the words "Advance!" and "Chaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggeeeee!".

Etc.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I can speak just enough French to make my beastly demands understood and no more.

Surely if you yell loud enough they would understand English?

Sometimes they pretend not to understand you, just to get on your wick. The French seem to have particular trouble in understanding the words "Advance!" and "Chaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggeeeee!".

Etc.

And yet their language is clearly based on English. For example, the word "no" is pronounced just the same. (Ditto for the Eye-Ties.)

[Clinton Huxley]

I can speak just enough French to make my beastly demands understood and no more.

Surely if you yell loud enough they would understand English?

Sometimes they pretend not to understand you, just to get on your wick. The French seem to have particular trouble in understanding the words "Advance!" and "Chaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggeeeee!".

Etc.

And yet their language is clearly based on English. For example, the word "no" is pronounced just the same. (Ditto for the Eye-Ties.)

I suppose one could regard all the European languages as utterly debased and throroughly bastardised versions of English. Of course most scholars will talk about "Indo-European" and "Romance languages" but I have no truck with that.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I suppose one could regard all the European languages as utterly debased and throroughly bastardised versions of English. Of course most scholars will talk about "Indo-European" and "Romance languages" but I have no truck with that.

One can clearly track the spread of civilization out from London to Paris, Rome, Zagreb, Vilnius, etc.