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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5172 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 2625 of 3737 20 September 2012 at 7:26pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When it really annoys you that your iPad doesn't have a Latin keyboard, because it would make typing words
into Anki so much easier. When, since lamentably there is no Latin keyboard, you use the English keyboard to type Latin words, and now, due to the frequency with which you do this, your English spellcheck suggests Latin alternatives to English words (even if these English words are spelled correctly). For example, today you tried to type the word 'for' and the spellcheck told you to change it to 'prō' (complete with the macron). When your brother, while using your iPad, yells, "Rebecca, can you please come turn the Spanish keyboard off? I can't type anything in English!" Do the horrors of spellcheck never end? Edited by Amerykanka on 20 September 2012 at 7:28pm 2 persons have 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 2626 of 3737 21 September 2012 at 9:35pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Ugh, I hate spell check.
You know you're a language nerd when you don't use spell check because (a) you use too many languages for it to be worthwhile, and (b) your orthographic pedantry prevents you from misspelling words in the first place. Edited by Levi on 21 September 2012 at 9:35pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2627 of 3737 21 September 2012 at 9:45pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hehe same here!
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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5536 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 2628 of 3737 23 September 2012 at 4:37pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I can relate with a lot of that above. In fact, I never even owned an MP3 player until I got one to use for language learning. Thus my first MP3 player had nothing but Pimsleur on it for the longest time. Now I have one MP3 player for language courses and other various listening material (audiobooks, podcasts, etc.) and the other two have music. However, none of the 3 have a single English song anywhere on them. I could list tons of songs from memory that I know are high up in the Korean music charts right now, but I wouldn't be able to even make a ballpark guess at single song on the U.S. Billboard chart. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Darustet Diglot Newbie FinlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4508 days ago 9 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 2629 of 3737 23 September 2012 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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When you get interested in languages after finding this forum,
..find this thread, ..and after reading ten pages in a row, you realize that to you these people are all heroes 2 persons have 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 2630 of 3737 23 September 2012 at 8:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
After a few hundred more pages, though, we probably look more obsessive that heroic ! 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Darustet Diglot Newbie FinlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4508 days ago 9 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 2631 of 3737 24 September 2012 at 3:39pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
And reading all the +300 pages would be any less obsessive? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 2632 of 3737 27 September 2012 at 1:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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...when you're making a list of stuff to pack to move to China and you smile to yourself
when you realise the first thing you write down is the list of study materials you're taking with you. *And* this almost looks longer than the rest of the list put together. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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