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| Old Chemist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5171 days ago 227 posts - 285 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 1193 of 3737 27 October 2010 at 10:10am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes! I can't get my head round the fact that everyone else doesn't share my interest in languages and a bored expression appears on the face of anyone I try to explain some interesting - to me - fact about language. I also have a course on Basque along with many other language courses, which people consider seriously weird. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tornus Diglot GroupieRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5141 days ago 82 posts - 113 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Swedish, Danish | Message 1194 of 3737 27 October 2010 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you critizice the translation of a movie, or any documents.
in a scene of "into the wild",the main character just have been hunting but he found no preys, so he write on his diary "no game" . but they have translated it into french by "pas de jeu", but it had no sense here , it means something like "there were no amusements". when i heard this i was ... wtf?! and i said to my friends who were watching the movie with me that it should have been translated by "pas de gibier" and they agreed ^^ 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 1195 of 3737 27 October 2010 at 2:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When, to your delight, you are the only one who turns up to your Russian literature lecture one week and ask the lecturer (who is from Germany) whether you could conduct the seminar in German. She agrees, and you talk about Dostoyevsky's life and works completely in German for an hour. Then at the end, she compliments your German (which you find fantastic, of course) and from then on never speaks a word of English to you again.
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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5845 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 1196 of 3737 27 October 2010 at 2:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
This is really succesful and beneficial for both languages, German and Russian. Fasulye 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 1198 of 3737 27 October 2010 at 6:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
As I am more confident in my German than in my Russian, I felt the need to prove to myself that I could actually carry out a whole lecture in German first - If I am ever fortunate enough for the same to happen again, I will try in Russian. Also it was driving me mad that I knew the lecturer was German and yet I had to speak English with her in lectures. You know you're a language nerd when you consider not buying one of your favourite TV series just because they only have English subtitles. Also, you know you're a language nerd when you know of someone who's using Scrubs to learn Italian from, and you consider getting into Scrubs just because it has subtitles in other languages on its DVDs. 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 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1199 of 3737 28 October 2010 at 12:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A sign of true language nerdery in my embarrassing bookmarks: The Galactic Phrase Book and Travel Guide.
Did you know, for example, that "the language spoken by the character Greedo in conversation with Han Solo (in the cantina) is actually a simplified version of Quechua, an indigenous language of the Andean region of South America". Or that "in Return of the Jedi, Lando Calrissian's copilot, Nien Nunb, speaks the real Human language Haya, a dialect spoken in Tanzania". [source: Language - Wookieepedia] Oh but surely the evidence speaks for itself now - my journey to the nerdy side of language appreciation is almost complete...help me Obi-Wan, you're my only hope! [edit] Edited by Teango on 28 October 2010 at 1:18pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5217 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 1200 of 3737 28 October 2010 at 12:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I honestly think we need to get out more.....
Then again perhaps not. 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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