Bilingual ?

[CanadianLori]

I talk Fahrenheit and Celcius, Miles and Kilometers, Meters and Yards.

How about you?



p.s. let's hope they don't start messing with HOURS of daylight!!!

 

[marlingardener]

Nope, barely monolingual. When the push for the metric system was on I was on the short list for remediation! Fortunately, there were enough of us who couldn't grasp metric that it was given up. Ignorance rules!

 

[Chuck]

Nope, barely monolingual. When the push for the metric system was on I was on the short list for remediation! Fortunately, there were enough of us who couldn't grasp metric that it was given up. Ignorance rules!

I speak fair English but am fluent in Texan

 

[deepestblues]

I can understand spanish and speak enough of it to get in a fight. And I know a lot of texan too. Osmosis or something. I know the meter stuff too, just not as good as miles and feet.

 

[marlingardener]

Chuck, I am still working on speaking Texan. After 17 years I'm gittin' the hang of it, but some still baffles me. A neighbor asked me to "carry" him to town. I'm a big strong gal, but he's bigger. I was so relieved to find out he just wanted a ride into town!
I studied Spanish, spend a year in Spain, and taught Spanish. The Mexican dialects have me baffled. A neighbor in town once told me I spoke Spanish "like a book." Luckily it was a book she could read, and I could understand about half of what she said. We still had a warm friendship based on sign language and pointing!
Sign language and pointing doesn't work with the metric system . . . .

 

[Chuck]

Chuck, I am still working on speaking Texan. After 17 years I'm gittin' the hang of it, but some still baffles me. A neighbor asked me to "carry" him to town. I'm a big strong gal, but he's bigger. I was so relieved to find out he just wanted a ride into town!
I studied Spanish, spend a year in Spain, and taught Spanish. The Mexican dialects have me baffled. A neighbor in town once told me I spoke Spanish "like a book." Luckily it was a book she could read, and I could understand about half of what she said. We still had a warm friendship based on sign language and pointing!
Sign language and pointing doesn't work with the metric system . . . .

I have had educated people ask me to compile a Texan dictionary but it is hard to do because everyone else talks so strange

 

[headfullofbees]

A little French, a little Spanish and a bit more Greek.
Metric & UK Imperial.

 

[LIcenter]

I'm not bilingual, but my car is. It has metric, and SAE bolts. In my tool box I keep Doritos, and regular potato chips. Keeps the peace.

 

[Chuck]

I talk Fahrenheit and Celcius, Miles and Kilometers, Meters and Yards.

How about you?



p.s. let's hope they don't start messing with HOURS of daylight!!!

They already have. They took an hour of sunshine away when they invented Daylight Savings Time. Damn guvment"

 

[R.R.]

I speak better Metric than the confusing American way. Metric makes much more sense, sorry guys

As for languages, Catalan, English, Spanish from Spain, and a little bit Italian. Forgot Russian and German. Too difficult if you don't practice them. I can understand Texan pretty darn good, too

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I speak better Metric than the confusing American way. Metric makes much more sense, sorry guys

It's the exact opposite for me, of course. Metric is so odd and confusing. I suppose its true for everything we learn growing up in comparison to what others learn.

As far as literal languages, I remember taking Spanish class in school and thinking "this is such a weird language", but from what I hear, English is actually one of the toughest languages to learn.

I don't really remember anything from the two and a half years of Spanish classes, but I do remember one thing, though...

¿Puedo usar el baño?




Its also funny how different parts of the US have their own words. For instance, very few people know what a bubbler is, but around here its used all the time.

 

[Shimus]

Like Bruce Willis from the movie, "The Fifth Element":

"Look lady, I only speak two languages. English, and Bad English."

For everything else, there's Google. Conversions. I should have this stuff memorized by now, but I have too much to remember as it is, some gets lost in the noise.

But Metric would be easiest, even though I'm US. Thank you, drugs, for teaching me the way? *(Coughs)* *(Looks around)*

 

[LIcenter]

But Metric would be easiest, even though I'm US. Thank you, drugs, for teaching me the way? *(Coughs)* *(Looks around)*

Ha: Been a beer drinker my whole life, so no metrics learnt here.
Soda comes in a liter size, but I don't drink that either. besides I'm sixty one and cranky, and don't plan on learnin nothin new.
Now, get off my lawn!

 

[IcyBC]

I speak snow storm, ice, freezing temperature, and digging out in the winter. For summer I speak rain, squirrels eating my tulips, grass and flowers blooming. Other than these, I don't talk much

 

[Trellum]

I speak just 3 languages, 2 Germanic languages and a romance one I am not entire fluent in one of them tho, but I'm working my way to fluency, or at least keeping a decent conversation. I might learn a 4th language later on, that for professional purposes.

 

[Pat]

I was sick the day they taught metric at school, I speak enough spanish to get into a fight and I speak dirt very good.

 

[zigs]

I speak UK English, bit of French & Spanish, can be silly in German, Turkish & Welsh. But I can't understand my relatives from Birmingham.

I can do the old and the new money.

Two Farthings = One Ha'penny. Two Ha'penny = One Penny. Three Pennies = A Thrupenny Bit. Two Thrupences = A Sixpence. Two Sixpence = One Shilling, or Bob. Two Bob = A Florin. One Florin and One Sixpence = Half a Crown. Four Half Crowns = Ten Bob Note. Two Ten Bob Note = One Pound (or 240 pennies). One Pound and One Shilling = One Guinea.

The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated.

You can write a cheque in Guineas and it'll be accepted but you can't transfer them in or out of an account because they don't actually exist

 

[Rosyrain]

What is metric??? No, just kidding. I know what it is, but I will run away and hide if I am ever forced to remember and use the system. We Americans are weird with our Farenheit system, but you could say the same for the fact that we have 50 states in one country too!

 

[fliktor7]

It's the exact opposite for me, of course. Metric is so odd and confusing. I suppose its true for everything we learn growing up in comparison to what others learn.

As far as literal languages, I remember taking Spanish class in school and thinking "this is such a weird language", but from what I hear, English is actually one of the toughest languages to learn.

I don't really remember anything from the two and a half years of Spanish classes, but I do remember one thing, though...

¿Puedo usar el baño?




Its also funny how different parts of the US have their own words. For instance, very few people know what a bubbler is, but around here its used all the time.

Hahahahah, great, "usar el baño" is very important indeed xD
I am bilingual, I usually speak on my native language, but I also use sometimes english and catalan, it depends on the person and the place.

 

[R.R.]

Hahahahah, great, "usar el baño" is very important indeed xD
I am bilingual, I usually speak on my native language, but I also use sometimes english and catalan, it depends on the person and the place.

It might sound silly, but I like knowing there are other people in this forum, even if it's only one, who speak Catalan, too