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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5969 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 9 17 December 2012 at 3:32am | IP Logged | ||
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This week I read an article stating that all dogs in Montreal must become bilingual. Of course, this was a joke. The news story claimed that all dogs in Montreal must learn commands in both French and English, in order to minimize chaos in the dog park.
It's a pretty funny hoax and it was belived by many media outlets, at first, but when I read it, something just seemed wrong in the proposed law's requirement that all dogs need to learn 80 to 90 commands in both languages! I have a dog, and I know dogs can understand many words, but training a dog, or a human, for that matter,that number of bilingual commands requires some serious training and practice! See the story here: Bilingual Dogs Well, OK, let monolingual dogs lie . . . But of course, we have to wonder what's next: Pimsleur for Dogs ? "Yes, the dog would like to eat now . . ." Fetch S I ? Rosetta Bone ? *I know this topic should probably be in the Philological Room, but I can't post a new topic there, only add it to an existing one Edited by meramarina on 17 December 2012 at 3:41am 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 2 of 9 17 December 2012 at 3:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Don't forget Yapla, Assimil Unleashed, Barklitz, and Linguabone! ;) (ok, I'm even cringing myself now...) Edited by Teango on 17 December 2012 at 3:49am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5969 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 9 17 December 2012 at 3:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Assimil New French with Fleas?
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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5534 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 9 17 December 2012 at 4:05am | IP Logged | ||
I think you just won the thread. :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5969 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 9 18 December 2012 at 12:24am | IP Logged | ||
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There is no winning in something as silly as this! I kind of like "Barkilitz" too!
And, yes, I do talk to my dog in target languages. Strangly, he seems to prefer German over Spanish! I was embarrassed one day when, during a walk, someone heard me talking to the dog in German. Cosmo is indifferent to Italian. And my French pronunciation is so bad I would never inflict it even on a dog. I really need to work on that, and also I want expose the patient pooch to more Polish to see how he likes it. Edited by meramarina on 18 December 2012 at 12:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bbcatcher 08 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4420 days ago 130 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian | Message 6 of 9 05 January 2013 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Kind of interesting. However, I have trained my dog to some Latin commands. I am unsure of it is because it
sounds some what similar to the English, but he knows what I am trying to say. Thought I could add that in the discussion 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5834 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 7 of 9 05 January 2013 at 10:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well obviously somebody needs to sit down and create an international canine conlang. Barkeranto anyone?
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| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4602 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 8 of 9 11 January 2013 at 9:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ive also taught my dog a few commands in other languages... he responds to sit, and speak in both Mandarin, and
Japanese XD 1 person has voted this message useful |
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