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Title: Multi Lingual.
Post by: amigov6 on 19 April 2008, 23:26:19
After mooching around on here as many of us do i'm left wondering how many languages Debs speaks?
   C'mon girl 'fess up!!!!!!! :)
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Debs. on 19 April 2008, 23:44:05
 ;D I am a cunning linguist!  ;D

I`ve waited for ages for someone to take the bait and allow me to say that!  ::)
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Big Fra on 19 April 2008, 23:51:24
Soooooo many comments, so little time!

Sorry Debs!
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: amigov6 on 19 April 2008, 23:52:48
Being a Trucking Muff Driver i so nearly made many cheesey puns regarding the aforementioned but decided discretion was the better part of valour. Besides i always thought it was an irish airline!!!! :P
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: hotel21 on 19 April 2008, 23:54:47
somethings are easier to get your tongue around than others.......   :-X
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: dad1uk on 20 April 2008, 07:10:48
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;D I am a cunning linguist!  ;D

I`ve waited for ages for someone to take the bait and allow me to say that!  ::)

Better than being a Pheasant Plucker  ::)  ::)
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Elite Pete on 20 April 2008, 09:58:51
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Being a Trucking Muff Driver i so nearly made many cheesey puns regarding the aforementioned but decided discretion was the better part of valour. Besides i always thought it was an irish airline!!!! :P
Reminds me of a T shirt I had many many years ago. It had a mans face on the front and he had a snorkel and goggles and a massive tongue. On the back it had International Muff Divers Association and underneath that was a motto of No muff to tough we dive at five ::)
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Markjay on 20 April 2008, 11:25:36
No idea what you're on about  :-[






 ;D
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: albitz on 20 April 2008, 11:28:25
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Being a Trucking Muff Driver i so nearly made many cheesey puns regarding the aforementioned but decided discretion was the better part of valour. Besides i always thought it was an irish airline!!!! :P
your thinking of aer fungus  ;D......you still aint told us debs,and i am curious now,so how many is it :question :question
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: amigov6 on 20 April 2008, 19:02:45
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Being a Trucking Muff Driver i so nearly made many cheesey puns regarding the aforementioned but decided discretion was the better part of valour. Besides i always thought it was an irish airline!!!! :P
Reminds me of a T shirt I had many many years ago. It had a mans face on the front and he had a snorkel and goggles and a massive tongue. On the back it had International Muff Divers Association and underneath that was a motto of No muff to tough we dive at five ::)
Many years ago i had a tee shirt saying "Take off your lace & sit on my F*ce. Was 19/20 yrs old then & asked not to wear it to work as it may offend. @ the time i was driving a little 7.5 tonner delivering brochures to travel agents around Sussex/Surrey.
None of the girls who signed the tickets were offended!!! :P
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Debs. on 20 April 2008, 19:27:14
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.....you still aint told us debs,and i am curious now,so how many is it :question :question

 ;D
Fluently: English, Icelandic, Faeroese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
Get-by: German, Latin.
Need to try-harder: French, Italian, Welsh
An embarassment but still willing to try: Hungarian, Spanish
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: HolyCount on 20 April 2008, 19:38:06
Good grief ---- I have enough trouble with English ( and a bit of Profane!)  :o
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: albitz on 20 April 2008, 19:43:30
fluent in bulls**t,get by with english. :)...........debs,its nice to see someone so scarily clever and still a normal down to earth person :y
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Debs. on 20 April 2008, 19:51:35
 :-[ Awww...shucks!  ::)

`you`re too-kind albitz; thanks. :y
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: amigov6 on 20 April 2008, 20:35:52
I can swear in Polish so that makes me E. European cunni-lingual............maybe!!! :D
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Debs. on 20 April 2008, 20:53:12
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I can swear in Polish so that makes me E. European cunni-lingual............maybe!!! :D

 ;D.......but I bet Loo Knee is bi-lingual  ;D
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Gaffers on 21 April 2008, 01:17:17
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.....you still aint told us debs,and i am curious now,so how many is it :question :question

 ;D
Fluently: English, Icelandic, Faeroese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
Get-by: German, Latin.
Need to try-harder: French, Italian, Welsh
An embarassment but still willing to try: Hungarian, Spanish

U can help you with this one  ;)
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 21 April 2008, 01:33:45
Allthough born in Yorkshire and lived here all my life, I sadly have to admit to being a failure in the one foreign language I tried at school which was french.

