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| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5729 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 2137 of 3737 08 February 2012 at 10:09am | IP Logged | ||
What language? Because there are books for that! ;) French for cats 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Northernlights Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4676 days ago 73 posts - 93 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 2138 of 3737 08 February 2012 at 6:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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You probably know when you're NOT a language nerd when you find this thread highly entertaining but haven't actually got anything to add to it.
Love the cat speaking dog by the way :-) 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 2139 of 3737 08 February 2012 at 9:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language nerd when you inform your mother that you're learning Danish and she says,
"just like you learned French and German right?" 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 2140 of 3737 10 February 2012 at 3:53am | IP Logged | ||
when this post reminds you that the English speaking cat's "meow" really is quite different in other languages. I guess each language hears the cat's "words" in a different way. when you wonder if it were a Siamese cat, would it speak dog with a Thai accent when you wonder if Chinese cats speak Catonese when you think this post is the "cat's meow" and wonder what the equivalent expression would be in your target languages 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mikonai Diglot Senior Member United States weirdnamewriting.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4930 days ago 178 posts - 281 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Swahili, German | Message 2141 of 3737 10 February 2012 at 4:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you can't decide what language to take in college, so you start planning to take
one-week crash-courses for at least three unrelated languages over the summer to help you pick. ...when you're pretty sure that won't help you decide, in the end, but you're going to do it anyway. (just as soon as I get through this semester!) 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 2142 of 3737 13 February 2012 at 12:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you can entertain yourself for far longer than is reasonable by reading the English-language Wikipedia and noticing whether articles use British or American spelling, or, my favorite (favourite?): a mixture of both.
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| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6553 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 2143 of 3737 13 February 2012 at 12:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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When jokes on hieroglyphics, Rosetta Stone, Michel Thomas and Assimil make you laugh out loud...
on a forum... in a room by yourself... ... because you have used all three methods seriously (or not so seriously) sometime in the past. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5336 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 2144 of 3737 13 February 2012 at 1:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you know the first article of the universal declaration of human rights by heart
because it is used as a sample text on omniglot.com. 7 persons have voted this message useful |
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