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Technical fields don't have such requirements; but once you touch into literature, history or theology you need to sharpen your language skills. Parttaking in the large excavations here you need to know at least norse, german and latin; greek and russian is a definate advantage.

I was buttigned as a "point man" for those in the PPOE that didn't stick to English as a communications language; I just wrote a long, and very technical, dead serious reply in a rural Norwegian dialect. As Bjork said "Yes, we do have a secret code in the band. It is called "Icelandic.

But I haven't heard the thing our swithchboard operator (a multilangual position) was famous for doing; to swich language in mid-sentence. I have heard some dutch do it, and some danes.

A friend of mine got that feeling in Portugal once, when he could ask an old clergyman for directions; in Latin. Who said it is a dead language!.

The greek are pretty amused when someone speaks to them in Koine or some even older greek. Koine is still comprehensible, but very archaic in style. But the skill is widespread. When wearing a tshirt with the start of Odysseus on it, I have had fishermen and waitresses recite a bit more; once quite a bit more; from memory.

Yep. And it keeps seeping in when I am there. I need to refresh some skills now, but it comes back. And I never even studied it.

-- mrr