https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=137.165.30.64&feedformat=atomWillipedia - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T07:07:42ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.32.1https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Students_with_language_skills&diff=5066Students with language skills2005-11-11T21:33:46Z<p>137.165.30.64: /* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28linguistics%29 Mandarin] */</p>
<hr />
<div>You don't have to be good at it. Just say what you know.<br />
<br />
===American Sign Language===<br />
<br />
===Bengali===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 Aroop Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07am Auyon Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ra Rowena Ahsan]<br />
<br />
===Catalán===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (learned a little bit while abroad in Barcelona)<br />
<br />
===Chinese===<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_%28linguistics%29 Cantonese]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by, but not as well as with Mandarin (though Cantonese was his first language...).<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's first language<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] lived in Hong Kong for 2 years, and all she can say in Cantonese is "mgoi sai"...<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28linguistics%29 Mandarin]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law '06] can get by.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao 08's] second language. <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang '08] <br />
<br />
Kim Fassler '06<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06esm Estalyn Marquis] has some awesome skills <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09lcj Lauren Johnson]<br />
<br />
[[Lars Enwereuzor Kana Ojukwu '07]] <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08mjg Morgan Goodwin]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07enm Elizabeth Macek] passable<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghainese Shanghainese]====<br />
Lingwei Gu '07<br />
<br />
Richard Zhang '07<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_language Taiwanese]====<br />
Rachel Ko '09<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_dialect Toisanese]====<br />
Jason Law '06 can understand it almost as well as Cantonese.<br />
<br />
===Danish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06hdc Heather Casteel] '06 (drunkenly)<br />
<br />
===English===<br />
*British Accent<br />
<br />
*Chinese Accent<br />
<br />
*East European Accent<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] speaks English with East EU accent, though she doesn't notice it. Hmmm, it's not even pure East EU, it's a mixture of several... <br />
<br />
*Indian Accent<br />
<br />
*Japanese Accent<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] spent a month speaking English with a Japanese accent, so she can still do it very convincingly.<br />
<br />
*Scottish Accent<br />
<br />
*Southern Accent<br />
<br />
===Esperanto===<br />
<br />
[[Joe McDonough '06]] visited the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna, but by that time he had forgotten most of the Esperanto he had learned in a fit of boredom during Winter Study two years previously.<br />
<br />
===French===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (He used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.)<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] is still pretty good at French.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08 took a lit course with Professor Martin and scored well on the SAT II and AP exams, but that doesn't mean her accent isn't atrociously American...<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.<br />
<br />
Katie Montgomery '07 can, in theory, communicate in French.<br />
<br />
[[Lindsay Long-Waldor '08]] has not spoken in a while, but I might still have some skills.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]]' fourth language in which she has basic skills.<br />
<br />
===German===<br />
<br />
[[Steve Hunter '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]]<br />
<br />
*Swiss German<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] has a German-language textbook on Swiss German and really wants to be able to speak it authentically. At this point, he knows the numbers and some basic vocabulary and grammar. (TAs swoon when he counts to ten.)<br />
<br />
===Greek===<br />
<br />
Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)<br />
<br />
Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.<br />
<br />
So do Classics majors. (And in order. What comes after phi, oh my math and physics friends?) (the "$" comes after "\phi", unless it's on its own line, in which case you'll put "$$")<br />
<br />
*Modern, anyone?<br />
**[[Joanna Demakis]] knows some but she dropped out of Greek school after first grade.<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] thinks Modern Greek is cool and spent some time in online lessons for it his sophomore year. His study has since lapsed. He knows the order of the Greek alphabet well despite being a math major.<br />
<br />
===Hebrew===<br />
Robert Streicker '07<br />
<br />
Zachary Ulman '06<br />
<br />
[[Danny Fischler '06]]<br />
<br />
Davida Kutscher '03<br />
<br />
Elissa Brown '09<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
===Hindi===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Ananda V. Burra '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ng Nikhar Gaikwad]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rsr Ridhima Raina]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
<br />
===IPA===<br />
is not a language; it is an omnipotent alphabet. See also [[Phonetics]].<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] is to the [http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html International Phonetic Alphabet] as Al Gore is to the Internet.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned the IPA incredibly well as Jono Dowse's (who's Nate Sanders?) student in LING 111<br />
<br />
===Italian===<br />
<br />
[[Lucy Cox-Chapman '06]] spent a semester in Italy<br />
<br />
[[Katie Josephson '07]] is dying in Italian 103<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] loooooves Italian 103 (it's her third language)! It comes like a breeze after all these DIV III classes...<br />
<br />
===Japanese===<br />
<br />
[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.<br />
<br />
[[Leah Weintraub '06]] spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08cvw Charlotte White] rocks at Japanese, and is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "WTF Japan" rather often. As should we all.<br />
<br />
===Korean===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08dpr Dawn Robinson '08] is Korean. She can read and write Konglish, and say, "Hello, my name is Dawn" in Korean. :)<br />
<br />
===Latin===<br />
<br />
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882926250/002-7919228-6835221?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance The Devil knows Latin]. So does [[Joe McDonough '06]].<br />
<br />
===Oppish===<br />
<br />
[[Alden Robinson '06]] whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?<br />
<br />
===Pig Latin===<br />
<br />
[[Seth Brown]] taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.<br />
<br />
===Polish===<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] can say "What's up, sweetheart?"<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/ Peter Ladefoged].<br />
<br />
===Portuguese===<br />
<br />
*Brazil<br />
<br />
O Marcos Gouvea '05 fala português. E você?<br />
<br />
===Russian===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tmg Michael Gallagher]<br />
<br />
[[Emily Button '07]] can say "I've seen more women than you've seen sparrows!" <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08ik Ilya Khodosh] does an excellent drunk old Russian man impression.<br />
<br />
[[Suzanne C. Walsh '05]] can say, "Her breasts are as big as pineapples" and can translate for fiends who lose the ability to speak English and can only speak in Russian while drunk. She is also known to mutter things in Georgian. And we're not talking about, "y'all."<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
[[Anna Tsykalova '08]] says that all good things come from Mother Russia.<br />
<br />
===Spanish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (speaks Dominican Spanish--impossible to comprehend for most other spanish speakers because it sounds more like really fast Italian than anything else)<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (budding bachatero)<br />
<br />
[[Alan Cordova '06]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bry Bernard Yaros]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09st Sofia Torres] (but apparently she speaks Mexican, a variation of Spanish)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pmr Paulette Rodriguez] can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)<br />
<br />
Sarah Steege can speak with or without the sexy Spanish lisp.<br />
<br />
Cat Vielma can speak spanish with both an American accent and a Chilean accent in the same sentence.<br />
<br />
===Tamil===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rlw Rachel Winch]<br />
<br />
===Turkish===<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] can count to four in turkish, and also knows six through eight, and ten.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06mml Marisa Lau] spent a semester (Spring 2005) in Turkey so she knows numbers and greetings and maybe a bit more<br />
<br />
===Urdu===<br />
<br />
Aatif Abbas<br />
<br />
S. Waqqas Iftikhar<br />
<br />
Uzaib Y. Saya<br />
<br />
Ali Moiz<br />
<br />
Samreen Kazmi<br />
<br />
Murtaza Hussain</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Students_with_language_skills&diff=5065Students with language skills2005-11-11T21:33:16Z<p>137.165.30.64: /* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghainese Shanghainese] */</p>
<hr />
<div>You don't have to be good at it. Just say what you know.<br />
<br />
===American Sign Language===<br />
<br />
===Bengali===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 Aroop Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07am Auyon Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ra Rowena Ahsan]<br />
<br />
===Catalán===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (learned a little bit while abroad in Barcelona)<br />
<br />
===Chinese===<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_%28linguistics%29 Cantonese]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by, but not as well as with Mandarin (though Cantonese was his first language...).<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's first language<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] lived in Hong Kong for 2 years, and all she can say in Cantonese is "mgoi sai"...<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28linguistics%29 Mandarin]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law '06] can get by.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao08's] second language. <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang '08] <br />
<br />
Kim Fassler '06<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06esm Estalyn Marquis] has some awesome skills <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09lcj Lauren Johnson]<br />
<br />
[[Lars Enwereuzor Kana Ojukwu '07]] <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08mjg Morgan Goodwin]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07enm Elizabeth Macek] passable<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghainese Shanghainese]====<br />
Lingwei Gu '07<br />
<br />
Richard Zhang '07<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_language Taiwanese]====<br />
Rachel Ko '09<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_dialect Toisanese]====<br />
Jason Law '06 can understand it almost as well as Cantonese.<br />
<br />
===Danish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06hdc Heather Casteel] '06 (drunkenly)<br />
<br />
===English===<br />
*British Accent<br />
<br />
*Chinese Accent<br />
<br />
*East European Accent<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] speaks English with East EU accent, though she doesn't notice it. Hmmm, it's not even pure East EU, it's a mixture of several... <br />
<br />
*Indian Accent<br />
<br />
*Japanese Accent<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] spent a month speaking English with a Japanese accent, so she can still do it very convincingly.<br />
<br />
*Scottish Accent<br />
<br />
*Southern Accent<br />
<br />
===Esperanto===<br />
<br />
[[Joe McDonough '06]] visited the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna, but by that time he had forgotten most of the Esperanto he had learned in a fit of boredom during Winter Study two years previously.<br />
<br />
===French===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (He used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.)<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] is still pretty good at French.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08 took a lit course with Professor Martin and scored well on the SAT II and AP exams, but that doesn't mean her accent isn't atrociously American...<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.<br />
<br />
Katie Montgomery '07 can, in theory, communicate in French.<br />
<br />
[[Lindsay Long-Waldor '08]] has not spoken in a while, but I might still have some skills.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]]' fourth language in which she has basic skills.<br />
<br />
===German===<br />
<br />
[[Steve Hunter '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]]<br />
<br />
*Swiss German<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] has a German-language textbook on Swiss German and really wants to be able to speak it authentically. At this point, he knows the numbers and some basic vocabulary and grammar. (TAs swoon when he counts to ten.)<br />
<br />
===Greek===<br />
<br />
Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)<br />
<br />
Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.<br />
<br />
So do Classics majors. (And in order. What comes after phi, oh my math and physics friends?) (the "$" comes after "\phi", unless it's on its own line, in which case you'll put "$$")<br />
<br />
*Modern, anyone?<br />
**[[Joanna Demakis]] knows some but she dropped out of Greek school after first grade.<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] thinks Modern Greek is cool and spent some time in online lessons for it his sophomore year. His study has since lapsed. He knows the order of the Greek alphabet well despite being a math major.<br />
<br />
===Hebrew===<br />
Robert Streicker '07<br />
<br />
Zachary Ulman '06<br />
<br />
[[Danny Fischler '06]]<br />
<br />
Davida Kutscher '03<br />
<br />
Elissa Brown '09<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
===Hindi===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Ananda V. Burra '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ng Nikhar Gaikwad]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rsr Ridhima Raina]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
<br />
===IPA===<br />
is not a language; it is an omnipotent alphabet. See also [[Phonetics]].<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] is to the [http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html International Phonetic Alphabet] as Al Gore is to the Internet.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned the IPA incredibly well as Jono Dowse's (who's Nate Sanders?) student in LING 111<br />
<br />
===Italian===<br />
<br />
[[Lucy Cox-Chapman '06]] spent a semester in Italy<br />
<br />
[[Katie Josephson '07]] is dying in Italian 103<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] loooooves Italian 103 (it's her third language)! It comes like a breeze after all these DIV III classes...<br />
<br />
===Japanese===<br />
<br />
[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.<br />
<br />
