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What was so unusual about Caspar Cardinal Mezzofanti?
 
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Mezzofanti holds the world record for multi-lingual fluency, and is considered the greatest polyglot in history

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It figures that SR would immediately recognize someone else noted for talking a lot, proving that it really does take one to know one. Big Grin

Languages claimed for Mezzofanti:
Biblical Hebrew
Rabbinic Hebrew
Arabic
Chaldean
Coptic
Ancient Armenian
Modern Armenian
Persian
Turkish
Albanian
Maltese
Ancient Greek
Modern Greek
Latin
Italian
Spanish
Portuguese
French
German
English
Illyrian
Russian
Polish
Bohemian
Magyar (Hungarian)
Chinese
Syriac
Ge'es
Amharic
Hindustani
Guzerati
Basque
Wallachian
Californian
+50 dialects +30 other languages


(What? No Macedonian????)
 
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