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| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6109 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 1 of 2 28 March 2011 at 10:26am | IP Logged |
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I spotted this quote on the BBC website this morning:
"The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Germany (1500-58) was said to have spoken French to men, Italian to women, Spanish to God and German to horses." I don't have enough languages yet to make such choices. But German does seem suited to giving commands. Italian to women?...hmm, could get a bit cloying and irritating after a while, though how whould I know? I'm a man. Maybe something a bit more mysterious like Russian? French to men?....that would bug the heck out of me. Far too civilised! Give me plain old English any day. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5385 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 2 28 March 2011 at 4:29pm | IP Logged |
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He must have had a very small pool of friends.
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