Ninja Bunny Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5792 days ago 42 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Dutch, Danish, Mandarin, Afrikaans, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French
| Message 249 of 3737 12 January 2010 at 8:58pm | IP Logged |
Levi wrote:
...when the highlight of your day is digging through a box of discarded free books outside a shop, with a few centimeters of snow on them...and finding an old Teach Yourself Swahili book from 1966! :D |
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...when you read that post and feel green with envy! :)
Edited by Ninja Bunny on 12 January 2010 at 8:59pm
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QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5855 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese
| Message 250 of 3737 12 January 2010 at 9:29pm | IP Logged |
meramarina wrote:
. . . when you become so accustomed to typing on a German-style keyboard (where y and z are reversed) that you begin to switch these two letters in your handwriting as well--and in English!--so zou write zour words in a verz strange waz and zou don't even realiye it! |
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Hmm.... What about someone who is so accustomed to a Russian keyboard?
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ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 251 of 3737 13 January 2010 at 3:37am | IP Logged |
Here's a good one that I recently experienced:
When you switch to writing in another language for faster note taking.
When I was in my advanced English class the other day, I was taking notes from the bored and instead of writing "he is" and "he has", I just wrote Он и у него because it just seemed so much faster while writing, and then I continued making little notes in Russian all over my paper, and then I realized I had to hand it in, and it was all in PEN! :O
My teacher now thinks I'm a freak.
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psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5591 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French
| Message 252 of 3737 13 January 2010 at 3:58am | IP Logged |
ruskivyetr wrote:
Here's a good one that I recently experienced:
When you switch to writing in another language for faster note taking.
When I was in my advanced English class the other day, I was taking notes from the bored and instead of writing "he is" and "he has", I just wrote Он и у него because it just seemed so much faster while writing, and then I continued making little notes in Russian all over my paper, and then I realized I had to hand it in, and it was all in PEN! :O
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Taking notes from the "bored": did you mean "board" or were you making a clever pun?
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genini1 Senior Member United States Joined 5468 days ago 114 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 253 of 3737 13 January 2010 at 4:53am | IP Logged |
ruskivyetr wrote:
Here's a good one that I recently experienced:
When you switch to writing in another language for faster note taking.
When I was in my advanced English class the other day, I was taking notes from the bored and instead of writing "he is" and "he has", I just wrote Он и у него because it just seemed so much faster while writing, and then I continued making little notes in Russian all over my paper, and then I realized I had to hand it in, and it was all in PEN! :O
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That's how I take my notes, whenever I find a syllable that can by a kana I sub it in and kanji as well, most German words end up being longer so I can't sub them in often unfortunatly.
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Iris-Way Newbie United States Joined 5576 days ago 22 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French
| Message 254 of 3737 13 January 2010 at 12:57pm | IP Logged |
Similar to ruskivyetr's post.
When you're taking your notes and slip in other languages because they're shorter and faster to write.
I do this all the time in Theology class because we write an average of 6 pages a day.
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ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5481 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 255 of 3737 13 January 2010 at 6:43pm | IP Logged |
psy88 wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
Here's a good one that I recently experienced:
When you switch to writing in another language for faster note taking.
When I was in my advanced English class the other day, I was taking notes from the bored and instead of writing "he is" and "he has", I just wrote Он и у него because it just seemed so much faster while writing, and then I continued making little notes in Russian all over my paper, and then I realized I had to hand it in, and it was all in PEN! :O
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Taking notes from the "bored": did you mean "board" or were you making a clever pun? |
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Haha my bad. I was going to say "I was bored" but I guess I just thought "I was taking notes from the board" and mixed up the two words :).
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Rikyu-san Diglot Senior Member Denmark Joined 5528 days ago 213 posts - 413 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 256 of 3737 13 January 2010 at 10:04pm | IP Logged |
When you dream that your family will become a samskrita griham, at least in part.
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