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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes  Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 2121 of 3737 30 January 2012 at 12:30am | IP Logged | ||
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when you saw something really funny on TV and want to post it and then spend more than one half hour searching this site, impatiently waiting for the pages to change, and still can't find the "right" place and so being a language nerd, decide to post it here.
Anyway, I was watching the classic British comedy series Fawlty Towers. It was the episode A Touch of Class. Mr Fawlty is a long suffering and cantankerous inn keeper; Manuel is a bus boy at the inn. Manuel is from Barcelona and is very limited in his grasp of English. Fawlty claims to speak the "classic Spanish" and not the "strange gibberish" Manuel uses. Fawlty is admonishing Manuel to use less butter on the breakfast trays. Fawlty use the word "burro" (donkey) when he means "butter". Of course Manuel laughs and does a "hew haw" before supplying the correct word "mantequilla". But the funniest part for me was when Fawlty insists Manuel only put two butters "on those trays" and Manuel replies "No, Mr. Fawlty, it's 'uno, dos, tres', not 'on those trays'". 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6865 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 2122 of 3737 01 February 2012 at 11:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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when you deliberately hold your learning books so people on public transport can see you
using them 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| vikavictoria Pentaglot Groupie United States Joined 5049 days ago 49 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Persian, English*, German, Spanish, Tajik Studies: Russian | Message 2123 of 3737 02 February 2012 at 3:24am | IP Logged | ||
I politely disagree. For example, to make my point (which I usually do through examples/exaggerated examples), at Russian Lunch (the Russian dept for our university holds this 2x or 3x a month), others ask me which level I'm in and I say SLAV 270 rather than "Oh, I'm in "Russian for Natives". This is for me a respectable quality in a polyglot, or any other type of learner/aspirer (<< NOT A WORD, SORRY). Just my 0.02. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tennisace Newbie United States Joined 5614 days ago 39 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Croatian, French | Message 2124 of 3737 02 February 2012 at 6:17am | IP Logged | ||
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when you can say thank you in 5 languages from eating girl scout cookies Edited by tennisace on 02 February 2012 at 6:18am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5693 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 2125 of 3737 02 February 2012 at 12:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you so persistantly inch closer to an old couple speaking Russian at the tram station that they get freaked out and decide to walk instead of waiting for the tram.
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5335 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 2126 of 3737 02 February 2012 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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...when you spill water all over your desk and the first thing you save is your overview
of Esperanto grammar. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4888 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 2127 of 3737 02 February 2012 at 10:37pm | IP Logged | ||
This is a perfect way to find native speakers or others studying that language! They're bound to ask you about the book you're studying! :o) I've often thought about wearing a t-shirt asking "talar du svenska?" (do you speak Swedish) or something just to try and find someone who does, lol :o) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5693 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 2128 of 3737 06 February 2012 at 5:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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When just reading a Finnish name makes you seriously consider learning the language. I must be the most language-susceptible person on Earth...
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