Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5568 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 841 of 3737 17 July 2010 at 4:54pm | IP Logged |
...when the silence starts to make you feel guilty, so you head over to www.listenlive.eu.
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Tally Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Israel Joined 5609 days ago 135 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew* Studies: French
| Message 842 of 3737 17 July 2010 at 10:30pm | IP Logged |
When your idea of small talk is mentioning random facts about languages and you are
surprised when people look at you funny.
Edited by Tally on 18 July 2010 at 10:33pm
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WortDrauf Already banned: zarathustra, lifelover Newbie Canada Joined 5396 days ago 23 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian
| Message 843 of 3737 18 July 2010 at 10:11pm | IP Logged |
Tally wrote:
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Guilty. And whenever I'm asked by a friend to tell them "something interesting", it always pertains to languages.
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johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5328 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 844 of 3737 19 July 2010 at 4:34am | IP Logged |
I feel like I have to share this...
I was at a two story Borders bookstore today, it was extremely huge, and I was (of course) looking for the language section, just to see what they had. I walked through the whole store TWICE and couldn't find it. Needless to say, I was extremely disappointed. It wasn't even near the travel section (where it is in the Borders near me). I could have asked an employee but by the time that hit me (dunno why I didn't think of it earlier) I had to go.
...I feel like I have to return to that store and find the language section.
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gdoyle1990 Groupie United States Joined 5621 days ago 52 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Serbian, Estonian
| Message 845 of 3737 19 July 2010 at 5:22am | IP Logged |
When a friend mentions "IPA" in a status update on Facebook and you get excited because you think "Maybe I finally found someone to speak with about languages!" And then realize he's talking about beer. =[
Also, when another friend mentions "Computational Linguistics" and you wonder why you haven't spoken to him more.
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feanarosurion Senior Member Canada Joined 5282 days ago 217 posts - 316 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish, Norwegian
| Message 846 of 3737 19 July 2010 at 8:28am | IP Logged |
...when you write all your Facebook statuses in Finnish and your friends tell you to stop.
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5557 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 847 of 3737 19 July 2010 at 1:26pm | IP Logged |
When the first thing you do when you return from holiday is flop on the sofa, kick off your weary sand-filled shoes, and log on to the forum to check through several hundred email notifications.
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karaipyhare Tetraglot Groupie Paraguay Joined 5586 days ago 74 posts - 150 votes Speaks: Portuguese, Spanish*, English, Guarani Studies: German, Italian, French, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 848 of 3737 19 July 2010 at 3:30pm | IP Logged |
Oh yes, I could feel the thrill in your story. Was it in Buenos Aires? That city's
great for rare old books!
Thaorius wrote:
...when, on the way to a Japanese only bookstore, you find a used
books bookshop, you
enter curiously, and ask for material in Japanese, or otherwise a foreign language that
isn't English. The store clerk shows you a few things, nothing very convincing... and
then, just as you are leaving the store, you see a kanji across the room. You take the
book off the shelf, and oh boy... jackpot. A 1965, perfectly preserved, color
illustrated
book in German about Japanese history. Annnnddd it comes with a lot of kanji! I mean,
what more could you possibly ask for, right?
(I am not, nor will I be studying German for the next 2 years or so. I am, however,
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