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| mexitalian Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4988 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Tamil | Message 1865 of 3737 17 August 2011 at 12:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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..when you bring up your language books with you every night when you go to bed.
..when you bring along a language book to the bathroom; you'll be sitting on that toilet for a while anyways, so why not? ..when you bring your Balinese book with you everywhere around the house. ..when your mother asks you, "Son, what is Tamil?", you respond with, "Uhh.. it's the name of the book.."; that moment was awkward for you too. ..when you prefer foreign movies without subtitles. ..when you start putting as much as possible into a foreign language. ..when you start explaining to people the difference between "THE Italian language" and "Italian languageS", of which the latter is mistakingly called "Italian dialects" by the common joe. ..when you actually care to distinguish Portuguese from Spanish. ..when you blow up into a mushroom when you get the slightest thing wrong. PS I'm a newbie on this forum but I'm active on Unilang ("Michael"). Is this forum run by prescriptivists and Grammar Nazis? ("If you can't spell it, don't write it.") :P 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1866 of 3737 17 August 2011 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you have a big battle to get a wasp out of your office, and inadvertently find yourself clutching an Assimil coverbox as a shield and a rolled-up kanji poster for a sword.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 1868 of 3737 17 August 2011 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you are angry with yourself because you said "los" instead of "os" when your boss passed by your office door with a Brazilian lady, pointed at you and said "say something in Portuguese"
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| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5853 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 1869 of 3737 18 August 2011 at 8:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You are furious with one of the presidential candidate in your country because he could
not give his election speech properly in his own "mother tongue". (Mandarin) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| janalisa Triglot Senior Member France janafadness.com/blog Joined 6888 days ago 284 posts - 466 votes Speaks: English*, French, Japanese Studies: Russian, Norwegian | Message 1870 of 3737 19 August 2011 at 6:20am | IP Logged | |||||
Haha... In which language does "like" translate as "arr"? (You know you're a language nerd if you can answer this question without cheating.) =D 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6001 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 1871 of 3737 19 August 2011 at 7:10am | IP Logged | |||||
Unfortunately, I think that would be "Pirate," not very language-nerdy at all. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5032 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 1872 of 3737 19 August 2011 at 7:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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I found the pirate one amusing. Mango Languages has a pirate course that it debuted around the time of Pirates of the Caribbean IV came out, and it will bring that back again yearly in September for "Talk Like a Pirate Day."
YKYALNW... when your enthusiasm for languages affects other people's awareness of the world. Example: Was talking to my mom on the phone today, and she said she finally started paying attention to the kana when looking at a news report about the Japanese economy. She said without me studying Japanese, she wouldn't have paid any attention to the characters at all. Now she sees them all over. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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