Languages of the EU Survivor: German winner !

[Senator Libertas]

This survivor will be conducted elimination-style. This means it is self-maintaining and not dependent on a 'manager' showing up to close each round.

Rules for elimination survivor:
1) To cast a vote, each poster subtracts 1 point from one item and adds it to another. This should be clearly indicated with + or - signs and updated numbers. I'll provide an example vote.
2) Remember when voting to quote the very last post made in the thread, not the OP.
2) While there are no set rounds, nobody should vote more than once every 24 hours. A vote cast by the same poster within 24 hours of a previous vote should not be counted.
3) When a category has been reduced to 0 points, please cross it out and type next to it the number of the round in which it was eliminated. You may also include some images or brief commentary on the eliminated item.

Each begins with 5 points. This is actually pretty simple once it gets going.


български Bulgarian [5]    
español Spanish [5]    
čeština Czech [5]    
dansk Danish [5]    
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [5]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]    
English English [5]    
français French [5]    
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]    
magyar Hungarian [5]    
Malti Maltese [5]    
Nederlands Dutch [5]    
polski Polish [5]    
português Portuguese [5]    
română Romanian [5]    
slovenčina Slovak [5]    
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]    
svenska Swedish [5]

[Senator Libertas]

български Bulgarian [5]    
español Spanish [5]    
čeština Czech [5]    
dansk Danish [5]    
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [5]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]    
English English [5]    
français French [4] -1   
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]    
magyar Hungarian [5]    
Malti Maltese [5]    
Nederlands Dutch [6] +1   
polski Polish [5]    
português Portuguese [5]    
română Romanian [5]    
slovenčina Slovak [5]    
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]    
svenska Swedish [5]

[Magic 8-Ball]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [5]   
čeština Czech [6] +1   
dansk Danish [5]   
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [5]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [5]   
français French [4]   
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [4] -1   
Nederlands Dutch [6]   
polski Polish [5]   
português Portuguese [5]   
română Romanian [5]   
slovenčina Slovak [5]   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]   
svenska Swedish [5]

[big bad fab]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [5]   
čeština Czech [6]  
dansk Danish [5]   
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [5]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [5]   
français French [5]  +1 
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [4]   
Nederlands Dutch [6]   
polski Polish [5]   
português Portuguese [4] -1
română Romanian [5]   
slovenčina Slovak [5]   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]   
svenska Swedish [5]

Sorry, Hans, but I don't like the sound of Portuguese at all .

Good luck, Libertas, to manage this one, because if there is one mistake, many votes after it will be cancelled...
I'm very sceptical, but it's a good "experiment".

[Ethelberth]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [5]   
čeština Czech [6] 
dansk Danish [5]   
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [5]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [5]   
français French [4]  -1
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [5]   + 1
Nederlands Dutch [6]   
polski Polish [5]   
português Portuguese [4]
română Romanian [5]   
slovenčina Slovak [5]   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]   
svenska Swedish [5]

Maltese is absolutely hilarious language.

[Platypus]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [5]   
čeština Czech [6] 
dansk Danish [5]   
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [5]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [5]   
français French [4]
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [5]
Nederlands Dutch [5]   -1
polski Polish [5]   
português Portuguese [4]
română Romanian [6]   +1
slovenčina Slovak [5]   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]   
svenska Swedish [5]

[Hans-im-Glück]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [5]   
čeština Czech [6] 
dansk Danish [5]   
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [4]  -1  
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [5]   
français French [4]
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [5]
Nederlands Dutch [5]   
polski Polish [5]   
português Portuguese [5] +1
română Romanian [6]   
slovenčina Slovak [5]   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]   
svenska Swedish [5]

fab, you think Portuguese sounds worse than Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian...

[ilikeverin]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [5]   
čeština Czech [6] 
dansk Danish [5]   
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [4]
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [4] -1
français French [4]
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [6] +1
Nederlands Dutch [5]   
polski Polish [5]   
português Portuguese [5]
română Romanian [6]   
slovenčina Slovak [5]   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]   
svenska Swedish [5]

Destroy the horrid orthography!

[Edu]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [6] +1   
čeština Czech [6] 
dansk Danish [5]   
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [4]
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [4]
français French [4]
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [6]
Nederlands Dutch [5]   
polski Polish [5]   
português Portuguese [5]
română Romanian [6]   
slovenčina Slovak [4] -1   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]   
svenska Swedish [5]

[homelycooking]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [6]   
čeština Czech [6] 
dansk Danish [5]   
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [4]
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [4]
français French [5] +1
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [6]
Nederlands Dutch [4] -1 
polski Polish [5]   
português Portuguese [5]
română Romanian [6]   
slovenčina Slovak [4]     
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]   
svenska Swedish [5]

[Hashemite]

български Bulgarian [5]    
español Spanish [5]    
čeština Czech [5]    
dansk Danish [5]    
Deutsch German [5]  
eesti keel Estonian [5]  
ελληνικά Greek [5]    
English English [5]    
français French [5]    
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]    
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]    
magyar Hungarian [5]    
Malti Maltese [7]  +1
Nederlands Dutch [3]  -1
polski Polish [5]    
português Portuguese [5]    
română Romanian [5]    
slovenčina Slovak [5]    
slovenščina Slovenian [5]  
suomi Finnish [5]    
svenska Swedish [5]

EDIT by BBF: I've allowed myself to fix the numbers with Hash vote.

