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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5924 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 1545 of 3737 08 April 2011 at 8:09am | IP Logged | ||
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When reading the last few posts makes me want to learn Greek.
When I sometimes think about changing my major from psychology to linguistics or perhaps psycholinguistics. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1546 of 3737 09 April 2011 at 2:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Dear Amerykanka and ellasevia
Thank you both. Now I can sleep tonight.It really was on my mind. I appreciate your answers. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5766 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 1547 of 3737 09 April 2011 at 12:41pm | IP Logged | ||
When reading the last couple of posts about Greek makes you even more anxious to finish your degree (in about a month) so that you have time to concentrate on Greek again. You know you're a language nerd when your parents are discussing what to pack for their trip to America starting Monday, and they mention that they don't have enough cases. The word "case" here sounds really weird to you (and your girlfriend) who both spend lots of time studying languages, and therefore the only sense of the word "case" that makes much sense to you anymore is its use in the grammatical sense. Jack 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| PonyGirl Groupie United States Joined 5019 days ago 54 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 1548 of 3737 09 April 2011 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you are at work and are getting irrationally irate at those pesky customers that keep getting in the way of your reading this forum! Edited by PonyGirl on 09 April 2011 at 7:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6142 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 1549 of 3737 09 April 2011 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you get into the car and see a button marked "L R" for adjusting the side-view mirrors and the first thing that comes to mind is to wonder why the car has a setting for listening-reading (L-R)!
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6582 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 1550 of 3737 09 April 2011 at 9:25pm | IP Logged | ||
If they're native English speakers they're absolutely correct: they don't have enough cases. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1551 of 3737 09 April 2011 at 11:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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when you get an external hard drive that comes with a instruction sheet that has 22-yes 22!- different languages on it and in the past (before joining this forum and becoming a language nerd) you would have thrown it away but now you know that it is worth it's weight in gold and you may be the envy of some of those who post here.
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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5171 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 1552 of 3737 10 April 2011 at 3:03am | IP Logged | ||
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When it takes you about five minutes to look any word up in the dictionary because you stop to read the definition of every other unknown word you see. Then you usually forget what word you were looking up in the first place and spend more time trying to remember it; meanwhile you read a few more random definitions. When you finally remember the original word, you forget it again because all the other words in the dictionary are so fascinating.
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