Hey /int/, it's time for our bi-annual "language of /int/" thread.
Basically, every once in a while some guy gets the idea to have all of our board learn a language that we can speak to each other with. All the times I've seen this thread before a few people get excited, a few naysayers call us stupid, and generally nothing happens, but I want to try again.
So here are the steps:
Pick a language
Get together some resources together
Get a lot of people on board
put a few months into learning the language
I personally like the Dutch language, but I'm open to suggestions.
English?
Lets try doing it with English.
>>60589319
The trouble is that English is fucking gay.
>>60589367
Bit mean... it should definetley be a European languages I think, I'm leaning Dutch if Norwegian.
>>60589489
I would like to learn Dutch, or any Scandi language, I would also be willing to do Latin or something.
I'm fucking around, it's just that English is the lingua Franca and is boring because of that.
>>60589292
>>60586312
Esperanto
>>60589610
That's actually the thread that made me think about this, but esperanto just doesn't really sound good to me, but if that's what everyone else wants I'm willing to try it.
>>60589726
Esperanto sounds amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjhV7CYaDKk
>>60589784
Just sounds like Spanish to me.
>>60589834
It's basically Germanic Spanish or... Slavic Italian.
>>60589873
So, Portuguese?
Wouldn't latin be cooler?
>>60589950
But Esperanto is easier and it actually has native speakers, unlike Latin.
>>60589367
BACK TO MEXICO
My vote's for Dutch. Pretty simple for most of us anglophones to pick up and I guess the non-natives would have an easier time with it as well compared to a non-Germanic language
We could do Finnish for the memes but holy fuck, it'd be hell
>>60590200
Finnish is too hard, maybe we can do Swedish so we can raid Swedish speaking ultra liberal websites.
Toki Pona is the easiest language ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbv__Je7mdk
>>60590387
Are there resources for it?
Portuguese
>>60589784
I want her to suck my dek
>>60590421
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona#External_links
>>60590542
No, you mean "peniso".
"Dek" means "10" in Esperanto.
>>60590577
That was the joke
>>60589292
Le français seulement!!
>>60590658
*whoosh*
Irish?
>>60591292
Pretty dead tbf
>>60591292
Why would we do Irish? What made you think Irish?
>>60589292
Catalan. It's best language.
>>60592086
Samples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_hgCwIfFYw (it has subtitles in spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1aRRFDF7Dw
>>60590679
Ceci
Le français, c'est objectivement la meilleure langue.
>>60592390
It really just sounds like Spanish to me.
That being said, spanish isn't a bad language, I'm just biased against it because I live in Arizona.
>>60590679
I was thinking maybe a language that is easier to learn for english speakers, since all of the users of /int/ already speak English.
>>60592438
It's more french than spanish.
>>60592457
You just want Catalan because you already speak it.
don't you want to learn a new language with /int/?
>>60592438
It goes like pic related. If you are going to be an asshole, at least be an accurate asshole. Call it demi-froggish or something.
>>60592519
Yeah. I would propose, now seriously, icelandic. I think it's interesting because of it's similiraty to Old Norse
>>60592530
>Being in france means it must sound like french.
I'm not trying to be an asshole man, I'm just saying what I'm hearing. Maybe the written form looks like French, but it sounds like it has the Spanish R rather than the french R, which is like the main thing that makes a language sound French/spanish to me.
>>60592552
I have wanted to learn Icelandic in the past, but if we pick something that difficult, it may be hard to keep people interested after a few days.
>>60592568
>the main thing that makes a language sound French/spanish to me.
You are paying attention to the less important traits, then.
Anyway, the R thing depends in the dialect. In central Catalan the sound is more similar to the "castillian" R, in the north it's more "frenchified", usually.
Another thing is that the "rolled R" is not a specific trait of Spanish. It exist in many other languages.
>>60592585
true :/
>>60592568
>>60592660
By the way, what do you mean by "being in france"?
Estonian
Celtic
>>60592696
I've never even seen Estonian.
Isn't it finno-ugric, and therefore, really hard?
And what makes you think celtic?
toki pona honestly
>>60592688
I misread your map.
>>60590083
>Esperanto has native speakers
Where?
