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"Nerd" is understood by 2.6 billion !! | ||
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| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6261 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes  Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 1 of 10 29 September 2015 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Do you know that the word "nerd" is understood by at least 2.6 billion people around the world speaking in different languages? Check this interesting website: http://www.ezglot.com/word.php?l=eng&w=nerd You can enter any word to see a "word map" (and how many people know the word approximately). Other interesting sections: * The most similar languages: http://www.ezglot.com/most-similar-languages.php#most-simila r-languages Did you know that Esperanto is closest to Spanish? or that Italian has more of Spanish than Latin? * The common words between English and any other language: http://www.ezglot.com/common-words.php?l=eng * The common words between X and any other language: http://www.ezglot.com/common-words.php It is not very accurate, especially for non-major languages because it uses data from Wiktionary and similar databases, but it is interesting. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 10 01 October 2015 at 3:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Loud, simplistic claims make me sceptical.
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| Alphathon Groupie Scotland Joined 4182 days ago 60 posts - 104 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Scottish Gaelic | Message 3 of 10 02 October 2015 at 2:46am | IP Logged | ||
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This page looks familiar to me and I feel like it may have been created by one of HTLAL's users. I may be confusing it with a different site though.
I'm equally sceptical. I had a quick look at the "most similar languages" list and of particular interest to me are: • how high some of the pairs are, particularly Mandarin Chinese—Japanese and Northern Sami—Norwegian Bokmål. These are both language pairs which are close geographically and culturally, so are likely to have significant borrowings, but the fact that they beat pairs which are so closely related that they are mutual intelligible ((Scottish) Gaelic—Irish, Dutch—Afrikaans etc) seems dubious. • the complete lack of some seemingly obvious pairs, such as Danish—Bokmål I also took a quick look at my TLs on the "Common words with English page". Both include some peculiar entries such as country and personal names (gd: Tòmas, Canada, Iosrael, Abrahàm, Mìchael; de: India, Japan) which I'm not sure should be included. (I can see a case for the countries, but the personal names seem very shaky.) Edit: There are also some seemingly shaky word-pairs; I cannot speak for Gaelic as I am not yet advanced enough, but unless there're some rare homographs at play which I haven't come across, the German Liste, Phonem and Teil do not mean listen, phone and while. Edited by Alphathon on 02 October 2015 at 3:12am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6261 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 4 of 10 03 October 2015 at 12:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Edited by Hashimi on 03 October 2015 at 12:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Maecenas23 Triglot Newbie Ukraine Joined 4613 days ago 21 posts - 56 votes Speaks: Ukrainian*, Russian, English Studies: German | Message 5 of 10 06 October 2015 at 2:21am | IP Logged | ||
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The page with the most similar languages is totally false. For example, from a linguistic
point of view, Russian and Ukrainian have approximately 73% similarity, Russian and Belorussian -90%, Czech and Polish - 87%, Spanish and Portuguese - 92%, Danish and Swedish - around 85%. The page was created by some extremely incompetent people. Edited by Maecenas23 on 06 October 2015 at 10:27am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 6 of 10 06 October 2015 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not sure where your numbers come from but I tend to agree with them :)
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| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5137 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 7 of 10 09 October 2015 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||
Huh? I thought Esperanto and Spanish are the same. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 10 11 October 2015 at 10:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Seriously? Esperanto is a created language, a little over 100 years old. Spanish is a Romance language and has been spoken for ages.
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