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What language scares you?

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    What language scares you?

    Or do you think you can adapt to any?
    Speaking gibberish on internet talkboards since last Michaelmas. Plus here on Twitter

    #2
    English!!

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      #3
      Geekspeak
      Confusion is a natural state of being

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        #4
        Management speak.

        Bluesky thinking. Thinking outside the box. Managing stakeholders expectations. All that bulltulip bingo stuff in general.

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          #5
          Finnish is a pretty bizarre language.

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            #6
            German scares me. Six different words for "the" that I've discovered so far. A skirt is masculine, a tomato is feminine, but of course a girl is neither. And they put the second verb at the end of the sentence, just in front of the first verb which they also sometimes put at the end of the sentence, and that's assuming one of the verbs hasn't broken in two with the second half staying put and the first half going to, yes, the end of the sentence.

            I understand now why the germans like to be so efficient. It's because so much of their mental energy is used up in basic communication that they have to make the most of what little is left.
            Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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              #7
              German scares me, the cold functional, efficient sound of it dulls one's soul and reminds me of all those evil Nazis.

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                #8
                Не знаю чи я боюсья Української мови може так, може ні...

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                  #9
                  Vietnamese, tonal morse code. Graham Greene could now work it out so what chance did I have. Tom Zoc Toi was about as much as I mastered in a couple of months. Shrimp in Garlic.

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                    #10
                    Nice

                    Nice one,

                    Bablefish doesnt support Ukrainian ... maybe yes maybe no
                    There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think

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