[[Leah Weintraub '06]] spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08cvw Charlotte White] rocks at Japanese, and is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "WTF Japan" rather often. As should we all.<br />
<br />
===Korean===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08dpr Dawn Robinson '08] is Korean. She can read and write Konglish, and say, "Hello, my name is Dawn" in Korean. :)<br />
<br />
===Latin===<br />
<br />
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882926250/002-7919228-6835221?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance The Devil knows Latin]. So does [[Joe McDonough '06]].<br />
<br />
===Oppish===<br />
<br />
[[Alden Robinson '06]] whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?<br />
<br />
===Pig Latin===<br />
<br />
[[Seth Brown]] taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.<br />
<br />
===Polish===<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] can say "What's up, sweetheart?"<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/ Peter Ladefoged].<br />
<br />
===Portuguese===<br />
<br />
*Brazil<br />
<br />
O Marcos Gouvea '05 fala português. E você?<br />
<br />
===Russian===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tmg Michael Gallagher]<br />
<br />
[[Emily Button '07]] can say "I've seen more women than you've seen sparrows!" <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08ik Ilya Khodosh] does an excellent drunk old Russian man impression.<br />
<br />
[[Suzanne C. Walsh '05]] can say, "Her breasts are as big as pineapples" and can translate for fiends who lose the ability to speak English and can only speak in Russian while drunk. She is also known to mutter things in Georgian. And we're not talking about, "y'all."<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
[[Anna Tsykalova '08]] says that all good things come from Mother Russia.<br />
<br />
===Spanish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (speaks Dominican Spanish--impossible to comprehend for most other spanish speakers because it sounds more like really fast Italian than anything else)<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (budding bachatero)<br />
<br />
[[Alan Cordova '06]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bry Bernard Yaros]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09st Sofia Torres] (but apparently she speaks Mexican, a variation of Spanish)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pmr Paulette Rodriguez] can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)<br />
<br />
Sarah Steege can speak with or without the sexy Spanish lisp.<br />
<br />
Cat Vielma can speak spanish with both an American accent and a Chilean accent in the same sentence.<br />
<br />
===Tamil===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rlw Rachel Winch]<br />
<br />
===Turkish===<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] can count to four in turkish, and also knows six through eight, and ten.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06mml Marisa Lau] spent a semester (Spring 2005) in Turkey so she knows numbers and greetings and maybe a bit more<br />
<br />
===Urdu===<br />
<br />
Aatif Abbas<br />
<br />
S. Waqqas Iftikhar<br />
<br />
Uzaib Y. Saya<br />
<br />
Ali Moiz<br />
<br />
Samreen Kazmi<br />
<br />
Murtaza Hussain</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Students_with_language_skills&diff=5064Students with language skills2005-11-11T21:31:13Z<p>137.165.30.64: /* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghainese Shanghainese] */</p>
<hr />
<div>You don't have to be good at it. Just say what you know.<br />
<br />
===American Sign Language===<br />
<br />
===Bengali===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 Aroop Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07am Auyon Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ra Rowena Ahsan]<br />
<br />
===Catalán===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (learned a little bit while abroad in Barcelona)<br />
<br />
===Chinese===<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_%28linguistics%29 Cantonese]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by, but not as well as with Mandarin (though Cantonese was his first language...).<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's first language<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] lived in Hong Kong for 2 years, and all she can say in Cantonese is "mgoi sai"...<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28linguistics%29 Mandarin]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law '06] can get by.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao08's] second language. <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang '08] <br />
<br />
Kim Fassler '06<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06esm Estalyn Marquis] has some awesome skills <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09lcj Lauren Johnson]<br />
<br />
[[Lars Enwereuzor Kana Ojukwu '07]] <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08mjg Morgan Goodwin]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07enm Elizabeth Macek] passable<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghainese Shanghainese]====<br />
Richard Zhang '07<br />
<br />
Lingwei Gu '07<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_language Taiwanese]====<br />
Rachel Ko '09<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_dialect Toisanese]====<br />
Jason Law '06 can understand it almost as well as Cantonese.<br />
<br />
===Danish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06hdc Heather Casteel] '06 (drunkenly)<br />
<br />
===English===<br />
*British Accent<br />
<br />
*Chinese Accent<br />
<br />
*East European Accent<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] speaks English with East EU accent, though she doesn't notice it. Hmmm, it's not even pure East EU, it's a mixture of several... <br />
<br />
*Indian Accent<br />
<br />
*Japanese Accent<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] spent a month speaking English with a Japanese accent, so she can still do it very convincingly.<br />
<br />
*Scottish Accent<br />
<br />
*Southern Accent<br />
<br />
===Esperanto===<br />
<br />
[[Joe McDonough '06]] visited the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna, but by that time he had forgotten most of the Esperanto he had learned in a fit of boredom during Winter Study two years previously.<br />
<br />
===French===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (He used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.)<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] is still pretty good at French.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08 took a lit course with Professor Martin and scored well on the SAT II and AP exams, but that doesn't mean her accent isn't atrociously American...<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.<br />
<br />
Katie Montgomery '07 can, in theory, communicate in French.<br />
<br />
[[Lindsay Long-Waldor '08]] has not spoken in a while, but I might still have some skills.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]]' fourth language in which she has basic skills.<br />
<br />
===German===<br />
<br />
[[Steve Hunter '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]]<br />
<br />
*Swiss German<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] has a German-language textbook on Swiss German and really wants to be able to speak it authentically. At this point, he knows the numbers and some basic vocabulary and grammar. (TAs swoon when he counts to ten.)<br />
<br />
===Greek===<br />
<br />
Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)<br />
<br />
Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.<br />
<br />
So do Classics majors. (And in order. What comes after phi, oh my math and physics friends?) (the "$" comes after "\phi", unless it's on its own line, in which case you'll put "$$")<br />
<br />
*Modern, anyone?<br />
**[[Joanna Demakis]] knows some but she dropped out of Greek school after first grade.<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] thinks Modern Greek is cool and spent some time in online lessons for it his sophomore year. His study has since lapsed. He knows the order of the Greek alphabet well despite being a math major.<br />
<br />
===Hebrew===<br />
Robert Streicker '07<br />
<br />
Zachary Ulman '06<br />
<br />
[[Danny Fischler '06]]<br />
<br />
Davida Kutscher '03<br />
<br />
Elissa Brown '09<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
===Hindi===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Ananda V. Burra '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ng Nikhar Gaikwad]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rsr Ridhima Raina]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
<br />
===IPA===<br />
is not a language; it is an omnipotent alphabet. See also [[Phonetics]].<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] is to the [http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html International Phonetic Alphabet] as Al Gore is to the Internet.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned the IPA incredibly well as Jono Dowse's (who's Nate Sanders?) student in LING 111<br />
<br />
===Italian===<br />
<br />
[[Lucy Cox-Chapman '06]] spent a semester in Italy<br />
<br />
[[Katie Josephson '07]] is dying in Italian 103<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] loooooves Italian 103 (it's her third language)! It comes like a breeze after all these DIV III classes...<br />
<br />
===Japanese===<br />
<br />
[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.<br />
<br />
[[Leah Weintraub '06]] spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08cvw Charlotte White] rocks at Japanese, and is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "WTF Japan" rather often. As should we all.<br />
<br />
===Korean===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08dpr Dawn Robinson '08] is Korean. She can read and write Konglish, and say, "Hello, my name is Dawn" in Korean. :)<br />
<br />
===Latin===<br />
<br />
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882926250/002-7919228-6835221?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance The Devil knows Latin]. So does [[Joe McDonough '06]].<br />
<br />
===Oppish===<br />
<br />
[[Alden Robinson '06]] whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?<br />
<br />
===Pig Latin===<br />
<br />
[[Seth Brown]] taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.<br />
<br />
===Polish===<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] can say "What's up, sweetheart?"<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/ Peter Ladefoged].<br />
<br />
===Portuguese===<br />
<br />
*Brazil<br />
<br />
O Marcos Gouvea '05 fala português. E você?<br />
<br />
===Russian===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tmg Michael Gallagher]<br />
<br />
[[Emily Button '07]] can say "I've seen more women than you've seen sparrows!" <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08ik Ilya Khodosh] does an excellent drunk old Russian man impression.<br />
<br />
[[Suzanne C. Walsh '05]] can say, "Her breasts are as big as pineapples" and can translate for fiends who lose the ability to speak English and can only speak in Russian while drunk. She is also known to mutter things in Georgian. And we're not talking about, "y'all."<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
[[Anna Tsykalova '08]] says that all good things come from Mother Russia.<br />
<br />
===Spanish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (speaks Dominican Spanish--impossible to comprehend for most other spanish speakers because it sounds more like really fast Italian than anything else)<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (budding bachatero)<br />
<br />
[[Alan Cordova '06]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bry Bernard Yaros]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09st Sofia Torres] (but apparently she speaks Mexican, a variation of Spanish)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pmr Paulette Rodriguez] can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)<br />
<br />
Sarah Steege can speak with or without the sexy Spanish lisp.<br />
<br />
Cat Vielma can speak spanish with both an American accent and a Chilean accent in the same sentence.<br />
<br />
===Tamil===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rlw Rachel Winch]<br />
<br />
===Turkish===<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] can count to four in turkish, and also knows six through eight, and ten.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06mml Marisa Lau] spent a semester (Spring 2005) in Turkey so she knows numbers and greetings and maybe a bit more<br />
<br />
===Urdu===<br />
<br />
Aatif Abbas<br />
<br />
S. Waqqas Iftikhar<br />
<br />
Uzaib Y. Saya<br />
<br />
Ali Moiz<br />
<br />
Samreen Kazmi<br />
<br />
Murtaza Hussain</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Students_with_language_skills&diff=5063Students with language skills2005-11-11T21:31:04Z<p>137.165.30.64: /* Chinese */</p>
<hr />
<div>You don't have to be good at it. Just say what you know.<br />
<br />
===American Sign Language===<br />
<br />
===Bengali===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 Aroop Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07am Auyon Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ra Rowena Ahsan]<br />
<br />
===Catalán===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (learned a little bit while abroad in Barcelona)<br />
<br />
===Chinese===<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_%28linguistics%29 Cantonese]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by, but not as well as with Mandarin (though Cantonese was his first language...).<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's first language<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] lived in Hong Kong for 2 years, and all she can say in Cantonese is "mgoi sai"...<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28linguistics%29 Mandarin]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law '06] can get by.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao08's] second language. <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang '08] <br />
<br />
Kim Fassler '06<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06esm Estalyn Marquis] has some awesome skills <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09lcj Lauren Johnson]<br />
<br />
[[Lars Enwereuzor Kana Ojukwu '07]] <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08mjg Morgan Goodwin]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07enm Elizabeth Macek] passable<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghainese Shanghainese]====<br />
Richard Zhang '07<br />
Lingwei Gu '07<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_language Taiwanese]====<br />
Rachel Ko '09<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_dialect Toisanese]====<br />
Jason Law '06 can understand it almost as well as Cantonese.<br />
<br />
===Danish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06hdc Heather Casteel] '06 (drunkenly)<br />
<br />
===English===<br />
*British Accent<br />
<br />
*Chinese Accent<br />
<br />
*East European Accent<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] speaks English with East EU accent, though she doesn't notice it. Hmmm, it's not even pure East EU, it's a mixture of several... <br />
<br />
*Indian Accent<br />
<br />
*Japanese Accent<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] spent a month speaking English with a Japanese accent, so she can still do it very convincingly.<br />
<br />
*Scottish Accent<br />
<br />
*Southern Accent<br />
<br />
===Esperanto===<br />
<br />
[[Joe McDonough '06]] visited the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna, but by that time he had forgotten most of the Esperanto he had learned in a fit of boredom during Winter Study two years previously.<br />
<br />
===French===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (He used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.)<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] is still pretty good at French.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08 took a lit course with Professor Martin and scored well on the SAT II and AP exams, but that doesn't mean her accent isn't atrociously American...<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.<br />
