• Twipped
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      Alas, it is not http://klingon.wiki/En/Anecdotes

      There was an animated tv show that had this as a plot line, where an american man met a woman from japan. I can’t remember what show it was, though. Its a memory barely visible in the back of my brain.

      • @zagaberoo@beehaw.org
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        31 year ago

        It does happen among Esperanto speakers; parents whose common language is Esperanto is a major source of what few native speakers there are.

    • The Octonaut
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      -81 year ago

      French and Portuguese are similar enough that you could make out what someone is saying.

      Also, Star Trek is in English

      • @moody
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        231 year ago

        Written, you could get a vague sense of what’s being said. Spoken, the two languages are absolutely not intelligible. You might pick up a couple of words that are close enough but definitely not enough to have anything close to a conversation.

        Portuguese and Spanish are much closer in terms of intelligibility.

        • Promethiel
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          91 year ago

          In my (only partially humorous) opinion: French snobbiness is displayed the most strongest upon the French language.

          It is the least mutually intelligible of the mainstream Romance languages with any of the others. By design.

          The notions of purity and ripping off Latin- words, expressions, and structures in the 17th century that lead to the Académie Française formalized things. But France’s geography and history also pushed the language into it’s own harder than the others.

        • The Octonaut
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          -11 year ago

          Everywhere in Europe? Yes. Except the French but that doesn’t count because they’re just doing that to be awkward.

          • Enkrod
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            91 year ago

            I don’t know where you live, but holy cow dude, I hadn’t watched a single english Star Trek Episode until Lower Decks, everything before that I watched in perfectly dubbed german. Because we dub freaking everything and german dubbing is high quality and very lip-sync so you can go all your live watching basically only Hollywood series and movies and don’t hear a single word of english if you don’t want to.

            • The Octonaut
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              -71 year ago

              if you don’t want to

              Yeah but nobody wants to listen to German

      • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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        71 year ago

        French and Portuguese are similar enough that you could make out what someone is saying.

        I know a little Spanish and I can sorta make out Brazilian Portuguese/French/ other romance languages. Spoken European Portuguese is nearly incomprehensible to me.