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| Polyglotted Triglot Newbie Joined 5232 days ago 35 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Swedish, Mandarin | Message 9 of 36 08 September 2010 at 7:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just had to check then that my language books and stuff were ok.
I'd save my Penguin Russian course from the 70's. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ManicGenius Senior Member United States Joined 5484 days ago 288 posts - 420 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French, Japanese | Message 10 of 36 08 September 2010 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well that sucks... cause there goes all my movies and TV shows.
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| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6043 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 11 of 36 08 September 2010 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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The computer tower I can replace everything else
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6442 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 12 of 36 08 September 2010 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd quietly assume that scaling my books down to fit on one shelf would mean that I could carry more than 1, and grab everything out of print or difficult to get.
I'd be sad to lose "Persisches Lehr- und Lesebuch", or R. G. A. de Bray's "Guide to the Slavonic languages", or "A dictionary of Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages", among others, and I'd be thankful that my copies of "Cracking the Chinese Puzzles" are loaned out. Losing my Dunwoody newspaper readers, or my Assimil or Kauderwelsh collections would be quite painful too, but they can be replaced. If I had to include my books which are in foreign languages, but not about languages, it gets much tougher. I have two shelves of Esperanto books, many of which would be hard to replace - Esperanto print runs are usually quite small. I have some old German-language almanacs from an area of the USA that had a lot of German immigrants. Then there's the manga in Japanese, the Hungarian films, light fiction and comics in various Swiss languages, and a handful of books in Basque. If I had to include my technical books in various languages, it doesn't even bear thinking about. It sounds like I should work on fire-proofing. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| carlonove Senior Member United States Joined 5989 days ago 145 posts - 253 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 13 of 36 08 September 2010 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd grab a bucket and stop the whole house from burning down.
"Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus." 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7159 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 14 of 36 09 September 2010 at 3:22am | IP Logged | ||
...and this would be why I have never put all of language learning materials on one shelf. You've heard of the saying, "Don't put all of your eggs in one basket", right? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5347 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 15 of 36 09 September 2010 at 3:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I would say my Assimil German with Ease. But, I'm trying to convert my books to computer
formats which I save on my website so just incase of anything else that goes wrong. Edited by zekecoma on 09 September 2010 at 3:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jondesousa Tetraglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/Zgg3nRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6267 days ago 227 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Mandarin, Spanish | Message 16 of 36 09 September 2010 at 3:54am | IP Logged | ||
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For me it would have to be a rare text on Iaido that I ordered from Japan. Since it was a private printing
and cost me more than I care to admit, it would be a no brainer. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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