<br />
Katie Montgomery '07 can, in theory, communicate in French.<br />
<br />
[[Lindsay Long-Waldor '08]] has not spoken in a while, but I might still have some skills.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]]' fourth language in which she has basic skills.<br />
<br />
===German===<br />
<br />
[[Steve Hunter '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]]<br />
<br />
*Swiss German<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] has a German-language textbook on Swiss German and really wants to be able to speak it authentically. At this point, he knows the numbers and some basic vocabulary and grammar. (TAs swoon when he counts to ten.)<br />
<br />
===Greek===<br />
<br />
Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)<br />
<br />
Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.<br />
<br />
So do Classics majors. (And in order. What comes after phi, oh my math and physics friends?) (the "$" comes after "\phi", unless it's on its own line, in which case you'll put "$$")<br />
<br />
*Modern, anyone?<br />
**[[Joanna Demakis]] knows some but she dropped out of Greek school after first grade.<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] thinks Modern Greek is cool and spent some time in online lessons for it his sophomore year. His study has since lapsed. He knows the order of the Greek alphabet well despite being a math major.<br />
<br />
===Hebrew===<br />
Robert Streicker '07<br />
<br />
Zachary Ulman '06<br />
<br />
[[Danny Fischler '06]]<br />
<br />
Davida Kutscher '03<br />
<br />
Elissa Brown '09<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
===Hindi===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Ananda V. Burra '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ng Nikhar Gaikwad]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rsr Ridhima Raina]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
<br />
===IPA===<br />
is not a language; it is an omnipotent alphabet. See also [[Phonetics]].<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] is to the [http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html International Phonetic Alphabet] as Al Gore is to the Internet.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned the IPA incredibly well as Jono Dowse's (who's Nate Sanders?) student in LING 111<br />
<br />
===Italian===<br />
<br />
[[Lucy Cox-Chapman '06]] spent a semester in Italy<br />
<br />
[[Katie Josephson '07]] is dying in Italian 103<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] loooooves Italian 103 (it's her third language)! It comes like a breeze after all these DIV III classes...<br />
<br />
===Japanese===<br />
<br />
[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.<br />
<br />
[[Leah Weintraub '06]] spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08cvw Charlotte White] rocks at Japanese, and is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "WTF Japan" rather often. As should we all.<br />
<br />
===Korean===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08dpr Dawn Robinson '08] is Korean. She can read and write Konglish, and say, "Hello, my name is Dawn" in Korean. :)<br />
<br />
===Latin===<br />
<br />
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882926250/002-7919228-6835221?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance The Devil knows Latin]. So does [[Joe McDonough '06]].<br />
<br />
===Oppish===<br />
<br />
[[Alden Robinson '06]] whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?<br />
<br />
===Pig Latin===<br />
<br />
[[Seth Brown]] taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.<br />
<br />
===Polish===<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] can say "What's up, sweetheart?"<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/ Peter Ladefoged].<br />
<br />
===Portuguese===<br />
<br />
*Brazil<br />
<br />
O Marcos Gouvea '05 fala português. E você?<br />
<br />
===Russian===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tmg Michael Gallagher]<br />
<br />
[[Emily Button '07]] can say "I've seen more women than you've seen sparrows!" <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08ik Ilya Khodosh] does an excellent drunk old Russian man impression.<br />
<br />
[[Suzanne C. Walsh '05]] can say, "Her breasts are as big as pineapples" and can translate for fiends who lose the ability to speak English and can only speak in Russian while drunk. She is also known to mutter things in Georgian. And we're not talking about, "y'all."<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
[[Anna Tsykalova '08]] says that all good things come from Mother Russia.<br />
<br />
===Spanish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (speaks Dominican Spanish--impossible to comprehend for most other spanish speakers because it sounds more like really fast Italian than anything else)<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (budding bachatero)<br />
<br />
[[Alan Cordova '06]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bry Bernard Yaros]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09st Sofia Torres] (but apparently she speaks Mexican, a variation of Spanish)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pmr Paulette Rodriguez] can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)<br />
<br />
Sarah Steege can speak with or without the sexy Spanish lisp.<br />
<br />
Cat Vielma can speak spanish with both an American accent and a Chilean accent in the same sentence.<br />
<br />
===Tamil===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rlw Rachel Winch]<br />
<br />
===Turkish===<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] can count to four in turkish, and also knows six through eight, and ten.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06mml Marisa Lau] spent a semester (Spring 2005) in Turkey so she knows numbers and greetings and maybe a bit more<br />
<br />
===Urdu===<br />
<br />
Aatif Abbas<br />
<br />
S. Waqqas Iftikhar<br />
<br />
Uzaib Y. Saya<br />
<br />
Ali Moiz<br />
<br />
Samreen Kazmi<br />
<br />
Murtaza Hussain</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Students_with_language_skills&diff=5062Students with language skills2005-11-11T21:27:08Z<p>137.165.30.64: /* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28linguistics%29 Mandarin] */</p>
<hr />
<div>You don't have to be good at it. Just say what you know.<br />
<br />
===American Sign Language===<br />
<br />
===Bengali===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 Aroop Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07am Auyon Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ra Rowena Ahsan]<br />
<br />
===Catalán===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (learned a little bit while abroad in Barcelona)<br />
<br />
===Chinese===<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_%28linguistics%29 Cantonese]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by, but not as well as with Mandarin (though Cantonese was his first language...).<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's first language<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] lived in Hong Kong for 2 years, and all she can say in Cantonese is "mgoi sai"...<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28linguistics%29 Mandarin]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law '06] can get by.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao08's] second language. <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang '08] <br />
<br />
Kim Fassler '06<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06esm Estalyn Marquis] has some awesome skills <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09lcj Lauren Johnson]<br />
<br />
[[Lars Enwereuzor Kana Ojukwu '07]] <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08mjg Morgan Goodwin]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07enm Elizabeth Macek] passable<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_language Taiwanese]====<br />
Rachel Ko '09<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_dialect Toisanese]====<br />
Jason Law '06 can understand it almost as well as Cantonese.<br />
<br />
===Danish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06hdc Heather Casteel] '06 (drunkenly)<br />
<br />
===English===<br />
*British Accent<br />
<br />
*Chinese Accent<br />
<br />
*East European Accent<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] speaks English with East EU accent, though she doesn't notice it. Hmmm, it's not even pure East EU, it's a mixture of several... <br />
<br />
*Indian Accent<br />
<br />
*Japanese Accent<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] spent a month speaking English with a Japanese accent, so she can still do it very convincingly.<br />
<br />
*Scottish Accent<br />
<br />
*Southern Accent<br />
<br />
===Esperanto===<br />
<br />
[[Joe McDonough '06]] visited the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna, but by that time he had forgotten most of the Esperanto he had learned in a fit of boredom during Winter Study two years previously.<br />
<br />
===French===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (He used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.)<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] is still pretty good at French.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08 took a lit course with Professor Martin and scored well on the SAT II and AP exams, but that doesn't mean her accent isn't atrociously American...<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.<br />
<br />
Katie Montgomery '07 can, in theory, communicate in French.<br />
<br />
[[Lindsay Long-Waldor '08]] has not spoken in a while, but I might still have some skills.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]]' fourth language in which she has basic skills.<br />
<br />
===German===<br />
<br />
[[Steve Hunter '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]]<br />
<br />
*Swiss German<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] has a German-language textbook on Swiss German and really wants to be able to speak it authentically. At this point, he knows the numbers and some basic vocabulary and grammar. (TAs swoon when he counts to ten.)<br />
<br />
===Greek===<br />
<br />
Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)<br />
<br />
Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.<br />
<br />
So do Classics majors. (And in order. What comes after phi, oh my math and physics friends?) (the "$" comes after "\phi", unless it's on its own line, in which case you'll put "$$")<br />
<br />
*Modern, anyone?<br />
**[[Joanna Demakis]] knows some but she dropped out of Greek school after first grade.<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] thinks Modern Greek is cool and spent some time in online lessons for it his sophomore year. His study has since lapsed. He knows the order of the Greek alphabet well despite being a math major.<br />
<br />
===Hebrew===<br />
Robert Streicker '07<br />
<br />
Zachary Ulman '06<br />
<br />
[[Danny Fischler '06]]<br />
<br />
Davida Kutscher '03<br />
<br />
Elissa Brown '09<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
===Hindi===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Ananda V. Burra '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ng Nikhar Gaikwad]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rsr Ridhima Raina]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
<br />
===IPA===<br />
is not a language; it is an omnipotent alphabet. See also [[Phonetics]].<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] is to the [http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html International Phonetic Alphabet] as Al Gore is to the Internet.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned the IPA incredibly well as Jono Dowse's (who's Nate Sanders?) student in LING 111<br />
<br />
===Italian===<br />
<br />
[[Lucy Cox-Chapman '06]] spent a semester in Italy<br />
<br />
[[Katie Josephson '07]] is dying in Italian 103<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] loooooves Italian 103 (it's her third language)! It comes like a breeze after all these DIV III classes...<br />
<br />
===Japanese===<br />
<br />
[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.<br />
<br />
[[Leah Weintraub '06]] spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08cvw Charlotte White] rocks at Japanese, and is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "WTF Japan" rather often. As should we all.<br />
<br />
===Korean===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08dpr Dawn Robinson '08] is Korean. She can read and write Konglish, and say, "Hello, my name is Dawn" in Korean. :)<br />
<br />
===Latin===<br />
<br />
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882926250/002-7919228-6835221?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance The Devil knows Latin]. So does [[Joe McDonough '06]].<br />
<br />
===Oppish===<br />
<br />
[[Alden Robinson '06]] whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?<br />
<br />
===Pig Latin===<br />
<br />
[[Seth Brown]] taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.<br />
<br />
===Polish===<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] can say "What's up, sweetheart?"<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/ Peter Ladefoged].<br />
<br />
===Portuguese===<br />
<br />
*Brazil<br />
<br />
O Marcos Gouvea '05 fala português. E você?<br />
<br />
===Russian===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tmg Michael Gallagher]<br />
<br />
[[Emily Button '07]] can say "I've seen more women than you've seen sparrows!" <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08ik Ilya Khodosh] does an excellent drunk old Russian man impression.<br />
<br />
[[Suzanne C. Walsh '05]] can say, "Her breasts are as big as pineapples" and can translate for fiends who lose the ability to speak English and can only speak in Russian while drunk. She is also known to mutter things in Georgian. And we're not talking about, "y'all."<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
[[Anna Tsykalova '08]] says that all good things come from Mother Russia.<br />
<br />
===Spanish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (speaks Dominican Spanish--impossible to comprehend for most other spanish speakers because it sounds more like really fast Italian than anything else)<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (budding bachatero)<br />
<br />
[[Alan Cordova '06]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bry Bernard Yaros]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09st Sofia Torres] (but apparently she speaks Mexican, a variation of Spanish)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pmr Paulette Rodriguez] can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)<br />
<br />
Sarah Steege can speak with or without the sexy Spanish lisp.<br />
<br />
Cat Vielma can speak spanish with both an American accent and a Chilean accent in the same sentence.<br />
<br />
===Tamil===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rlw Rachel Winch]<br />
<br />
===Turkish===<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] can count to four in turkish, and also knows six through eight, and ten.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06mml Marisa Lau] spent a semester (Spring 2005) in Turkey so she knows numbers and greetings and maybe a bit more<br />
<br />
===Urdu===<br />
<br />
Aatif Abbas<br />
<br />
S. Waqqas Iftikhar<br />
<br />
Uzaib Y. Saya<br />
<br />
Ali Moiz<br />
<br />
Samreen Kazmi<br />
<br />
Murtaza Hussain</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Students_with_language_skills&diff=5061Students with language skills2005-11-11T21:22:00Z<p>137.165.30.64: /* [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_dialect Toisanese] */</p>
<hr />
<div>You don't have to be good at it. Just say what you know.<br />
<br />
===American Sign Language===<br />
<br />
===Bengali===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 Aroop Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07am Auyon Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ra Rowena Ahsan]<br />
<br />
