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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6144 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 2417 of 3737 20 June 2012 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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When a specialist language bookshop know your mobile number off by heart.
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| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4575 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2418 of 3737 21 June 2012 at 1:12am | IP Logged | ||
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When you're in a bookstore, looking around and not *planning* on buying anything, and you
come out of the store with a book about breaking the Mayan code because a) it's about Mayans and their (written) language, and b) they mentioned philology, and anyone who uses that term can't be bad. When your friend doesn't even blink at this. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4729 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map | Message 2419 of 3737 21 June 2012 at 2:02am | IP Logged | ||
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When you can't remember whether the "y" key produces a y or a z and vice versa.
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5027 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 2420 of 3737 21 June 2012 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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...you consider saving a spam email just because it is in one of your target languages.
(We got one in Russian at work today, and I had fun reading it.) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5549 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 2421 of 3737 21 June 2012 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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It finally happened...my bookcase collapsed today under the sheer weight of all the language books!
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5960 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 2422 of 3737 22 June 2012 at 12:14am | IP Logged | ||
Sorry for your bookcase, but I'm glad I'm not the only one who has had that experience! Now you can put them on the floor or on a table and make book towers, a book fortress, a book mountain - or whole book mountain ranges, why not ? ! or whatever fine construction (obstruction?) project your nerdy self can devise. I know. I've done this. And will do it again. My current main langugage shelf is overloaded, in extremely precarious condition, and could go at any time. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6144 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 2423 of 3737 22 June 2012 at 1:34pm | IP Logged | ||
I reckon the same is about to happen to me. If it does, I'll purchase a few more, add them to the pile, and pretend they were always there. I'm now at the stage of hiding language books, that make an appearance at a later date. Me - "Oh, this, I got it ages ago" Her - "Why does it say 2012 on the cover?" Me - "That is odd, isn't it?" 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5002 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2424 of 3737 22 June 2012 at 2:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm currently hiding a Swedish and a Russian textbook behind other books. But I have
recently made my German learning "public" and no longer hide the books. Well, at least some of them. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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