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| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6103 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 2889 of 3737 02 April 2013 at 7:53am | IP Logged |
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When you use the instruction leaflet for a pair of bathroom scales, written in 16 languages, as your bookmark.
...And when the book in question is in your L2 ...And when you get distracted from reading the book, and find yourself reading the instructions of how to use the bathroom scales, in Portuguese. Edited by Mooby on 02 April 2013 at 7:54am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5845 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 2890 of 3737 02 April 2013 at 11:55am | IP Logged |
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... when you start doing crossword puzzles for native speakers in a foreign language (in my case: in Dutch!) to improve your vocabulary!
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 2891 of 3737 04 April 2013 at 5:33am | IP Logged |
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...when you really hate it when somebody recommends an English book to you, because you don't have the time to waste on English, and you have to give some excuse for why you are not going to read that book.
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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5169 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 2892 of 3737 09 April 2013 at 12:29am | IP Logged |
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When your uncle gives you an Orthodox funeral service program and you immediately recognize a handful of
words, even though you haven't studied Ancient Greek in several years and have never studied Modern Greek at all. 3 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 2893 of 3737 12 April 2013 at 12:19am | IP Logged |
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You know you're a language nerd...as well as an incurable procrastinator...when you find yourself actually looking up the etymology of the word "procrastinate"!
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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5965 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 2894 of 3737 12 April 2013 at 2:13am | IP Logged |
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But are you nerd enough to know how to say "I'm a procrastinator" in all your languages? No? Well, what are you waiting for !?
I know the feeling. Sometimes I get lost in etymology when I look up something, and the answer is very interesting, so I look up a related word, which leads to another, then I notice it resembles a word in another language, so I have to look that up too, which leads me to another word, another language, another word . . . and so on, until I realize that I'm not doing the thing I should be doing (laundry, dishwashing, answering the phone, etc). 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5169 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 2895 of 3737 12 April 2013 at 2:32am | IP Logged |
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When you know the etymology of "procrastinate" already, and yet you realize in shock that you don't know how to say "procrastinate" in any of your languages . . . eek, time to go find a dictionary!
(I procrastinate so much that I can't believe I don't know how to say this!) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 2896 of 3737 15 April 2013 at 6:22am | IP Logged |
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When you need some random HP info, and you google Cho Chung instead of Cho Chang.
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