>>60590344
I considered that too. Swedish is easy and I really like the way it sounds. Plus we could fuck with swedes. I just don't know how many people would agree to learn a language for cucks
>>60592779
theres a few all over the place
Unfortunately there are simply no languages which fit the bill. Countless attempts in the past have proven as much.
It's impossible to find a language which respects all of the following:
>not too many speakers on /int/, so that it's more "equal" for all posters, and more of a unique experience, and so that we can avoid stupid quarrels by picking something more irrelevant
>not too few speakers, so that we may actually learn
>not too easy, so that we won't come off as pleb retards
>not too hard, so that we may actually learn
>not an artificial language
>not a durka durka jihad language
>not a bix nood mufugga language
>not a language with a retarded noodlerune writing system (or any non-Latin alphabet, really)
>something which actually has decent (free) learning ressources on the internet
>>60592805
>not an artificial language
>not too easy, so that we won't come off as pleb retards
whats the point of these
other than those retarded ones toki pona fits the bill.
What about Somali?
>>60589784
hhnnnnnnngggggggg!
Ok, that's it. I'm learning Esperanto.
>>60592792
Swedish is historically a language for badasses, and it's easy as fuck to learn. I like Swedish as an option.
>>60592805
I gues if we want to do this we have to get rid of some requirements then.
I see no problem with not doing an artificial language, or a language with a lot of native speakers on /int/.
in fact, if we do a language like Swedish, the Scandis can help us perfect it, while it may be a little unfair, it gives us a supply of native speakers that can correct us.
Okay. I nominate:
Esperanto ( the language of thinly veiled kikes)
Russian (the language of modern pirates)
Swedish (the language of cucks, previously vikings)
>>60592897
i nominate toki pona, the language of you can literally learn this in a day
>>60592826
memes aside, artificial languages are complete and utter shit, and even though I'm not one for conspiracy theories, I honestly think it's a tool for the globalist to try to destroy actual culture by promoting this merchant "good goy your culture is irrelevant, and language is irrelevant; it's only a tool for communication :^) "
And they'll ALWAYS be culturally poor compared to any non-shit living language. They just don't compare to non-shit natural languages.
>not too easy, so that we won't come off as pleb retards
/int/, and 4chan in general, is obviously quite elitist in nature, it would hurt our collective ego to adopt a new language, only for that new language to be some pleb-tier shit like afrikaans or bislama.
>>60592925
I doubt we'll learn it in a day, but if it is really this easy, maybe we can give it a try, and then someday mvoe to bigger and better things.
Have any links to Toki Pona?
http://www.strawpoll.me/10444396
Multiple choices allowed, select all the ones you'd be willing to learn
>>60592953
The cool thing about it being plebshit is that even though the language is easy, an outsider coming to /int/ would still be totally lost, we'd still have our secret club.
>>60592980
Wow, we have less then 9 people on board, the outlook doesn't look good.
>>60592390
Hola em dic Anon, estic aprenent català, parlo molt poc :^(
>>60592954
it literally only has 120 words.
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/tokipona.htm
http://tokipona.net/tp/classicwordlist.aspx
>>60592990
I still have my pride, I'll kill myself long before I allow myself to be disgraced by speaking an inferior language (this includes every single artificial language, by the way). I'm even slightly ashamed to speak English, actually.
>>60592980
Literally every fucking choice on this list is just terrible.
At least go with Danish instead of Swedish. At least Danes have actual history and culture. What the fuck do Swedes have other than "AYOOO WE WUZ VIKINGZ N SHIEET, WE IZ KEKOLDS N SHIEET"?
>>60592843
Vivu la movado!
>>60593073
Danish is harder than Swedish is the trouble.
>>60593048
Hola :) Ets Nord-Americà? O d'on? hehe
>>60592953
Nice try, ghost of Hitler.
>>60593041
It's only been a couple minutes
>>60593073
Sorry, I just listed everything that got mentioned in this thread thus far except the stuff with no support or memes. If you had suggested Danish earlier in the thread, it'd be included
>>60593073
You're Canadian. You have no pride.
That would be too American of you.
>>60593099
speak for yourself, I hate Germans
>>60593093
the slight amount of additional effort required is entirely worth it if we can speak Danish instead of fucking Swedish
Seriously Swedish is the worst idea possible, I'd unironically rather learn fucking Somali than Swedish.
>>60593139
I don't know man, I feel like you're just kind of angry at something, wanna talk about it?
