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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 2913 of 3737 22 April 2013 at 12:12pm | IP Logged |
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When you buy Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Ancient Greek because you read about the tricks the translator had to use to catapult a story from our time two thousand years back in time to a period where people didn't have watches and didn't have the sense to find a word for the colour of the sky.
After all Homer said it was the colour of bronze (and the sea was the colour of wine), and then even the Old Greeks came to the conclusion that he must have been blind, but apparently even this didn't convice them that a finetuned colour scale might be practical. The ugly secret is the old Greeks weren't really practical in the way the brutal and simplistic Romans were. Btw. I haven't started reading my new acquisition (nor volume 4 in Russian, which I got in the same package) - like another bookworm I'm am eating my way slowly through volumne one in Irish and volume two in Latin. Edited by Iversen on 22 April 2013 at 12:30pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4649 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 2914 of 3737 22 April 2013 at 2:24pm | IP Logged |
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When you wonder why it's sometimes you need to analyse the meaning of every word slowly before understanding the sentence.
Uh, I kind of know why it might happen in my Arabic lessons sometimes, especially with background noise, but I don't know how it's possible in one's native language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4598 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 2915 of 3737 23 April 2013 at 3:09pm | IP Logged |
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When you order a classic movie, and when it arrives you find it unexpectedly dubbed in Thai... and decide to keep it
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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 2916 of 3737 23 April 2013 at 8:13pm | IP Logged |
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When you do flashcards and other language-related activities on your iPad to the extent that you damage
both your wrists and might have to have physical therapy. (Now this mark of a language nerd I could live without! There were, of course, other factors, since I'm not on the iPad THAT much, but the language study didn't help the situation.) Edited by Amerykanka on 23 April 2013 at 8:18pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| agantik Triglot Senior Member France Joined 4633 days ago 217 posts - 335 votes Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: German, Norwegian | Message 2917 of 3737 25 April 2013 at 2:05pm | IP Logged |
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When you give a lecture to your friend in the language section of the biggest bookshop in Paris (Gibert
Joseph ^_^), comparing various learning methods so that a woman behind you thinks you're part of the shop assistants and starts asking you for advice...This happened to me while I was a student, I still give lectures in bookshops but not so loud now ;) 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5061 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish | Message 2918 of 3737 25 April 2013 at 7:57pm | IP Logged |
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- when you and a friend eat dinner over a conversation of Japanese and German grammar
structures, along with certain difficulties of English-learners depending on their native language - when you look at your Fall schedule and see the one/two-hour breaks between classes as opportune times for Finnish studying (much better than that one hour you have this semester!) - Kat 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4634 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 2919 of 3737 26 April 2013 at 4:27am | IP Logged |
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When you take up most of your free time finding movies in your TL with TL subs to watch another day which never seems to come because you're always on the lookout for material
When you wouldn't normally want to watch something like Jersey Shore, but you wouldn't mind watching one of its spin offs in another language 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6038 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 2920 of 3737 28 April 2013 at 10:47pm | IP Logged |
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when you've understood a philosophical question in English using the ablative and dative cases of Latin and Sanskrit
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