Re: Read languages(runes) skill

From: George (gagreer@dragon.ham.muohio.edu)
Date: 04/29/96


Easy, can you understand Japanese at all when you don't know it?
Or chinese, and even Spanish is tough if they go fast enough.

Swahili, etc...now Britain I admit you'd understand

On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Graham Gilmore wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, ShadowLord wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, George wrote:
> > 
> > > For non-proficiency you could use the CRYPT()...That'd be about
> > > realistic :)
> > > 
> > 
> > 	How would that be realistic.  Let's examine real languages for a
> > minute.  I speak English and perhaps I don't know any Spanish [I know a
> > some Spanish actually, but for the sake of this example, I don't know any]
> > and I hear some people speaking Spanish near me...  I hear:
> > 
> > 	?que estacionamento de radio es este?
> >  	[what radio station is this?]
> > 
> > 	Look at the word for "radio".  Look at the word for "is".  If
> > someone that didn't speak Spanish heard these words, you're going to tell
> > me they wouldn't understand them?  Granted, "radio" is pronounced
> 
> 	The key word in the above explanation is 'look'.  People can't 
> necessarily tell where one word ends and another begins if they can't 
> understand the language;  they might hear instead, 
> 	queyestacion amentoderadio esseste?  
> 
> 	There's no way to pick out any group of syllables as a distinct 
> word, unless the speaker specifically separates the words.  
> 	Good suggestions though. :)
> 
> 	Graham Gilmore
> 



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