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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 2721 of 3737 09 November 2012 at 11:49am | IP Logged | ||
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Related to meramina's post, you think that Maslows hierarchy of needs should read,
Oxygen Water Food Language Learning Shelter 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5051 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 2722 of 3737 09 November 2012 at 8:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you learn a new word in your TL (alopecia in Spanish), and then you're excited when you randomly
come across it in both of your spoken languages (English and Russian) within the same day. Yay for the wisespeard use of Greek-derived terms in medicine and science! Edited by espejismo on 09 November 2012 at 8:18pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4399 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 2723 of 3737 10 November 2012 at 4:10am | IP Logged | ||
Like English mist, which means crap in German (der Mist). Or when you hear German dass, which means a toilet in Norwegian... Edited by limey75 on 11 November 2012 at 11:00pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2724 of 3737 13 November 2012 at 10:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you can just type "nerd" in your address bar, and Firefox takes you to this thread.
When you find a random personal entry dated 2009 in an unfamiliar online diary and you make 5 SRS cards out of it. Edited by Serpent on 14 November 2012 at 4:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2725 of 3737 19 November 2012 at 3:00am | IP Logged | ||
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When you get the word "language" in a captcha, and you're excited and try to figure out the other word (too distorted) though normally you'd just refresh it once more to get something comprehensible.
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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4828 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2726 of 3737 19 November 2012 at 3:25am | IP Logged | ||
I'm afraid those things usually make me want to punch someone, especially if you click on the sound "clue", and it's meaningless caterwauling. Didn't someone add up the wasted person-hours caused by those things, and it came to a colossal amount? 1 person has 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 2727 of 3737 19 November 2012 at 7:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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it is enough to write one of the words and it will let you in. but you need to select the
"correct" one of the too (usually the more readable, if I remember correctly). there are two words instead of one because you are doing work for free for someone digitalising texts or something like that, if i understood correctly. so one word is the real thing- ensuring you are human, and the other are seconds of free work. try it out, you'll see that if you write only one or only one and some unreadable asdfasdfdsaf instead of deciphering the other, it usually works. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4873 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 2728 of 3737 19 November 2012 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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^That doesn't apply to all captcha's. ReCaptcha is an example of one which works that
way, though. When you get more excited about finding a bundle of arrows in a chest than a small key when you play Ocarina of Time in Japanese, simply because the former contained a new word 束. You know you've been here too much when you have a long list of languages you want to study in the future. So far, I've got Russian, Spanish, Mandarin, Icelandic, and so on... Edited by stifa on 19 November 2012 at 9:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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