rantoniops Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5478 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, German, Portuguese, French, Dutch Studies: Mandarin, Russian
| Message 177 of 3737 28 November 2009 at 5:19am | IP Logged |
MäcØSŸ wrote:
When you read the warranty paper of the headphones in every language available.
When you watch movies you would never watch in your mother tongue.
When you take notes at school in IPA.
When you use foreign grammar in your native language.
When you colored a map according to the languages you’re fluent in. |
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hahahahahhaah omg my dude
i have 2 maps i've colored according to the languages i can speak!
nice one dude
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El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6272 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German
| Message 178 of 3737 01 December 2009 at 5:13pm | IP Logged |
Extremely funny this topic. I´m laughing and I don´t know when can I stop.
My contribution:
You are a language nerd when you discuss with a friend in your natie tongue and there´s a sentence differently understood by both of you and you think: "There wouldn´t have been this misunderstanding if we had spoken French".
I post in my blog about this topic. You can read it (in Spanish)HERE
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6706 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 179 of 3737 01 December 2009 at 6:09pm | IP Logged |
El Forastero wrote:
I post in my blog about this topic. You can read it (in Spanish)HERE |
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... in Spanish? Enough proof, anybody who in an Anglophone discussion gives a link to an explanation in Spanish and assumes that people can read it must be a qualified language nerd.
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Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5524 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes Speaks: Swedish*
| Message 180 of 3737 01 December 2009 at 6:10pm | IP Logged |
Rikyu-san wrote:
When you speak French to your wife, German to your maid and Danish to your dog... |
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Sounds more like you are a Holy Roman Emperor to me.
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El Forastero Pentaglot Senior Member Colombia alijunakai.blogspot.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6272 days ago 186 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, FrenchB1, EnglishC1, Italian Studies: German
| Message 181 of 3737 01 December 2009 at 6:28pm | IP Logged |
Iversen wrote:
El Forastero wrote:
I post in my blog about this topic. You can read it (in Spanish)HERE |
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... in Spanish? Enough proof, anybody who in an Anglophone discussion gives a link to an explanation in Spanish and assumes that people can read it must be a qualified language nerd.
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That's Right, Iversen.
I thought that Spanish lerners can practice their target language reading a post about "how to be a nerd language". The content is alost the same, so they can compare the texts, and whose are really nerd language can critizise end evaluate my translation
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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 182 of 3737 01 December 2009 at 8:51pm | IP Logged |
I figure a lot of us on this forum, if not an outright majority, would be able to read that Spanish at some level. I certainly understood it pretty well. After all, "if you speak many languages, people will just assume you speak perfect Spanish anyway."
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Rikyu-san Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5531 days ago 213 posts - 413 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 183 of 3737 01 December 2009 at 9:52pm | IP Logged |
Gusutafu wrote:
Rikyu-san wrote:
When you speak French to your wife, German to your maid and Danish to your dog... |
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Sounds more like you are a Holy Roman Emperor to me. |
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Well, I don't speak French to my wife, and I have no maid to whom I can ein bisschen Deutsch sprechen - but the bourgeoisie in Denmark once did it (or something very similar - maybe some of my fellow Danes can help me out on this one?).
My wife and I do speak a strange mix of Danish sprinkled with English phrases now and then, however... perhaps that is a little bit nerdy, huh? :-)
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mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5927 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
| Message 184 of 3737 02 December 2009 at 11:04pm | IP Logged |
... I was genuinely disappointed to discover that my computer couldn't correctly display all the IPA characters and stayed up all night trying to make them appear.
Edited by mick33 on 03 December 2009 at 12:54am
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