Posted on 02/14/2014 5:41:49 PM PST by kingattax
Amongst the thousands of languages spoken across the world, here are just eighty. How many can you distinguish between?
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I think I heard ‘em all today at Disney World.
So close!
The correct answer was Amharic
Final score: 550
I think I’d know Austrian if I heard it!
They are the most internet women aside from the Swedish bikini team
Portuguese is harsh and guttural. Sounds like a cross between Spanish and German. A tough maritime people there....at least in the past.
<Are the women in Iceland really good looking?
I don’t know. : ) But my son is planning to go because he wants to go somewhere unusual but civilized. : ) He’s dating someone now, but when he first started to think about the trip, he was definitely looking at the females.
< I about fell out.
Speaking of language - that phrase isn’t used everywhere. Are you or your people from the South? Black?
I remember on a show about Jeffrey Dahmer where they played the 911 call from (black) people who saw the young Asian boy Dahmer had drugged. They said the boy was “steadily falling out.” I immediately understood what they meant, but the show put up a caption to explain it. Regionalisms are interesting things.
Wow that’s tough.
500.
I speak two languages. English and profane.
The question that has been on Canadian minds for ten+ years is what, in the of all that is, does he mean?
Crouton is not understandable in either Canadian official languages.
What about Romulan?
My dad was military, so I was born in the South and spent some formative years there...funny you would pick up on that!
(shudder) Jeffrey Dahmer. Satan on Earth if there ever was one.
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