I know.................
Like most fine ladies I idolize, she is married to, so I defer.
I just don't go there anymore. Meowsigh.
Like Ted Bundy, also has an 'abundant' wife, I can gaze though....LOL

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Went to a Catholic parochial school in Canada.

Learned French and Latin. Forgot the French, but still can say and read Latin.

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I would not say it is 'popular' here in the states.
Yodelling is not 'popular' anywhere except maybe in the Swiss alps region, and even there, I suspect it is a regional treat, not an every day ocurrence.

One of my links stored is given to a wonderful lady name of Jewel, who also has not forgotten her roots.

Chime Bells...............wait for it.

What?
I have heard many Yodelling from the states.
Dolly Parton for one:)

You also forgot Austria, Mark!

My mother knows shorthand - not a spoken language, but still...

Do they even teach shorthand anymore?

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My mother knows shorthand - not a spoken language, but still...
Do they even teach shorthand anymore?

In muslim countries perhaps.
اسمي يان
Essmi Jan:)

My aunt living in Toronto knows shorthand.

Conversant in Spanish, nowhere near fluent.
I know a few choice profanities and expletives in German, French, and Tagalog (none of which I will share here).

And I keep catching myself using what I now recognize as Yiddish phrases, which I picked up from my Grandmother Brockman. So I might be part Jewish - who knew.

I also speak fluent Slobovian, a Slavic-sounding gibberish I use when I am really angry and don't want to revert to profanities.

Now may cousin David, who lived in Brussels for about 5 years, and worked as a sales rep for the chemical company Solvay, is fluent in French, German, and Italian, and (he says) speaks passible Flemish and Dutch.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Went to a Catholic parochial school in Canada.
Learned French and Latin. Forgot the French, but still can say and read Latin.

I went to Södra Latin, a school in Stockholm.
But I didn't have the latin teacher "Caligula".
Here is a lesson with him in Södra Latin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cch7Z2UIkM

Conversant in Spanish, nowhere near fluent.
I know a few choice profanities and expletives in German, French, and Tagalog (none of which I will share here).

And I keep catching myself using what I now recognize as Yiddish phrases, which I picked up from my Grandmother Brockman. So I might be part Jewish - who knew.

I also speak fluent Slobovian, a Slavic-sounding gibberish I use when I am really angry and don't want to revert to profanities.

Now may cousin David, who lived in Brussels for about 5 years, and worked as a sales rep for the chemical company Solvay, is fluent in French, German, and Italian, and (he says) speaks passible Flemish and Dutch.

One always has to know the local profanities....

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Conversant in Spanish, nowhere near fluent.
I know a few choice profanities and expletives in German, French, and Tagalog (none of which I will share here).

And I keep catching myself using what I now recognize as Yiddish phrases, which I picked up from my Grandmother Brockman. So I might be part Jewish - who knew.

I also speak fluent Slobovian, a Slavic-sounding gibberish I use when I am really angry and don't want to revert to profanities.

Now may cousin David, who lived in Brussels for about 5 years, and worked as a sales rep for the chemical company Solvay, is fluent in French, German, and Italian, and (he says) speaks passible Flemish and Dutch.

One always has to know the local profanities....

Tagalog:)
My GF knows that Filipino language.
She lived in Manilla for a couple of years.
She was born in Russia with Finn parents.
They moved to Sweden and she didnt learnt Finn.
However she learnt it later several years later.
Hyvä Sirka Marit Annelie:) Sirka means cricket in Finland!

From All Of Us To All Of You.

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Yodelling is not 'popular' anywhere except maybe in the Swiss alps region, and even there, I suspect it is a regional treat, not an every day ocurrence.



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What?
I have heard many Yodelling from the states.
Dolly Parton for one:)

You also forgot Austria, Mark!

When I was younger, there were a whole bunch of cowboy singers (we called them country and western singers back then) who would yodel in many of their songs.

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Yodelling is not 'popular' anywhere except maybe in the Swiss alps region, and even there, I suspect it is a regional treat, not an every day ocurrence.



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What?
I have heard many Yodelling from the states.
Dolly Parton for one:)

You also forgot Austria, Mark!

When I was younger, there were a whole bunch of cowboy singers (we called them country and western singers back then) who would yodel in many of their songs.

Right you are....
And not the least of whom was one very much loved Roy Rogers........

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Hank Snow had a string of yodeling songs as well........

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

I thought yodeling was just a bunch of gibberish. Are there actually lyrics in yodeling songs?

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I thought yodeling was just a bunch of gibberish. Are there actually lyrics in yodeling songs?

I don't know for sure, but it would not surprise me to learn that yodeling was developed, along with the Alpenhorn, as a way to communicate between distant Alpine villages.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

https://youtu.be/DZOZqIJ7BQw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tgfu-RkFLY

The Italian Government is going to abolish Latin in both Scientific and Classical Lycee, where also Greek is taught. This is a big mistake, since Latin syntax is useful also in computer languages like C. When my two sons, a male and a female, approached me for help in translating Latin texts, I adopted a simple method. I entered the text on my Linux box and indented the text, as in C language when you have a function (subroutine in other languages) at the start of every subordinate phrase, and you can have also a subordinate of a subordinate. This made the Latin text easier to understand.
Tullio

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The Italian Government is going to abolish Latin in both Scientific and Classical Lycee, where also Greek is taught. This is a big mistake, since Latin syntax is useful also in computer languages like C. When my two sons, a male and a female, approached me for help in translating Latin texts, I adopted a simple method. I entered the text on my Linux box and indented the text, as in C language when you have a function (subroutine in other languages) at the start of every subordinate phrase, and you can have also a subordinate of a subordinate. This made the Latin text easier to understand.
Tullio

AFIK computer languages only have nouns and verbs and boolean logic.
Nouns are data and verbs are functions.
Boolean logic for comparing data.

It looks you have never written a program in any language. I have written C programs and now am programming LOGO on my AT&T Olivetti UNIX PC, vintage 1986, still working after almost thirty years. Those were computers, not the gadgets we get today!
Tullio

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It looks you have never written a program in any language. I have written C programs and now am programming LOGO on my AT&T Olivetti UNIX PC, vintage 1986, still working after almost thirty years. Those were computers, not the gadgets we get today!
Tullio

Oh dear.
I did my first program in 1978!
I still do programming.
That's my living!
I have programmed in C, C++, Assembler, Forth, Basic, Visual Basic, Cobol, Fortran, C# and other in OS's like UNIX, MSDOS, Windows, BeOS, Next, OS X.
AT&T Olivetti UNIX PC, vintage 1986 is probably like Siemens UNIX PC, vintage 1986:)
I have also programmed old fashion computer mainframes.
Yes. Punchcard data and debugging old programs in Cobol with German syntax!

Cheers:)

I took BASIC in high school, but it was Greek to me. ;~)

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