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| Polyglotted Triglot Newbie Joined 5229 days ago 35 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Swedish, Mandarin | Message 953 of 3737 05 August 2010 at 2:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you know straight away in what language the warnings on the front of people's cigarette packets are.
When you watched 'The Big Bang Theory' when Sheldon learns Chinese to confront the people at his local restaurant about using oranges instead of tangerines on the chickens, and you firstly were envious of how quick he could pick it up and then can understand his language faux-pas without the subtitles :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Damasta Newbie United States Joined 5594 days ago 5 posts - 6 votes | Message 955 of 3737 05 August 2010 at 7:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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YKYALN when you've been too impressed with the fact that Iversen's studying practically the whole Indo-European linguistic family and is fluent in just half of them to realize he's petting cheetahs in his avatar.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 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 956 of 3737 05 August 2010 at 9:36am | IP Logged | |||||
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What's wrong about petting cheetahs? If they are handreared, then they aren't dangerous - provided that you aren't stupid enough to start running.
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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6379 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 957 of 3737 05 August 2010 at 10:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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YKYALN = You know you’re a language nerd
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| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6321 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 958 of 3737 05 August 2010 at 11:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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YKYALN when you go to the toilet - knowing that it'll take some time - and you take a dictionary with you instead of a newspaper (apart from newspapers in your target language)
When my brother-in-law once witnessed that, it made him laugh all day. And he makes til today fun out of it - "You never guess what my sister-in-law takes for reading to the toilet" or "Ten Euros if you guess what ..." But I really don't mind, I also laughed about it :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5904 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 959 of 3737 05 August 2010 at 12:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
Correction: it's "taal" not "spraak"
Ow... Haacke's? I can't even get it in a bookstore in South Africa, I'll be taking a trip to Namibia and will pick one up there... nifty language aye ^_^ 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5904 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 960 of 3737 05 August 2010 at 12:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
oh? well... maybe if you try shadowing while running from them you'd have super retention :p 1 person has voted this message useful |
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