ZBB Census

[Shrdlu]

Age bracket: 18-40
Gender: Male
Nationality: North Europe
State/Province/Other Subdivision: Central zone
Occupation: Working soon-to-be Student
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Status: Single
Native Language: Scandinavian
Secondary Languages: English, a little bit of any other language thinkable and Pite dialect
Languages I Want to Learn but Don't Have the Time: Probably any other lang on the planet. So much to do, so little time
Religion: ----
Politics: Don't care
Handedness: Partly ambi-dextrous
Who Would Win in a Fist Fight Between Michael Dorn and a Zombie Benjamin Whorf?: Neither, it is like dividing by zero.

[Viktor77]

Native Language: Scandinavian

This is interesting. Jeg inte vet skandinaavinen tungumálinu.

[Jipí]

Native Language: Scandinavian

This is interesting. Jeg inte vet skandinaavinen tungumálinu.

What's so interesting about you not speaking a Scandinavian language? Oh wait… He probably refers to the fact that Danish, Swedish and Norwegian form a dialect contiunuum.

[Viktor77]

Native Language: Scandinavian

This is interesting. Jeg inte vet skandinaavinen tungumálinu.

What's so interesting about you not speaking a Scandinavian language? Oh wait… He probably refers to the fact that Danish, Swedish and Norwegian form a dialect contiunuum.

I think he could have specified which he speaks. It's not as if they are all the same. Finnish (a Scandinavian but not Nordic language) is not even of the same family.

[Shrdlu]

Usually I speak Swedish or Pite and maybe I should have said "nordic" but the term didn't creep up on me at that time when it should and now it is too late, So whatever.

[Lleu]

Age bracket: 18-24
Gender: male
Nationality: New England
State/Province/Other Subdivision: home is Massachusetts, school is Connecticut
Occupation: student
Sexual Orientation: homosexual
Status: single
Native Language: English
Secondary Languages: [by rough level of competence] French, Spanish, Greek (ancient), Gothic, Japanese, Italian, Scottish Gaelic
Languages I Want to Learn but Don't Have the Time*: Afrikaans, Albanian, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, German, Greek (modern), Hawaiian, Icelandic, Irish (old and modern), Luxembourgish, Manx, Mi'kmaq, Pennsylvania German, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Welsh (middle and modern), Yiddish, and the list goes on
Religion: strong agnostic, it's complicated
Politics: left
Handedness: right

* I will have time for one new language next year — probably German at this point, although it's still a bit up in the air

[makvas]

I think he could have specified which he speaks. It's not as if they are all the same. Finnish (a Scandinavian but not Nordic language) is not even of the same family.

Um, Finnish isn't Scandinavian. I mean, Finland isn't even in Scandinavia! In fact, according to Wikipedia, Finland is a Nordic country...

[Travis B.]

Viktor, just stop it before you dig yourself in further...

[Kvan]

Age: 23
Height: ~183cm
Weight: ~88kg
Gender: Male
Nationality: American
State/Province/Other Subdivision: Connecticut
Occupation: Lazy Customer Service Associate
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Status: In a relationship
Native Language: English
Secondary Languages: None (I should get on that...)
Languages I Want to Learn but Don't Have the Time: Mohawk, (any) Athabaskan Languages, Sanskrit, Arabic, Cantonese, Farsi, Japanese (and unrealistically, the list extends onward)
Religion: Agnostic Leaning Atheistically
Philosophical Leanings: I tend to pick up Tao and Zen Buddhist teachings, but also I've got a passion for Sartre and I'm reading Being and Time now, so I suppose I'm trying to resolve my cognitive dissonance between Taoism, Zen Buddhism, and Existentialism in general.
Politics: Again, more cognitive dissonance yet to be resolved but on the whole, I'm liberal.
Handedness: I'm a Lefty for writing and drawing, Righty for everything else.

[finlay]

(a Scandinavian but not Nordic language)

Technically the other way round, but I don't think anyone not from there really cares.

[----]

Aren't all Scandinavian languages Nordic, but there are Nordic languages that are certainly not Scandinavian? Or are they completely separate things?

[treskro]

Scandinavia is a bit ambiguous, but it sometimes does include Finland.

