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Admiral Yi

#71040
June 24, 2019, 04:39:35 PM
Nepali is the most surprising, followed by German.

Anyone know what Ilocano is?  I'm guessing a Phillipino language.

Tonitrus

#71041
June 24, 2019, 05:14:50 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 24, 2019, 04:39:35 PM
Nepali is the most surprising, followed by German.

Anyone know what Ilocano is?  I'm guessing a Phillipino language.

I think a lot of the places with German/French fall under "so what do we have without English/Spanish?  What's left?  Well, what do they teach for a semester in high school?"

Or lots of German tourists, which I've personally encountered driving through the West.  :P

Eddie Teach

#71042
June 24, 2019, 05:20:02 PM
Most people with a year of high school French don't use it at home.
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Admiral Yi

#71043
June 24, 2019, 05:20:35 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 24, 2019, 05:14:50 PM
I think a lot of the places with German/French fall under "so what do we have without English/Spanish?  What's left?  Well, what do they teach for a semester in high school?"

Or lots of German tourists, which I've personally encountered driving through the West.  :P

A kid taking a German class is not going to go sprichen it at home.  And I doubt Krauts sprichening it at the dude ranch bunkhouse are included in the survery.

Habbaku

#71044
June 24, 2019, 05:29:24 PM
Quote from: Tyr on June 24, 2019, 04:34:46 PM
Surprised so much German is still around. Thought that was purged eons ago

Lots of German-speaking Amish/Mennonites in the USA, especially in Ohio and such. I've heard it first-hand on buses in the area.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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Admiral Yi

#71045
June 24, 2019, 05:33:57 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on June 24, 2019, 05:29:24 PM
Lots of German-speaking Amish/Mennonites in the USA, especially in Ohio and such. I've heard it first-hand on buses in the area.

That's gotta be it.

Razgovory

#71046
June 24, 2019, 08:28:26 PM
How much mutual intelligibility is there between Haitian Creole and French?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

katmai

#71047
June 24, 2019, 10:39:34 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 24, 2019, 04:39:35 PM
Nepali is the most surprising, followed by German.

Anyone know what Ilocano is?  I'm guessing a Phillipino language.
you would be correct sir.
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Syt

#71048
June 25, 2019, 02:07:48 AM
Retirement goals:

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
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Maladict

#71049
June 25, 2019, 02:16:03 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 25, 2019, 02:07:48 AM
Retirement goals:


Definitely. Without the cats.

Saladin

#71050
June 25, 2019, 05:31:51 AM
I spent a day in Tallinn last Friday, cute little town.
"You'd be better served taxing your conscience for those who deserve your regret."

Duque de Bragança

#71051
June 25, 2019, 06:06:05 AM
Quote from: Savonarola on June 24, 2019, 04:15:01 PM


Michigan is no surprise; I would have expected Portuguese in Florida.

Many Brazilians there? Otherwise, the three states with Portuguese are the states where Azoreans emigrated.
I expect more Portuguese to be in California than Florida for instance.

Duque de Bragança

#71052
June 25, 2019, 06:09:21 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on June 24, 2019, 08:28:26 PM
How much mutual intelligibility is there between Haitian Creole and French?

Low, the French will understand a word every now and then, sounding weird and/or broken.
Haitian Creole will understand will get more of French, specially if educated.

Duque de Bragança

#71053
June 25, 2019, 06:10:20 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 24, 2019, 04:39:35 PM


Anyone know what Ilocano is?  I'm guessing a Phillipino language.

You guessed correctly.

Lucidor

#71054
June 25, 2019, 08:29:45 AM
Hi all, just checking in. All is well.
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