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| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6659 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 2449 of 3737 04 July 2012 at 2:04am | IP Logged | |||||
I WANT THAT! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ismeme Granger Newbie United States Joined 4582 days ago 26 posts - 65 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2450 of 3737 04 July 2012 at 6:05am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you're visiting a natural history museum, and you pay more attention to the fact
that all of the signs have been translated into Spanish than the actual exhibits. As a result, you now know the word in Spanish for skull ('cráneo') but can tell you very few things about the actual exhibit. When you also think that the Spanish is more well-written than the native language-- English. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| FireViN Diglot Senior Member Brazil missaoitaliano.wordpRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5229 days ago 196 posts - 292 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 Studies: Italian | Message 2451 of 3737 04 July 2012 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you see a big red book with a huge "Gujarati" written in the cover, and you get very excited because a book about this language would be VERY rare in Brazil.
When I got closer, I realized it was about econometrics. How sad is that? 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5009 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2452 of 3737 04 July 2012 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
I understand. I was excited when I found out my boyfriend's mother had used to know Esperanto to high level. But it is nothing compared to the language nerd nest you have just discovered :-) (sorry, not sure whether "had used to" is correct, it is late and I'm tired) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 2453 of 3737 05 July 2012 at 2:07am | IP Logged | |||||
when you think "then girlfriend" (past tense?!) She would have been a keeper for most of us language nerds!! 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 2454 of 3737 05 July 2012 at 2:18am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'd take an unilingual lass who knows only an Uralic language over montmorency's then-girlfriend any day of the week >:-) ;-)
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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 2455 of 3737 05 July 2012 at 4:15am | IP Logged | |||||
You could use either "used to know" or "had known" there, though the former sounds more natural. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mashmusic11235 Groupie United States Joined 5499 days ago 85 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese | Message 2456 of 3737 05 July 2012 at 5:45am | IP Logged | |||||
Who knows, maybe he married her? ;) While we're on this topic, you're a language nerd when you second-guess your relationship upon finding out that your girlfriend has trouble with the rolled 'r'. 6 persons have voted this message useful |
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