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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5262 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 41 of 82 09 March 2011 at 3:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Has anyone heard of Manse Everard, of The Time Patrol series by Poul Anderson? They were Sci-Fi novels from the early 1990's. Manse was a 20th century man recruited to the time patrol by our descendants from a far off future to protect certain nexus points of history from tampering. Manse could speak any language from any time period by taking a "hypno" of the language overnight and waking up fluent in whatever language he needed to have fluency and whatever relevant time period. It just wouldn't be appropriate to speak 20th century French in 18th century France or modern Greek in 5th century Greece.
There are stories where he returns from the past to his "present" in the 20th century to find that history has been altered and that Celts are driving steam powered cars in "New York" and speaking an odd Celtic mix language or other scenarios with "English" minus all Latin influence. The books and short stories are a fun and fascinating romp through "what if". Edited by iguanamon on 09 March 2011 at 3:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| portunhol Triglot Senior Member United States thelinguistblogger.w Joined 6252 days ago 198 posts - 299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: German, Arabic (classical) | Message 42 of 82 10 March 2011 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | ||
I think it's cool that at least the author addresses the language problem, like in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe. It reminds the reader that being able to communicate with people from different regions of the world, and time periods, would be impossible without either a lot of previous study or a science-fiction solution like a hypno pill or a babble fish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Journeyer Triglot Senior Member United States tristan85.blogspot.c Joined 6868 days ago 946 posts - 1110 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German Studies: Sign Language | Message 43 of 82 13 March 2011 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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In the movie "Atlantis" the main character Milo is a linguist and speaks several languages. I forget which ones exactly though. I remember French and English, of course.
The Atlateaean language is a functioning, although limited, constructed language created my Marc Okrand, the same linguist who created the Klingon language 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5793 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi | Message 44 of 82 18 April 2011 at 5:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Rubin from Solzhenitsyn’s “The First Circle”: he studies dictionaries (Mongol-Finnish, Spanish-Arabic, Chinese-French, Latvian-Hungarian, Russian-Sanskrit) to prove that all the words come from the word “hand”
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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5669 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 45 of 82 18 April 2011 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC
KCB KCIE (1822–1915) was a highly accomplished polyglot, who spoke a large number of languages, with the ability to converse in a new language in a matter of weeks and be fluent in a few months. He attributed all of his great success to his three natural talents: horsemanship, facility with foreign languages, and fornication 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5335 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 46 of 82 28 April 2011 at 12:28am | IP Logged | ||
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It’s been a while since I read the Twilight books, but I think Edward Cullen once claimed to know dozens of languages and ascribed this to his not needing sleep and having a perfect memory (and then there's the eternal lifespan). Not only did this make the character about ten times more fascinating to me, it also made me reconsider the attraction of vampirism. I think I’d gladly give up my non-sparkly skin and blunt teeth in exchange for those powers.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 47 of 82 29 April 2011 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Personally, I'd rather live for a long time without requiring vampirism, but each to their own.
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| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5178 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 48 of 82 05 May 2011 at 7:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Korean drama The fugitive the speak several foreign language: Korean (of course), English, Japanese, Cantonese, Thai and maybe Tagalog and Chinese, the guy is kind of Korean James Bond.
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