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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 1713 of 3737 06 June 2011 at 10:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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^ Interesting. One thing I've noticed is that Spanish speakers will often say, "What happened?", analogous to "¿Qué pasa?", in situations where non-Spanish-speaking English speakers would normally say, "Huh?" or "What?".
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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 1714 of 3737 06 June 2011 at 11:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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^Weird. I say what happened all the time, though I also use the other two. Maybe it's because about half the people I grew up with are Spanish speaker. Or maybe they're using it in a way I wouldn't that I haven't noticed.
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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 1715 of 3737 06 June 2011 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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^ Growing up in an area without many Hispanics, "What happened?" only referred to specific situations that occurred in the past. Only when I had a Hispanic roommate in college did I start hearing "What happened?" used to mean a general "What's up?". It confused me at first, because whenever I was asked "What happened?", I thought he was referring to some specific incident. o.O
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7015 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 1716 of 3737 06 June 2011 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||
...and why would this stop a true language nerd? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5967 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1717 of 3737 06 June 2011 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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You are a language nerd when you go to YouTube to watch videos about linguistics and instead you discover just the right theme song for the language nerd thread!
The Linguist Rap It's very silly, but it makes sense to me and probably to you, too! Edited by meramarina on 07 June 2011 at 5:03am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| slav Bilingual Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5007 days ago 43 posts - 54 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish | Message 1718 of 3737 07 June 2011 at 1:20am | IP Logged | ||
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When you stay up past midnight studying Swedish, which is a subject 100% unrelated to any of the end of year exams you'll be taking the next day.
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| 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 1719 of 3737 07 June 2011 at 1:45am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you feel as much patriotism for a country you've never visited where they speak your target language as you do for the country where you were born and live.
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| slav Bilingual Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5007 days ago 43 posts - 54 votes Speaks: Slovak, Czech*, English* Studies: Spanish, Swedish | Message 1720 of 3737 07 June 2011 at 2:57am | IP Logged | ||
I can 100% relate to this... I love Sweden. xD 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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