Cunning linguists

[schubertiad]

I was just wondering how many languages the pianostreet community knows collectively. I'm guessing at least 20. Who is our most cunning linguist out there?
I'll get the ball rolling:
English
German
Mandarin

[mcgillcomposer]

I was just wondering how many languages the pianostreet community knows collectively. I'm guessing at least 20. Who is our most cunning linguist out there?
I'll get the ball rolling:
English
German
Mandarin

I can add French and Spanish to that list.

[chopininov]

I'll add Latin, Swahili, and some Japanese.

[thalberg]

I can add English again.

[retrouvailles]

English, Spanish, Italian.

[shoenberg3]

when i saw the title, it reminded me of something else

[ilikepie]

English, Japanese, Tagalog(Philippine national language), Visaya(next most widely spoken language in the Philippines excluding English), some fukien(dialect? not sure if it is a language...), minimal Korean, Mandarin.

[leonidas]

when i saw the title, it reminded me of something else

Tony , Austin Powers?

[chopininov]

Oh and two more. Bad English, and l33t.

[clhiospzitn]

when i saw the title, it reminded me of something else

Me too. 

[wotgoplunk]

Me too. 

Add a third 

[chopininov]

does dasdc language count?

[leonidas]

It happens to be my mother tongue.

Ouch, oedipian.

[soliloquy]

Italian

[ahinton]

I can add French and Spanish to that list.

Can? You'd surely have to add the first of these, would you not? - otherwise you'd be deported, would you not?...

Best,

Alexandre

[ahinton]

does dasdc language count?

I doubt it, even if some of those who use it can...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

when i saw the title, it reminded me of something else

Understandably so - people who have talent is using, manipulating and expanding language, perhaps - luminaries such as James Joyce and Anthony Burgess come to mind...

Thank heavens we now have that out of the way...

Best,

Alistair

[schubertiad]

Alistair - The amount of times I haven't understood a word of your posts leads me to think you must be able to add at least one language to the list   

[pianochick93]

For me, English, a little Japanese, and chatspeak...Basic HTML as well (very, very basic)

I can remember how to count in Italian, I can say "I am a fish" and "I am a table" in French, and "I am a butterfly" "I am an onion" "I am a jam donut" "I am a cat" and a number of amusing things in German, but I don't think that counts.

My friend found out how to say "may the force be with you young Skywalker" in German, but he forgot.

[pianowolfi]

For me, English, a little Japanese, and chatspeak...Basic HTML as well (very, very basic)

I can remember how to count in Italian, I can say "I am a fish" and "I am a table" in French, and "I am a butterfly" "I am an onion" "I am a jam donut" "I am a cat" and a number of amusing things in German, but I don't think that counts.

My friend found out how to say "may the force be with you young Skywalker" in German, but he forgot.

"Möge die Macht mit dir sein, junger Skywalker!"

Your screenname would be "Klavierhuhn93" in German

[pianochick93]

That sounds about right...

Maybe I should change my name...just to confuse people...

[zheer]

  Kurdish,Arabic.

[ahinton]

Alistair - The amount of times I haven't understood a word of your posts leads me to think you must be able to add at least one language to the list   

The amount of times that you may not have understood a word of my posts tells us far more about your capacity for understading than it does about the number of languages that I know - except, of course, in cases when I mistype something (as sadly I do all too frequently), such as "depoterd" for "deported" above (which I have now corrected and for which I duly apologise).

Best,

Alistair

[bob3.1415926]

Ouch, oedipian.

brilliant!
English primarily, but I can speak a little German (7yrs at school) and a little bit less Russian (5yrs) But they were both a long time ago, so I'm rather rusty.
As for 'other' languages, I know varying amounts of HTML, CSS, C, C++, MATLAB and perhaps some others that aren't occurring to me right now.

[bob3.1415926]

Oh yeah, and of course LaTeX (or should I say \LaTeX ? anyone? nope, thought it'd just be me!) 

[leonidas]

I doubt it, even if some of those who use it can...

Best,

Alistair

Racist much?

[schubertiad]

Maybe I should cross English off my list...

[ahinton]

Racist much?

Care to offer anyone that might be interested some kind of explanation of how an expression of doubt as to how a language can count even if some of those who use that language can do so constitutes something "racist"?...

Best,

Alistair

[gerry]

Oh my, all these different languages, where is Esperanto when we need it

[leonidas]

Care to offer anyone that might be interested some kind of explanation of how an expression of doubt as to how a language can count even if some of those who use that language can do so constitutes something "racist"?...

Best,

Alistair

Da SDC is based on the passion for speed.