===Catalán===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (learned a little bit while abroad in Barcelona)<br />
<br />
===Chinese===<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_%28linguistics%29 Cantonese]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by, but not as well as with Mandarin (though Cantonese was his first language...).<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's first language<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] lived in Hong Kong for 2 years, and all she can say in Cantonese is "mgoi sai"...<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28linguistics%29 Mandarin]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's second language. <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08<br />
<br />
Kim Fassler '06<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06esm Estalyn Marquis] has some awesome skills <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09lcj Lauren Johnson]<br />
<br />
[[Lars Enwereuzor Kana Ojukwu]] '07<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08mjg Morgan Goodwin]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07enm Elizabeth Macek] passable<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_language Taiwanese]====<br />
Rachel Ko '09<br />
<br />
====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_dialect Toisanese]====<br />
Jason Law '06 can understand it almost as well as Cantonese.<br />
<br />
===Danish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06hdc Heather Casteel] '06 (drunkenly)<br />
<br />
===English===<br />
*British Accent<br />
<br />
*Chinese Accent<br />
<br />
*East European Accent<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] speaks English with East EU accent, though she doesn't notice it. Hmmm, it's not even pure East EU, it's a mixture of several... <br />
<br />
*Indian Accent<br />
<br />
*Japanese Accent<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] spent a month speaking English with a Japanese accent, so she can still do it very convincingly.<br />
<br />
*Scottish Accent<br />
<br />
*Southern Accent<br />
<br />
===Esperanto===<br />
<br />
[[Joe McDonough '06]] visited the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna, but by that time he had forgotten most of the Esperanto he had learned in a fit of boredom during Winter Study two years previously.<br />
<br />
===French===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (He used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.)<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] is still pretty good at French.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08 took a lit course with Professor Martin and scored well on the SAT II and AP exams, but that doesn't mean her accent isn't atrociously American...<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.<br />
<br />
Katie Montgomery '07 can, in theory, communicate in French.<br />
<br />
[[Lindsay Long-Waldor '08]] has not spoken in a while, but I might still have some skills.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]]' fourth language in which she has basic skills.<br />
<br />
===German===<br />
<br />
[[Steve Hunter '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]]<br />
<br />
*Swiss German<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] has a German-language textbook on Swiss German and really wants to be able to speak it authentically. At this point, he knows the numbers and some basic vocabulary and grammar. (TAs swoon when he counts to ten.)<br />
<br />
===Greek===<br />
<br />
Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)<br />
<br />
Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.<br />
<br />
So do Classics majors. (And in order. What comes after phi, oh my math and physics friends?) (the "$" comes after "\phi", unless it's on its own line, in which case you'll put "$$")<br />
<br />
*Modern, anyone?<br />
**[[Joanna Demakis]] knows some but she dropped out of Greek school after first grade.<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] thinks Modern Greek is cool and spent some time in online lessons for it his sophomore year. His study has since lapsed. He knows the order of the Greek alphabet well despite being a math major.<br />
<br />
===Hebrew===<br />
Robert Streicker '07<br />
<br />
Zachary Ulman '06<br />
<br />
[[Danny Fischler '06]]<br />
<br />
Davida Kutscher '03<br />
<br />
Elissa Brown '09<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
===Hindi===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Ananda V. Burra '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ng Nikhar Gaikwad]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rsr Ridhima Raina]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
<br />
===IPA===<br />
is not a language; it is an omnipotent alphabet. See also [[Phonetics]].<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] is to the [http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html International Phonetic Alphabet] as Al Gore is to the Internet.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned the IPA incredibly well as Jono Dowse's (who's Nate Sanders?) student in LING 111<br />
<br />
===Italian===<br />
<br />
[[Lucy Cox-Chapman '06]] spent a semester in Italy<br />
<br />
[[Katie Josephson '07]] is dying in Italian 103<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] loooooves Italian 103 (it's her third language)! It comes like a breeze after all these DIV III classes...<br />
<br />
===Japanese===<br />
<br />
[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.<br />
<br />
[[Leah Weintraub '06]] spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08cvw Charlotte White] rocks at Japanese, and is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "WTF Japan" rather often. As should we all.<br />
<br />
===Korean===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08dpr Dawn Robinson '08] is Korean. She can read and write Konglish, and say, "Hello, my name is Dawn" in Korean. :)<br />
<br />
===Latin===<br />
<br />
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882926250/002-7919228-6835221?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance The Devil knows Latin]. So does [[Joe McDonough '06]].<br />
<br />
===Oppish===<br />
<br />
[[Alden Robinson '06]] whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?<br />
<br />
===Pig Latin===<br />
<br />
[[Seth Brown]] taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.<br />
<br />
===Polish===<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] can say "What's up, sweetheart?"<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/ Peter Ladefoged].<br />
<br />
===Portuguese===<br />
<br />
*Brazil<br />
<br />
O Marcos Gouvea '05 fala português. E você?<br />
<br />
===Russian===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tmg Michael Gallagher]<br />
<br />
[[Emily Button '07]] can say "I've seen more women than you've seen sparrows!" <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08ik Ilya Khodosh] does an excellent drunk old Russian man impression.<br />
<br />
[[Suzanne C. Walsh '05]] can say, "Her breasts are as big as pineapples" and can translate for fiends who lose the ability to speak English and can only speak in Russian while drunk. She is also known to mutter things in Georgian. And we're not talking about, "y'all."<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
[[Anna Tsykalova '08]] says that all good things come from Mother Russia.<br />
<br />
===Spanish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (speaks Dominican Spanish--impossible to comprehend for most other spanish speakers because it sounds more like really fast Italian than anything else)<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (budding bachatero)<br />
<br />
[[Alan Cordova '06]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bry Bernard Yaros]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09st Sofia Torres] (but apparently she speaks Mexican, a variation of Spanish)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pmr Paulette Rodriguez] can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)<br />
<br />
Sarah Steege can speak with or without the sexy Spanish lisp.<br />
<br />
Cat Vielma can speak spanish with both an American accent and a Chilean accent in the same sentence.<br />
<br />
===Tamil===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rlw Rachel Winch]<br />
<br />
===Turkish===<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] can count to four in turkish, and also knows six through eight, and ten.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06mml Marisa Lau] spent a semester (Spring 2005) in Turkey so she knows numbers and greetings and maybe a bit more<br />
<br />
===Urdu===<br />
<br />
Aatif Abbas<br />
<br />
S. Waqqas Iftikhar<br />
<br />
Uzaib Y. Saya<br />
<br />
Ali Moiz<br />
<br />
Samreen Kazmi<br />
<br />
Murtaza Hussain</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Students_with_language_skills&diff=5060Students with language skills2005-11-11T21:21:36Z<p>137.165.30.64: /* Chinese */</p>
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<div>You don't have to be good at it. Just say what you know.<br />
<br />
===American Sign Language===<br />
<br />
===Bengali===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 Aroop Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07am Auyon Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ra Rowena Ahsan]<br />
<br />
===Catalán===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (learned a little bit while abroad in Barcelona)<br />
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===Chinese===<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_%28linguistics%29 Cantonese]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by, but not as well as with Mandarin (though Cantonese was his first language...).<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's first language<br />
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[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] lived in Hong Kong for 2 years, and all she can say in Cantonese is "mgoi sai"...<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28linguistics%29 Mandarin]====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's second language. <br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08<br />
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Kim Fassler '06<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06esm Estalyn Marquis] has some awesome skills <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09lcj Lauren Johnson]<br />
<br />
[[Lars Enwereuzor Kana Ojukwu]] '07<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08mjg Morgan Goodwin]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07enm Elizabeth Macek] passable<br />
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====[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_language Taiwanese]====<br />
Rachel Ko '09<br />
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====[http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_dialect Toisanese]====<br />
Jason Law '06 can understand it almost as well as Cantonese.<br />
<br />
===Danish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06hdc Heather Casteel] '06 (drunkenly)<br />
<br />
===English===<br />
*British Accent<br />
<br />
*Chinese Accent<br />
<br />
*East European Accent<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] speaks English with East EU accent, though she doesn't notice it. Hmmm, it's not even pure East EU, it's a mixture of several... <br />
<br />
*Indian Accent<br />
<br />
*Japanese Accent<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] spent a month speaking English with a Japanese accent, so she can still do it very convincingly.<br />
<br />
*Scottish Accent<br />
<br />
*Southern Accent<br />
<br />
===Esperanto===<br />
<br />
[[Joe McDonough '06]] visited the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna, but by that time he had forgotten most of the Esperanto he had learned in a fit of boredom during Winter Study two years previously.<br />
<br />
===French===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (He used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.)<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] is still pretty good at French.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08 took a lit course with Professor Martin and scored well on the SAT II and AP exams, but that doesn't mean her accent isn't atrociously American...<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.<br />
<br />
Katie Montgomery '07 can, in theory, communicate in French.<br />
<br />
[[Lindsay Long-Waldor '08]] has not spoken in a while, but I might still have some skills.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]]' fourth language in which she has basic skills.<br />
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===German===<br />
<br />
[[Steve Hunter '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]]<br />
<br />
*Swiss German<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] has a German-language textbook on Swiss German and really wants to be able to speak it authentically. At this point, he knows the numbers and some basic vocabulary and grammar. (TAs swoon when he counts to ten.)<br />
<br />
===Greek===<br />
<br />
Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)<br />
<br />
Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.<br />
<br />
So do Classics majors. (And in order. What comes after phi, oh my math and physics friends?) (the "$" comes after "\phi", unless it's on its own line, in which case you'll put "$$")<br />
<br />
*Modern, anyone?<br />
**[[Joanna Demakis]] knows some but she dropped out of Greek school after first grade.<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] thinks Modern Greek is cool and spent some time in online lessons for it his sophomore year. His study has since lapsed. He knows the order of the Greek alphabet well despite being a math major.<br />
<br />
===Hebrew===<br />
Robert Streicker '07<br />
<br />
Zachary Ulman '06<br />
<br />
[[Danny Fischler '06]]<br />
<br />
Davida Kutscher '03<br />
<br />
Elissa Brown '09<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
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===Hindi===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Ananda V. Burra '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ng Nikhar Gaikwad]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rsr Ridhima Raina]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
<br />
===IPA===<br />
is not a language; it is an omnipotent alphabet. See also [[Phonetics]].<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] is to the [http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html International Phonetic Alphabet] as Al Gore is to the Internet.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned the IPA incredibly well as Jono Dowse's (who's Nate Sanders?) student in LING 111<br />
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===Italian===<br />
<br />
[[Lucy Cox-Chapman '06]] spent a semester in Italy<br />
<br />
[[Katie Josephson '07]] is dying in Italian 103<br />
<br />
[[Nela Vukmirovic '08]] loooooves Italian 103 (it's her third language)! It comes like a breeze after all these DIV III classes...<br />
<br />
===Japanese===<br />
<br />
[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.<br />
<br />
[[Leah Weintraub '06]] spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08cvw Charlotte White] rocks at Japanese, and is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "WTF Japan" rather often. As should we all.<br />
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===Korean===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08dpr Dawn Robinson '08] is Korean. She can read and write Konglish, and say, "Hello, my name is Dawn" in Korean. :)<br />
<br />
===Latin===<br />
<br />
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882926250/002-7919228-6835221?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance The Devil knows Latin]. So does [[Joe McDonough '06]].<br />
<br />
===Oppish===<br />
<br />
[[Alden Robinson '06]] whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?<br />
<br />
===Pig Latin===<br />
<br />
[[Seth Brown]] taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.<br />
<br />
