

Haha, there are 7000 languages on our planet. Would be a looong list :)


Haha, there are 7000 languages on our planet. Would be a looong list :)


Finnish, German, English, Ukrainian, Estonian, Swedish, Latvian, Dutch, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Spanish, French. A little Italian and Portuguese as well. I did manage to explain some simple things in Czech some days ago, and I can read south-Slavic languages surprisingly well. And often decipher the main point of a text in Romanian.
Almost no Hungarian or Mandarin, though very simple questions are possible anyway. And then of course I can read Norwegian and Danish reasonably well, because if you know Swedish, English, German and Dutch, you already know Danish. And for a similar reason, Slovak goes.
I can speak less than five words of Albanian, Basque, Greek, Welsh, Breton, any Gaelic language or any Sámi language. Those are something should probably learn a bit, at least.


Here’s something, at least: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhp-FTYSGe8


There was an interesting article about how the moon landings could have been faked with 1960’s technology and it turns out you’d need such obscenely expensive equipment that just going to the actual moon would be the cheaper alternative.
The impossibility of faking the landing is a good proof IMO.


I hope there’s a way for their children to relay a message to them.


Yeah.
Impossible conveying a message of sarcasm if people cannot hear my voice.
That’s why there’s no sarcasm in the Internet.


This might be about the languages where the only “numbers” they have are “zero”, “one”, “a few” and “many”.
If a conversation was held in English, then for the speaker “two” and “four” are synonyms.
One of the languages I am not sufficiently fluent in, yet, is that of Australia and USA. What does “Diction needed” mean in this context?