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What's your favorite language? I'm not going to include a poll because there are too many languages.

Deutsche

1337

lol

I can't say I'm familiar with enough languages to have a favourite.

Finnish. It's poetry.


Kivijalkaa kansakunnan riihikuivatun
Aneista tiliin suurten perustaksi teen
Pantatun onnen veljein silmistä nään
Kädet pehmenneet, tahdon suruksi sulaneen

Kiitävän hetken taakseni katsoen
Nään unelmat, joista kerrottiin
Raudankovat sielut, raskaat sydämet
Surun lyijykyynelistä kerran taotut

Tallotuin mielin katsoin siltojani
Sortuneet kauan sitten uhmakkaina
Lyhyt on laulu lapsen tyhjäpäisen
Taivaisiin tavoitelleen harhaanastujan

Kiitävän hetken taakseni katsoen
Nään unelmat, joista kerrottiin
Raudankovat sielut, raskaat sydämet
Surun lyijykyynelistä kerran taotut

Niin syntejä isäsi
Aamusta iltaan uudelleen näit
Rauhassa työltäsi kurjuuden
Vallassa sodan ja sovinnon

Kiitävän hetken taakseni katsoen
Nään unelmat, joista kerrottiin
Raudankovat sielut, raskaat sydämet
Surun lyijykyynelistä kerran taotut


Yay Finnish!

1337

Danish does it for me

1337 is cool....
My favourites are Joual and some German dialects.

Dunno. Written Farsi looks nice, I suppose, even if I have no idea what it says.

Finnish. It's poetry.

what is 1337?

Arabic writing looks beautiful

look at this link, it will show you how cool Arabic writing is:http://www.touregypt.net/historicalessays/calligraphy.htm

what is 1337?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=1337

Arabic writing looks beautiful

look at this link, it will show you how cool Arabic writing is:http://www.touregypt.net/historicalessays/calligraphy.htm

Bit of a cheat to use calligraphy as example though :p

I could use the Book of Kells (http://www.snake.net/people/paul/kells/image/kells2)

my favorite language is the human touch


.................that wasn't meant to sound perverted or anything, but i think you all know what i mean

what is 1337?

17$ 73h £@/\/gu4g€ 0f g0|)z!

C'est francais, c'est evident, mais oui.

I prefer Latin.

Does cyber languange count? lol just kidding, maybe either Dutch or Japanese

Does cyber languange count? lol just kidding, maybe either Dutch or Japanese


HTML FTW! Or 1337, or whathaveyou ;)

Deutsche

No.

HTML FTW! Or 1337, or whathaveyou ;)
Binary. Now that's the language of teh cool.

German or English.

LISP
Failing that, Russian.

No.

Why not?

Binary. Now that's the language of teh cool.

01001111 00100000 01010010 01001100 01011001 00111111

01001111 00100000 01010010 01001100 01011001 00111111

01011001 01000101 01000001 01001000 00101100 00100000 01010010 01000101 01000001 01001100 01001100 01011001 00101110

00111010 00101001

If binary is a language, so is ASCII. Besides hexadecimal > binary.

Italiano, Francais, Latina, oh and English

Why not?

Gives me headaches.

My favorite spoken language is English. I love how its rubbery and I can express the same thought so many different ways.

I also like how it steals words from so many different languages. I can sit down and look at French, German or Spanish and I have a good idea of what is says without knowing the language (or at least I did before learning German and Spanish.)

Jeg elsker Dansk.

If binary is a language, so is ASCII. Besides hexadecimal > binary.

46 69 6e 65 2c 20 48 65 78 61 64 65 63 69 6d 61 6c 20 69 74 20 69 73 2e

depends on what you're scoring for I guess...
I like the grammar of Finnish.
I like the syntax of native North American languages.
I like the way German, Hebrew, Chinese languages, North Indian languages and Australian Aboriginal languages sound.

English

you like the way chinese languages sound?



that's a first

Yorkshire.

46 69 6e 65 2c 20 48 65 78 61 64 65 63 69 6d 61 6c 20 69 74 20 69 73 2e

59 6f 75 20 6b 6e 6f 77 2c 20 6e 6f 62 6f 64 79 27 73 20 72 65 61 6c 6c 79 20 70 61 79 69 6e 67 20 61 74 74 65 6e 74 69 6f 6e 2e

1337

54m3

you like the way chinese languages sound?



that's a first

:confused: I take it you don't?

Lithuanian and English :p

Danish, Norwegian, Faroeish, German, English.
maybe icelandic too.



maybe that electronic a bit too

Malayalam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam) is my favorite language, although it's not my native language.

Dunno. Written Farsi looks nice, I suppose, even if I have no idea what it says.

I have had the good fortune to typeset in Farsi. It really is most beautiful, and TeX makes it more so.

On the subject of the thread, I've always been partial to the ideas behind Lojban, but I currently use English day-to-day.

Arabic, I'd say. I love writing in Arabic, it's just fun to do. I also very much like its grammar system, it makes a lot of sense. As well as the the root/pattern system. A good deal of the language can be broken down to a three letter root upon which certain patterns are placed that consistently alter the meanings of the words.

Dutch. I can't speak it well, I just love listening to it.

English.

Dutch

I love dutch, luckily I was born in one of those weird places where they actually use it :)

But otherwise, German, Spanish, Estonian and Finnish are nice. English is only nice with the british accents.

English, 'cause it steals useful bits and pieces from a dozen other languages. Lots of versatility. :p

Russian and Japanese.

