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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6059 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 3289 of 3737 14 April 2014 at 1:55am | IP Logged | ||
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When you try to read people's tattoos unnoticed...
... and then have to refrain from pointing out spelling errors. P.S.: I don't know about other countries, but here it's fashionable to get text tattoos in exotic scripts. The least you would expect is for people to spend a bit of time checking to see whether what they're so indelibly printing on themselves is error-free. In my experience, this seems not to be a concern. Go figure! 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 3290 of 3737 15 April 2014 at 5:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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When a friend tells you "You're catching them all like the pokémon!"
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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4637 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 3291 of 3737 16 April 2014 at 10:13am | IP Logged | ||
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When you log into HTLAL in the morning and become extremely disappointed when you see that there have only been postings in three threads during the last 12 hours. Mesdames et Messieurs, where are you?
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4907 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3292 of 3737 16 April 2014 at 10:45am | IP Logged | ||
There's a problem with the DNS name resolution. Someone showed a workaround in the Language Den on Google groups. But few people will see that, so it will be pretty empty until the real problem gets fixed. How the heck have you gotten in? 1 person has 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 3293 of 3737 16 April 2014 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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When HTLAL is down and you google-search for it and read discussions about HTLAL on other forums.
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4907 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3294 of 3737 16 April 2014 at 8:47pm | IP Logged | ||
When HTLAL is down and you follow another language nerd's link to a discussion about HTLAL on another forum, and actually read most of it. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4531 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 3295 of 3737 17 April 2014 at 9:23am | IP Logged | ||
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When HTLAL is down and the first thing you do before you have had your first coffee of the day is go on Twitter to find out what's up and then modify your hosts table on your computer (something you didn't even know you had when you went to sleep) so you can still log onto the site. Edited by patrickwilken on 17 April 2014 at 9:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7203 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 3296 of 3737 17 April 2014 at 9:41am | IP Logged | ||
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When HTLAL is down and you know it's a DNS problem. Wait, that just makes me a nerd.
When HTLAL is down and you remember the helpful planning posts for the "inevitable crash" and how we would all meet up on the wiki to regroup. And you come back and find your friends have been here for days without missing a beat. And your own language studies have been more productive, since you didn't have this distraction/attraction. Edited by luke on 17 April 2014 at 9:52am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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