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| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5404 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes  Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 361 of 3737 11 February 2010 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
Actually these are opposites of nerd. Budalla (also in Serbo-Croatian budala) and glupan mean fools or ignoramuses, so being called a jezički glupan in Croatian would mean you can't speak a language. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5496 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 362 of 3737 12 February 2010 at 12:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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When it's student union election time at your university, and you laugh at the lame
slogans some of the candidates use to get votes. Then a few days later, you notice from the distance that one of the candidates has posted 10 identical posters of himself together, and think to yourself, "Wow desperate... oh wait... each of these is in a different language! I'm voting for this dude!" 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 363 of 3737 12 February 2010 at 12:29am | IP Logged | |||||
I really doubt these automatic translations. It looks like "nerd" was simply not found in many of the dictionaries - not surprising considering there is no commonly- understood word for it in German that I know of. I was translating a Paul Graham essay about geeks and nerds for my father a while ago, and he certainly never heard of either term. The closest we could come to a German equivalent was "Freak"... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 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 364 of 3737 12 February 2010 at 12:33am | IP Logged | |||||
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In Danish we have the word "Bogorm" (bookworm) for the special breed of nerd that delights in reading books
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| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5423 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 365 of 3737 12 February 2010 at 1:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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You might be a language nerd when you daydream about foreign languages when you get bored in class.
Or when your watching a UFC fight and one of the fighters talks with a very thick accent, you wonder what his native language is. I'm pretty sure he was Brazilian.. Edited by Johntm on 12 February 2010 at 2:04am 1 person has 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 366 of 3737 12 February 2010 at 3:49am | IP Logged | |||||
"Bookworm" is an English word too, with the same meaning. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5423 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 367 of 3737 12 February 2010 at 4:21am | IP Logged | |||||
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| 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 368 of 3737 12 February 2010 at 8:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Sorry, I was really tired. :-/
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