How many languages can you speak?

[hunter]

44. I sometimes hear English as a foreign language if I'm not in "listening" mode.

Huh? Ummm.... what did you just say?

And it takes even longer for my English abilities to kick in if I've been writing code, or I've been alone in the desert for a few days, which I used to do when I was single.

As chatty as I am here on DU, I hardly talk in the "real world." And I'm well practiced ignoring the voices outside my head as well as inside. I watch movies with the captioning turned on and the sound low. While other kids were learning to read I was spending time with the speech therapists. Someone here on DU once called it audio dyslexia. I like that term.

If I was a language researcher at google I'd love to throw Interlingua into the pot and see what evolves but it's possible the Interlingua community wouldn't appreciate that. They're already upset by the Latin American idioms of the language. "Constructed" general purpose human languages are as prone to fragmentation as computer languages. Look how many languages have evolved from C. And of course everyone thinks they can create a new and improved computer language, inevitably based on languages they know. Entirely innovative languages are rare.

Lately I find Tcl/Tk to be relaxing, I don't know why. (It's a computer scripting language for those who don't know.)

It's nice to see someone else who thinks Java is dead, although many people would vehemently disagree, especially as it is the primary development language for Android apps, and also turf Google and Oracle fight legal battles over.