>>60592954
The esperanto speaking mexican said esperanto can get you free food and free stays everywhere. Toki pona sounds useless.
>>60593073
Alright, I vote for Danish. Where do we start?
>>60593178
yes, I'm angry at you for coming up with such asinine ideas, and at all conlangers for not having been gassed yet
>>60593184
I figure we should pick a language on Duolingo, because even though it's a shit language learning device, it's available to everyone and gets you started.
>>60593201
Redo the poll only with Duolingo options? The first one with just thread suggestions is pretty shit
I will actually commit to this, sounds fun as fuck. I suggest Norwegian or Romanian.
>>60593201 >>60593231
So, Esperanto it is then.
>>60593201
Don't you shit-talk duolingo nigger. Duo is life.
>>60593252
Wait, but danish is in duolingo. Are we really going for Esperanto? What about the angry canadian, fuck him?
>>60593231
http://www.strawpoll.me/10444472
After this I'll take the top 5, and we'll do a new vote where you can only pick one option.
>>60593278
>>60593296
Why would anyone care about Canada's opinions on anything?
>>60593318
I want to get everyone on board as I can, it'll be easier with more people.
>>60593098
si, soc de estat units
parlo espanyol també
>>60593296
Voted
>>60593423
>parlo espanyol també
>parlo
Interesante, que otras palabras tienen en común el italiano y el catalán?
>>60593296
I'll give it 30 minutes, then we'll move on to the last poll.
>>60593484
Just like last time, nobody will be doing it in a week.
>>60593496
So pessimistic. I will tho, I have a thing for languages
>>60593496
Maybe, but I like the idea enough to try.
>>60593526
I think all of us do, and that's why we came to /int/
>>60593526
Why not just make one?
Take the grammar of your favorite languages then add your favorite words from them.
Al-lenguamaken facila desu.
>>60593480
Muchas, es como un combinación de italiano, francés y español.
>>60593496
I'm down for it, especially since all the leading languages seem really interesting
This sounds fun
bumping for interest
>>60593423
Com és que vols parlar català?
Tot el que has escrit és molt correcte. Exceptuant "de estat units" que hauria de ser: "Dels Estats Units".
>>60593480
No sabria decirte, bastantes supongo, igual que con el frances hay cosas. Y hasta con el islandes y el noruego. Aquí hemos tenido contacto con todo dios. 1200 años dan para mucho.
>>60593606
Vote in the poll>>60593296
>>60593668
I already did before posting, dw
>>60593296
>Vietnamese
Kek good luck with that
>>60593619
Me aburrí un día y me inscribí en Parla.cat :^)
Tengo rato de no usar el sitio :^(
¿Vives en catlunya?
>>60593576
Is this the beginning of /int/ish?
Io soy ein 男
>>60593585
>>60593619
me han despertado el interés por el catalán. A ver si aprendo algo ahora
>>60593713
It's only there because it is available on Duolingo.
>>60593576
Omnibus Coniunctiones será el momentaleysi.
Homo la limitates unos és családi ügyeiner Freiheiten Aufhetzung sto frelsi eða öðrum regrension. Le in die Freiheiten til kvinnuleysi, veikindum þjóðanna í fördern motus progresolución den gera og der Ehegatten gilt,
da en lo que le dhuine det libertatem.
>>60593740
Los pueblos derecho a adjuta eile, gan phobail, al menntunar mhodh dá n-úidh, críochta, lakáshoz adnak meller eru til stéttane og tabellitation e der anseo a su familia espection derectos equa omnium hætti kappkostaíoch len Lebent ne saját is, upp tales de barbarie og hará sin,
da esclavitude og fridomen og verknaður skuli contra tote le derechtsbedingu þess örþrifaráðs að virðingungen die zu sichen Geburt, gleicherheith ina activo, a fin del desterricht.
>>60593740
Parla.cat es lo que uso yo, es divertido el formato del programa. Si sabes bien el español no tendrás problema en aprender.
>>60593745
What, on the duolingo app on phone?, or is there a PC version?
>>60593808
>>60593773
>>60593751
>>60593740
>>60593576
Please tell me you guys are joking.
>>60593812
Just go to the website.
