solum wrote:I am shocked and disappointed that neither binary nor 1337 were on the list. Needless to say, I am fluent in both.

I'm pretty sure 1337 is not a language. I'm not sure exactly what is meant by binary, but I think that's more of a type of language than an actual language... correct me if I'm wrong.

d00d, 1337 15 +0+411'/ 4 14||9ua93 111

German, but losing it quickly because there was only a very tenuous grasp on it to begin with. Also, it was schwabisch, (ja, ein bisschle) so it was funny sounding, on top of my accent inexplicably sounding like it came from Budapest, though I don't speak a word of Hungarian.

It was interesting that since their dialect was picked on, schwabians tended to be relentless about eastern german and bavarian accents. Actually, everyone picked on the east german accent, kind of had the unfortunate stigma that southern accents sometimes have in the US. For the most part though, the dialects are more like accents, and you can at least understand any German speaking German German... unlike Swiss German apparently.

Would love to learn French, but my pronunciation the few times I've tried is absolute shit. Spanish is on the list too, the year in high school was useless for the most part, was able to understand a bit of Costa Rican Spanish after 3 weeks there, and would like to learn it better 'cos it'd be nice to go back and see more of Central America. No really, it's beautiful there.

Linus Van Pelt wrote:I'm not sure exactly what is meant by binary, but I think that's more of a type of language than an actual language... correct me if I'm wrong.

neither...it's a numerical base...you could call it an alphabet, but not a language as a language is the combination of both alphabet and grammar/syntax...

robert thefamilyghost wrote:

Linus Van Pelt wrote:I'm not sure exactly what is meant by binary, but I think that's more of a type of language than an actual language... correct me if I'm wrong.

neither...it's a numerical base...you could call it an alphabet, but not a language as a language is the combination of both alphabet and grammar/syntax...

there are 10 types of people who understand binary: those that do and those that don't.





Faiz

kerble wrote:there are 10 types of people who understand binary: those that do and those that don't.

THAT is poetry! on a scale of [0, 1001] i give it a 1000!!!

if they were languages, i would have picked Binary or Hexadecimal long before French, which is what i selected. i think i learned both of those around the same time, back when i was about 0F years old.

what about music? music is a language, no? it has an alphabet and phrases and syntax and all that. music theory would be kinda like grammar, and then non-modal music would be like slang or something? i dunno. it might not do other things as well, but i tend to think music can be used to convey emotion as well as if not better than a normal "language", and certainly to a broader audience. uptempo 16th note phrases based around a diminished structure would probably successfully convey anger/angst to just about any human being that has ears.

BTW sockmonkey, the key to speaking french with a proper accent is to eat two or more bags of skittles before attempting to speak. for the phlegm. just like with spanish, the R is a tricky letter to pull off. in spanish, there's a rolling of the tongue that happens a lot, but it's more with the tip of the tongue... in french, it's the back of the tongue that does the roll, so it sounds more like a crackling/clearing one's throat than the more machine-gun-motor-boat-engine thing in spanish. and i have to agree that central america is beautiful, though i'm saddened by how normal it is to just throw trash anywhere, on the street, out your car window. it's too beautiful down there to treat it like a white castle parking lot!

robert thefamilyghost wrote:

kerble wrote:there are 10 types of people who understand binary: those that do and those that don't.

THAT is poetry! on a scale of [0, 1001] i give it a 1000!!!

wow, 1000 out of 1001, that's just shy of 1011001 percent!

toomanyhelicopters wrote:what about music? music is a language, no? it has an alphabet and phrases and syntax and all that. music theory would be kinda like grammar, and then non-modal music would be like slang or something? i dunno. it might not do other things as well, but i tend to think music can be used to convey emotion as well as if not better than a normal "language", and certainly to a broader audience. uptempo 16th note phrases based around a diminished structure would probably successfully convey anger/angst to just about any human being that has ears.

i did my models of computation project (uh, both times i took the class) on music as a [some fancy-sounding word that i can't remember at the moment] language...i was a horrible student and did a terrible job (as i already mentioned i did have to take that class twice) and my project and all was pretty much just a bunch of crap thrown together...but i'm sure it would be an interesting topic were i the kind of person to study/research...

robert thefamilyghost wrote:[some fancy-sounding word that i can't remember at the moment]

fill in the [ ] with "context-free"...i'm pretty sure it was music as a context-free language...i had to do some research to figure that out...i said i did that twice, but i think that's wrong...i think i did that specific topic once and the other time it was just something very similar with music/sound but not focusing on the "context-free" aspect...not that it matters...i'm sure each paper could be reduced to the same nonsense last-minute crap...but enough angst, now is time for sleep...