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[Yoink]

In other news, anyone know where I can learn Gaelic? You know, for giggles.

That's... Probably pretty hard.
I once knew someone who spoke Gaelic, but he was against teaching it to people. Can't remember his exact reason, but it was quite sacred to him, I guess.

Also why are we speaking french?!

[Aklyon]

Huit.

[Darvi]

I have little fragments of French re-entering my mind, but not enough to make a sentence longer than 'hello, my name is greatorder'

Omelette du fromage, omelette du fromage, omelette du fromage...

Le pomme de tèrre, le pomme de tèrre, le pomme de tèrre...

LA pomme.

[Loud Whispers]

I have little fragments of French re-entering my mind, but not enough to make a sentence longer than 'hello, my name is greatorder'

Omelette du fromage, omelette du fromage, omelette du fromage...

Le pomme de tèrre, le pomme de tèrre, le pomme de tèrre...

LA pomme.

Mon vie est un mensonge

[Aklyon]

Image Not available, Lod Whispers.

[Loud Whispers]

Image Not available, Lod Whispers.

Avez-tu attendu un minute?

[RedKing]

Zhongguo is a fucking weird country.

There's a weird, beautiful logic to many Chinese compound words. It's kind of agglutinative like German (funny enough, hovercraft in German is das Luftkissenboot, lit. "air cushion boat")

In other news, anyone know where I can learn Gaelic? You know, for giggles.

You mean for gheagilles. 

I have a couple of Gaelic dictionaries at home that I tried to teach myself from (epic fail), along with some Welsh for Beginners. Neither of those languages is one you want to approach without a good stiff drink first...which might explain why the natives are known for their drinking habits.

[Karnewarrior]

I won't be impressed until someone speaks Inuit.

[Hanslanda]

Je jette l'ordinateur par la fenêtre.

[Siquo]

I love how english actually can say "Jette par la fenetre" in one word. Ceci n'est pas une langue.

[Frumple]

Eh... English can say just about anything with one word, once it gets around to either making that word up or stealing it from some other language that's already using it. I... I guess it's a sort of advantage?

[Lagslayer]

Eh... English can say just about anything with one word, once it gets around to either making that word up or stealing it from some other language that's already using it. I... I guess it's a sort of advantage?

U jelly?

[i2amroy]

Eh... English can say just about anything with one word, once it gets around to either making that word up or stealing it from some other language that's already using it. I... I guess it's a sort of advantage?

Most languages do that already, the thing is just that the native english people haven't actually invented that many things that are named with new words. Most of our inventions tend to get either named with a combination of two words (airplane, airport), thus allowing word-by-word translations, or the invention is created by an immigrant who names it in their native language. Add into that the fact that most semi-modern inventions end up with the same name as the company that sells them, so you end up with things like Levis that translates into any language and stays the same because it's a name.

Some notable examples of native english inventions are:
marshmallow -> marshmallow
fudge -> fudge
internet -> internet
electricity -> elek(something) it varies from language to language, but they all have the same root

I've got to say the funniest word swap that I know of is the word "anime" though. It's a shortened, anglicized, japanized version of the english word "animation" (so they took the word from us and japanized it, then we took it back and shortened it to use it to apply to a specific genre of animation).

[10ebbor10]

There are quite a lot of words like that.

Boulevard and mannequin come to mind, but those are dutch-french examples.

[Aseaheru]

heres a interesting fact: there is a group of native peoples in mexico that really dont like spanish, to the point whare they invent names for things instead of using spanish. for instance, a car, once you transalate it from there launguage to english is a "thing that moves by its self." or something verry like.