your(s) language(s)

[asango]

first language: english

second language(and bread-winner): ego-driven-design-speak-bullshit....even if is sucks, convice them that it doesnt...can you believe this was a required course in school?

third language: drunk chick.

[flipside]

To Reply to Flipside,

Misschien we hebben een mooie nederlandse meisje geken (of gekenen ???)

Well, love was the force for learning dutch...for me.
She wasn't a top model but she was...different.Moreover she was my
first love, so the language I learnt for is still inside me...

Doei !

Gaël

I love Vray but it is absolutly different...

It's 'gekend'! hehe
You should meet a beatifull flemish girl then, they usually speak french too a little bit

[cocolas]

second language(and bread-winner): ego-driven-design-speak-bullshit

.....totally agree!!!!hehehe after being in arch school for 6 years I learn that quite well.....words like "conceptual theory" and "Dichotomy" are the bread-and-butter for crit proffesors and clients alike
anyway:

primary: english (american) after living in the US for 6 years
secondary: Italian - after living in italy for 11 years.......
third: rumanian - after living there the first 9 years of my life ( but I'm slowly loosing it since i can only speak it w/ my parents)

I love languages


Paul.

[Brim]

.....words like "conceptual theory" and "Dichotomy" are the bread-and-butter for crit proffesors and clients alike....

Don't forget:
Heirarchy, Language, Phenomonological, Matrix, Itenirary, and my personal favorite: banal.

Hahahaha.

[cocolas]

hehehe...yeah, you're right!!!!!!
I've never heard this one though before....."Phenomonological"....hehehe...damn, that's pushing it waayyy out there ....the more "intelectual" and "grand", the funnier.....hahahahaha......

I'm reading this lame 150 page article about the "Consequences of modernity in architecture":
and words like "reflexivity", "disembedding", "symbolic tokens" keep poping up....

paul.

[Dogzilla]

I can speak that language

I like to throw in big words like; interstitial, paradoxical, corollary, incongruous, superlative...oh and the list goes on...and I'm usually describing a box with a few wholes in the side

[cocolas]

hehehe.......sure know what you mean
for my final arch thesis project i had to do that..... lots and lots of BS to soothe the ears and the eye....

anyone in an arch school crit or with a client knows....

interstitial, paradoxical, corollary, incongruous, superlative

.....yeah, yeah.....bring'em on....

somebody should invent the "Dictionary of Intelectual Bullshit"....would sell pretty good

[Brim]

I've never heard this one though before....."Phenomonological"....hehehe...damn, that's pushing it waayyy out there ...

Steven Holl (http://www.stevenholl.com/) published a piece entitled Questions of Perception: Phenomenology of Architecture (A+U 1994).

I think I misspelled the word - it should have been "phenomenological" rather than what I did spell. I actually heard one of my professors say this word in class and no one, I mean no one had a clue what he was taking about. And this was in a 1st year design class. It simply means "a philosophical movement that describes the formal structure of the objects of awareness and of awareness itself in abstraction from any claims concerning existence" (http://www.webster.com). Acutally quite a good read to get the design conscience stirring.

Boy, I'm damn glad I'm done with school.

[cocolas]

It simply means "a philosophical movement that describes the formal structure of the objects of awareness and of awareness itself in abstraction from any claims concerning existence"

"simply"...hmm??......I got used to it though after a while....some of it was also quite enjoying if grounded in reality...

I actually heard one of my professors say this word in class and no one, I mean no one had a clue what he was taking about.

i know what you mean..... some profs tend to use BIG words to impress and position themselfs "above" students.....

Boy, I'm damn glad I'm done with school.

yep...I'm done this december - getting my masters..( ) .....pretty excited....

[rodigus]

yep...I'm done this december - getting my masters..( ) .....pretty excited....

Cool! I'm about to start mine soon. Where are you doing your masters?

[GoncaloP]

I agree, better to start talking in portuguese, its the easear language for me

Gonçalo

[nut3d]

I speak Thai

[Psy]

my x-gf can speak english, hindi and gujarati.

really cool stuff, i'm trying to learn spanish for school and sanskrit on the side so that i can read the books.

altho spanish is simple as cake compared to learning a language that uses completely different characters.

[Shurlin]

primary: russian

fluent english & c++. some pascal too...

[Intenzity]

Primary: English/Spanish (Don't know what came first )

I took 4 years of Latin and continued on so I can speak and write decently. I think grammer in latin is harder than English though.

I can read French but that's about it.

And I know a grain of sand of German. But that doesn't really count. I've just been playing too much Return to Castle Wolfenstein.