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| JNetto Groupie United States verbumpopuli.blogspoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4985 days ago 43 posts - 60 votes  Speaks: EnglishC1 | Message 1617 of 3737 30 April 2011 at 1:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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when you read a Japanese grammar book cover to cover in one night because you understood
ONE word off a movie; (Movie: "The Hunted" with Christopher Lambert; Word: 女（おんな）woman.) when your computer has hot keys for 10 different languages and freak other people out when they are trying to type something and all that comes out is Arabic or Japanese. Edited by JNetto on 30 April 2011 at 1:00pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7018 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 1618 of 3737 30 April 2011 at 3:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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You know you're a language nerd when one of your stops on holiday was in Malta, you go on a tour and ...
...the whole bus has to wait while you buy "Learn Maltese" in case you might want to do just that some day ...you continually compare Maltese to Arabic and try to figure out why the Arabic alphabet isn't being used in all the street signs ...you watch a film as part of the tour, realise that it's available in twenty languages and miss most of the film while continuously changing to languages you have no idea about ...you keep your ticket stub to said film since it has instructions for headphone use in thirteen languages, including Maltese which you are, by now, determined to learn...soon!
...or work when there's no electricity (for those times when you're stranded in the middle of the desert and your trusty solar cell is broken). Edited by patuco on 30 April 2011 at 3:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| RogerK Triglot Groupie Austria Joined 5078 days ago 92 posts - 181 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian Studies: Portuguese | Message 1619 of 3737 30 April 2011 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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You have recently begun a new language, you buy learning materials for your next language, then you met a couple of Portugese and think 'yes, I might like to learn that too', even though it will probably take you two years to work through your current pile of books.
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1620 of 3737 30 April 2011 at 10:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when this is your 2000th post on the HTLAL forums.
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7018 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 1621 of 3737 01 May 2011 at 9:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you realise this is your 2059th day on the forums and, hopefully, there are many more to come. Edited by patuco on 01 May 2011 at 9:21pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5970 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1624 of 3737 02 May 2011 at 4:11am | IP Logged | ||
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. . . when you starting giggling uncontollably in the store because the song "Louie, Louie" is playing on the sound system, and you just can't help but translate the lyrics in your head and the results of "we gotta go!" are just so hilariously unsingable that you must immediately leave the place and recover in private.
It's not the world's most melodious tune in the first place, but that just makes it funnier! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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