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Astraios wrote:I hope you don't mean written Welsh, because that is ugly as butts.
Wait, you think butts are ugly? Hand me your queer card. Now!

Native language/Mother tongue: American English
Ancestral languages: German (Austro-Bavarian, Palatinate, possibly Westphalian), Irish (probably Cork dialect), English (Northern)

Dad claims that his grandmother spoke both German and Yiddish which seems rather unlikely to me.
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cromulant wrote:
Wattmann wrote:Then I'm screwing my cousin, and her parents are even closer cousins to me. So, my future child would be my... grandnephew, too?
I doubt the truth value of that.
Yes, you and your girlfriend are related (hopefully, very distantly). All living humans are related, however distantly. All life on Earth is familially related (i.e. descended from a common ancestor).

This is not Adam and Eveism; it is an inescapable corollary of evolutionism.

It's true. You're fucking your cousin.
I know, but I hoped that the gap was over 1.5k years :(
Wait, how the hell could I be related to Charlemagne when my whole tree comes from the farthest northeast of Europe :o
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Wattmann wrote:Wait, how the hell could I be related to Charlemagne when my whole tree comes from the farthest northeast of Europe :o
Because, everyone in Europe is related to Charlemagne.
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linguoboy wrote:
Wattmann wrote:Wait, how the hell could I be related to Charlemagne when my whole tree comes from the farthest northeast of Europe :o
Because, everyone in Europe is related to Charlemagne.
Even the Uralic tribesfolk?
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Wattmann wrote:Even the Uralic tribesfolk?
You're descended from Uralic tribesfolk?
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linguoboy wrote:Wait, you think butts are ugly? Hand me your queer card. Now!
Wait, you think I meant the good butts? I meant the butts like this, obviously.
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Astraios wrote:
linguoboy wrote:Wait, you think butts are ugly? Hand me your queer card. Now!
Wait, you think I meant the good butts? I meant the butts like this, obviously.
So not half fool enough to click that link.
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Bother. Foiled again.
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My L1 is English, as is my "heritage" language (me being English, and all). I've had French around me to some extent since I was four, though. I can read it but can't really speak it very well, now.
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Native language: Scottish English

Ancestral languages: German (Moselle Franconian/Hessian and Lower Silesian), Scots and Scottish, Irish and Manx Gaelic
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Wattmann wrote:
linguoboy wrote:
Wattmann wrote:Wait, how the hell could I be related to Charlemagne when my whole tree comes from the farthest northeast of Europe :o
Because, everyone in Europe is related to Charlemagne.
Even the Uralic tribesfolk?
Plan foiled?
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linguoboy wrote:
Wattmann wrote:Even the Uralic tribesfolk?
You're descended from Uralic tribesfolk?
Might be, at least. Not sure where my paternal greatgrandparents came from - been dead since the seventies. Records lead me to believe they're from Uuniemi (hence my desire to learn North Sami), but I'm not sure. They might have been splendid lying bastards.
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Wattmann wrote:
linguoboy wrote:
Wattmann wrote:Even the Uralic tribesfolk?
You're descended from Uralic tribesfolk?
Might be, at least. Not sure where my paternal greatgrandparents
What about the rest of your great-grandparents? Basques, Romanies, Tatars, Chechens?
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linguoboy wrote:
Wattmann wrote:
linguoboy wrote: You're descended from Uralic tribesfolk?
Might be, at least. Not sure where my paternal greatgrandparents
What about the rest of your great-grandparents? Basques, Romanies, Tatars, Chechens?
Regular people AFAIR - of a plain Indo european descent.
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Wattmann wrote:
linguoboy wrote:
Wattmann wrote:
linguoboy wrote: You're descended from Uralic tribesfolk?
Might be, at least. Not sure where my paternal greatgrandparents
What about the rest of your great-grandparents? Basques, Romanies, Tatars, Chechens?
Regular people AFAIR - of a plain Indo european descent.
That's how old Charley always slips in.
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linguoboy wrote:
Wattmann wrote:
linguoboy wrote:
Wattmann wrote:
linguoboy wrote: You're descended from Uralic tribesfolk?
Might be, at least. Not sure where my paternal greatgrandparents
What about the rest of your great-grandparents? Basques, Romanies, Tatars, Chechens?
Regular people AFAIR - of a plain Indo european descent.
That's how old Charley always slips in.
*takes note* remember to start speaking Basque or Romani or Erromintxela around Straio...
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Bristel wrote:*takes note* remember to start speaking Basque or Romani or Erromintxela around Straio...
Is it getting hot in here or is that just Bristel speaking Erromintxela?
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Astraios wrote:
Bristel wrote:*takes note* remember to start speaking Basque or Romani or Erromintxela around Straio...
Is it getting hot in here or is that just Bristel speaking Erromintxela?
Ua, angi.
Yes, honey.

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Uuuffff. :3 *takes clothes off*
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Astraios wrote:Uuuffff. :3 *takes clothes off*
It's gettin' hot in hurrrr, so take off all your clothes...
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Say it in Erromintxela and I'll give you a night you'll never forget.
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Bristel wrote:It's gettin' hot in hurrrr, so take off all your clothes...
*herre
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Astraios wrote:Say it in Erromintxela and I'll give you a night you'll never forget.
I'm far from being able to do that. :(

If I had Basque/Roma friends again, I'd ask them for help.
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Aww. I'll give you one anyway. :3
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Wooot!
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You know, the board needs a Gay Flirting thread to keep this all in one spot.
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