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And Now for Something Completely Different, v.2

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Message 1 of 22
TBasich
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And Now for Something Completely Different, v.2

I said I'd pop in with new questions on Mondays and then the holidays hit!

 

Now that we're all back in full swing, let's get things moving again with another ANFSCD question.

 

How many languages do you speak? Which ones? AND...do you put those languages into practice much?



Teresa Basich
Community Manager
Autodesk, Inc.
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Message 2 of 22
AllenJessup
in reply to: TBasich

I speak English plus a little Fortran, Basic, Lisp and a little AutoLisp. How practical that may be depends on the day.



Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

Message 3 of 22
Charles_Shade
in reply to: TBasich

Jive, about a minute into the clip:

 

Spoiler

 

Message 4 of 22
dgorsman
in reply to: AllenJessup

Fortran!?!?  I though that went the way of ancient G(r)eek?  😄

 

Aside from C# and Java (although with a bit a LISP) and XML, I remember un peut de francais, and tend to swear in Klingon.  I've also been known to converse in certain dialects of crazy.

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Message 5 of 22
Light_Guy
in reply to: TBasich

I only speak two languages - English and really bad English!

Paul Hamor
"Always good ships!"
Message 6 of 22
AllenJessup
in reply to: dgorsman

Yes. I'm dating (and identifying) myself. My first programming course was doing Fortran on hollerith (keypunch) cards.

 

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Allen Jessup
Engineering Specialist / CAD Manager

Message 7 of 22
troma
in reply to: TBasich

Well I'd only consider myself a 'speaker' of one language really.  But after 14 years of learning Irish in school and 5 of French I'd hope some of it stuck.  But I definately feel more fluent avec mon petie peut de Français than I do ar an cúapla focail Gailge agam.

 

Aon focal,

Dhá focal,

Trúir focal elie;

And I not knowing no focal at all!


Mark Green

Working on Civil 3D in Canada

Message 8 of 22
TBasich
in reply to: troma

You speak Gaelic?! That is fantastic! Maybe you're not as comfortable with it as French, but wow. Did you ever use it?



Teresa Basich
Community Manager
Autodesk, Inc.
Message 9 of 22

I had three years of German in high school, but, I doubt I could speak much now. I did have a chance to realize how out of practice I was a few years ago, when my husband was best man in a wedding and the groom's side was german (the bride's side was brazilian).

 

Also, 😜 Autolisp, vb.net and sql... I don't really need to use any of them on a regular basis, but, when, I do, I do okay.



Melanie Stone
Facilities Data Management
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Message 10 of 22
troma
in reply to: TBasich

No, not that I can remember.  Not outside of school, that is.  The final exam included an interview with an examiner, so yes, I did speak.  Obviously you prepare for something like that with a lot of memorized phrases about school, family, future plans etc.  But I got by.... then.  I wouldn't anymore.  

It's a nice language, but it is probably dying.  Shame, but they can't all survive.

 

 

I just found some interesting info.  Apparantly 2013 is the "Year of Irish": "Bliain na Gaeilge"

http://gaeilge2013.ie/

http://www.coimisineir.ie/index.php?page=baile&tid=1


Mark Green

Working on Civil 3D in Canada

Message 11 of 22
Murph_Map
in reply to: TBasich

Dose, English and a el'bitO of Spanish. 🙂

Many years ago I could read Arabic, couldn't speak it but had to read enough back in Desert Storm to figure out what was written and what the POW's were up to.

Murph
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Message 12 of 22
hwalker
in reply to: Murph_Map

The only French I need to know is "Deux Bier s'il vous plait"

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@AllenJessup wrote:

I speak English plus a little Fortran, Basic, Lisp and a little AutoLisp. How practical that may be depends on the day.


Human languages: Russian, Ukrainian, and some English.

Programming Languages: Assembler, Fortran, COBOL, PL/1, C/C++/C#, VBA/VB.NET, Lisp, etc.

