I don't speak any of them perfectly, of course, but German, Italian, French and fleeting wisps of Spanish. I'm certainly not eligible to be counted among some of those hyperpolyglots, but I was talking to Benny the Irish Polyglot and the idea for this comic came up.
Once I used the word "polyglot" (I don't remember the context anymore) and my mom hadn't heard the word before, and said it sounded like some kind of disease! But then, you never can predict what she's going to say...
Like the people who take out their baseball bats on pædiatricians.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if paediatriciophiles face similar problems
Deletepolyidiotics *sigh*
DeleteCould be worse. Think of the poor podophiles.
DeleteA couple of years ago, creationist Ray Comfort thought he was being insulted when someone called him a "bibliophile".
ReplyDeletehttps://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/ray-comfort-thinks-that-bibliophile-is-an-insult/
Some (straight) people get insulted when you imply that they are heterosexual.
DeleteSay Malachi, how many languages do you speak?
ReplyDeleteI don't speak any of them perfectly, of course, but German, Italian, French and fleeting wisps of Spanish. I'm certainly not eligible to be counted among some of those hyperpolyglots, but I was talking to Benny the Irish Polyglot and the idea for this comic came up.
DeleteHow many languages do you speak?
Swedish, English and a smidge Japanse.
DeleteI'd say that makes you a polyglot. Just by a smidge
DeleteOnce I used the word "polyglot" (I don't remember the context anymore) and my mom hadn't heard the word before, and said it sounded like some kind of disease! But then, you never can predict what she's going to say...
ReplyDeleteIt does kind of sound like a disease. "I'm terribly sorry. The tests have come through, and you've got the conglobating polyglots."
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