500,00 dollars or the ability to fluently talk all languages?

NT.

 

ill take the $500,000 thank you

The ability to speak in more then one language does not guarantee a bigger salary or more earning potential. Although it would be pretty nice to have being able to travel to any country and communicate with the locals easily but the $500,000 is probably put to better use if invested properly.

 

Yea, you can buy a lot of rosetta stone software for 500k

 

I think I could make more out of languages than $500k.

 

I'd take the money and take a few language classes with the money from it. BAM.

 

Could easily make way more than 500k putting all those languages to good use I would think.

 

Languages. You do realize that you could make perfect computer programs by 'speaking' their native language.

You would earn millions from any major software company.

 

I'd take languages as well. I don't have that great a need for $500k and will likely build that up anyway. Speaking all languages I don't have a need for either, but it would be useful, and is the kind of coolness money just can't buy (learning languages takes too much time to master that many, no matter how much money you have to do it).

 

hehe

No, it doesn't work like that. If you want to write everything in assembler, go ahead, but it'll take longer and it'll be dependent on one CPU architecture. It's also easy to be familiar with the entire instruction set since it's very, very small.

 

That's the first step towards skynet, what good are your millions when YOU blew up the world?

 

Considering you have the skillz to write software indeed.

In the long run, speaking the languages sounds like the economically correct answer. But, there's no guarantee anyone will be around for the long run. Take the money now and enjoy it!

 

BTW those who picked the money have won a free ticket to the fail train since it is actually $500 and not $500,000. Commas are used instead of periods in many countries.

 

You know I'm sure there will be companies or filthy rich business people who will be willing to pay 6 figure salaries for someone who can fluently speak every language on the globe. That is a lot of business opportunity overseas and domestic.

 

If you could speak every language and settle for a six figure salary you should be smacked.

 

I'll take the languages.

Plus, if you are fluent in every language, you'd have no problem finding a job.

 

You see, you all miss 1 thing.

Knowing all languages, means knowing all swear words.

And there would be nothing better than cursing non stop for about 6 days when some kid has stolen your sniper spot...

 

im guessing your french canadian, as in US and UK, we use decimal points, while mainland europe use commas



opcorn:

 

I'm not sure why the reversed the order of the thousands separator/decimal point symbols... probably just to annoy us or something.

 

The whole point of the thread was not about money v. languages.