P.S.: I still kept punch cards and magnet tape ... Smiley Happy

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@troma wrote:

No, not that I can remember.  Not outside of school, that is.  The final exam included an interview with an examiner, so yes, I did speak.  Obviously you prepare for something like that with a lot of memorized phrases about school, family, future plans etc.  But I got by.... then.  I wouldn't anymore.  

It's a nice language, but it is probably dying.  Shame, but they can't all survive.

 

 

I just found some interesting info.  Apparantly 2013 is the "Year of Irish": "Bliain na Gaeilge"

http://gaeilge2013.ie/

http://www.coimisineir.ie/index.php?page=baile&tid=1


My MIL is Irish, and can speak it quite well. Most of the younger folk I've met aren't quite as adept with it, though. 🙂

 

One of the quotes she has shared with me over the years is (pardon me for copy/pasting, hope it's accurate): "“Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.”



Melanie Stone
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IWMS / CAFM / CMMS / AutoCAD / Archibus / Tririga / Planon / MRI Manhattan CenterStone / Revit / data normalization, data mapping, reporting and process documentation
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Message 15 of 22


@Mistress0fTheDorkness wrote:
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... "“Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.”


A land without language is a land without soul?  Nice.  The inference is its own language, not just any language.  It's a sore subject in Ireland, because everyone wants that sense of identity.  It goes along with the Nationalism and decades/centuries of struggle for independence.  They eventually got the EU to recognize Irish as an official language, along with the 20 others or so.  So people have a sense of pride in it.  But at the same time it is dying.  Everyone knows that for the economy, English is the way to go.  Google and Intel wouldn't put their European HQs in Dublin if no-one spoke English!

 


Mark Green

Working on Civil 3D in Canada

Message 16 of 22


@troma wrote:

@Mistress0fTheDorkness wrote:
.....

... "“Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam.”


A land without language is a land without soul?  Nice.  The inference is its own language, not just any language.  It's a sore subject in Ireland, because everyone wants that sense of identity.  It goes along with the Nationalism and decades/centuries of struggle for independence.  They eventually got the EU to recognize Irish as an official language, along with the 20 others or so.  So people have a sense of pride in it.  But at the same time it is dying.  Everyone knows that for the economy, English is the way to go.  Google and Intel wouldn't put their European HQs in Dublin if no-one spoke English!

 


~nodding~ Yeah, she definitely had mixed feelings about it. She seemed resigned, but, is a bit sad that my husband and his sister don't speak any Irish at all.

 

And, looking at America, of the 250 languages spoken here before the Europeans arrived, maybe 8 are still spoken today, but, not by many people.



Melanie Stone
Facilities Data Management
IWMS / CAFM / CMMS / AutoCAD / Archibus / Tririga / Planon / MRI Manhattan CenterStone / Revit / data normalization, data mapping, reporting and process documentation
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Message 17 of 22
parkr4st
in reply to: Murph_Map

English and "Maine" and ten words of French; enough to get in and out of Canada when I need to. also remotely remember punching cards for fortran.  found the best thing not to do to the university system was cause the printer to expel about fifty blank pages of that wide paper with no ink on it. other than that don't know much of any cumputer language.

 

Dave

Message 18 of 22
Light_Guy
in reply to: parkr4st

I SPEAK MAINE!!! AYUH I DO!

Paul Hamor
"Always good ships!"
Message 19 of 22
Julesagainn
in reply to: TBasich

I am fluent in Nerd and Sarcasm.

Formerly fluent in French, due to having a little tiny French tartar of a teacher who permitted no English in class after the first week.

Message 20 of 22
Jillian.Bejtlich
in reply to: TBasich

I was fluent French but it was one of those didn't use it, so I lost it type of things. I can still read quite a bit of it and can muddle my way through reading Italian (can't speak a word of it though).

 

I do fall into accents pretty quickly though. My mom is from the South and my dad is from Boston, so I grew up with both accents and quickly fall into either if I'm around people talking like that... especially the South. Smiley Happy



Jillian Bejtlich
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Autodesk, Inc.

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