I love dutch, luckily I was born in one of those weird places where they actually use it :)

Awesome. I was in Eindhoven earlier this year. Unfortunately very few people spoke dutch to me :(

My favorite is either Norwegian or Swedish, I just love the way those two sound, but unfortunately I haven't found any place where I could learn either language.

I've had to settle for the next on my list, German.

Errrr... how about Klingon?

http://www.kli.org/

:) or, given that it is Klingon we are talking about, :upyours: might be more appropriate?

Russian

Dutch or Swiss German.

Schweizerdeutsch

"D Matine isch so geil gsi."
"Voll nid"
"Jo scho"

Esperanto

Dunno. Written Farsi looks nice, I suppose, even if I have no idea what it says.

I feel the same way about Japanese and Chinese writing.

Awesome. I was in Eindhoven earlier this year. Unfortunately very few people spoke dutch to me :(

Why were you in Eindhoven? And why didn't you tell me? :p But indeed, there are quite a lot of foreign people around here, so when we notice that they don't speak dutch we'll switch to English (with a very thick dutch accent) :)

Dutch or Swiss German.

Schweizerdeutsch

"D Matine isch so geil gsi."
"Voll nid"
"Jo scho"

Schweizerdeutsch ist toll :) My uncle lives there and my little nieces speak fluently sweizerdeutsch, it's so coool! :cool:

Malayalam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam) is my favorite language, although it's not my native language.

Not such a tough language to learn ( I don't mean in the perfect grammar sense, just learning passable Malayalam) but where it gets everyone is the pronunciation. I can understand a bit, but can't speak it.

I like too many languages to list.

I don't know about my favorite, but except for Common, I find Draconic and Abysal to the most useful.

Spanish, far and away. I love listening to fluent speakers speak it.

I don't know about my favorite, but except for Common, I find Draconic and Abysal to the most useful.

Abyssal? You haven't been dealing with demons, have you? Because that wouldn't be very nice.

Arabic writing looks beautiful

look at this link, it will show you how cool Arabic writing is:http://www.touregypt.net/historicalessays/calligraphy.htm

Yeah, but spoken Arabic sounds pretty horrible, aesthetically speaking. Romance languages FTW.

Abyssal? You haven't been dealing with demons, have you? Because that wouldn't be very nice.

Sometimes you've got to put up with people who you wouldn't necessarily choose to be around.
Example (http://www.taylormarsh.com/images2/04-mfb-5127742-bush-merkel-hoch,templateId=renderScaled,property=Bild,width=284.jpg)

Example (http://www.taylormarsh.com/images2/04-mfb-5127742-bush-merkel-hoch,templateId=renderScaled,property=Bild,width=284.jpg)

"The smell of sulfur...."

"The smell of sulfur...."
You get used to it.

French, Spanish, or Italian.

Definitely.

Depends. Which ones let me create completely new words and have people understand me?

GERMAN! Nine spraken ze deutche!

Chinese, mandarin. Fun to read and write, and challenging to speak/listen.

I don't know about my favorite, but except for Common, I find Draconic and Abysal to the most useful. Depends where you are, as far nether languages go, I'd pick Infernal over Ayssal. Though Abyssal does have a wonderful lilt to it (In comparison to the rather dead pan Infernal), Infernal as a language grants wider access to those who speak it. Take the iron city of Dis, for example.

Can't disagree with Draconic though, something of a root language for most others, it is handy to know.

You know what pisses me off though? Those fucking druids with their exclusive BS! I thought they were supposed to be down to earth treehuggers, but they walk around with their 'secret language' like a pole up their arses! Who the fuck speaks Druidic anyway?!

Who the fuck speaks Druidic anyway?!

Umm, considering your minirant about exclusivity...Druids?

English, for the simple reason that it's the only one I can actually understand.

I am afraid I'll have to agree with my philosophical friend here.

I am afraid I'll have to agree with my philosophical friend here.

Philosopical, technically.

Philosopical, technically.

I was going to say that, but I decided that would be smartassy.

I was going to say that, but I decided that would be smartassy.

...why would that stop you...?


:p

...why would that stop you...?


:p

Because then we wouldn't be having this lovely conversation.

Russian, i dont have the slightest clue why, and i cant speak it, but i just love the sound of it....

Nederlands

Deutsch.

Latin is my favorite.

German and Russian, they both sound good and the Cyrillic alphabet is great.

Nederlands

Nederlands en Den Haag FTW!
and further Gaelic....lurve that language, wish I could speak it.

Italian and Japanese (parts of it at least) are probably my favorites in terms of sound. Latin is pretty cool as well.

Icelandic and french

I have had the good fortune to typeset in Farsi. It really is most beautiful, and TeX makes it more so.

On the subject of the thread, I've always been partial to the ideas behind Lojban, but I currently use English day-to-day.
Yay TeX and yay Lojban!

I also like Turkish, Croatian and Vietnamese. English only sounds good if you are from Africa or Jamaica.

I think French sounds beautiful, and Italian and Spanish is very expressive.
German always sounds so harsh to my ear.
I like English for its flexibility and its roots in Latin, Greek, German, and French -- plus its willingness to absorb new words from other languages as we need them.

Why were you in Eindhoven? And why didn't you tell me? :p But indeed, there are quite a lot of foreign people around here, so when we notice that they don't speak dutch we'll switch to English (with a very thick dutch accent) :)
I was there twice actually - I went to Graspop in Belgium with some friends, and we decided to see what Eindhoven was like. We ended up back there a few days later when we got lost :p

And Dutch accents are fantastic too, so that was cool :D

watashi ni go nihongo ga desu me language japanese i love the rethem of it .:cool:

Finnish...

Yak Tsup Tsop... :D

I rather like the sound of Japanese, Italian, Quenya, and Sindarin.