You are not a polygot if you only know languages from the same family. amirite?

Me when I'm factually incorrect

by Physical-Ad-9551 2 days ago

You're not a true polyglot if you only know Earth languages.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

On Mars we have a saying, "baar klagon erthraga uraga meego keego ichibox". It means, "polyglots from Earth are lame".

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Compare Portuguese and Romanian, then tell me they are just "regional varieties".

by Anonymous 2 days ago

They are regional enough when compared to Chinese and Mayan.

by AccountantFun 2 days ago

You're literally just a hater. You're acting like it's still not hard to learn Roman/slavic tongue when thats not your native. You are definitely polyglot if you know more than 3 languages regardless of the skills you need.. omg

by No-Cauliflower-6894 2 days ago

How far are you willing to go with this? Because Bulgarian, French and Hindi all belong to the same language family, the Indo-European family.

by Romaine64 2 days ago

This is a really high bar to gatekeep.

by Electronic-Wish 2 days ago

Dutch and German are probably one of the closest, and me as a Dutchie can maybe understand a couple of words in a conversation with a German speaking person. My dad is Georgian and can also speak Russian (with a thick accent), my step mom is Ukrainian and he can't understand her if she speaks Ukrainian or vice versa if he speaks Georgian to her. Dumb take

by Middle-Class-9549 2 days ago

this is just factually wrong

by daija54 2 days ago

That's nonsense. If they are not mutually intelligible, then they are different languages.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

"Regional varieties" I guess German is just a dialect to you eh

by lydaflatley 2 days ago

I'd argue any opinion related to polyglotism is unpopular because the popular opinion on the matter is null.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

So you don't know what a language family is eh?

by Anonymous 2 days ago

What makes you think that

by AccountantFun 2 days ago

You do know there are numerous free online dictionaries, right? Polyglot - - "knowing, using or written in more than one language" - OED - "speaking or writing several languages" - Merriam-Webster - "able to speak or write several languages" - Dictionary[.]com It just means multilingual.

by Downtown_Meeting_444 2 days ago

Well like half of languages from Britain to India are part of the same language family of indo European but Sanskrit is pretty different from English

by BuddyNo 2 days ago