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Posted: 12/6/2016 12:46:02 AM EDT
I wish I spoke Gaelic.
This shit hits me staight in the feels, and I wish I could understand it. it feels like I'm missing a connection to my ancestors. Especially since its a song mourning the end of a battle. go dtí ar neamh  Mo Ghille Mear (My Gallant Hero) - Choral Scholars of University College Dublin |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 12:51:00 AM EDT
[#1]
No. Because my ancestors made a lot more money here speaking English instead of Swedish or Danish.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 12:51:26 AM EDT
[#2]
I wish my family hadn't abandoned their ancestral tongue
 Beowulf - Old English Reading |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 12:53:52 AM EDT
[#3]
No. I would have to learn at least 4 languages. Got no time fo dat
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Posted: 12/6/2016 12:54:50 AM EDT
[#4]
My family spoke Welsh. I like alphabets with letters other than L and F in them.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 12:55:45 AM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryIt was those Normans bringing that wimpy French across the Channel. English was never the same.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 12:56:29 AM EDT
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My family spoke Welsh. I like alphabets with letters other than L and F in them. Christ, Im sorry oh wait chllewriisllt illmmm sorryewewllewe |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 12:56:41 AM EDT
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Can't say I wish I had grown up speaking Danish and Italian considering NOBODY ELSE DID.
That's retarded. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 12:57:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Christ, Im sorry oh wait chllewriisllt illmmm sorryewewllewe Welsh Grammar Fail: Too many spaces. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 12:57:20 AM EDT
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Most of my ancestors were English.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 12:57:47 AM EDT
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Nothing is stopping you from learning it.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:00:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryDUDE ! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO ENGLISH! Apparently it used to sound like if German was less angry. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:00:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Welsh Grammar Fail: Too many spaces. 
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:02:34 AM EDT
[#13]
No. English is fucking awesome.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:02:44 AM EDT
[#14]
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Nothing is stopping you from learning it. eh true. but I already speak Spanish and Arabic, with functionality in German and Mandarin. Where the shit am I going to practice Gaelic? |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:02:59 AM EDT
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Quoted:
I wish I spoke Gaelic. This shit hits me staight in the feels, and I wish I could understand it. it feels like I'm missing a connection to my ancestors. Especially since its a song mourning the end of a battle. go dtí ar neamh  zxjvNUNXhkU</iframe></iframe></iframe></iframe></iframe>If you want to learn Irish, there are resources online. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:03:54 AM EDT
[#16]
German only because I want to swear in it.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:04:26 AM EDT
[#17]
Gaelic was my first thought. My mother was raised (in DC) partly using Gaelic. I regret not learning it.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:05:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
German only because I want to swear in it. Meh, just buy a couple of Rammstein albums and sing along.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:05:35 AM EDT
[#19]
I'm not sure how useful Russian, Polish and German would be.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:07:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I'm not sure how useful Russian, Polish and German would be. 30 years ago the Army would have snapped you up and sent you to Germany for your entire enlistment. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:07:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
German only because I want to swear in it. Ach, hunde! Deutsch ist einfach |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:08:23 AM EDT
[#22]
Dad was fluent in Finnish, Mom was fluent in Finnish and passable in Swedish.
Everyone on both sides of the family that spoke either is dead or dying. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:10:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
eh true. but I already speak Spanish and Arabic, with functionality in German and Mandarin. Where the shit am I going to practice Gaelic? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Nothing is stopping you from learning it. eh true. but I already speak Spanish and Arabic, with functionality in German and Mandarin. Where the shit am I going to practice Gaelic? If it's important you'll learn it. If it's not, you won't. It's all good either way. 
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:12:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
DUDE ! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO ENGLISH! Apparently it used to sound like if German was less angry. Quote HistoryQuoted:
DUDE ! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO ENGLISH! Apparently it used to sound like if German was less angry. I probably should have picked Middle English and a reading from Chaucer  I was in London last year and saw As You Like It with 16th C pronunciation. It was very interesting 
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:16:35 AM EDT
[#25]
Fuck no, one side was Welsh/English and German, the other was Cherokee, Blackfoot and Crow. One side assimilated when they came here for a better life, the other got the shit kicked out of them and took the tongue of their conquerors.