Proud that  my Mother was Aberdonian and my Father was a Geordie and totally embarressed to admit that I couldn understand a word of either when they used to visit home.

I think the Briitsih Isles has it's own Multi Lingual Clan.

Lol, Each City has a language all of its own.

Cockney's

Brummies

Liverpudlians.

and then of course there's the Barnsley Folk.
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: FRE07962128 on 21 April 2008, 05:37:59
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After mooching around on here as many of us do i'm left wondering how many languages Debs speaks?
   C'mon girl 'fess up!!!!!!! :)

She is a clever girl; I can only speak a smuttering of French, a tiny bit of Maltese (born and lived on the Island for a total of 5 years), and yes reasonable academic English (require it at university!), along with good old fashioned 'street' English including all the delighfully unsavoury words that no lady should utter....usually when encountering that nut or bolt that must be undone but is in a most unaccessable location or/and won't fxxxxxx budge! ;D ;D

Lizzie Zoom :y
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: shyboy on 21 April 2008, 11:20:36
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.....you still aint told us debs,and i am curious now,so how many is it :question :question

 ;D
Fluently: English, Icelandic, Faeroese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
Get-by: German, Latin.
Need to try-harder: French, Italian, Welsh
An embarassment but still willing to try: Hungarian, Spanish

That's most impressive Debs.
Just out of interest, what's your native language, and did you acquire the other fluent ones through study, or exposure during periods of residence etc.?
How similar are the Nordic/ Icelandic/ Faroese tongues?
My father had a very disrupted education in the 1920's, with no exposure to foreign languages,(except Belfast  :D), but simply through a lifelong passion for acquiring knowledge, speaks four languages very well, all acquired chiefly from books and radio. He is fanatical about correct pronunciation, and hates imperfect accents. I do envy the ability.
No Esperanto, I notice. Not too difficult, surely?
Bill



Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: albitz on 21 April 2008, 11:28:24
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fluent in bulls**t,get by with english. :)...........debs,its nice to see someone so scarily clever and still a normal down to earth person :y
forgot to mention,BELFAST is my native tongue  :D ;D
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Martin_1962 on 21 April 2008, 12:30:18
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After mooching around on here as many of us do i'm left wondering how many languages Debs speaks?
   C'mon girl 'fess up!!!!!!! :)

She is a clever girl; I can only speak a smuttering of French, a tiny bit of Maltese (born and lived on the Island for a total of 5 years), and yes reasonable academic English (require it at university!), along with good old fashioned 'street' English including all the delighfully unsavoury words that no lady should utter....usually when encountering that nut or bolt that must be undone but is in a most unaccessable location or/and won't fxxxxxx budge! ;D ;D

Lizzie Zoom :y

English and a little French computer languages however.....

Malta - they speak English don't they?

I don't remember, haven't been back since a baby - one of those huge unseen group of immigrants (yes I am classed as such) of BFPO children, so born on crown property in Malta.
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Debs. on 21 April 2008, 12:57:21
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Malta - they speak English don't they?

Maltese has it`s basis in Arabic and was brought to the island by Moslem conquerors in the 9th. century....
The Arabs, were later driven out by Normans from Sicily, whom introduced a large number of 'romance' language words into the Maltese vocabulary.
Today Maltese is spoken by >400,000 citizens.

I`m just-aching to call them Maltesers!  ;D
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Kevin Wood on 21 April 2008, 13:00:02
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and then of course there's the Barnsley Folk.

