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| skyr Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5034 days ago 15 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*, German, Swedish Studies: Italian, Icelandic, Czech, Slovak, Serbian | Message 1497 of 3737 14 March 2011 at 11:28pm | IP Logged |
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...when you buy an item of clothing (in your home country) for the sole reason it has words written in your TL, even though the style and colour of said item isn't that flattering
...when you get home you realise there is a spelling mistake on said item of clothing so you email the company to inform them of this error, providing a full explanation to why the slogan is incorrect 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| PonyGirl Groupie United States Joined 5020 days ago 54 posts - 70 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 1498 of 3737 14 March 2011 at 11:51pm | IP Logged |
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When you search through all of your friends on various chat/social media and promptly sign off when you see that none of your foreign language friends are online.... :}
When you get angry at a friend because they have no interest in learning your TL with you :D ((I'm sure that one is already on here somewhere ;)) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5010 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 1499 of 3737 15 March 2011 at 2:37pm | IP Logged |
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...when your boyfriend complains about you reading in french again because he can't read the book you are obviously enjoying.
...when you are mad at all those french people speaking at you in English in Paris. Really, why nearly everyone I know meets the french who want to speak french only and I meet the other kind mostly? ...when you usually write homework of foreign language for half of your class since their teacher doesn't bother to actually teach them the grammar or vocabulary needed for it. ...when you know you should study for your subjects at university but can't help it and do a few grammar exercises of Spanish instead. Or read a few pages of this thread :-D Btw I have never seen such a long thread on any forum before.:-D 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| LazyLinguist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5604 days ago 105 posts - 125 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1500 of 3737 15 March 2011 at 7:18pm | IP Logged |
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^Iversen's Multiconfused log can be found in the Language Log forum, and is much longer I
believe. ..When you finally get a good night's sleep after 3 days, you are more pleased about the fact you had your first TL dream than actually getting the rest. 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 1501 of 3737 15 March 2011 at 10:56pm | IP Logged |
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...when you start seeing foreign language banner ads on English language websites. Facebook just gave me a banner ad in Ukrainian, which I've never even studied!
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5208 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 1502 of 3737 16 March 2011 at 11:37am | IP Logged |
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You get a new mobile phone, and the software on it is pretty much the same as on your old one, except it has a couple of additional languages for the predictive text. You get excited about the possibility of now being able to text your Spanish and Dutch friends in their language, although you know neither language.
On a similar theme: you're filling out a job application and one of the questions is about which languages you know and your abilities in them, and you're a bit sad that there's only space for 3 foreign languages. Not that you know more than 3 foreign languages, but... you know, in case you did? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Hanekawa Diglot Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5173 days ago 30 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 1503 of 3737 16 March 2011 at 8:38pm | IP Logged |
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everytime someone asks me or mentions something remotely about languages. i.e., japanese and i go on a tangent about how this and that works. or my half-korean boyfriend about korean, and i nag him to learn it but he wont. T___T i wonder how i can get him to learn korean with meeeee.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1504 of 3737 17 March 2011 at 2:36am | IP Logged |
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when you see the initials RS, MT,or, TY and you automatically think of...well, I don't have to tell you.
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