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| ibraheem Groupie United States Joined 5366 days ago 84 posts - 106 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Mandarin | Message 1001 of 3737 15 August 2010 at 5:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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...you read this thread for some inspiration, but find a bit too much.
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5968 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1002 of 3737 15 August 2010 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You know you are a genuine Language Nerd when your Nerdery reveals disturbing things about yourself . . . .
I say that because this week Language Nerdery almost made me purchase explosives. Happens to everyone, I guess. When I am waiting in line at the grocery store, I entertain myself by reading multilingual packaging on any item within reach. So there was a display of fireworks by the counter, and I picked up a few and started to study the directions in Spanish and French on it. And I realized that my current vocabulary for blowing things up is sadly insufficient. "You are NOT buying this explosive device just because it has a lot of interesting words about fire hazards. If you need to detonate something, you can do it in English!" I told myself. But, really, these little bombs and rockets are so very enticing when the directions for use are in another language . . . which actually makes them much more dangerous, but I admit that I wanted some. I really, really wanted some. Why the sudden love for certain disaster? Is this just language nerdery, or do I have some hidden powderkeg of anger within me? Um, no, it's not hidden. I've been trying to win the Great Grocery Giveaway every day for months now, and never, not ONCE . . . no, no, I won't give in to gunpowder, I won't. Because what would happen if I took these home and the house caught fire, and the whole place went BOOM! how, then could I explain that I had that stuff just to study vocabulary? I didn't buy any fireworks. I figured I could just learn multilingual pyrotechnics from the dictionary. That's so boring, though . . . (if you are wondering why cheap explosives are available for impulsive purchase at an ordinary checkout counter, that's legal here in South Carolina. Strange, but legal) 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5374 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 1003 of 3737 15 August 2010 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Meramarina, you do worry me sometimes. But in a friendly, non-aggressive, certainly non-detonating way.
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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 1004 of 3737 16 August 2010 at 12:07am | IP Logged | |||||
Your water witchcraft is very impressive - it's been raining cats and dogs here today (not literally of course, that would simply be too distracting)! [edit] Edited by Teango on 16 August 2010 at 1:49am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1006 of 3737 16 August 2010 at 1:07am | IP Logged | |||||
In Spanish, they don't say "raining cats and dogs". They use "llover a cántaros", literally "to rain pitchers", kind of like the English "raining buckets". PS It has started to rain here, too, after a few weeks of very hot and dry weather, but I am working tomorrow anyway :-( 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5500 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 1007 of 3737 16 August 2010 at 6:13am | IP Logged | |||||
You never struck me as the blow-stuff-up-so-that-I-can-lean-some-blowing-stuff-up-words type :) Actually, explosives are availible for impulsive purchase here in Pennsylvania, as well. They should have a warning on them saying: KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN AND LANGUAGE NERDS! Edited by mashmusic11235 on 16 August 2010 at 6:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| deej Tetraglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5339 days ago 31 posts - 38 votes Speaks: Hindi, English*, Italian, French | Message 1008 of 3737 16 August 2010 at 1:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you ask your wife/girlfriend(who speaks only English) to shout 'Oui, oui!' or 'Si,
si!' instead of 'Yes, yes!' when you're in bed as it helps you reach orgasm. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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