Either way they knew better than to refuse to assimilate, unlike today 
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:18:05 AM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Nothing is stopping you from learning it. Yup. Learning a second or third language is in reach for those who try. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:19:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
DUDE ! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO ENGLISH! Apparently it used to sound like if German was less angry. English is Germanic at its heart and just went down a different road than modern German. The Norman invasion changed the language quite a bit in a short time too. German, Dutch, English, French, Latin, Gaelic, and many more all evolved from the same language. Once you figure out how each language changed the pronunciation of words you'll see the original language behind them all. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:20:03 AM EDT
[#28]
OP Better never, ever bitch about pressing 1 for English.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:26:29 AM EDT
[#29]
Fuck no. English is awesome.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:29:54 AM EDT
[#30]
My grandparents spoke Italian. Uncles and cousins speak English and Spanish. I speak English and really bad Spanish.
I don't learn easy.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:31:34 AM EDT
[#31]
Nope.
Being a native English speaker is pretty nice. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:43:46 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Yup. Learning a second or third language is in reach for those who try. 3rd+ fuck it man, Ive already gone this far. lets do this shit |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:44:35 AM EDT
[#33]
Ordering a beer in a West Slav language would be cool. Besides for that?
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:46:10 AM EDT
[#34]
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No. I would have to learn at least 4 languages. Got no time fo dat I grew up in Brooklyn, so I had a hard enough time learning to speak The Queen's English when we moved to Queens. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:47:40 AM EDT
[#35]
The feels? Why would I have some connection to a culture I never really experienced and a language I have never remotely spoken?
The only reason I would have for wishing the family still spoke another language is so that I would be multilingual. Im not going to get all misty eyed about some Hussars charge or resisting some siege from the 'noble' next door. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:52:51 AM EDT
[#36]
Mom did not teach us kids Yupik because she was beat in school for speaking it.
I have been pleading with my wife to teach our three girls but to no avail. Really miss out on speaking with elders.
Would like to be able to speak Sami and Gaelic. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:54:01 AM EDT
[#37]
No. I can barely understand Scottish and German sounds mean.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 1:54:44 AM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
DUDE ! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO ENGLISH! Apparently it used to sound like if German was less angry. There is a reason English isn't a romance language. Primarily because it's Germanic. 
Also, in before someone complains about having to stand in line behind a couple speaking anything but English. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 2:06:12 AM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
The feels? Why would I have some connection to a culture I never really experienced and a language I have never remotely spoken? The only reason I would have for wishing the family still spoke another language is so that I would be multilingual. Im not going to get all misty eyed about some Hussars charge or resisting some siege from the 'noble' next door. You dont feel a connection to your kin (language aside)? Like a connection to those, the warriors, servants, craftsmen, nobles who came before you? The ancestors who will be waiting at the gates? The collective wisdom garnered over the ages that used to be honored but has now been cast by the wayside? It's your lineage man. It's bigger than you will ever be. They are your blood. You may not know them by name, but you know htem by history. By legacy. I hear this and I feel connection to those who created, destroyed, sacrificed for their kin. Those who contributed their blood to me. I feel that I am a part of them. And that being said I feel ike I want to understand who I am, who I came from. The thousands upon thousands of years of heritage. I feel a connection to my ancestors who would die for what they believed in. Why? Because my family is still that way. I am still that way. I feel that there is a lineage that I am honoring by my current lifestyle, or at least I hope I am honoring. I feel a lineage that I am proud to be a part of for eternity. And I want to know that lineage because they will be greeting me at the gates. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 2:07:54 AM EDT
[#40]
No
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Posted: 12/6/2016 2:12:50 AM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
You dont feel a connection to your kin (language aside)? Like a connection to those, the warriors, servants, craftsmen, nobles who came before you? The ancestors who will be waiting at the gates? The collective wisdom garnered over the ages that used to be honored but has now been cast by the wayside? Not even a little bit.. I'm an American. I don't mean that in a jingoistic simpleton way, either. More like, my ancestors came here from Ireland/Scotland, Slovenia, Germany and Britain.. and became something greater than the sum of their parts. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 2:13:26 AM EDT
[#42]
No, russian is just backwards english anyway.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 2:16:47 AM EDT
[#43]
Although it would be cool, I am not sure how much use the Tuscarora language would be.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 2:16:57 AM EDT
[#44]
Well, it's my fault.
