Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5686 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish
| Message 1570 of 3737 18 April 2011 at 7:07pm | IP Logged |
psy88 wrote:
when (and this will only make sense to those users of MT French) you can't hear someone say "I'm gong" without thinking of MT saying "I'm going". If you "get" this you are truly one of us language nerds. |
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Oh my god, this happened to me just yesterday for the first time! I was voice-chatting with my sister when she said "I'm going..." and it took all my willpower not to reply with a sing-song "I'm GOing...!" Which, needless to say, she would have been completely confused by.
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psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5584 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French
| Message 1571 of 3737 19 April 2011 at 3:54am | IP Logged |
Jinx wrote:
psy88 wrote:
when (and this will only make sense to those users of MT French) you can't hear someone say "I'm gong" without thinking of MT saying "I'm going". If you "get" this you are truly one of us language nerds. |
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Oh my god, this happened to me just yesterday for the first time! I was voice-chatting with my sister when she said "I'm going..." and it took all my willpower not to reply with a sing-song "I'm GOing...!" Which, needless to say, she would have been completely confused by. |
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Exactly! And, it now seems that I am so sensitized to it that I notice it a lot more.As you said, it takes a lot of will power to not respond. For me, it takes will power not to laugh aloud, but I cannot stifle a huge grin.
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hungh3 Newbie Vietnam https://tienganhmoin Joined 5792 days ago 10 posts - 15 votes Speaks: EnglishC2
| Message 1572 of 3737 19 April 2011 at 5:39am | IP Logged |
When you don't think you're a language nerd and can't believe that people are holding such a stupid idea.
Edited by hungh3 on 25 April 2011 at 6:02am
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pfn123 Senior Member Australia Joined 5076 days ago 171 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 1573 of 3737 22 April 2011 at 4:34pm | IP Logged |
When your mindset is: 'Well, the first hundred languages are always the hardest; it gets easier after that...' lol
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RogueMD Senior Member United States Joined 5013 days ago 72 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 1575 of 3737 23 April 2011 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
When you contribute to a thread in a language forum with 198 pages....
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