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| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6368 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 265 of 3737 15 January 2010 at 1:18am | IP Logged | |||||
ha, I've done that a few times! I got two of my cousins and my dad to start Italian, my brother with Spanish, a friend with Indonesian, and another friend with German. It feels so good to convert others! :D 3 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 266 of 3737 15 January 2010 at 2:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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--when you are at the checkout counter in the grocery store, and there is a display of movie DVDs. One of the movies is "Die Hard" but this is not what you see. You see a German feminine definite article and can't figure out why you don't remember the meaning of "Hard." What noun is this? Why don't you remember? Oh. --browsing through the bargain section of the bookstore, you see a few assorted language books. Oh, happy, happy day! There's a Langenscheidt book with the familiar yellow cover--but something is wrong, terribly wrong. Which language is it for? How can you know if the name of the language isn't there? You get unreasonably annoyed with a language publisher that can't be bothered to put the name of the language on the cover. Well, open the book, idiot. It's English. Is it possible that studying foreign languages makes a person dumber? Sometimes I wonder . . . [/QUOTE] Your post took me back in time. More years ago than I care to recall, I was a high school student in a Latin class. The teacher was puzzled about one of Heracles/Hercules' labors ,the taming of the "mares". The teacher was embarrassed that he could not translate the "Latin" word "mares" into English. Your's truly, always a bit of a nerd, was familiar with the 12 labors of Heracles/Hercules. I pointed out that the word "mares" was not Latin, but English:mares-female horses. PS Studying foreign languages does NOT make one dumber- just more prone to language nerdery! 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| gogglehead Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 6075 days ago 248 posts - 320 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Italian | Message 267 of 3737 15 January 2010 at 10:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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When this forum is your homepage.
And not only that, when you log in automatically every time you switch the computer on, even if you have nothing to post about and are not looking for any thread in particular, or even if you switched on the computer for a completely different reason in the first place. You really just wanted to observe other people's nerdery! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 268 of 3737 15 January 2010 at 3:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you take down certain words in Teeline shorthand in your written notes, not because it's easier or faster, but because you once picked up a thin blue book over 10 years ago and glanced through a chapter or two, and have ever since felt the relentless desire to metamorphose your perfectly legible scribblings into a disarray of crazy cursive hieratics.
When you feel slightly uncomfortable because the sentence you just typed is completely devoid of these sacred Teeline symbols or the need for them...but just imagine a keyboard with additional buttons for "the" or "and" or "-tion" or...no stop, and seek some medical help first. Please. Edited by Teango on 15 January 2010 at 3:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 269 of 3737 15 January 2010 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
I have entire notebooks written in Quikscript. I love using a script that only a handful of people on the planet can read. 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 270 of 3737 15 January 2010 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
Why oh why am I looking this up with great fascination on Wikipedia right now? Help me. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 271 of 3737 15 January 2010 at 3:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've got another one for you...
When you wake up after a stolen siesta on the beach during your summer hols, and open your wide bewildered eyes, only to discover yourself shrouded in darkness. Yes. You dozed off with a Turkish phrasebook as a sunshield on your head...again. Daylight returns. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Thaorius Diglot Groupie ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5543 days ago 40 posts - 58 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2 | Message 272 of 3737 15 January 2010 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
...when, after reading the Wikipedia page on Quikscript, you find yourself downloading learning material for Quikscript and printing the official manual even though you have a pile of time critical things to do. Edited by Thaorius on 15 January 2010 at 9:42pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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