[Yelnoc]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [5]   
čeština Czech [5]   
dansk Danish [5]   
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [5]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [6] +1
français French [5]   
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [7]
Nederlands Dutch [3]
polski Polish [5]   
português Portuguese [5]   
română Romanian [5]   
slovenčina Slovak [5]   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [4] -1
svenska Swedish [5]

[Platypus]

Could I suggest an improvement? In future, we should take away two votes and add one. This makes it move a little bit quicker, but still limits the effect of one person's hatred of a language.

[Senator Libertas]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [5]   
čeština Czech [5]   
dansk Danish [5]   
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [5]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [5] -1
français French [5]   
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [7]
Nederlands Dutch [3]
polski Polish [5]   
português Portuguese [5]   
română Romanian [5]   
slovenčina Slovak [5]   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5] +1
svenska Swedish [5]

[Magic 8-Ball]

What do we do when someone copies a wrong post and other players go from there?  I notice that Spanish, Czech, English, Romanian, Estonian, and Slovak are all a point off of where they should be.

[big bad fab]

Well, everybody should make sure the previous poster is right. All the mistakes were due to Hash's vote, that I didn't fix enough .

Now, it's fixed and here's my vote, with the right tallies:

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [6]   
čeština Czech [6]   
dansk Danish [5]   
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [4]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [4]
français French [5]   
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [7]
Nederlands Dutch [2] -1
polski Polish [5]   
português Portuguese [5]   
română Romanian [6]   
slovenčina Slovak [4]   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]
svenska Swedish [6] +1

Nothing against Dutch, but we need to eliminate one soon.
As for Swedish, I don't understand it but it's so nice to hear in Ingmar Bergman's films...
And maybe Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin and even Ingrid Bergman when she -scarcely- spoke it, have something to do with this vote !

[Magic 8-Ball]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [6]   
čeština Czech [6]   
dansk Danish [6] +1
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [4]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [4]
français French [5]   
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [7]
Nederlands Dutch [1] -1
polski Polish [5]   
português Portuguese [5]   
română Romanian [6]   
slovenčina Slovak [4]   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]
svenska Swedish [6]

[Platypus]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [6]   
čeština Czech [6]   
dansk Danish [6]
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [4]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [4] +1= [5]
français French [5]   
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [7]
Nederlands Dutch [1]
polski Polish [5] -1= [4]   
português Portuguese [5]   
română Romanian [6]   
slovenčina Slovak [4]   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]
svenska Swedish [6]

[ilikeverin]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [6]   
čeština Czech [6]   
dansk Danish [6]
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [4]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [5] -1= [4]
français French [5]   
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [7]
Nederlands Dutch [1] +1= [2]
polski Polish [4]   
português Portuguese [5]   
română Romanian [6]   
slovenčina Slovak [4]   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]
svenska Swedish [6]

Why people are voting for the ridiculous variant of Dutch rather than Dutch is beyond me.

[Edu]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [7] +1   
čeština Czech [6]   
dansk Danish [6]
Deutsch German [5]   
eesti keel Estonian [4]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [4]
français French [5]   
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [7]
Nederlands Dutch [2]
polski Polish [4]   
português Portuguese [5]   
română Romanian [6]   
slovenčina Slovak [3] -1   
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]
svenska Swedish [6]

[Hans-im-Glück]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [7]    
čeština Czech [6]   
dansk Danish [6]
Deutsch German [6]  +1  
eesti keel Estonian [4]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [4]
français French [5]   
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [7]
Nederlands Dutch [1]  -1
polski Polish [4]   
português Portuguese [5]   
română Romanian [6]   
slovenčina Slovak [3]  
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]
svenska Swedish [6]

[Ethelberth]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [7]   
čeština Czech [6]   
dansk Danish [6]
Deutsch German [6] 
eesti keel Estonian [4]   +1 (5)
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [4]
français French [5]    - 1 (4)
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [7]
Nederlands Dutch [1]  -1
polski Polish [4]   
português Portuguese [5]   
română Romanian [6]   
slovenčina Slovak [3] 
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [5]
svenska Swedish [6]

[Yelnoc]

Jarl, you can't subtract from two and add to one, so I'm skipping your turn.

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [7]   
čeština Czech [6]   
dansk Danish [6]
Deutsch German [6]
eesti keel Estonian [4]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [5] +1
français French [5]   
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [7]
Nederlands Dutch [1]
polski Polish [4]   
português Portuguese [5]   
română Romanian [6]   
slovenčina Slovak [3] 
slovenščina Slovenian [5]   
suomi Finnish [4] -1
svenska Swedish [6]

[homelycooking]

Jarl, you can't subtract from two and add to one, so I'm skipping your turn.

I think he may have forgotten to remove the -1 from a previous turn.

[Hatman]

български Bulgarian [5]     
español Spanish [7]   
čeština Czech [6]   
dansk Danish [6]
Deutsch German [6]
eesti keel Estonian [4]   
ελληνικά Greek [5]   
English English [5]
français French [5]   
Gaeilge Irish [5]
italiano Italian [5]     
latviešu valoda Latvian [5]
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian [5]   
magyar Hungarian [5]   
Malti Maltese [7]
Nederlands Dutch [2] +1
polski Polish [4]   
português Portuguese [5]   
română Romanian [6]   
slovenčina Slovak [3] 
slovenščina Slovenian [4] -1  
suomi Finnish [4]
svenska Swedish [6]