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 1265 of 3737 23 November 2010 at 6:19pm | IP Logged |
Sprachprofi wrote:
When you're making christmas cookies in the shape of Greek letters. |
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How would you make a Ξ?
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horshod Pentaglot Groupie India Joined 5771 days ago 74 posts - 107 votes Speaks: Hindi, Marathi*, Bengali, Gujarati, English Studies: German, Spanish, Turkish
| Message 1266 of 3737 23 November 2010 at 6:25pm | IP Logged |
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...when you can't help but notice that the hair on your bar of soap is shaped just like a Hiragana ん. |
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lol I rofled at that one! :D :D
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Qbe Tetraglot Senior Member United States joewright.org/var Joined 7136 days ago 289 posts - 335 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Japanese, German, Mandarin, Aramaic
| Message 1267 of 3737 23 November 2010 at 8:11pm | IP Logged |
Levi wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:
When you're making christmas cookies in the shape of Greek letters. |
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How would you make a Ξ? |
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Lowercase, of course.
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ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6143 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 1268 of 3737 23 November 2010 at 8:19pm | IP Logged |
Qbe wrote:
Levi wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:
When you're making christmas cookies in the shape of Greek letters. |
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How would you make a Ξ? |
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Lowercase, of course. |
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ξ would still be quite a difficult shape to make for a cookie, I'd think! So would ζ for that matter...
Edited by ellasevia on 23 November 2010 at 8:20pm
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Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese
| Message 1269 of 3737 23 November 2010 at 8:24pm | IP Logged |
ellasevia wrote:
Qbe wrote:
Levi wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:
When you're making
christmas cookies in the shape of Greek letters. |
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How would you make a Ξ? |
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Lowercase, of course. |
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ξ would still be quite a difficult shape to make for a cookie, I'd think! So would ζ for
that matter... |
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We were making Spritzgebäck of
course.
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psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French
| Message 1270 of 3737 24 November 2010 at 4:27am | IP Logged |
You know you are a language nerd when you give serious thought to taking the toki pona 21 day challenge (see the language learning log) and you have the following reactions from those closest to you: "with so many languages out there why would some one make up a new one?" and, "with so many real languages why study a made up one?"; " Knowing you, I'm not surprised"; "why? So you can say you have mastered an entire language?" and, my favorite: "toki pona? Is that like the hokey-pokey?"
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royanazs Triglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5124 days ago 4 posts - 7 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Persian
| Message 1271 of 3737 24 November 2010 at 9:49am | IP Logged |
..When you buy Cosmopolitan in a language which you don't understand because sometime in the future you'll be able to use it to learn the colloquial expressions...
..When you spend a third of your monthly salary on an assortment of grammar books and end up going back to the bookstore to return the books one by one because you don't have money to buy lunch...
Edited by royanazs on 24 November 2010 at 9:49am
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maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5220 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu
| Message 1272 of 3737 26 November 2010 at 6:14pm | IP Logged |
royanazs wrote:
..When you buy Cosmopolitan in a language which you don't understand because sometime in the future you'll be able to use it to learn the colloquial expressions...
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if you dont buy Cosmo in every airport you pass through because it's not in a new language
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