robin
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I speak Belgian Dutch.
and learned at school:French, English, German.
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NiroZ wrote:
and you can't speak British or english canadian? (gasp)

British? Born and bred in England, so I speak English English. Actually, I speak in a broad Yorkshire dialect, which is probably another language on its own.

seriously tho, engish sould be counted as english, not its variations

Is engish spoken by engineers? If so, that's another language I speak. (Sorry, I don't normally pick up on spelling or typo's, but I couldn't resist this time.)

BTW, my original post was jokingly referring to the stereotypical - in the UK at least - loud American tourist, and the also stereotypical UK tourist abroad, who thinks he/she can make johnny foreigner understand by speaking English louder and s l o w e r.

Edit: For the record, I can only speak English. I was taught French and Latin, but as my education - for what it was worth - finished 42 years ago, neither are fresh in my mind.

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I speak fluent english, so-so filipino, and im trying to learn japanese and spanish. Anyone else speak filipino?

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I can speak pretty good English, French, German and Spanish.

Hello. How are you?
Bonjour. Je m'appelle Pilchard VIII
Hola!Que tal? Me llamo Richard y tengo catorce anos. (I know that says 14.)
Hallo! Ich spiele Deutsch.

I also speak some basic Latin and can count to ten in Japanese.

Ma mater es en culina. Or something like that.

5 additional languages, 15 years of age. My brain hurts. OVERLOAD! OVERLOAD!

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Pilchard VIII wrote:
I can speak pretty good English, French, German and Spanish.

Hallo! Ich spiele Deutsch.

What exactly do you do in German???

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Tim wrote:

Pilchard VIII wrote:
I can speak pretty good English, French, German and Spanish.

Hallo! Ich spiele Deutsch.

What exactly do you do in German???

That was shorthand for "I have a German girlfriend and we'll spend the night together playing Scrabble".

Sorry, I cannot come up with a better interpretation.

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Alneyan wrote:
"I have a German girlfriend and we'll spend the night together playing Scrabble".

Scrabble? You surely meant DROD?

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Well, DROD doesn't have a proper multiplayer mode for the time being. CaravelNet isn't quite the same thing, and local CaravelNet seems to defeat the whole point.

It could be worked around, though. All you need is two screens and probably a change in the source code of the game, so that two DROD processes can run at the same time on the computer... or just put two computers right next to each other.

You would then have something looking like a multiplayer mode, where the goal would be to conquer a given hold as fast as possible. The possibilities are endless really: do you imagine a DROD convention with thirty players rushing through, say, Bavato? Even better, you could have four teams on a DROD marathon, where the goal would be to play through all the conquerable rooms in the game... the other players would, of course, be useful to take over after you've gone through 74 hours of DROD madness nonstop.

That would also trigger a search for the most optimised DROD, since the program's speed is critical. I can just see people trying every single OS under the moon, a bunch of architectures, and even more optimised compilers just to gain a split-second while loading the game. Now if you will excuse me, I've got to work on my very own *Nix for DROD system.

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Tim wrote:

Pilchard VIII wrote:
I can speak pretty good English, French, German and Spanish.

Hallo! Ich spiele Deutsch.

What exactly do you do in German???

It means "I don't speak German, but I play someone who does on TV."

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Alneyan wrote:
Well, DROD doesn't have a proper multiplayer mode for the time being. CaravelNet isn't quite the same thing, and local CaravelNet seems to defeat the whole point.

Where in the post did I say about multiplayer? There are many ways to play DROD together without multiplayer, but I don't think this is the right forum for it

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You know, considering the kind of forum this is, I'm surprised Klingon hasn't been mentioned at least once.

Anyway, English and French myself.

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coppro wrote:
You know, considering the kind of forum this is, I'm surprised Klingon hasn't been mentioned at least once.

Although I don't speak Klingon, I do have a decent understanding of Lojban, which is probably an even more this-forum-y language than Klingon.

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3 Languages: My bad English, my ugly Spanish and my native slang-loaded Portuguese.

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I got German, English and Swedish pretty good and understand italian and spanish but have problems with speaking.

I can understand (not speak of course) Latin and acient greek and i tried to learn elfish but gave up cause it makes no sense :-)

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I'm german. Well, of course I speak and write english. I'm a scientist and I can't do my job without it. I'm living in Saxonia since a few years and I speak english with a saxonian accent if required.
I remember I learned french when I was young.
I understand my dog and my cats, but I don't speak their languages .

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I speak english (Duh!!) and enough French that I can say: "The cat is blue. The cat is under the car." Not enough to make a conversation that is worth having.

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Yeah? Well je ne parle pas français!

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Bunches
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Yeah? Well je ne parle pas français!

And that means?

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Kevin_P86 wrote:
Yeah? Well je ne parle pas français!

It means I don't speak French.

Well I do!

And of course English!

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Kevin_P86 wrote:
Yeah? Well je ne parle pas français!

Parlez vous baguette?

Ummm, that's about all the French I know... *ducks*

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Briareos wrote:
Parlez vous baguette?

Cheese! Ham BLT, egg mayonnaise? Tuna chicken salad.

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I am French,I speak English and German.

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I'm a US citizen, born and raised. Other than English, I speak very bad Hebrew, worse Russian, even worse Japanese, and so little Spanish that I don't even mention it anymore. I used to be semi-conversational in all of those except for Spanish...but time passes and the brain turns to mush.

Josh

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Lithuanian, English and Russian (relatively weak). But by accident I selected 2.

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Hah, this thread is quite a blast from the past, and just reminded me what a huge amount of time I've spent on this forum. If it still serves its purpose, though, feel free to discuss the topic further.

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bandit1200 wrote:
BTW, my original post was jokingly referring to the stereotypical - in the UK at least - loud American tourist, and the also stereotypical UK tourist abroad, who thinks he/she can make johnny foreigner understand by speaking English louder and s l o w e r.

(I know, necro-quoting.) Sometimes that actually works. In America in particular I've noticed that many people have trouble understanding me if I speak normally, but if I slow down quite a bit or put on a bad American accent things go a lot smoother.

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I speak English and Python.

print "Weird enough for ya?\nProbably not. :P"

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Monkey wrote:
I speak English and Python.

You ... are a Parseltongue?

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