I thought (when I went to college) that they only spoke Spanish in the Philippines. My future-wife's roommate was Filipina, and one day I heard her speaking what was Tagalog on the phone to her mom, and I silently wondered what native Spanish speakers would call that accent of hers. It's not like I didn't know any Filipinos before, but they had names like Llanes and Corazon. Thank God I didn't wonder out loud, though one of my nicknames in college was Chief Foot-in-Mouth.

I remember when my kid was in college and wanted to take Japanese. The teacher told all the students who wanted to sign up that 95% of the kids who take the class drop it after a month because it's so hard to learn.

Python

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I was gonna write the BASIC computer language

Some of you guys need to learn English first.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Beat me to it.

For me though it would be German or Arabic

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

I should learn Gaeilige so I can cuss you out in the language of your ancestors.

Try this one...póg mo thóin

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I had four years of HS Latin and two of German- "Non edere flavis nivem"

I wish I'd learned more Polish from my Grandmother, but she said they all spoke German, anyways.

I think Spanish would be most useful right now- the Latin helps with written words, but the spoken word just is too fast for me to digest.

My middle son took a couple of years of Arabic in college, we saw his instructor at graduation, she would have been...distracting

My wife told me that I talk in my sleep...in German. Right around the same time I was was in a fast food restaurant and got mistaken for being Iranian as I recognized them chattering in Farsi. (An old girlfriend spoke it)

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Spanish

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@audioidkid

The ones c3po knows

Corazon is my Mother-in-Law. I hope there aren't any stories out there about her.

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You know me like that.

My favorite "in-family" joke is that 50% of Filipino men are named Lito.

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You know me like that.

Everybody in Greek families have the same name

Only three-fourths, and the bad three-fourths at that

Means you’re 1/4 redeemable to my Scottish ancestors.

Every Greek coffee shop is owned by a guy named George with a son named Nick.

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George Costanza says Portuguese is the language of love.

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God is the uncaused cause of the universe. He had no beginning and has no end. He is not bound by the laws of the universe he created.

There are Peters and Teds too but they don't own the diners.

JavaScript....not very similar to my native tongue of COBOL, but I think I could do it.

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Trying to remember the greeks from m youth but most were girls. Do remember a dad named George who had two boys, Andy John and Stellio. In the restaurant business I believe. I think the other Greeks were in the supply side of the business and that did include a Peter.

Javascript sucks. Fuck that shit. I think Hoffy has those skills though.

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Whoah oh oh oh
He's for the money, he's for the show

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Knew a good deal of Greek kids growing up, what with the restaurants and all, but I don't think there was an Orthodox church for miles. Go figure. Anyway, we had a George, Alex, Nick, Alexa, Demetrius, Demitra, Eleni, and Vasiliki, I think that was most of them.

Where are the lines of demarcation for what can be called, for lack of a better term, the Gregarious Hospitality Zone? Peoples of Meal Insistence? Greeks and Italians, obviously, but Arabs, Turks, Armenians, Assyrians, and Persians are in there, too. Not sure about the Southern Slavs.

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