We are all members of the human race, and the members of Da SDC happen to be winning.

Do not resent us because you have to kiss our dust.

[thalbergmad]

I speak English and fluent ahinton.

Thal

[wotgoplunk]

 

[ahinton]

Da SDC is based on the passion for speed.

Well, whoopty-doo!

We are all members of the human race,

You included? Well, thanks for telling us that.

and the members of Da SDC happen to be winning.

"Winning" what, exactly? What is the battle being fought that those members are, in your belief, "winning"?

Do not resent us because you have to kiss our dust.

I neither know who your "us" may be, if anyone at all (wow - now there's a grammatical twist of pronouns!), nor do I "kiss" nor have to "kiss" anything of the kind, whatever it may be (if anything) that you're talking about...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

I speak English and fluent ahinton.

Thal

Mais je ne suis pas un langue, m'sieur Thalbergue, et je ne vous comprend pas...

Best,

Alexandre

[mcgillcomposer]

Mais je ne suis pas un langue, m'sieur Thalbergue, et je ne vous comprend pas...

Best,

Alexandre

Mais je ne suis pas unE langue, m'sieur Thalbergue, et je ne vous comprendS pas.

[wotgoplunk]

Le pwned! 

[leonidas]

Well, whoopty-doo!
You included? Well, thanks for telling us that.
"Winning" what, exactly? What is the battle being fought that those members are, in your belief, "winning"?
I neither know who your "us" may be, if anyone at all (wow - now there's a grammatical twist of pronouns!), nor do I "kiss" nor have to "kiss" anything of the kind, whatever it may be (if anything) that you're talking about...

Best,

Alistair

We don't expect you to understand, just find it amusing that you appear to parade your ignorance with unabashed pride.

[thalberg]

Mr Hinton does have his own language, I think.  It's full of commas, appositives, wry wit, and mild superciliousness.

[ahinton]

Mais je ne suis pas unE langue, m'sieur Thalbergue, et je ne vous comprendS pas.

And I have been caught mistyping yet again! I apologise and declare that I really must try harder to get the hang of this keyboard thing!

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

We don't expect you to understand, just find it amusing that you appear to parade your ignorance with unabashed pride.

I have no idea who "we" may be, other than some kind of personal self-aggrandising pronoun on your part for the express and sole purpose of giving you a likely false sense of security that you are not entirely alone in your prattlings, but as to any "ignorance" in the present context, I can do no better than draw your attention (assuming you to have any - which may be an over-large assumption) to the appropriateness of the expression "ignorance is bliss"; few things are bliss where you are involved, it would seem, but in this particular case the aforementioned blissful ignorance would appear fortunately to be an exception to the rule.

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Mr Hinton does have his own language, I think.  It's full of commas, appositives, wry wit, and mild superciliousness.

If I do have any kind of personal language, it would be in notes, not words, but thanks all the same for the compliment!

Best,

Alistair

[leonidas]

I have no idea who "we" may be, other than some kind of personal self-aggrandising pronoun on your part for the express and sole purpose of giving you a likely false sense of security that you are not entirely alone in your prattlings, but as to any "ignorance" in the present context, I can do no better than draw your attention (assuming you to have any - which may be an over-large assumption) to the appropriateness of the expression "ignorance is bliss"; few things are bliss where you are involved, it would seem, but in this particular case the aforementioned blissful ignorance would appear fortunately to be an exception to the rule.

Best,

Alistair

How sweet it is to be loved by you.

[thalberg]

few things are bliss where you are involved

Best,

Alistair

Classic!!! hahaha way to stick it to Comme.

[schubertiad]

Ok, so far we've got:
English
French
German
Spanish
Mandarin
Japanese
Swahili
Latin
Italian
Kurdish
Arabic
Russian
Ahinton[ian](?)
Have I missed any?

[debussy symbolism]

Greetings

I am surprised Russian language hasn't been mentioned.

[leonidas]

Classic!!! hahaha way to stick it to Comme.

I'll see you next tuesday.

[ilikepie]

Ok, so far we've got:
English
French
German
Spanish
Mandarin
Japanese
Swahili
Latin
Italian
Kurdish
Arabic
Russian
Ahinton[ian](?)
Have I missed any?

you've missed some of mine ^_^ if you don't think they are languages, that's fine too.

[schubertiad]

I guess Tagalog can tagalong...

[pianochick93]

A guy I know speaks fluent Klingon. I speak fluent Yoda as well, Does that count?

[ahinton]

How sweet it is to be loved by you.

As if you'd know...

Best,

Alistair