So a duck, a penguin, and a camel walk into this French bar

[gcursor]

SO.....

I wanted to float this question and see if I got any takers...I'm sure at least a few of you know a foreign language or two or three or four or more, right?

 

SO...how many foreign languages do you know

 

AND

 

say something funny (doesn't have to be a joke) in one of the languages you know.

Gcursor

[+ purplekow]

Well English works best for me. i am conversant in Spanish. I have the French skills of a reasonably intelligent 5 year old native French speaker. I understand slowly spoken Italian. I can say "hello" "I am well" "lie down and spread your legs" and "pain" in Chinese.

[Scorpio]

SO.....

say something funny (doesn't have to be a joke) in one of the languages you know.

Gcursor

 

From the Terms of Service:

 

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[Epigonos]

I am bilingual in Spanish and can get along in Italian.

[Poolboy21409]

I am fluent in "conversant" French and know kitchen Swedish from grandparents. Also, learned basic Italian last summer when I could not get the navigator in rental Mercedes to speak English. I am fluent in Italian as long as it is (1) follow the road for XXX kilometers, and (2) take the next exit on your R/L

[Guest Rich.]

Fortunately, "Fuck?" seems to be universal.

 

Not sure about "Fuck-a-Duck" though.

 

Richard

[KMEM]

I speak Southern, US English, some Ebonics and variations of the "Queen's English" or at least try to understand it.

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[Guest Rich.]

KMEM, I'm ashamed of you. You're announcing to the Board you can't even manage basic Australian? Repeat after me: "G'day".

 

Richard

[gcursor]

I'm sorry Scorpio. I wasn't trying to violate the Terms of Service. I was just trying to provoke some participation amongst the forum and let everybody have a little bit of a laugh..maybe lighten their day some too.

Gcursor

 

From the Terms of Service:

 

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[+ honcho]

I speak just enough french and german to flirt on recon.com.

 

A long, long, long time ago, I spent one of my years as a mathematics graduate student in Paris; over xmas I went to visit a high-school friend

in Bamberg, Germany.

 

I said something to the Cab Driver which he found quite funny ... I had tried to say "I only speak german poorly" and it came out as "I only speak german obscenely" ... (only *bad* german).

[Steven_Draker]

I'm fluent in French kissing

[+ Italiano]

Italian is my first language, I speak fluent English, fluent Spanish, and just decent French. I understand some Portuguese but I only speak a few words, and confuse it with Spanish.

[+ Oliver]

I ... can get along in Italian.

 

As evidenced by your review of Dane Scott today!

[Steven_Draker]

From the Terms of Service:

 

4. We realize the message center is part of the global community of the public Internet and we respect all cultures and languages. The primary language of the message center is English. Since the moderators may or may not speak other languages, the potential for abuse in non-English posts is great. Please post in English only

 

I think I saw recently a response to a post in Italian and while I didn't understand everything, I've got the general meaning. It was a 411 about escorts in New York and the OP was Italian. I think that was cool.

 

 

"Laws and rules could evolve as societies change"

[samhexum]

a duck, a penguin, and a camel walk into this French bar

[+ Avalon]

I only know English but in school I took Spanish, French, Russian, German, Latin, Italian, Portuguese, Swahili and Punjabi. I didn't take them so to be able to speak them but rather to see how they worked.

 

In college to my delight I discovered that I could substitute a foreign language for math and science. Though I did take some of those too.

 

++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

I did make up a bilingual Spanish/English "joke".

 

TENGO SED. In Spanish that means "I'm thirsty". But the hearer thinking it is English - Tengo said - and the person is named Tengo replies in Spanish "Que dijo Tengo" meaning "What did Tengo say?".

[Sensualsmooth]

I also speak body (language that is)

[+ sync]

When I was young and flexible, my French and Greek were pretty good.

[samhexum]