Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 1681 of 3737 31 May 2011 at 2:16am | IP Logged |
...when you go to your target language's Wikipedia for reading practice, and find yourself correcting its spelling and grammar.
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hjordis Senior Member United States snapshotsoftheworld. Joined 5186 days ago 209 posts - 264 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Japanese
| Message 1682 of 3737 31 May 2011 at 2:29am | IP Logged |
When you go to your target language's Wikipedia for language practice and find yourself reading about other languages. (The other day I found myself on the Japanese Wikipedia for Telugu alphabet. I don't even know how I got there.)
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AndyMeg Diglot Groupie Colombia Joined 4926 days ago 48 posts - 62 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 1683 of 3737 31 May 2011 at 10:49pm | IP Logged |
When you know how to say something in a foreign language but not in your own (native
language).
It happened to me! XD!
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LazyLinguist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5603 days ago 105 posts - 125 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 1684 of 3737 01 June 2011 at 3:03pm | IP Logged |
nway wrote:
^ J. D Moncada (Louisiana) :P
You know you're a regular nerd when you look up someone's correction of someone's Amazon
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YKYALN when you are sad at not being provided a link to this hilarity.
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 1685 of 3737 02 June 2011 at 5:01pm | IP Logged |
LazyLinguist wrote:
nway wrote:
^ J. D Moncada (Louisiana) :P
You know you're a regular nerd when you look up someone's correction of someone's Amazon
review of Lady Gaga's new album with the song "Scheisse" on it. |
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YKYALN when you are sad at not being provided a link to this hilarity. |
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...still waiting for the link :(
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nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5415 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean
| Message 1686 of 3737 02 June 2011 at 7:26pm | IP Logged |
^ Woops! When I had originally read LazyLinguist's comment, I had assumed he was speaking to J. D Moncada. >_<
Anyway, here you go.
Sadly, only 1 of 3 people thought that post added to the discussion. :(
Edited by nway on 02 June 2011 at 7:28pm
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meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map
| Message 1687 of 3737 02 June 2011 at 8:09pm | IP Logged |
Maybe Gaga is a Language Nerd? Wouldn't you like to see that costume ? !
Speaking of appearances - You know you are a Language Nerd when you decide to cut your own hair because the money that would go to a hairdresser would be much better spent in a bookshop for even more language stuff.
<sigh> It'll grow back, I guess . . .
CAUTION: Language Nerdery may lead to dubious personal grooming decisions.
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Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5535 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese
| Message 1688 of 3737 02 June 2011 at 9:28pm | IP Logged |
...when you were bored a few nights ago so you now know how to read Russian Cyrillic (even though you have no short term plans to learn Russian).
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