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Perl, not so much a language as a culture.
Culture, medium used to grow bacteria.
Verbs - bind, chomp, chop, pop, push, shift, splice, open, rename, die, m/ /, &doSomething( ) etc.
Nouns - $variable, $objectRef etc.
Colloquialisms/synonyms - $_ @_ $0 $! etc.
Conjunctions - if, and, or &&, || etc.
adjectives - eq, ne etc.
Making a coherent sentence or talk from the above double dutch, could be fun, but I haven't got time sorry.