===Polish===<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] can say "What's up, sweetheart?"<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/ Peter Ladefoged].<br />
<br />
===Portuguese===<br />
<br />
*Brazil<br />
<br />
O Marcos Gouvea '05 fala português. E você?<br />
<br />
===Russian===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tmg Michael Gallagher]<br />
<br />
[[Emily Button '07]] can say "I've seen more women than you've seen sparrows!" <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08ik Ilya Khodosh] does an excellent drunk old Russian man impression.<br />
<br />
[[Suzanne C. Walsh '05]] can say, "Her breasts are as big as pineapples" and can translate for fiends who lose the ability to speak English and can only speak in Russian while drunk. She is also known to mutter things in Georgian. And we're not talking about, "y'all."<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
<br />
[[Anna Tsykalova '08]] says that all good things come from Mother Russia.<br />
<br />
===Spanish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (speaks Dominican Spanish--impossible to comprehend for most other spanish speakers because it sounds more like really fast Italian than anything else)<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (budding bachatero)<br />
<br />
[[Alan Cordova '06]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bry Bernard Yaros]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09st Sofia Torres] (but apparently she speaks Mexican, a variation of Spanish)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pmr Paulette Rodriguez] can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)<br />
<br />
Sarah Steege can speak with or without the sexy Spanish lisp.<br />
<br />
Cat Vielma can speak spanish with both an American accent and a Chilean accent in the same sentence.<br />
<br />
===Tamil===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rlw Rachel Winch]<br />
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===Turkish===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] can count to four in turkish, and also knows six through eight, and ten.<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06mml Marisa Lau] spent a semester (Spring 2005) in Turkey so she knows numbers and greetings and maybe a bit more<br />
<br />
===Urdu===<br />
<br />
Aatif Abbas<br />
<br />
S. Waqqas Iftikhar<br />
<br />
Uzaib Y. Saya<br />
<br />
Ali Moiz<br />
<br />
Samreen Kazmi<br />
<br />
Murtaza Hussain</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Albany&diff=5012Albany2005-11-11T05:28:27Z<p>137.165.30.64: /* Bus */</p>
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<div>It's the capital region of New York State, there's bound to be stuff to do here right? Feel free to contribute new entries or adding more information to existing entries.<br />
==Music==<br />
Valentines - A small club that plays mostly local music and little-known acts but occasionally has larger national and international bands like Of Montreal in September of 2005.<br />
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Pepsi Arena - Stadium that has big and expensive shows if you're into that.<br />
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Northern Lights - Club that has gets some good acts as well.<br />
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==Food==<br />
There actually are a lot more food options in Albany.<br />
===Bombers===<br />
Burrito bar and lounge. Located on Lark Street in downtown Albany (the next block down from Ben and Jerry's). Home of the biggest (and best) burritos outside of chains like Chipotle or Baja Fresh. We're talking girth -- everything packed and tidily wrapped. Options for all; the BBQ chicken and BBQ tofu burritos are equally excellent. They have non-burrito options as well - tacos, quesadillas, cheese fries, etc - and glorious dessert empanadas and taquitos. All relatively cheap, served in a refurbished sub-street dive. Newly opened bar upstairs. This is the sort of food that is craved and sparks drunken quests. <br />
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258 Lark Street<br />
Albany, NY <br />
www.bombersburritobar.com<br />
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===Dim Sum===<br />
Ocean Palace, located in Albany (take Exit 2E on 87 South to get onto Central Ave) offers a very extensive dim sum menu during weekend brunch times; they also offer a pretty good selection of authentic Chinese dishes, with a strong focus on Cantonese and seafood dishes--the variety of dim sum available outside of weekend brunch is considerably smaller, however. <br />
The place is too small and there's not enough clientele in Albany for them to offer the crazy dim sum carts that you may be used to in big cities, but Ocean Palace is probably the closest you can get to good authentic Chinese food (or Dim Sum, for that matter) when you're sick and tired of Chopsticks or Happy Star. <br />
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855 Central Ave<br />
Albany, NY <br />
(518) 453-6258<br />
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===Verdile's===<br />
A wonderful Italian place in North Troy. My family's been going to it for over 20 years. Try the Pasta Special, linguini with garlic butter sauce, spinach and shrimp. Plus enough for the next day's lunch too.<br />
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572 2nd Ave<br />
Troy, NY<br />
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===Krispy Kreme===<br />
The infamous doughnuts are available in Latham, NY. <br />
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555 Troy Schenectady Road<br />
Latham, NY 12110 US<br />
(518) 783-8600<br />
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==Transportation==<br />
Albany is a good starting point for reaching other places in the world, with bus, train, and plane options.<br />
===Bus===<br />
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[[Image:greyhound.png|right|thumbnail| Greyhound routes in the vicinity of Albany.]]<br />
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The Greyhound bus station can get you started on a long-distance bus trip.<br />
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34 Hamilton St<br />
Albany, NY 12207 <br />
(518) 434-8461<br />
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===Train===<br />
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[[Image:amtrak.jpg|right|thumbnail| Amtrak routes in the vicinity of Albany.]]<br />
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The Albany train station is located across the Hudson River in a town called Rensselaer. <br />
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525 East St.<br />
Rensselaer, NY 12144<br />
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===Plane===<br />
Fly away from here.<br />
737 Albany Shaker Rd<br />
Albany, NY 12211</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Students_with_language_skills&diff=5011Students with language skills2005-11-11T05:27:58Z<p>137.165.30.64: </p>
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<div>You don't have to be good at it. Just say what you know.<br />
<br />
===American Sign Language===<br />
<br />
===Bengali===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 Aroop Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07am Auyon Mukharji]<br />
<br />
[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07ra Rowena Ahsan]<br />
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===Catalán===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (learned a little bit while abroad in Barcelona)<br />
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===Chinese===<br />
<br />
====Cantonese====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by, but not as well as with Mandarin (though Cantonese was his first language...).<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's first language<br />
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====Mandarin====<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06jl Jason Law] '06 can get by.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] 08's second language. <br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08<br />
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Kim Fassler '06<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06esm Estalyn Marquis] has some awesome skills <br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09lcj Lauren Johnson]<br />
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[[Lars Enwereuzor Kana Ojukwu]] '07<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08mjg Morgan Goodwin]<br />
<br />
====Taiwanese====<br />
Rachel Ko '09<br />
<br />
===Danish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06hdc Heather Casteel] '06 (drunkenly)<br />
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===English===<br />
*British Accent<br />
<br />
*Chinese Accent<br />
<br />
*East European Accent<br />
<br />
*Indian Accent<br />
<br />
*Japanese Accent<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] spent a month speaking English with a Japanese accent, so she can still do it very convincingly.<br />
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*Scottish Accent<br />
<br />
*Southern Accent<br />
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===Esperanto===<br />
<br />
[[Joe McDonough '06]] visited the International Esperanto Museum in Vienna, but by that time he had forgotten most of the Esperanto he had learned in a fit of boredom during Winter Study two years previously.<br />
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===French===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (He used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.)<br />
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[[Diana Davis '07]] is still pretty good at French.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] '08 took a lit course with Professor Martin and scored well on the SAT II and AP exams, but that doesn't mean her accent isn't atrociously American...<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.<br />
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Katie Montgomery '07 can, in theory, communicate in French.<br />
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[[Lindsay Long-Waldor '08]] has not spoken in a while, but I might still have some skills.<br />
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===German===<br />
<br />
[[Steve Hunter '07]]<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]]<br />
<br />
*Swiss German<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] has a German-language textbook on Swiss German and really wants to be able to speak it authentically. At this point, he knows the numbers and some basic vocabulary and grammar. (TAs swoon when he counts to ten.)<br />
<br />
===Greek===<br />
<br />
Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)<br />
<br />
Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.<br />
<br />
So do Classics majors. (And in order. What comes after phi, oh my math and physics friends?) (the "$" comes after "\phi", unless it's on its own line, in which case you'll put "$$")<br />
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*Modern, anyone?<br />
**[[Joanna Demakis]] knows some but she dropped out of Greek school after first grade.<br />
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[[Jono Dowse '06]] thinks Modern Greek is cool and spent some time in online lessons for it his sophomore year. His study has since lapsed. He knows the order of the Greek alphabet well despite being a math major.<br />
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===Hebrew===<br />
Robert Streicker '07<br />
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Zachary Ulman '06<br />
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[[Danny Fischler '06]]<br />
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Davida Kutscher '03<br />
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Elissa Brown '09<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
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===Hindi===<br />
[[Ameeda H. Chowdhury '07]]<br />
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[[Ananda V. Burra '07]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ng Nikhar Gaikwad]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rsr Ridhima Raina]<br />
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[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
<br />
===IPA===<br />
is not a language; it is an omnipotent alphabet. See also [[Phonetics]].<br />
<br />
[[Jono Dowse '06]] is to the [http://wso.williams.edu/~jdowse/ipa.html International Phonetic Alphabet] as Al Gore is to the Internet.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] learned the IPA incredibly well as Jono Dowse's (who's Nate Sanders?) student in LING 111<br />
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===Italian===<br />
<br />
[[Lucy Cox-Chapman '06]] spent a semester in Italy<br />
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[[Katie Josephson '07]] is dying in Italian 103<br />
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===Japanese===<br />
<br />
[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."<br />
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[[Diana Davis '07]] frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.<br />
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[[Leah Weintraub '06]] spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08cvw Charlotte White] rocks at Japanese, and is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "WTF Japan" rather often. As should we all.<br />
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===Korean===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08dpr Dawn Robinson '08] is Korean. She can read and write Konglish, and say, "Hello, my name is Dawn" in Korean. :)<br />
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===Latin===<br />
<br />
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1882926250/002-7919228-6835221?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance The Devil knows Latin]. So does [[Joe McDonough '06]].<br />
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===Oppish===<br />
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[[Alden Robinson '06]] whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?<br />
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===Pig Latin===<br />
<br />
[[Seth Brown]] taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.<br />
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===Polish===<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] can say "What's up, sweetheart?"<br />
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[[Jono Dowse '06]] knows how to pronounce written Polish and has quite a few audio samples of Polish phrases on his iTunes account courtesy of [http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/ladefoge/ Peter Ladefoged].<br />
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===Portuguese===<br />
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*Brazil<br />
<br />
O Marcos Gouvea '05 fala português. E você?<br />
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===Russian===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tmg Michael Gallagher]<br />
<br />
[[Emily Button '07]] can say "I've seen more women than you've seen sparrows!" <br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08ik Ilya Khodosh] does an excellent drunk old Russian man impression.<br />
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[[Suzanne C. Walsh '05]] can say, "Her breasts are as big as pineapples" and can translate for fiends who lose the ability to speak English and can only speak in Russian while drunk. She is also known to mutter things in Georgian. And we're not talking about, "y'all."<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dpg Daniel Gross '07]<br />
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[[Anna Tsykalova '08]] says that all good things come from Mother Russia.<br />
<br />
===Spanish===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (speaks Dominican Spanish--impossible to comprehend for most other spanish speakers because it sounds more like really fast Italian than anything else)<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (budding bachatero)<br />
