View Poll Results: Which is your most dominant language other than English?

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  • Chinese

    21 27.27%
  • Greek

    3 3.90%
  • Hungarian

    0 0%
  • Italian

    5 6.49%
  • Japanese

    5 6.49%
  • Maltese

    1 1.30%
  • Spanish

    4 5.19%
  • Tagalog

    7 9.09%
  • Other

    19 24.68%
  • I like machine language (none)

    12 15.58%
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Thread: What language (other than English) do you speak?

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    This story's been around for a while, but for those who haven't seen it yet it's a four year old Russian girl who can speak 7 languages!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBgadpvGs7U

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    Quote Originally Posted by prjkt View Post
    I always thought the word "none" was derived from no one/not one along the lines of contractions like "can't" and the likes.

    Ah the joys of English, so many external influences over the years of its development.
    Actually, in this particular case 'none,' 'not,' 'one,' and 'any' are actually all original English words.

    One interesting thing that can happen in some languages like English is that when new foreign loan words are added to the language, the original words don't necessarily all become extinct, but rather continue to live alongside their imported counterparts. But the interesting thing is how words from English and non-English origins meaning the same thing can evoke very different feelings to the audience.
    e.g. (L: English, R: loanword)
    hearty = cordial
    welcome = reception
    kin = family
    fatherhood = paternity
    ship = naval
    sea = marine
    child = infant
    body = corporate
    head = capital
    first helper = prime minister

    Or this...

    English Only
    Shapeshifters is a workgang rights made by Banded Folksdoms plaything club Good-Brothers and Dawnlandish plaything club Riches Wealth. Firstly a set of shapeshifting playthings branded again from Riches Wealth’s Through-twig and Smallman plaything set, the rights was beginning in nineteen eighty-four with the Shapeshifters plaything set, and looks at gangs of shapeshifting offworld steelmen (most oft the Self-steelmen and Outwit-steelmen) in an endless struggle for overlordship or as and when kinship. In its ten years long lore, the rights has unfolded to beset talestrips, livedrawing, stream games and films.

    With foreign loanwords
    Transformers is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara Tomy. Initially a line of transforming toys rebranded from Takara's Diaclone and Microman toylines, the franchise began in 1984 with the Transformers toy line, and centers on factions of transforming alien robots (often the Autobots and the Decepticons) in an endless struggle for dominance or eventual peace. In its decades-long history, the franchise has expanded to encompass comic books, animation, video games and films.


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    From here

    The plural for happy is actually happies, so it'd be Triggerhappies. Although 'happy' is an adjective, in this case it has undergone nominalisation and thus behaves as a noun, specifically a proper noun in the case of the name "Triggerhappy." It wouldn't "happi" as that sounds more like the rule for pluralising Latin masculine nouns which end in -us, but Latin adjectives and even non-masculine nouns that don't end in -us are pluralised differently.

    e.g. (nominative cases)

    Masculine nouns
    camīnus (forge) → camīnī (forges)
    dominus (lord) → dominī (lords)
    porcus (pig) → porcī (pigs)

    Non-masculine nouns
    domina (mistress) → dominae (mistresses)
    ātrium (atrium) → ātria (atria)

    Adjectives
    laetus (happy) → laeta (happies)
    īrātus (angry) → īrāta (angries)

    etc.

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