First generation American here. I speak Mandarin, but my wife speaks Cantonese. So our kids speak English... |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 2:20:49 AM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
You dont feel a connection to your kin (language aside)? Like a connection to those, the warriors, servants, craftsmen, nobles who came before you? The ancestors who will be waiting at the gates? The collective wisdom garnered over the ages that used to be honored but has now been cast by the wayside? It's your lineage man. It's bigger than you will ever be. They are your blood. You may not know them by name, but you know htem by history. By legacy. I hear this and I feel connection to those who created, destroyed, sacrificed for their kin. Those who contributed their blood to me. I feel that I am a part of them. And that being said I feel ike I want to understand who I am, who I came from. The thousands upon thousands of years of heritage. I feel a connection to my ancestors who would die for what they believed in. Why? Because my family is still that way. I am still that way. I feel that there is a lineage that I am honoring by my current lifestyle, or at least I hope I am honoring. I feel a lineage that I am proud to be a part of for eternity. And I want to know that lineage because they will be greeting me at the gates. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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The feels? Why would I have some connection to a culture I never really experienced and a language I have never remotely spoken? The only reason I would have for wishing the family still spoke another language is so that I would be multilingual. Im not going to get all misty eyed about some Hussars charge or resisting some siege from the 'noble' next door. You dont feel a connection to your kin (language aside)? Like a connection to those, the warriors, servants, craftsmen, nobles who came before you? The ancestors who will be waiting at the gates? The collective wisdom garnered over the ages that used to be honored but has now been cast by the wayside? It's your lineage man. It's bigger than you will ever be. They are your blood. You may not know them by name, but you know htem by history. By legacy. I hear this and I feel connection to those who created, destroyed, sacrificed for their kin. Those who contributed their blood to me. I feel that I am a part of them. And that being said I feel ike I want to understand who I am, who I came from. The thousands upon thousands of years of heritage. I feel a connection to my ancestors who would die for what they believed in. Why? Because my family is still that way. I am still that way. I feel that there is a lineage that I am honoring by my current lifestyle, or at least I hope I am honoring. I feel a lineage that I am proud to be a part of for eternity. And I want to know that lineage because they will be greeting me at the gates. Please tell me that was a Copypasta. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 2:24:03 AM EDT
[#46]
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I wish I spoke Gaelic. This shit hits me staight in the feels, and I wish I could understand it. it feels like I'm missing a connection to my ancestors. Especially since its a song mourning the end of a battle. go dtí ar neamh  Attached FilezxjvNUNXhkU</iframe></iframe></iframe></iframe> I'd love to speak Gaelic as well. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 2:26:22 AM EDT
[#47]
My grandma's family immigrated to the US from France some time in the 1920s. They apparently never spoke French in the home and refused to teach their children, so grandma never passed it on to my dad.
eta: Wife's family is similar. Her grandparents are from Sweden, but refused to speak or teach it to the children. They also changed the Swedish spelling of their name. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 2:29:55 AM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Dad was fluent in Finnish, Mom was fluent in Finnish and passable in Swedish. Everyone on both sides of the family that spoke either is dead or dying. In my household, Finnish was the primary language but my kids speak now more English at home since they started school. I did the same thing when I was their age and have been trying to master the damn language ever since... Perkele! It's a shame to let a language slip. |
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Posted: 12/6/2016 2:40:56 AM EDT
[#49]
According to ancestry.com my ancestors were whores. I'd speak 15 different languages with all the raping and pillaging they've done over the centuries.
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Posted: 12/6/2016 2:50:42 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
You dont feel a connection to your kin (language aside)? Like a connection to those, the warriors, servants, craftsmen, nobles who came before you? The ancestors who will be waiting at the gates? The collective wisdom garnered over the ages that used to be honored but has now been cast by the wayside? It's your lineage man. It's bigger than you will ever be. They are your blood. You may not know them by name, but you know htem by history. By legacy. I hear this and I feel connection to those who created, destroyed, sacrificed for their kin. Those who contributed their blood to me. I feel that I am a part of them. And that being said I feel ike I want to understand who I am, who I came from. The thousands upon thousands of years of heritage. I feel a connection to my ancestors who would die for what they believed in. Why? Because my family is still that way. I am still that way. I feel that there is a lineage that I am honoring by my current lifestyle, or at least I hope I am honoring. I feel a lineage that I am proud to be a part of for eternity. And I want to know that lineage because they will be greeting me at the gates. Dude, did you just watch Braveheart or something? |
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