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[[Alan Cordova '06]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bry Bernard Yaros]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09st Sofia Torres] (but apparently she speaks Mexican, a variation of Spanish)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08pmr Paulette Rodriguez] can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)<br />
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Sarah Steege can speak with or without the sexy Spanish lisp.<br />
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===Tamil===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rlw Rachel Winch]<br />
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===Turkish===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07dcs Dave Senft] can count to four in turkish, and also knows six through eight, and ten.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06mml Marisa Lau] spent a semester (Spring 2005) in Turkey so she knows numbers and greetings and maybe a bit more<br />
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===Urdu===<br />
<br />
Aatif Abbas<br />
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S. Waqqas Iftikhar<br />
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Uzaib Y. Saya<br />
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Ali Moiz<br />
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Samreen Kazmi<br />
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Murtaza Hussain</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Albany&diff=5008Albany2005-11-11T05:22:43Z<p>137.165.30.64: </p>
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<div>It's the capital region of New York State, there's bound to be stuff to do here right? Feel free to contribute new entries or adding more information to existing entries.<br />
==Music==<br />
Valentines - A small club that plays mostly local music and little-known acts but occasionally has larger national and international bands like Of Montreal in September of 2005.<br />
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Pepsi Arena - Stadium that has big and expensive shows if you're into that.<br />
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Northern Lights - Club that has gets some good acts as well.<br />
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==Food==<br />
There actually are a lot more food options in Albany.<br />
===Bombers===<br />
Burrito bar and lounge. Located on Lark Street in downtown Albany (the next block down from Ben and Jerry's). Home of the biggest (and best) burritos outside of chains like Chipotle or Baja Fresh. We're talking girth -- everything packed and tidily wrapped. Options for all; the BBQ chicken and BBQ tofu burritos are equally excellent. They have non-burrito options as well - tacos, quesadillas, cheese fries, etc - and glorious dessert empanadas and taquitos. All relatively cheap, served in a refurbished sub-street dive. Newly opened bar upstairs. This is the sort of food that is craved and sparks drunken quests. <br />
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258 Lark Street<br />
Albany, NY <br />
www.bombersburritobar.com<br />
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===Dim Sum===<br />
Ocean Palace, located in Albany (take Exit 2E on 87 South to get onto Central Ave) offers a very extensive dim sum menu during weekend brunch times; they also offer a pretty good selection of authentic Chinese dishes, with a strong focus on Cantonese and seafood dishes--the variety of dim sum available outside of weekend brunch is considerably smaller, however. <br />
The place is too small and there's not enough clientele in Albany for them to offer the crazy dim sum carts that you may be used to in big cities, but Ocean Palace is probably the closest you can get to good authentic Chinese food (or Dim Sum, for that matter) when you're sick and tired of Chopsticks or Happy Star. <br />
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855 Central Ave<br />
Albany, NY <br />
(518) 453-6258<br />
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===Verdile's===<br />
A wonderful Italian place in North Troy. My family's been going to it for over 20 years. Try the Pasta Special, linguini with garlic butter sauce, spinach and shrimp. Plus enough for the next day's lunch too.<br />
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572 2nd Ave<br />
Troy, NY<br />
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===Krispy Kreme===<br />
The infamous doughnuts are available in Latham, NY. <br />
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555 Troy Schenectady Road<br />
Latham, NY 12110 US<br />
(518) 783-8600<br />
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==Transportation==<br />
Albany is a good starting point for reaching other places in the world, with bus, train, and plane options.<br />
===Bus===<br />
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[[Image:greyhound.png|right|thumbnail| Greyhound routes in the vicinity of Albany.]]<br />
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The Greyhound bus station can get you started on a long-distance bus trip.<br />
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Albany, NY 12207 <br />
(518) 434-8461<br />
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===Train===<br />
<br />
[[Image:amtrak.jpg|right|thumbnail| Amtrak routes in the vicinity of Albany.]]<br />
<br />
The Albany train station is located across the Hudson River in a town called Rensselaer. <br />
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Rensselaer, NY 12144<br />
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===Plane===<br />
Fly away from here.<br />
737 Albany Shaker Rd<br />
Albany, NY 12211</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Pittsfield&diff=4682Pittsfield2005-11-09T04:48:12Z<p>137.165.30.64: </p>
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<div>* Fulfill your Jury Duty obligation<br />
* Try to find places to park<br />
* Ben & Jerry's<br />
* Elizabeth's</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Skills&diff=4350Skills2005-11-06T22:47:22Z<p>137.165.30.64: /* Hindi */</p>
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<div>'''Don't be shy.''' Can you do something that other people find useful, entertaining, or impressive? Don't hide it under a bushel! Instead, post here. Put your proficiency in parentheses. Add new categories and skills as appropriate.<br />
<br />
==Automotive Skills==<br />
<br />
===Drive Stick Shift===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (maniacally)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dpr Daniel Rooney] (erotically)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06bwd Brendan Dougherty] (smooth as shit out of a duck's ass)<br />
<br />
Joe Shoer '06 (that's what she said)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07kfm Katie Montgomery] (could drive anything from a '82 Toyota Tercel to a forklift, or so she believes)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (She learned in a week.)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] (automatics are for women)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jyl Janey Waney Lee] (She doesn't even need to say anything.)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ljw Leah Joy Weintraub] (In her other life, she actually is a race car driver.) (So she has problems making right turns.)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06lc Lucy Cox-Chapman](Better than her brother)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09jrc Jay Cox-Chapman](Worse than his sister)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07hmh Helena Harnik] (I have two driving licenses, one for each side of the road. Yeah that's right- I can use either hand to shift. That makes me 2x more stick-savvy than everyone else)<br />
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[[Ronit Bhattacharyya '07]] (Only ever driven stick shift; now I just wish I could drive on the right side of the road)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08amr_2 Anne Royston '08] (can shift from both driver's and passenger's seat; working on backseat)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mse Matthew Earle '07] (Double-clutch downshifts saves wear on synchros, but may have caused the expensive timing chain misalignment he just had fixed)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (Including sketchy old truck clutches)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06chh Clara Hard] (West Coast style)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nsc Nick Colella] (Has to watch out for moose)<br />
<br />
===Drive Really Fast In Reverse===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dsf Danny Fischler] once pulled a k-turn, maxing at around 20mph, across the width of a freeway entrance. With [http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rmb Becky frickin' Burditt] in the back seat. Ca-raaaaaazy.<br />
<br />
===Sweet Jumps===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] likes to go as fast as he can when he sees speed bumps and likes to think he gets an inch or two of air in his 2-ton SUV every time.<br />
<br />
===Change a Tire===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez '06] has changed more than his fair share of tires and learned that salt+rust will effectively glue a wheel onto the axle. Solution? Wedge the flat edge of your hubcap-removal tool into the jammed area and whack the crap out of it with a hammer. Eventually, if you're lucky, that wheel will pop right off.<br />
<br />
===Jumpstart a Car===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez '06] has also had his fair share of car jumpstarts and knows not to connect the black plug to red and red plug to black. If you do, you will blow the battery fuse in your fusebox and burn out some expensive component in your car. Through his learning processes, he found just how costly it is to replace the stock amp that powers your stereo.<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman]] (who's been zapped)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ljw Leah Joy Weintraub] (but only if you ask nicely)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon]<br />
<br />
=== Parallel Park ===<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman]], native New Yorker, has parked in spots so tight that getting in and out depended on using room provided by nudging cars parked in front and behind, counting on the flexibility of their shocks. His record in Williamstown was set when moving into his [[Morgan#East|Morgan East]] room for the [[Summer 2004|Summer of 2004]], when he parked at the top of [[Spring Street]], leaving enough room on either end of the car to fit one finger, but not two.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] is also a native New Yorker and often takes it upon himself to giggle at the non-city folk that have such a tough time parking in huge spots on Spring Street.<br />
<br />
===Get Parking Tickets ===<br />
[[Chris St.Cyr]] (5 tickets and the infamous car boot to the front tire in first two months here as a freshman)<br />
<br />
[[Evan Miller]] (6 in as many days)<br />
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[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] two in three days in Queens, NYC. Both while at the vehicle, one while inside it.<br />
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===Get Speeding Tickets===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (2 tickets for a total of 500 dollars in fines within a month)<br />
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==Oral Skills==<br />
<br />
===I can blow free-floating saliva bubbles===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06bwd Brendan Dougherty] (Mr. Bubbles)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (I can catch it, too)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08smc Sara Carian]<br />
<br />
===I can curl my tongue into a W===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09les Leah Shoer]<br />
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===I can touch my tongue to my nose===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06bwd Brendan Dougherty]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06lc Lucy Cox-Chapman]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jfm Jake Manley]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07whp Hazen Parsons] (Without even having to strain.)<br />
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[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]]<br />
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===I can tie a cherry stem into a knot in my mouth===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] <br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (gimme 40 seconds)<br />
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[[Julianne Shelby '06 | Julianne Shelby]]<br />
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Liz Macek, '07<br />
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===I can turn my tongue so it's vertical instead of horizontal===<br />
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[[Diana Davis '07]]<br />
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[[Julianne Shelby '06]]<br />
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===I can turn my tongue past vertical, until it's upside down===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06bwd Brendan Dougherty]<br />
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==Manual Skills==<br />
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===I can snap my fingers by flipping my wrist===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (right hand only)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rb Ronit Bhattacharyya] (both hands)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09jrd Jonathan Dahlberg] - amazingly well<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon]<br />
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===I can snap without my thumb.===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07whp Hazen Parsons] (right hand more audible...my ticket to fame.)<br />
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===I can pull my fingers back to touch the back of my hand===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jgc John Chatlos] can.<br />
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[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] can pull her thumb back to touch her forearm, which is almost as good.<br />
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==Other body skills==<br />
<br />
===Face Tricks===<br />
<br />
Some people can hang a spoon from their nose.<br />
<br />
Liz macek can hang 4 spoons on her face simultaneously<br />
<br />
===Ear Tricks ===<br />
Katie Montgomery can move her ears independently of one another. <br />
<br />
Margit Sande-Kerback '05 can wiggle her ears.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] can wiggle his ears, but he can only move his left ear independent of his right, not vice-versa.<br />
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[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] can wiggle her left ear. Just her left ear.<br />
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Andrew Meador can wiggle his ears separately or together.<br />
<br />
===I can dislocate my...===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bro Bonnie O'Keefe] can dislocate her right hip.<br />
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[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] can dislocate her right shoulder. (Also, judging by the number of stupid body tricks she's signed up for, she might be a circus freak.)<br />
<br />
=== I Can Get a Cool/Rare/Weird Disease ===<br />
<br />
[[Seth Brown|Seth Brown '01]] (scurvy)<br />
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==Computer Languages==<br />
<br />
===Assembly Language===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (kind of...)<br />
<br />
===Befunge===<br />
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Steve Winslow '04<br />
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[[Brent Yorgey]] '04<br />
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===C===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] <br />
