Dang, I thought I was weirder than that.

So, ccdesan, your LiveJournal reveals…

You are… 3% unique (blame, for example, your interest in helping everyone win), 13% peculiar, 20% interesting, 37% normal and 27% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy travel). When it comes to friends you are popular. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 23

(The average level of weirdness is: 28.
You are weirder than 53% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

Writer's Block: Parlez-vous francais?

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Native: English
Fluent: French, Italian, German.
Acceptable: Spanish
Survival: Norwegian, Japanese, Serbian/Croatian, Hebrew
Can get thrown in jail for speaking: Irish, Mandarin, Arabic, Romanian, Dutch, Greek
Can read without much difficulty: Portuguese, Danish, Swedish
Have studied: Latin, Arabic, Korean, Bulgarian, Albanian, Welsh, Lingala, Turkish

Charles Berlitz listed the 14 languages with the largest number of speakers as:

Chinese, English, Hindi/Urdu, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, German, Indonesian, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Bengali, Malay, and Italian.

He stated, "Since most of the world's population either speaks or is familiar with one of the fourteen langauges listed above, or with one of three other widely-spoken langauge - Dutch, Greek, Swahili - or with a language in either the Scandinavian, the Turkik or the Slavic group, it is possible for an individual with the time and inclination to be able to communicate with the great majority of the inhabitants of the planet by learning to speak these 20 languages."

Don't know if I'll ever hit the full 20, but I've made a good dent in it, any road.

Language Snobbery.

50 Americanisms the Brits Love to hate - from the BBC News.

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Language snobbery, like its close cousins in the beer, wine and fashion worlds, is simply another way to stroke one's own ego and marginalize the vast majority of the world for the crime of not thinking like the indulger. Quite entertaining to watch from the sidelines, actually. A reality show based on people's arrogance might could be a winner. (Utah double modal used deliberately.)