Aye, 'ampstead wasn't good enough for you, was it?... you had to go poncing off to Barnsley, you and yer coal-mining friends....  ;D

Kevin


Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Debs. on 21 April 2008, 13:15:50
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Aye, 'ampstead wasn't good enough for you, was it?... you had to go poncing off to Barnsley, you and yer coal-mining friends....  ;D Kevin


 ;D  ;D Hahahaha! ;D ;D
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Bo Bo on 21 April 2008, 13:25:05
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fluent in bulls**t
;D
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 21 April 2008, 14:53:35
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Aye, 'ampstead wasn't good enough for you, was it?... you had to go poncing off to Barnsley, you and yer coal-mining friends....  ;D Kevin


 ;D  ;D Hahahaha! ;D ;D


PMSL

Haha, there's nowt wrong wi Barnsley folk.   :D

Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: CaptainZok on 21 April 2008, 15:32:41
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fluent in bulls**t,get by with english. :)...........debs,its nice to see someone so scarily clever and still a normal down to earth person :y
forgot to mention,BELFAST is my native tongue  :D ;D
That's like english but you say f**k every fourth word isn't it?
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Jay w on 21 April 2008, 16:47:37
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.....you still aint told us debs,and i am curious now,so how many is it :question :question

 ;D
Fluently: English, Icelandic, Faeroese, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
Get-by: German, Latin.
Need to try-harder: French, Italian, Welsh
An embarassment but still willing to try: Hungarian, Spanish

Now there's a language i haven't touched in about 20 years  :o

We were taughted it in school, i used to really hate it, i couldn't understand the reason for learning it once i found out it wasn't really used much in modern life......

Really wish i had spent more time learning French rather than dossing @ the back of the class
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Debs. on 21 April 2008, 17:19:55
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Really wish i had spent more time learning French rather than dossing @ the back of the class

Reposez-vous vers le haut !...Prêtez l'attention à moi, vous sont un jeune homme très paresseux !  ;D

[size=8]Sit up! pay attention to me, you are a very lazy young man![/size]
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: albitz on 21 April 2008, 18:04:30
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fluent in bulls**t,get by with english. :)...........debs,its nice to see someone so scarily clever and still a normal down to earth person :y
forgot to mention,BELFAST is my native tongue  :D ;D
That's like english but you say f**k every fourth word isn't it?
third actually  :D
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: FRE07962128 on 21 April 2008, 18:25:07
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After mooching around on here as many of us do i'm left wondering how many languages Debs speaks?
   C'mon girl 'fess up!!!!!!! :)

She is a clever girl; I can only speak a smuttering of French, a tiny bit of Maltese (born and lived on the Island for a total of 5 years), and yes reasonable academic English (require it at university!), along with good old fashioned 'street' English including all the delighfully unsavoury words that no lady should utter....usually when encountering that nut or bolt that must be undone but is in a most unaccessable location or/and won't fxxxxxx budge! ;D ;D

Lizzie Zoom :y

English and a little French computer languages however.....

Malta - they speak English don't they?

I don't remember, haven't been back since a baby - one of those huge unseen group of immigrants (yes I am classed as such) of BFPO children, so born on crown property in Malta.

Yes, I likewise a Royal Navy baby with a dual Maltese birth certificate. Went back at 10 years old and lived there for almost 3 years.  The Maltese do speak English well, but Maltese is still there widespread (on the Island) official language. :D

Lizzie (Maltese) Zoom  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Multi Lingual.
Post by: Martin_1962 on 21 April 2008, 19:44:06
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After mooching around on here as many of us do i'm left wondering how many languages Debs speaks?
   C'mon girl 'fess up!!!!!!! :)

She is a clever girl; I can only speak a smuttering of French, a tiny bit of Maltese (born and lived on the Island for a total of 5 years), and yes reasonable academic English (require it at university!), along with good old fashioned 'street' English including all the delighfully unsavoury words that no lady should utter....usually when encountering that nut or bolt that must be undone but is in a most unaccessable location or/and won't fxxxxxx budge! ;D ;D

Lizzie Zoom :y

English and a little French computer languages however.....

Malta - they speak English don't they?

I don't remember, haven't been back since a baby - one of those huge unseen group of immigrants (yes I am classed as such) of BFPO children, so born on crown property in Malta.

Yes, I likewise a Royal Navy baby with a dual Maltese birth certificate. Went back at 10 years old and lived there for almost 3 years.  The Maltese do speak English well, but Maltese is still there widespread (on the Island) official language. :D

Lizzie (Maltese) Zoom  ;D ;D


My birth certificate is British - it is interesting as I can never be English, definately British and if I wanted could go Maltese