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[[Brent Yorgey]] '04<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
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===Haskell===<br />
<br />
[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (the most beautiful language ever -- don't give me this Ruby crap)<br />
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===Java===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dpr Daniel Rooney] (disgusting)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (shamefully well)<br />
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[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (I frickin' TEACH this language)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (not bad either.)<br />
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===JavaScript===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (just a pinch)<br />
<br />
===LaTeX===<br />
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[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (too good for word processing)<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (too poor for Word)<br />
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===Lisp===<br />
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(cons '[[Brent Yorgey]] (cons '04<br />
(cons '[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] '07)))<br />
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===Mathematica===<br />
<br />
[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (is too a real language)<br />
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[[Joe Shoer '06]] (it's my thesis, and I can do more with it than the math nerds can)<br />
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[[Laura Effinger-Dean '06]] (I make pretty pictures for my thesis!)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06nsy Nick Yates '06] (Pretty spirals! Ooh!)<br />
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[[Diana Davis '07]] (I'll isoperimeterize you!)<br />
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===PARI/GP===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06nsy Nick Yates '06] (For a number theoretic software called [http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ PARI]; similar to C)<br />
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===Perl===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06cks Kai Steverson] (competent)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (wizardly)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jwc_2 Jing Cao] (kind of)<br />
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[[Brent Yorgey]] '04 (JAPH)<br />
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===PHP===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07yfh Young Hahn] (godly)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08kch Katherine Huang] (sort of)<br />
<br />
===Python===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (the scripting language of choice)<br />
<br />
===R===<br />
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[[Daniel Klein '06|Daniel Klein]] (it makes statistics fun!)<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller]<br />
<br />
===Ruby===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06emm Evan Miller] (the scripting language of choice)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rb Ronit Bhattacharyya] (the most beautiful language ever)<br />
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===WC237 Microcode===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06tfv Travis Vachon] (well, at one point at least...)<br />
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===XML/XSLT/XPath/XQuery===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rb Ronit Bhattacharyya] (hey, at least I'm not claiming CSS & HTML to be languages)<br />
<br />
==Software==<br />
<br />
===ChemDraw===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07jmc Jessica Chung] (Don't make me clipware you.)<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07whp Hazen Parsons]<br />
<br />
===PowerPoint===<br />
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[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (godly)<br />
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===AppleWorks===<br />
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[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (fears no page/margin/line spacing/font size requirement)<br />
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==Human Languages==<br />
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===Bengali===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09am_4 Aroop Mukharji]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07am Auyon Mukharji]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rb Ronit Bhattacharyya]<br />
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===Catalán===<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (learned a little bit while abroad in Barcelona)<br />
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===Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese)===<br />
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===Cyrillic===<br />
<br />
...is actually an alphabet, not a language.<br />
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===French===<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (He used to be much better, but he now inserts random Catalán words in French conversation.)<br />
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[[Diana Davis '07]] is still pretty good at French.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] is majoring in it, so she probably knows a few phrases.<br />
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===German===<br />
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===Greek===<br />
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Hazen (As in I can write in it and tell you how to pronounce the letters of their alphabet. I didn't write this.)<br />
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Math nerds know the Greek alphabet.<br />
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===Hebrew===<br />
Robert Streicker '07<br />
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Zachary Ulman '06<br />
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===Hindi===<br />
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[[Ananda V. Burra '07]]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09nn Sandy Nandagopal]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07rb Ronit Bhattacharyya]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09ras Rahul Shah]<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06ng Nikhar Gaikwad]<br />
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===Italian===<br />
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[[Lucy Cox-Chapman '06]] spent a semester in Italy<br />
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===Japanese===<br />
<br />
[[Amanda R. Van Rhyn '06 | Amanda Van Rhyn]] now knows how to say "my husband got drunk and hit me."<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] frequently mutters small phrases in Japanese. People think she is mumbling, becuase they don't understand Japanese. In addition to randomly speaking in Japanese, she also randomly speaks English with an excellent Japanese accent.<br />
<br />
[[Leah Weintraub '06]] spent a semester in Japan. Ergo, she probably speaks Japanese.<br />
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[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08cvw Charlotte White] is easily distracted by pretty things from Japan. She also says "wtf Japan" rather often. As should we all.<br />
<br />
===Latin===<br />
<br />
===Pig Latin===<br />
<br />
[[Seth Brown]] taught a course on Pig Latin during Winter Study 1997.<br />
<br />
===Oppish===<br />
<br />
[[Alden Robinson '06]] whopat dopo yopou thopink opof thopat?<br />
<br />
===Polish===<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] can say "What's up, sweetheart?"<br />
<br />
===Portugese===<br />
<br />
===Spanish===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06dr David Rodriguez] (speaks Dominican Spanish--impossible to comprehend for most other spanish speakers because it sounds more like really fast Italian than anything else)<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] (budding bachatero)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09bry Bernard Yaros]<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=09st Sofia Torres] (but apparently she speaks Mexican, a variation of Spanish)<br />
<br />
Paulette Rodriguez can speak Spanish without consonants (also known as Puerto Rican--similar to Dominican)<br />
<br />
==Other Languages==<br />
<br />
===Caveman Talk===<br />
<br />
[[Chris St. Cyr]]<br />
<br />
===Dog Bark===<br />
<br />
===Cat Meow===<br />
<br />
===Cow Moo===<br />
<br />
===Bear Growl===<br />
<br />
Despite failing to get the dancing, trained circus bear part of "Gorky" in her high school's production of "The Cave Dwellers," Katie Montgomery was lauded for her ability to sound sort of like a bear.<br />
<br />
===Burping===<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08sjp Samantha Peterson] can burp the alphabet. Backwards.<br />
<br />
==Circus Arts & other amazing feats==<br />
<br />
===I can ride a unicycle!===<br />
Alex Ambros (the 1 in 2000 girl)<br />
<br />
Elissa Brown (in the same entry as Alex - what's the probability of ''that''?)<br />
<br />
Abby McBride can too!<br />
<br />
Bryan Dragon can but doesn't want anybody to know about it.<br />
<br />
===I can slackline===<br />
Elissa Brown (shakily)<br />
<br />
Alex Ambros<br />
<br />
Dave Kleinschmidt (if I'm lucky)<br />
<br />
Evan Bick<br />
<br />
===I can juggle (balls, clubs, knives, flaming torches, etc.)===<br />
Alex Ambros (working on passing clubs)<br />
<br />
Elissa Brown (see above. We'll get it eventually)<br />
<br />
Ben Brooks (I can do everything listed in the title except "etc." Whatever that is...)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=08jcr Jason Ren] (I can do everything listed AND Etc. I know what it is)<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06rss_2 Robin Stewart] (He's the master)<br />
<br />
==Communication==<br />
<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=07mcp Margaret Pigman] can read and write braille, and has a braille typewriter! And, and, and! Margaret takes class notes in Braille.<br />
<br />
[[Diana Davis '07]] can write holding a pencil with her toes.<br />
<br />
[[Jonathan Landsman|Jonathan Landsman '05]] is the fastest two-finger typist there is, and can do so blindly.<br />
<br />
==Impressions==<br />
[[Joseph Gangestad '06]] can do an uncanny Gollum (Andy Serkis) <br />
<br />
==Luck==<br />
[http://wso.williams.edu/facebook/view?unix=06lds Lisetta Shah]<br />
can find 4-leaf clovers pretty much just by looking down at the ground for a couple seconds, and sometimes without even that much effort.</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Pranks_involving_rooms&diff=3780Pranks involving rooms2005-11-01T17:10:28Z<p>137.165.30.64: </p>
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<div>* Moving everything in a person's room, so that it is a mirror image of its original layout.<br />
<br />
* Making everything in a person's room upside down.</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Tray_carvings&diff=2916Tray carvings2005-10-23T20:36:12Z<p>137.165.30.64: /* Ideas for Carvings */</p>
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<div>Carvings generally fall into <s>three</s> <s>four</s> a bunch of categories: Wilbur trays, "Tray of" trays, tray puns, Cult of Tom trays, trays with pictures, and...other trays.<br />
<br />
==Wilbur...==<br />
<br />
(An unlikely but intriguing possible source for the great resentment towards Wilbur may be the late 19th century serialized novel "Wilbur of Williams", [note: title may need correcting] which can be found in the Williams Archives. It is, naturally, a romance. Jealousy, perhaps?) <br />
<br />
<br />
I don't know where the story above came from but this is the true story. Once upon a time, there was a Williams student who was named Wilbur, and he sucked. To spread the word about how much Wilbur sucked, his friends took the time during meals to carve reminders for other Williams students on Greylock and later Mission trays. They later became creative outlets for people give other examples of how much Wilbur sucked. Wilbur graduated years ago, but was succeeded by another Wilbur (his brother) who sucked even more. This Wilbur's friends brought the Wilbur Sucks message into the digital age and started the Wilbur Sucks facebook.com group. Everyone is encouraged to join and will receive a Wilbur Sucks nickname upon entry. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* Wilbur Sucks I - LXII (beyond?)<br />
* Wilbur cooks with spices (Greylock?)<br />
* Wilbur was framed (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur plays ice hockey (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur takes econ<br />
* Wilbur invaded Poland (Greylock)<br />
* Welcome to Wilbur Country (Surgeon General's warning: Wilbur Sucks)<br />
* Wilbur works the corner (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur failed the MCATs<br />
* Wilbur tips poorly (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur has halitosis (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur felches (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur eats veal (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur watches figure skating (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur worships false idols (Greylock)<br />
* Wilbur brakes for moose (Mission)<br />
* Wilbur rides the night train (Driscoll)<br />
* Wilbur is out of his element (Greylock)<br />
<br />
A few years ago, some students took it upon themselves to redeem Wilbur's image in the public eye by recording the following positive attributes.<br />
<br />
* Wilbur donates blood (Mission)<br />
* Wilbur Votes (Mission)<br />
* Wilbur Recycles (Mission)<br />
<br />
== Cult of Tom ==<br />
* Cult of Tom<br />
* Cult of <s>Tom</s> Tom<br />
* Cult of <s>Tom</s> <s>Tom</s> Tom<br />
:''and so on . . .''<br />
<br />
The Cult of Tom story orginated in 2000 when Tom Fleming ('00) and Jeff Grant ('00) were talking to each other and realized that people would wear pretty much any free T-shirt. Thus, Tom decided he could start his own cult merely by printing up shirts that said "Cult of Tom" and distributing them. The only rule for the Cult of Tom was that you must wear the T-shirt. <br />
<br />
Then, Tom asked everybody with the shirt to wear it and come to his thesis defense to ask questions (perhaps silly questions or pre-arranged really intelligent ones). It was afterwards that "Cult of Tom" began being scratched onto Driscoll trays.<br />
<br />
This is where the story diverges. Some say that Tom Stackpole ('01) got jealous and scratched out the orignal Tom and put his own name in. Others say that a friend of Tom's started the corrections, and thereby created a new Cult of Tom (Stackpole). At any rate, the original Cult of Tom supporters were angry, and scratched out the new Tom and replaced it with the old Tom. As a result, the system of odd-even number of Toms was created. An odd number of Toms meant Tom Fleming, and even numbers were Tom Stackpole. <br />
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Source: members of class of 2000, 2001 -- many of whom still have original Cult of Tom shirts.<br />
<br />
Other incarnations of the Tom theme: <br />
*Cult of Thomas Edison<br />
*Cult of Strom<br />
*Cult of Sarah's Tomb (Driscoll; handwriting analysis implies a vandalization of earlier Cult of Tom tray)<br />
*Cult of (Greylock; maybe they got interrupted?)<br />
<br />
==Tray of...==<br />
* Tray of the Thnikkaman (including drawing; Mission)<br />
* The tray of repeatedly hitting yourself over the head with a shovel (Mission)<br />
* Tray of Spiritual Horniness (Driscoll)<br />
* Tray of Snow Bocce 2004 (Mission)<br />
* Tray of the Future (Mission)<br />
* Tray of Feral Pigs (Mission)<br />
* Tray of the Luv Potion (Driscoll)<br />
* Tray of Williams (Wesleyan)<br />
* Tray of Willful Disregard (Driscoll)<br />
* Tray of Unfulfilled Desires (Driscoll)<br />
