Se habla ingles?

[hackthis_archive]

I had a dream last night that I had to make this poll. It's just for curiousity's sake, but you know me, I may try to pick your brains later if I want one of my characters to start cursing at people in Russian. Even though my keyboard isn't equipped for Russian.

ETA: I define 'speak' as some degree of fluency/proficency where you can a) carry on a conversation b) curse prolifically and summon a policeman in said language and/or c) survive if you are kidnapped, tied up, dropped off in that country with nothing but your name, and can communicate well enough with other people (without sign language) so you can get back home.

Too much Burn Notice what?

ETA 2: Yes, kids, I know that Scandinavian and Eastern European are regions and not languages, but in some instances you have to generalize because unless it's for a paper, I'm not listing 600 languages.

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[ranalore.livejournal.com]

It might be fun to ask people what variations on a single language they speak/read/write. You've got U. S. English and British English and Canadian English, but you've also got the way Ozarkians use U. S. English versus the way Texans use it versus...well, you get the idea. *G*

Also, I wanna know who marked Korean, because I've got a fandom to sell them.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

No, I am not going any further, because so far apparently there are about sixteen different kinds of English and French I've not covered, and trust me this was about general knowledge, and maybe finding someone to teach me Gaelic, nothing more ;-)

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Hee! Well, I figured the reasoning was something like that, and I wasn't seriously suggesting you do it. If there's one thing I've learned as a military dependent moving around the country, it's that there are entirely too many ways to speak my native language to be listed in a poll with limited space. California alone would require every ticky box that ever was.