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Poll: Would you like to have polls about regional variations of idiomatic expressions?
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This poll was originally submitted by Andre Dumoulin. View the poll results »
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
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Yes, but limited to world languages Jun 24

For the moment, I'm not interested in languages from other planets or galaxies But with time who knows...

[Edited at 2024-06-24 20:55 GMT]

Philip Lees
Iulia Parvu
Liena Vijupe
Lingua 5B
 
Kay Denney
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France
Local time: 01:11
French to English
. Jun 25

If there are aliens out there, I want to be able to talk with them. Where do I sign up for languages out of this world?

Lingua 5B
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Lingua 5B
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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English to Croatian
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Had a great laugh Jun 25

The first two posts are hilarious.

Yea, maybe we can add Martian (the Southern version) to our range. I think the AI had not picked it up yet and it'll take quite some time.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Kay Denney
 
Wolfgang Schoene
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France
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As already said in a previous message... Jun 25

...Klingonian or nothing!

Lingua 5B
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Kay Denney
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Zea_Mays
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Italy
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Please explain Jun 25

What would "polls about regional variations of idiomatic expressions" look like?
 
Christopher Schröder
Christopher Schröder
United Kingdom
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World languages Jun 25

We'd be buggered if there were such a thing as world languages.

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Kay Denney
Kay Denney  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 01:11
French to English
. Jun 25

Christopher Schröder wrote:

We'd be buggered if there were such a thing as world languages.



The only thing holding Globish back is that we Brits can't speak it...

Christopher Schröder
 
Charlie Bavington
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French to English
Is there..... Jun 25

Kay Denney wrote:

Christopher Schröder wrote:

We'd be buggered if there were such a thing as world languages.



The only thing holding Globish back is that we Brits can't speak it...


.... a case to be made that where artificial languages have failed to produce the situation where any human can communicate with any other human, artificial intelligence is on the way to doing so?
 


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