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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @04:53PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @04:53PM (#506427)

    First rule of stats... know the meaning of the question. "know" != "spoken" If they ask "how many spoken languages do you speak?" would be better but still questionable, since Latina is still spoken (medical and science) but does not have native speakers any more. And what about Klingon? There was a job opening years ago in Oregon looking for Klingon speaker for translation. If read COBOL aloud, is that a spoken language, since others will understand you? Is American Sign Language as language then? It is not spoken, so what does speaking mean?

    For I know many languages and can order food in all of them, even if I get the wrong thing from time to time.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by DECbot on Thursday May 11 2017, @09:26PM

    by DECbot (832) on Thursday May 11 2017, @09:26PM (#508331) Journal

    Makes me wonder about why a Klingon translator was needed... Did some programmer write all of their documentation in Klingon as a sort of job security? I can see the conversation between the developer and management/the HR drone, "I provided ample documentation for the device driver per my employment contract, it's not my fault you didn't specify which language it had to be in!"

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