ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5336 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French
| Message 1729 of 3737 07 June 2011 at 8:00pm | IP Logged |
ellasevia wrote:
How many of you have sung "Part of Your World" underwater in Dutch? |
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I have! And I nearly drowned.
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nikorizzo Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4925 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, Greek, French
| Message 1730 of 3737 07 June 2011 at 10:36pm | IP Logged |
ReneeMona wrote:
ellasevia wrote:
How many of you have sung "Part of Your World" underwater in Dutch?
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I have! And I nearly drowned. |
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I've done it in Spanish! And my sister thought I was drowning and tried to pull me to the surface!
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languageguy13 Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4931 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin, Portuguese
| Message 1731 of 3737 07 June 2011 at 11:20pm | IP Logged |
YKYALN when you can tell which in which language people's cheap import cigarette packet warnings are written
YKYALN when you had a few free weeks and learnt the next 5 weeks lessons of Mandarin and now have to sit through 35 hours of lecturers explaining the grammar and vocab when you know it
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7016 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 1732 of 3737 08 June 2011 at 9:25pm | 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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...and it leads to this.
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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 1734 of 3737 08 June 2011 at 11:28pm | IP Logged |
patuco wrote:
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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...and it leads to this. |
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That definitely just made my week. Linguists are so adorable sometimes.
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kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5554 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish
| Message 1735 of 3737 09 June 2011 at 12:52am | 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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Suomi got mentioned! :D
*You know you're a language nerd when you're playing Half Life 2 dubbed in Mandarin Chinese with Finnish subtitles. Hells yeah, baby.
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s0fist Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5047 days ago 260 posts - 445 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Sign Language, German, Spanish, French
| Message 1736 of 3737 09 June 2011 at 3:57am | IP Logged |
patuco wrote:
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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...and it leads to this. |
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Fun at the start, hilarious by the time people started swaying in synchronicity. :)
Thanks for the link.
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