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How good are you at identifying languages just by listening to them?
Great Language Game ^ | Lars Yencken

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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To: kingattax

I think I heard ‘em all today at Disney World.


61 posted on 02/14/2014 10:06:37 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: kingattax

So close!

The correct answer was Amharic
Final score: 550


62 posted on 02/15/2014 12:10:57 AM PST by OldNewYork
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To: Revolting cat!

I think I’d know Austrian if I heard it!


63 posted on 02/15/2014 1:41:42 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: Perdogg
Are the women in Iceland really good looking?

They are the most internet women aside from the Swedish bikini team

64 posted on 02/15/2014 1:57:38 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: luvbach1

Portuguese is harsh and guttural. Sounds like a cross between Spanish and German. A tough maritime people there....at least in the past.


65 posted on 02/15/2014 2:01:54 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Perdogg

<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.


66 posted on 02/15/2014 12:16:42 PM PST by radiohead
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To: rlmorel

< 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.


67 posted on 02/15/2014 12:22:58 PM PST by radiohead
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To: kingattax

Wow that’s tough.

500.


68 posted on 02/15/2014 12:28:11 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ( http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: kingattax

I speak two languages. English and profane.


69 posted on 02/15/2014 12:32:45 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (This is not just stupid, we're talking Democrat stupid here.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

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.


70 posted on 02/15/2014 1:02:13 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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To: null and void

What about Romulan?


71 posted on 02/15/2014 6:53:56 PM PST by MrChips (Ad sapientiam pertinet aeternarum rerum cognitio intellectualis - St. Augustine)
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To: radiohead

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.


72 posted on 02/16/2014 5:41:16 AM PST by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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