[Ziz]

Age: 17
Sex: Male
Nationality: American
State/Province/Other Subdivision: South Carolina, soon to be Wisconsin.
Occupation: Student.
Sexual Orientation: Gay, kind of bisexual sometimes.
Status: Single.
Native Language: English.
Secondary Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Hebrew (decreasing proficiency).
Languages I Want to Learn but Don't Have the Time: Hebrew, Akkadian, Japanese, Latin, Persian, Nahuatl, some flavor of Mayan.
Religion: Judaism.
Politics: Centrist.
Height: 5'7'' or 5'8''; 170-73cm.
Shoe size: 9.5 US
Time since last drink: 1 day.
Handedness: Right-handed.
Who Would Win in a Fist Fight Between Michael Dorn and a Zombie Benjamin Whorf: idk

[WanderlustKoko]

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[finlay]

State/Province/Other Subdivision: Utah
Sexual Orientation: Homosexual

I feel really sorry for you.

[Miekko]

I think he could have specified which he speaks. It's not as if they are all the same. Finnish (a Scandinavian but not Nordic language) is not even of the same family.

Um, Finnish isn't Scandinavian. I mean, Finland isn't even in Scandinavia! In fact, according to Wikipedia, Finland is a Nordic country...

But Finnic and Lappic languages have been spoken for a very long time, and still are spoken, in parts of both Sweden and Norway, so what the fuck does whether Finland is Scandinavian or not have to do with it? Properly, Denmark isn't Scandinavian either.

[WanderlustKoko]

^^^Scandinavia is technically just Denmark, Norway and Sweden. While Nordic is Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, The Faroe Islands and Finland.

[Viktor77]

^^^Scandinavia is technically just Denmark, Norway and Sweden. While Nordic is Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, The Faroe Islands and Finland.

I had it backwards.

[kelemta]

Age: 18
Gender: Female
Nationality: Australian
State: Western Australia
Occupation: Student
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Status: In a relationship
Native Language: English
Secondary Languages: Indonesian, Japanese, Mandarin
Languages I Want to Learn but Don't Have the Time: Russian (family), Korean, Auslan
Religion: Agathist/Russian Orthodox/Anglican?
Politics: Non-conservative (policies not parties)
Handedness: Right

[Imralu]

Languages I Want to Learn but Don't Have the Time: [...] Auslan

You should. It's fun.

Religion: Agathist[...]

You're a follower of Agatha Christie?

[dhok]

Why not just call Swedish/Norwegian/Danish Modern Norse?

[sirred]

Re:Imralu

-and we testify that Miss Marple solved a murder. Lo, let us not reveal the mystery of the Mousetrap. So it is written.

[kelemta]

Languages I Want to Learn but Don't Have the Time: [...] Auslan

You should. It's fun.

Great! This year I should enrol in one of the community college programs for it.

Religion: Agathist[...]

You're a follower of Agatha Christie?

Haha, maybe. Apparently it's a belief that bad things happen but in the end it works out, which isn't so much religion as a rather dippy-sounding philosophy, but it's as good an approach as any for me.

Though I like the sound of the religion as according to Sirred...

[the duke of nuke]

Age: 20
Gender: Male
Nationality: British [technically Jewish, too, depending on who you ask]
State/Province/Other Subdivision: English
Occupation: Student
Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual
Status: In a relationship
Native Language: English
Secondary Languages: French [formerly conversational, now very rusty]
Languages I Want to Learn but Don't Have the Time: Mandarin, Arabic, maybe some others
Religion: Atheist
Politics: Left-centre; disillusioned
Handedness: Right
Who Would Win in a Fist Fight Between Thomas Newcomen and James Watt? Newcomen, of course.

[Ser]

Age bracket: 18
Gender: Male
Nationality: Salvadoran
Province: British Columbia
Occupation: Slave
Sexual Orientation: Breeder
Status: In a relationship
Native Language: (Salvadoran) Spanish
Secondary Languages: Eengleesh
Languages currently studying (and sucking at): French, Mandarin, Written Arabic
Languages I Want to Learn but Don't Have the Time: Cantonese, Literary Chinese, Taiwanese, Arabic dialects, Biblical Hebrew, Latin
Not fitting in any of the above: Old Spanish (I can understand it with my native language, I can't "study" it in the same sense as the others, but I do make time for it)
Religion: Agnostic~Humanist
Politics: part of the deceived
Handedness: Right