LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5048 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German
| Message 1721 of 3737 07 June 2011 at 4:13am | IP Logged |
Levi wrote:
...when you feel as much patriotism for a country you've never visited where they speak your target language as you do for the country where you were born and live. |
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I can somewhat relate, even though I was born in Germany, I've lived in the US since I was 2... yet I'm a bit more patriotic to Germany, than the US...
Ich liebe Deutschland!! ♥
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nikorizzo Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4922 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, Greek, French
| Message 1722 of 3737 07 June 2011 at 4:45am | IP Logged |
When the linguist rap that meramarina just posted has become the explanation to your life.
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Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5691 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish
| Message 1723 of 3737 07 June 2011 at 5:38am | IP Logged |
meramarina wrote:
You are a language nerd when you go to YouTube to watch videos about linguistics and instead you discover just the right theme song for the language nerd thread!
The Linguist Rap
It's very silly, but it makes sense to me and probably to you, too! |
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It is indeed awesome. Someone needed to say it, though, so I will: he says and writes "it's a mute point" in the first verse. That kind of made my ears cringe, seeing as it's supposed to be coming from a "linguist." But hey, it's all in good fun, I guess.
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hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5184 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese
| Message 1724 of 3737 07 June 2011 at 6:03am | IP Logged |
nway wrote:
^ Growing up in an area without many Hispanics, "What happened?" only referred to specific situations that occurred in the past. Only when I had a Hispanic roommate in college did I start hearing "What happened?" used to mean a general "What's up?". It confused me at first, because whenever I was asked "What happened?", I thought he was referring to some specific incident. o.O |
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AH, yeah, I wouldn't use it like that. It wouldn't seem odd to me, though.
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LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5048 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German
| Message 1725 of 3737 07 June 2011 at 6:39am | IP Logged |
"The MC hammer of grammar"... woooow...that's a new one. I love it!
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meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5965 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map
| Message 1726 of 3737 07 June 2011 at 7:00am | IP Logged |
The "mute point" I thought was part of the joke - he's so busy studying language all day long, when is there any time to speak? Happens to me, too! (but this guy's a better dancer!)
Definitely nerdy enough for us here, I think! :)
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ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6140 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 1728 of 3737 07 June 2011 at 7:56pm | IP Logged |
When you find yourself on the sea floor, singing a song from your favorite Disney movie in your target language. Very tiring but very worth it! How many of you have sung "Part of Your World" underwater in Dutch?
Hm, now that I think of it, maybe this just makes me a Little Mermaid nerd, not necessarily a language nerd. But I've already written all this you get to read it.
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