I think vietnamese is in beta.
hey look we're all getting along for once
http://www.strawpoll.me/10444623
Final 5. I'll give this one an hour, try to get some people in this thread, spread the word. I want this to finally work out a little bit, not just be a general for like 2 weeks.
>>60593832
Yo hablo español, no es un chiste. E anche un po' d'italiano. Altre lingue solo parole.
>>60593832
I know spanish and english fluently. How is this a joke?
>>60593977
Sorry, I must have accidentally replied to you bud.
>>60593773
Cette sprache er meget undarlegt c'est schwiereg to forstå
>>60589292
Dutch seems pretty interesting. I want to learn it eventually, but I'm not sure if I have the motivation to learn it this summer.
>>60593879
Toki Pona would be the easiest, but least useful.
>>60593879
>toki pona
It fucking made it to the top five holy shit
>>60593994
No problemo amigo :^)
>>60593738
Sí, visc a Barcelona :)
>Tengo un rato de no usar el sitio
You probably translated "a while" there hehehe. It should be something like: "Hace un tiempo que no uso el sitio".
I hope these corrections are not annoying you. If they do, tell me. I make them with the best intentions.
>>60593740
A ver que te parece! ;)
>>60594018
I don't think the goal is to improve our lives in any real way, but to have fun learning a language and speaking it.
>>60594022
MI UNPA E MAMA SINA!
>>60593999
Drink a 5th of brandy, put two marbles in your mouth, then say stuff.
Bam, youre speaking Dutch.
>>60594035
no hay problema:^)
Aunque nací con padres hispanohablantes sé que tengo algunos baches en mi manejo del idioma. Aprecio tus consejos amigo.
>>60594113
Eah diablo, ni yo me cuenta de ese error y yo me crié en un pais hispanoparlante.
>>60594185
Mi mamá es mexicana y mi padre es guatemalteco, con eso tengo para confundirme un montón. Las variaciones en la forma en que hablan son muy notables.
RIP this thread, it was fun while it lasted. I like how we all set aside our differences and autism for a brief moment.
Swedish has 7 votes, it won. Let get this shit started
>>60594351
We're not done yet.
When another 30 minutes have passed, we'll have the results from the poll, and we'll be ready to start gathering users, and learning the language.
>>60594351
It looks like Swedish will be our new meme language. I'm down. See you guys in the svenska general later
>>60594380
>>60594364
While I want it to be swedish I was hoping to get more input than 19 votes. Lets give it another 30 minutes.
>>60594422
dubs have spoken
>>60594422
Fair enough
I can't say I'm not a bit disappointed, I was really hoping to have some use for Dutch. But as a Germanic languagephile, I'm still happy
rosetta stone swedish torrent anyone?
>>60594536
Rosetta stone sucks but last time I checked, that shit was on piratebay
i love france
>>60594113
By the way, now that we touched the rato thing, which is normally used for short periods of time, in Catalan it's "estona".
>>60594703
Ok! Svenska det ar.
Jag telar inte svenska, ti telar inte svenska. Lets get started.
Do you want to make a new thread now?
>>60594839
Sure, let's go. I'm doing some of the basics on Duolingo right now
>>60594839
Svenskaaaa lets cuck the cucks. I'm starting now
>>60594839
Please link us when it's up, we're all starting and can't be smashing f5 on the catalog right now
If you learn a new language each year you'll soon be able to speak... at least one language!
>>60594968
That's the plan.
>>60594968
Sorry Dutch didn't win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOly1n3TQ2w
The video isn't the singer, in case you are wondering.
>>60594927
>>60594889
>>60594857
>>60595076
Here we go.
>>60589292
>I personally like the Dutch language
>>60595141
Fuck you you frog piece of shit!
(learn Swedish with us please)
>>60589292
Dutch ftw
>>60595169
I only wanted an excuse to post this new screencap tbqhwyl
Learn Japanese, fucking casuals
(Swedish would be nice too, since I already speak it)
>>60595284
Too late, we already voted
Vi kommer att tala svenska.
>>60595346
Inget problem, tror jag
Åtminstone kommer jag att ha nån som vill öva det med mig
Dansa med oss, klappa era händer
Gör som vi gör, ta några steg åt vänster
Lyssna och lär. Missa inte chansen
Nu är vi här med Caramelldansen
/int/ has no fucking commitment, this thread appears every 6 months thinking that people can actually follow through on their words.
