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What's your favorite language?
x86 assembly 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
x86 assembly 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Klingon 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
Klingon 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
C# 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
C# 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
C++ 12%  12%  [ 3 ]
C++ 12%  12%  [ 3 ]
JavaScript 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
JavaScript 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Old Norse 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Old Norse 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Sanskrit 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Sanskrit 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Egyptian hyroglyphs 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Egyptian hyroglyphs 4%  4%  [ 1 ]
Ebonics (African-American English Vernacular) 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
Ebonics (African-American English Vernacular) 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
l33t 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
l33t 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
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26 May 2006, 6:08 pm

What's your favorite language? Choose the language you like most from the available poll options. If you can't decide, pick one anyway. Discuss your choice of language and discuss anything else that comes to mind from this topic.



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26 May 2006, 6:17 pm

Oddly enough, one of my favorite languages is English. I adore its quirky 'more exceptions than rules' pronunciations, its habit of stealing vocabulary from other languages (very little of English's vocabulary derives from its root tongue of Anglo-Saxon) and its gigantic, multilayered vocabulary. English has five times the number of words that any other language does, and that's not counting technical terms--add those and the number becomes ten times. English is so multilayered and complex that I can't help but love it.

I also love Latin for its neat, ordered regularity and how easy it is to learn once you memorize everything. Latin is all about order and compartamentalizing and neatness and nitpicky detail--changing a single vowel can alter the entire meaning of a verb. Latin is for the nitpicky uptight perfectionist side of me, and English is more for the side of me that glories in diversity. :D


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26 May 2006, 8:17 pm

I enjoyed learning sign language, although it's hard for some aspies to pick up.



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27 May 2006, 12:55 am

I enjoy listening to British English.



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27 May 2006, 4:27 am

Welsh, because I think that before speaking and it confuses the heck out of the english(who feel uncomfortable with welsh)!


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27 May 2006, 4:59 pm

Out of the proffered list, I just had to choose Sanskrit. It's fascinating to me because - as we are so often reminded in linguistic circles - so many English words are related to Sanskrit ones, however distantly related they are. (This goes for words in all Indo-European languages, so it's not as if English enjoys any special relationship with Sanskrit or anything like that.)

I love English, for basically the same reasons as SolaCatella.

Also Latin and Greek, because they have laid so much of the background for what English is today.

Also Hebrew, which (as well as Greek) I wish to learn any time I have the motivation, attention and concentration all together.

Also Esperanto and some languages which have the same goal, because I am interested in a neutral world language (something which has also been posted about on this forum).



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28 May 2006, 6:47 am

im learning Japanese, and its starting to become an obsession. i can see it coming!



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29 May 2006, 5:20 am

Japanese. But only because I studied japanese in senior high school. Can't remember much japanese at all anymore.



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29 May 2006, 10:39 am

Spanish.



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06 Jun 2006, 12:19 pm

I chose kiingon.
English and Spanish are good too.
I can read a little latin (mostly from my dad - telling me the legal terms :twisted:)
One setence I can pronounce (from star trek)