What do you call someone who speaks 2 languages?

[johnaries]

Bi-lingual.

What do you call someone who speaks 3 languages?


Tri-lingual.


What do you call someone who only speaks 1 language?




An American.

An old joke, but a goodie.

[fooj]

1. Thanks for the giggle.

Sad but true.

[Hand]

2. Someone who can lie to a whole lot of different people.

{BTW, that's more or less plagiarized--either from Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary or maybe Mark Twain...) :toast:

[mr_hat]

3. Non comprende.

[shamrock]

4. I realize it's a joke,

but if that was 'true' then all we would need was one language. It's not true however. Think about it, do all of these American immigrants, from all over the world speak just one language? I'm American, I speak more than one language, and so do most of the Americans I know.

[Island Blue]

5. What do you call someone who mangles all languages?

George W. Bush

[shamrock]

7. Now that's true

[Aviation Pro]

9. Oooh-ooh., I know the answer....

...Asshole.

[MADem]

12. Great graphic, there!!! n/t

[Aviation Pro]

6. Ya govoryu russkij yazik.....

...but I'm learning Chinese.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. I speak two. English and profanity.

The second comes in handy when speaking of politicians or recalcitrant computers.

[KyndCulture]

11. I'm a master at both! the latter a whole lot more lately.

[KyndCulture]

10. What do you call someone that makes up their own language?

bush.

[Warpy]

13. Let's see, I started out speaking German with my grandparents

learned a bit of Gaelic from my other granny, spoke English in school, took 6 years of French, learned bits and pieces over the years in a dozen other languages, and am now learning Spanish through osmosis in a border state.

Usually, that's called "European."

It always amuses me when people get all bent out of shape because somebody is speaking a different language.

[ccpup]

14. And I always crack up

when I'm in Paris and some American tourist gets angry -- and I mean downright LIVID -- when everyone is speaking French! Cracks me up every damn time!!

[eppur_se_muova]

15. "Oh good. Now he'll be bi-ignorant." attributed to Jim Hightower ...

on learning that a certain Texas politician was learning Spanish as a second language.