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| 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 1881 of 3737 23 August 2011 at 1:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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...ўен ю райт ин ѳъ Сърилик элфъбет, джъст фор фън. Edited by Levi on 23 August 2011 at 1:20am 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1882 of 3737 23 August 2011 at 2:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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when your friend loans you his GPS but you still get lost...but by getting lost you find a huge bookstore (part of a chain) going out of business. So, of course, you stop to check out the language learning section. Unfortunately, all the "good stuff" for your two target languages are gone BUT you decide the deals on the other materials for languages that you will..or, might..or, hope to..study are too good to pass up.
You then discover that the GPS is no longer talking to you (perhaps it was angry at the way you cursed, er,I mean,spoke to it in English, as well as your target languages). You fiddle around with it and get it to speak to you,but it is in what you believe to be German!( but later find out was Afrikaans). You then discover that you can set it to give you directions in your target languages (or, apparently, hundreds of others). So, now you plan to buy your own GPS when you have saved up enough money because the language shopping spree set you back quite a bit. Now you feel good knowing that with your own GPS you will still get lost again, but at least the next time, the directions it gives you will be in your target languages. Of course when you give it back to your friend he is going to wonder what happened to his American English setting.Yes, the GPS distinguishes American and British English. 1 person has 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 1883 of 3737 23 August 2011 at 2:15am | IP Logged | |||||
올 인 앙굴! (Not sure if I spelled that all right...) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| learnvietnamese Diglot Groupie Singapore yourvietnamese.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4950 days ago 98 posts - 132 votes Speaks: Vietnamese*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 1884 of 3737 23 August 2011 at 4:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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When my most exciting ideas/stuffs to do somehow all end up language-related. Edited by learnvietnamese on 23 August 2011 at 4:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5067 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish | Message 1885 of 3737 23 August 2011 at 5:09am | IP Logged | |||||
...When you're mildly annoyed that people don't say Cyrillic with a hard C in English. :) Edited by Kartof on 23 August 2011 at 5:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5968 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1886 of 3737 23 August 2011 at 8:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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. . . When there's an earthquake, and the first thing you do is go online to google "Erdbeben" and "terremoto" to see if it's been reported internationally! I didn't know the word in French but of course looked it up - tremblement de terre
(Yes it was reported, Northeast US quake, very unusual for this area. I did not feel it, I was outside pulling weeds and didn't sense anything shaking - I've marked several articles in target languages about earthquakes to read later, though! I think if there's ever a major local disaster requiring evacuation, I'd just sit around looking up vocabulary to describe it! This kind of language nerdery cannot possibly be a survival advantage - how have language nerds like us remained in the gene pool? Edited by meramarina on 23 August 2011 at 9:22pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4889 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 1887 of 3737 23 August 2011 at 9:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
Lol I believe that's Pirate English or something lol :o) xx edit: oops too late, someone beat me to it lol :-p Edited by WentworthsGal on 23 August 2011 at 9:25pm 1 person has 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 1888 of 3737 23 August 2011 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
In French it can also be called "un séisme". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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