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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5536 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 1137 of 3737 01 October 2010 at 6:42pm | IP Logged | ||
Based on the wording about contributing translations at the bottom of the page, it's entirely possible that those were simply posted as received from someone else, not necessarily created by the site author. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Old Chemist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5174 days ago 227 posts - 285 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 1138 of 3737 03 October 2010 at 12:09pm | IP Logged | ||
Guilty. Excellent definition, believe it or not I even have a few language courses in my car, but that's because my girlfriend does not agree with me about having vast numbers of books and language courese to hand! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 1139 of 3737 06 October 2010 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you take your Greek grammar book to archery practise with you so that you have something productive to do between rounds on the range.
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 1141 of 3737 07 October 2010 at 3:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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My bad phrasing, which is terrible really. I actually sat there thinking about how to phrase it without making it really awkward or ambiguous but apparently I failed :P
You know you're a language nerd when you are going over archery terms and can frequently remember the German terminology but cannot for the life of you remember the English. Then when you go and ask one of the other members of the club, they remind you of the English terms but you notice a German accent - so instead of reading your Greek grammar book in between rounds, you practice your German instead! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 1142 of 3737 10 October 2010 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when somebody tries to use Greek or Cyrillic letters to write an English word, and it takes a really long time for you to see it because you actually know those alphabets, e.g. "ΡΔΦΠ" for "pain".
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 1143 of 3737 10 October 2010 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | ||
In Greek that would give PAIN (ραιν) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 1144 of 3737 12 October 2010 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you've studied so much J. K. Rowling recently that you start seeing "Harry Potter" instead of "Heavy Cotton" on t-shirt labels and read "Voldemort" instead of "Vollmacht" on your deregistration forms. Galloping Gorgons, whatever next! Edited by Teango on 12 October 2010 at 1:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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