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they're exactly the same language
Bwahh...exactly..??? Nah, not cmpletely.
It's a lot easier for me to understand your dutch then it is for you to understand my flemish. (not my local dialect)
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Bwahh...exactly..??? Nah, not cmpletely.
It's a lot easier for me to understand your dutch then it is for you to understand my flemish. (not my local dialect)Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
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I refuse to see Flemish as a language.Originally posted by Locutus
How come 6 people voted Dutch but only 4 Flemish, they're exactly the same language
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How could you include an obscure dialect like Flemish and not an obscure language like Welsh!!!
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I refuse to see Flemish as a language.
As opposed to dutch??
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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Common, Gnome, Orc and Hobgobelin...err, I mean English, French, Dutch and German.The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde.Comment
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Fluent :English
Get by :Hindi (read and write and hold basic conversation)
Basic : Urdu, Gujarati,Punjabi, Greek, French, Spanish (know some phrases/read text).
Urdu,Gujarati and Punjabi are all very similar to Hindi anyway, hence the basic knowledge.
I can read greek (from childhood interest in Astronomy), and so have self taught myself some basics when I visited a few years back."Wherever wood floats, you will find the British" . NapoleonComment
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Aaah, you're the one Brussels dude that speaks dutch..Originally posted by Dry
Common, Gnome, Orc and Hobgobelin...err, I mean English, French, Dutch and German.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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No, I'm the other one Brussels dude that speaks dutch.Originally posted by alva
Aaah, you're the one Brussels dude that speaks dutch..
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. Oscar Wilde.Comment
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Originally posted by The Viceroy
Fluent :English
Get by :Hindi (read and write and hold basic conversation)
Basic : Urdu, Gujarati,Punjabi, Greek, French, Spanish (know some phrases/read text).
Urdu,Gujarati and Punjabi are all very similar to Hindi anyway, hence the basic knowledge.
I can read greek (from childhood interest in Astronomy), and so have self taught myself some basics when I visited a few years back.
Like your classifications.
Fluent: English
Get by: French, Hebrew
Basic: Yiddish
Basic minus: German, Spanish, Latin"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Q:What the difference between a dialect and a language?Originally posted by Zopperoni
I refuse to see Flemish as a language.
A: A language is a dialect with an army and a navy."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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The ones taught to me by the Finnish primary and secondary schools ergo Finnish (as mother tongue), Swedish (as quasi- mother tongue), English and German. I'm attempting to start learning Russian next year.Wiio's First Law: Communication usually fails, except by accident.Comment
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Re: What languages do we speak?
Do children's books count?Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior
If you can read a book in the language, you can count it.
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - RahComment
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No Klingon?Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - RahComment
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iK paQ' Wej kodoS!
(i have no idea what that means, but it looks klingon enough for me.)B♭3Comment
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I checked off French, but I'm barely competent in it. I was able to order tickets to a play from a lady at the ticket counter who only spoke French, and that was my finest hour.<p style="font-size:1024px">HTML is disabled in signatures
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