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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 1433 of 3737 08 February 2011 at 3:30am | IP Logged | ||
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I was so upset I had to eat the whole bag of wafers and then spend the evening deciphering the wrapper of a mysterious Slavic chocolate bar I also have. I do not dare open it because I'm still looking at it (Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian, I think . . . ) I hope you enjoyed my artistic depiction of grief, worthy of a not-very-adept three year old.
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| GibberMeister Bilingual Pentaglot Groupie Scotland Joined 5809 days ago 61 posts - 67 votes Speaks: Spanish, Catalan, Lowland Scots*, English*, Portuguese | Message 1434 of 3737 08 February 2011 at 5:47pm | IP Logged | ||
And THAT is me. I find myself trying to figure out meanings of languages and words by comparing the ones I know with the ones I've no idea of! My wife has to bring me back to Earth sometimes at breakfast! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5694 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 1435 of 3737 08 February 2011 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | ||
I literally winced when I read that. And then immediately started imagining what sort of linguistic amusements could take place due to an imperfectly aligned reconstruction of the package... this may be my geekiest moment. (edited to avoid re-posting the picture) Edited by Jinx on 08 February 2011 at 6:40pm 2 persons have 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 1436 of 3737 11 February 2011 at 5:27am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you kick yourself for realizing, after the game is over, that you should have muted the English commentary while watching the France-Brazil football match and listened to the Radio France broadcast instead. Edited by Levi on 11 February 2011 at 5:28am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1437 of 3737 14 February 2011 at 3:37am | IP Logged | ||
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when you are getting your hair cut and your barber starts to speak to another barber in Italian and, even though you have not studied Italian since your university days, many many years ago, you can follow the conversation. What is more amazing-and more proof of being a language nerd- is that you are translating, in your mind,what they are saying into your first target language and feeling frustrated that you cannot ,as yet, translate it into your second target language.
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5035 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 1438 of 3737 14 February 2011 at 6:02am | IP Logged | ||
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It's already been posted, but this is so me:
...when you accidentally use another language's grammar in your native language ...when you accidentally speak words in another language without realizing it at first ...especially when you're already speaking another language! (My Finnish always has little strange bits of German and Spanish in it. It makes sense to no one but me.) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 6169 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 1439 of 3737 14 February 2011 at 9:08am | IP Logged | ||
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When frequent visits to the library collecting courses from different languages makes you stand out to the librarians making you slightly embarassed.
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