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Levi
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 Message 841 of 3737
17 July 2010 at 4:54pm | IP Logged 
...when the silence starts to make you feel guilty, so you head over to www.listenlive.eu.
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Tally
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 Message 842 of 3737
17 July 2010 at 10:30pm | IP Logged 
When your idea of small talk is mentioning random facts about languages and you are
surprised when people look at you funny.

Edited by Tally on 18 July 2010 at 10:33pm

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WortDrauf
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 Message 843 of 3737
18 July 2010 at 10:11pm | IP Logged 
Tally wrote:
When your idea of small talk is mentioning random facts about languages and you are surprised when people look at you funny


Guilty. And whenever I'm asked by a friend to tell them "something interesting", it always pertains to languages.
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johntm93
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 Message 844 of 3737
19 July 2010 at 4:34am | IP Logged 
I feel like I have to share this...
I was at a two story Borders bookstore today, it was extremely huge, and I was (of course) looking for the language section, just to see what they had. I walked through the whole store TWICE and couldn't find it. Needless to say, I was extremely disappointed. It wasn't even near the travel section (where it is in the Borders near me). I could have asked an employee but by the time that hit me (dunno why I didn't think of it earlier) I had to go.


...I feel like I have to return to that store and find the language section.
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gdoyle1990
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 Message 845 of 3737
19 July 2010 at 5:22am | IP Logged 
When a friend mentions "IPA" in a status update on Facebook and you get excited because you think "Maybe I finally found someone to speak with about languages!" And then realize he's talking about beer. =[


Also, when another friend mentions "Computational Linguistics" and you wonder why you haven't spoken to him more.
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feanarosurion
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 Message 846 of 3737
19 July 2010 at 8:28am | IP Logged 
...when you write all your Facebook statuses in Finnish and your friends tell you to stop.
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Teango
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 Message 847 of 3737
19 July 2010 at 1:26pm | IP Logged 
When the first thing you do when you return from holiday is flop on the sofa, kick off your weary sand-filled shoes, and log on to the forum to check through several hundred email notifications.

Edited by Teango on 19 July 2010 at 1:27pm

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karaipyhare
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 Message 848 of 3737
19 July 2010 at 3:30pm | IP Logged 
Oh yes, I could feel the thrill in your story. Was it in Buenos Aires? That city's
great for rare old books!

Thaorius wrote:
...when, on the way to a Japanese only bookstore, you find a used
books bookshop, you
enter curiously, and ask for material in Japanese, or otherwise a foreign language that
isn't English. The store clerk shows you a few things, nothing very convincing... and
then, just as you are leaving the store, you see a kanji across the room. You take the
book off the shelf, and oh boy... jackpot. A 1965, perfectly preserved, color
illustrated
book in German about Japanese history. Annnnddd it comes with a lot of kanji! I mean,
what more could you possibly ask for, right?

(I am not, nor will I be studying German for the next 2 years or so. I am, however,
learning Japanese.)



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