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Message 1197911 - Posted: 20 Feb 2012, 18:30:00 UTC - in response to Message 1197910.  

Lets see I speak Basic, ST, Amiga, PC and English...

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C, C++, C#, Basic, Pascal, Modula II, Algol, APL, functional, ...

And A8 too.
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Message 1197912 - Posted: 20 Feb 2012, 18:30:27 UTC - in response to Message 1197895.  

30,200 - and I'm not a native speaker.

I don't speak any of the native American languages either.


That would be some rare luck, if anybody here did.

Now I'd like to know how many words I know in my other languages :D



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Message 1197922 - Posted: 20 Feb 2012, 18:45:24 UTC - in response to Message 1197911.  

Lets see I speak Basic, ST, Amiga, PC and English...

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C, C++, C#, Basic, Pascal, Modula II, Algol, APL, functional, ...

And A8 too.

Forgot a few:

Fortrann IV, Fortran 77, X86 Assembler, TI-99 Assembler, Cobol, lisp. There were a dozen or so more I learned in a language survey class.

I wrote a C compiler is lisp (as a school project, not by choice). LISP stands for Lost In Stupid Parenthesis.


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Message 1197927 - Posted: 20 Feb 2012, 18:58:56 UTC - in response to Message 1197922.  

Lets see I speak Basic, ST, Amiga, PC and English...

Sigh.

C, C++, C#, Basic, Pascal, Modula II, Algol, APL, functional, ...

And A8 too.

Forgot a few:

Fortrann IV, Fortran 77, X86 Assembler, TI-99 Assembler, Cobol, lisp. There were a dozen or so more I learned in a language survey class.

I wrote a C compiler is(in?) lisp (as a school project, not by choice). LISP stands for Lost In Stupid Parenthesis.

Also MAC OS(Pre-OSX OS that is, ver 8.9 I think), PC DOS 1.1, MS DOS 3.3-6.0, A8 DOS, Amiga DOS(all in 1 computer too), TRS-80 v1 and it's basic, basic computing principles, Windows 3.1-Windows 7(but not ME or 98se), I started when floppies were 5.25" floppies(pre 3.5" fdd) and the 1st home computer that could do 256 colors on screen was an Atari 400/800 w/16-48K ram.
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Message 1197966 - Posted: 20 Feb 2012, 20:37:51 UTC

I'm still not sure if that new-fangled Fortran 77 is trustworthy. I'm sticking to Fortran IV for now.

Another interesting feature of English is how acronyms, sounded out phonetically, become words. Just about everybody uses radar and laser, possibly without knowing where they come from. In my narrow little specialty, wusspuss, higgee, hogee and stovel are commonly understood when spoken aloud. (Googgle WSPS, HIGE, HOGE and STOVL for their origins).

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Message 1197986 - Posted: 20 Feb 2012, 21:31:19 UTC

43,300.

Nice to see that 20 years of education weren't a complete waste of time.
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Message 1198021 - Posted: 20 Feb 2012, 22:45:52 UTC - in response to Message 1197966.  

I'm still not sure if that new-fangled Fortran 77 is trustworthy. I'm sticking to Fortran IV for now.

Another interesting feature of English is how acronyms, sounded out phonetically, become words. Just about everybody uses radar and laser, possibly without knowing where they come from. In my narrow little specialty, wusspuss, higgee, hogee and stovel are commonly understood when spoken aloud. (Googgle WSPS, HIGE, HOGE and STOVL for their origins).

LASER is a bit of a misnomer. Most of them are actually LOSERs - Light Oscilation by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Only the second or higher stage really ought to be a LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.




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Message 1198030 - Posted: 20 Feb 2012, 23:00:53 UTC - in response to Message 1197912.  

Speaks passable Mi'kmaq.

Heavens, now where would you have learned that?
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Message 1198041 - Posted: 20 Feb 2012, 23:33:42 UTC - in response to Message 1197927.  


Also MAC OS(Pre-OSX OS that is, ver 8.9 I think)


8.5, 9.0 or 9.1 actually.

I started with 7.1.

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Message 1198057 - Posted: 21 Feb 2012, 0:39:25 UTC - in response to Message 1198041.  


Also MAC OS(Pre-OSX OS that is, ver 8.9 I think)


8.5, 9.0 or 9.1 actually.

I started with 7.1.

Well that was nearly 20 years ago, when I had a Commodore Amiga 4000 and It had real MAC OS roms on a card and I had a 386sx chipped card in it too. 3 different OSes in one computer, all at the same time, no other computer has done that since then.
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Message 1198064 - Posted: 21 Feb 2012, 1:09:28 UTC - in response to Message 1198057.  


Also MAC OS(Pre-OSX OS that is, ver 8.9 I think)


8.5, 9.0 or 9.1 actually.

I started with 7.1.

Well that was nearly 20 years ago, when I had a Commodore Amiga 4000 and It had real MAC OS roms on a card and I had a 386sx chipped card in it too. 3 different OSes in one computer, all at the same time, no other computer has done that since then.

I do that at work all the time now - with VMWare.


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Message 1198071 - Posted: 21 Feb 2012, 1:28:35 UTC - in response to Message 1198064.  


Also MAC OS(Pre-OSX OS that is, ver 8.9 I think)


8.5, 9.0 or 9.1 actually.

I started with 7.1.

Well that was nearly 20 years ago, when I had a Commodore Amiga 4000 and It had real MAC OS roms on a card and I had a 386sx chipped card in it too. 3 different OSes in one computer, all at the same time, no other computer has done that since then.

I do that at work all the time now - with VMWare.

Well that was a combination of hardware & software and all 3 OSes would be operating at the same time and none were emulated either, plus I could operate a few 8 bit or a 16 bit ISA cards too.
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Message 1198104 - Posted: 21 Feb 2012, 3:30:59 UTC - in response to Message 1197986.  

43,300.

Nice to see that 20 years of education weren't a complete waste of time.



Finally someone who understands me:)
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Message 1198120 - Posted: 21 Feb 2012, 3:55:59 UTC - in response to Message 1198030.  

Speaks passable Mi'kmaq.

Heavens, now where would you have learned that?


My Grandma was 1/2 Mi'kmaq and my brothers and I learned it as kids, but I haven't spoken it in 20 years.
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Message 1198545 - Posted: 22 Feb 2012, 19:16:43 UTC - in response to Message 1197808.  
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I speak Double Dutch and Fluent Rubbish.



I can speak a little "Gobbledygook" but am much better at talking "Buncombe" though. Some say that I'm actually very good with the latter one and complement me by stating that at times I can talk "Utter Buncombe". ....I think I should have become a politician?
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Message 1216117 - Posted: 9 Apr 2012, 14:27:00 UTC

must be wrong
it said:
44,000
words
you would think that there
are more words than that.
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Message 1225469 - Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 21:54:04 UTC

Does all languages i speak count ? LOL



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Message 1225477 - Posted: 30 Apr 2012, 22:10:13 UTC - in response to Message 1216010.  

we got high

it seemed like everyone did
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Message 1256759 - Posted: 7 Jul 2012, 2:51:54 UTC

17,100 and a Native speaker. Oh my, time to hit the books!
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Message 1257138 - Posted: 7 Jul 2012, 17:44:51 UTC
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I've avoided this test in the past...

25,100. I guess I should read more. :-(
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