* Tray of Tu Madre (Driscoll)<br />
* Tray of GE's Freedom Movement (Greylock)<br />
* Tray of Buttface (Mission)<br />
* Tray of the Love Nest (Mission)<br />
<br />
==Tray Puns==<br />
* Basic Trayning/I want to be a Driscoll Tray (Mission, was in Baxter)<br />
* Death Before Detrayal (Driscoll and Mission)<br />
* Tray Bien<br />
* Judgment Tray<br />
* Penetraytion (Mission)<br />
* Defenestraytion<br />
* Libertray, Egalitray, Fraternitray (Mission; also says Wilbur Sucks LI)<br />
* Take the A-Tray<br />
* Trayin' Alive (Mission)<br />
* Elizabeth Traylor (Driscoll)<br />
* Traymate of the Year (Driscoll)<br />
<br />
==Mysterious Drawings==<br />
*A proof that temperatures exist below absolute zero using orbital diagrams (Driscoll)<br />
*An illustration of a normal gaussian distribution (Driscoll)<br />
*Some nonsense with a guy in a boat and an angel thing (Driscoll) <br />
<br />
==Other==<br />
* Tray 3:16 (Mission)<br />
*e^(pi)(i) + 1 = 0 (Driscoll)<br />
* Mea mecum ludit virginitas (Driscoll; this tray presumably commemorates the Concert Choir's 2004 performance of Orff's ''Carmina Burana'')<br />
* Chuck Chuck / buh-Chuck / etc. / Fuck / etc. / Chuck! (Greylock)<br />
* Monkeypo (Driscoll)<br />
<br />
==Ideas for Carvings==<br />
So awful.<br />
* Infiltraytion (I think this one exists)<br />
* Tray the course<br />
* Extray credit for puns<br />
* Wilbur: Zuckerman's Traymous Pig (sucks)<br />
* Et tu, Brutray? Then fall, salad.<br />
* Tray the Earth Stood Still<br />
* Auto-Traycheotomy<br />
* Tray that funky music, white boy<br />
* Jonathan Traylor Thomas<br />
* LNT: Leave No Trays<br />
* My baby takes the morning trayn<br />
* Early Gothic Traycery (with sketches)<br />
* A sketch of the monster from Pumpkinhead 1<br />
* The 6th Tray<br />
* (I'm going off the rails on a) Crazy Trayn<br />
* All aboard the Night Trayn<br />
* Keep food off of the Traychea</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Anchor_housing&diff=2451Anchor housing2005-10-16T18:08:44Z<p>137.165.30.64: /* Description */</p>
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<div>Anchor Housing, also known as ''Cluster Housing'' or the ''Williams House System'', is the new upperclass housing system to be implemented in fall 2006.<br />
<br />
==Description==<br />
<br />
An evil attempt at social engineering.<br />
<br />
Currently, Williams upperclass housing is a "free agent" system. Students form groups of 4 and are assigned lottery numbers within their class. They then choose rooms on campus in order of lottery number.<br />
<br />
Anchor housing restricts the room draw to a small cluster of dorms. Houses on campus will be divided into five clusters, each containing approximately six houses and one "anchor" house chosen to serve as the social hub of the cluster. Rising sophomores will form groups of six, and each group will be randomly assigned to a cluster. Upperclassmen will choose rooms in a lottery exclusive to own cluster. Students remain in the same cluster throughout their time at Williams.<br />
<br />
The housing system was formed with the following goals in mind, as presented by the CUL at two informational forums in 2004:<br />
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* '''More autonomous social life''': more local control, funding, and energy; less dependence on ACE; more variety - parties, big weekend traditions, intramurals, faculty interaction<br />
* '''More active residential integration''': not merely desegregation, but genuine and lively communities<br />
* '''Improved sophomore experience''': deeper connections to other class years<br />
* '''Ability to live with friends, and have options within the system'''<br />
<br />
There are ideas for a "House Cup" and other inter-cluster competitions, but we have heard no definite plans yet. This suggestion has caused some students to joke about whether the clusters will be named after the houses in the Harry Potter books.<br />
<br />
The anchor houses and their associated dorms are:<br />
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* '''Currier''': Fitch, Prospect<br />
* '''Dodd''': Hubbell, Dodd Annex, Goodrich, Parsons, Sewall, Dennett, Mills<br />
* '''Spencer''': West, Brooks, Gladden, Carter<br />
* '''Tyler''': Tyler Annex, Thompson, Armstrong, Pratt<br />
* '''Wood''': Perry, Garfield, Agard, Bryant, Mark Hopkins<br />
<br />
The houses Chadbourne, Doughty, Lambert, Milham, Poker Flats, Rectory, Susie Hopkins, and Woodbridge will remain (or become) co-ops.<br />
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==History==<br />
<br />
Anchor housing was first proposed by the 1999-2000 [[Committee on Undergraduate Life]] (CUL) under the leadership of Professor Charles Dew, a Williams alum from the time when College housing was based around fraternities. The proposed system was a bit different back then, and was finally abandoned by the 2002 CUL in favor of making discrete changes to room draw procedures: decreasing the size of pick groups from 7 to 4, implementing a blind room draw, and instituting gender caps on individual houses. The reason for this change varies depending on who you ask: 2005 CUL members claimed that the Committee of 2000 wanted to give their changes time to work, and allow time to see how the new [[House Coordinator]] system was faring; students who were on campus in 1999-2000 suggest that the student body protested the idea of anchor housing strongly enough to get the CUL to back down; and some student members of the 2000 CUL claim that it was their objections to anchor housing that kept the system from being implemented in spring 2003.<br />
<br />
Though students thought that anchor housing had disappeared, it turned up again, suddenly, in fall 2004, when news was leaked to the Williams ''[[Record]]'' that the 2004-2005 CUL (led by Professor Will Dudley, an alum from the days when students were affiliated with one house throughout their upperclass years) was going to propose the system again. The proposed system involved creating six clusters, with houses in each cluster scattered across campus but united by a centrally located [[anchor house]]. Which freshman [[Entry]] a student belongs to determines which cluster the student would be assigned to as a rising sophomore. In the original article breaking the story, [[Morty]] was quoted as saying that anchor housing was in the student body's best interest, and the only trick would be to convince them.<br />
<br />
The immediate student reaction was strong opposition. Commentary saturated the ''Record'' and [[WSO blogs]] for some time after the initial announcement. A group of students dedicated to preventing the implementation of anchor housing and maintaining free agency housing formed the group [[Anchors Away]]. These students conducted surveys of students (in one case, they collected written opinions from almost 200 Williams students opposed to anchor housing), wrote letters to the CUL, ''Record'', and [[Trustees]], and compiled documents detailing student objections to the anchor housing proposal. Their efforts culminated in a failed campaign for the [[College Council]] co-presidency by two of their more vocal members.<br />
<br />
In January 2005, the Committee on Undergraduate Life made a series of substiantial changes to the anchor housing proposal. Entries were detatched from clusters in favor of randomly assigning rising sophomores. This was generally regarded as an improvement by students. Additionally, the CUL determined that larger clusters would be more conducive to forming so-called genuine communities and decreased the number of clusters to five. The cluster boundaries were also redrawn to be geographically localized; each cluster, instead of comprising houses from all areas of campus, would consist of nearby houses. Also, the CUL began to refer to the new housing proposal by the name ''cluster housing'' instead of ''anchor housing'', because they felt that "anchor housing" gave too much of an impression that students would be stuck to something in their residential lives. Finally, the date of implementation was pushed back from fall 2005 to fall 2006. This move was highly regarded by the student body.<br />
<br />
The CUL submitted its proposal to the administration under the vague name "Williams House System" in late February 2005, and recieved the promised rubber-stamp approval. Students in Anchors Away worried that the administration was ignoring their opinion, but the CUL determined that its mission in the 2005-2006 academic year would consist solely of determining how exactly the transition from free agency to anchor housing would be carried out. This is what they are deliberating now.<br />
<br />
==Student Opinion==<br />
<br />
The first Wiki entry for Anchor Housing consisted of the single word, "Evilll." A few edits later, a poster had corrected to, ''[Anchor Housing] . . . is actually NOT called anchor housing. It is cluster housing, built in neighborhoods around a central "anchor house.'' To which the following response was added: ''But nonetheless, it is still eeeeeevil, just in case you were confused about that.''<br />
<br />
Students have been deeply concerned about various aspects of anchor housing. Voiced concerns include:<br />
<br />
* '''Loss of freedoms and choices.''' Any housing system that restricts the number of houses students can live in restricts students' choices. Given the great variety of dorms on this campus, many students believe it essential that they be at least given a chance to choose from some of the best dorms on campus. Clusters drawn by the CUL have rarely included equal numbers of "desirable" and "undesirable" houses, leaving students wondering whether members of classes after 2009 will find themselves randomly assigned to a "sucky cluster." Students also worry that they will be unable to form a housing pick group with their friends, especially with friends they make after cluster assignments have been made in their freshman spring.<br />
* '''Social engineering.''' The attitude of the CUL and administration has been seen as very paternalistic by many students. Students are wary of attempts to ensure "diversity" in all dorms on campus. The phrase "genuine communities" has been particularly contentious among students, as some believe it suggests that existing communities were judged by the CUL and determined to be "not genuine." <br />
* '''Freshman affiliations.''' The assignment of entries to particular clusters was met with strong disapproval by students worried that new students' housing choices would be determined entirely by their entry assignment, before they even set foot on campus. Fortunately, the CUL altered this aspect of the plan.<br />
* '''Loss of "class" living experiences.''' Sophomores will no longer be able to live as a class in [[Mission Park]], and juniors will no longer be able to live together in the [[Greylock Quad]]. Some credit the Mission Park renovations in the summer of 2003 as dramatically improving the Williams sophomore experience, and are concerned that anchor housing will take away the benefits of living as a class with all the people who got to know one another as entrymates during freshman year.<br />
* '''Disregard of suite affiliations.''' Many Williams students live with the same (or a similar) set of friends in a suite throughout their career. Students believe that the CUL did not take into account strong "suite identity" and the smaller, more tightly knit communities of two or three nearby suites, often composed of good friends who enjoy each others' company.<br />
* '''Differences in social behavior.''' The drinking culture on this campus appeals to some and not to others. Some of the less party-prone students worried that anchor housing would spread them thinly around campus, sandwiching them between students more interested in trashing common rooms with [[beirut]] refuse than using the common room for a quiet gathering, board game, impromptu poker night, or movie viewing.<br />
* '''The Odd Quad.''' Members of the [[Odd quad | Odd Quad]] (known as the Berkshire Quad to the uninitiated and CUL members) community use the dorms Currier and Fitch as a social hub. These students, self-described [[deviants]], are often set apart from the rest of campus culture. Without a physical social base, they worry that their way of life will be severely disrupted. Anchor housing will randomly spread these students around the entire campus, effectively destroying the Odd Quad as a cohesive community.<br />
* '''Failure of clusters at Middlebury.''' Middlebury College recently implemented a cluster-model housing system, and students there have a low opinion of it. In fact, their objections are very similar to Williams students' objections to anchor housing: social engineering, preventing them from living with friends, et cetera.<br />
<br />
In its March 1, 2005 issue, the Williams ''Record'' conducted a poll of student opinion on anchor housing. The following results turned up:<br />
<br />
* 13% of students support anchor housing<br />
* 24% of students tentatively support anchor housing<br />
* 33% of students tentatively oppose anchor housing<br />
* 29% of students oppose anchor housing<br />
<br />
College Council also conducted a poll, which was reported in the ''Record'' on March 15, 2005:<br />
<br />
* 17% of respondants support anchor housing<br />
* 57% oppose anchor housing<br />
* 12% are neutral<br />
* 13% are undecided<br />
<br />
However, the Committee on Undergraduate Life made statements to the effect that a student opinion poll would not affect their decision. The 2005-2006 CUL has singlemindedly dedicated intself to implementing anchor housing in fall 2006. The implementation of anchor housing is now considered a moot point (in fact, indications are that anchor housing was destined to be implemented right from the beginning, when the administration voiced approval to it in its infancy), though some students push for a modified cluster system that preserves some elements of free agency.</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Beirut&diff=2450Beirut2005-10-16T18:06:03Z<p>137.165.30.64: </p>
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<div>Hmmm, apparently nobody has written about Beirut yet. Well, then.<br />
<br />
Beirut (also known as beer pong, though never in the company of a Williams student) is a game which consists of throwing ping pong balls into plastic cups which contain beer.<br />
<br />
Around here, teams consist of two members, and each team has, in front of them, two triangular racks of six, separated by a few inches or so. When a player sinks one of the opposing team's cups, the team must drink the beer in the cup, and remove the cup from play. if a team sinks both of their shots, they receive the balls back and get to try again. One rerack only, at six cups.<br />
<br />
Remember, Beirut is not just another drinking game. It is a game of skill, and the game of choice.</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Beirut&diff=2449Beirut2005-10-16T18:03:17Z<p>137.165.30.64: </p>
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<div>Hmmm, apparently nobody has written about Beirut yet. Well, then.<br />
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Beirut (also known as beer pong, though never in the company of a Williams student) is a game which consists of throwing ping pong balls into plastic cups which contain beer.<br />
<br />
Around here, teams consist of two members, and each team has, in front of them, two triangular racks of six, separated by a few inches or so. When a player sinks one of the opposing team's cups, the team must drink the beer in the cup, and remove the cup from play. if a team sinks both of their shots, they receive the balls back and get to try again. One rerack only, at six cups.</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Driscoll_Dining_Hall&diff=2057Driscoll Dining Hall2005-10-12T03:16:32Z<p>137.165.30.64: </p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[The Dirty D]]</div>137.165.30.64https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Dirty_D&diff=2056Dirty D2005-10-12T03:15:33Z<p>137.165.30.64: </p>
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<div>Known for its dirtiness.<br />
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And its awesome lunch. The pasta is just great. The pasta guy might be the best thing about Dining Services.</div>137.165.30.64