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| Oheao Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 4168 days ago 31 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Mandarin, Greek | Message 3113 of 3737 11 October 2013 at 4:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you try to find a playthrough of the same video game in as many languages as you
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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 3114 of 3737 11 October 2013 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you were slightly tipped in favour of buying some (quite expensive) Aloe Dent
toothpaste because one side of the box was printed in Italian. Just Italian on that one side, and English everywhere else. Not multi-lingual like many products. No idea why. It's not an Italian firm, is it? 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5100 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 3115 of 3737 16 October 2013 at 3:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you discover such common similarities between your home town's dialect and a foreign
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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 3116 of 3737 16 October 2013 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
A friend of mine who lives in the Midlands (of England) claims to see a resemblance between dialect there and German. Presumably, the connection would be via the Mercian variety of Anglo-Saxon. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5100 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 3117 of 3737 16 October 2013 at 5:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
I live in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and I see a lot of resemblance between my city's dialect and Norwegian. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4703 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 3118 of 3737 17 October 2013 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you think to yourself, "Maybe, for my birthday, I'll let myself add French."
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5207 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3119 of 3737 18 October 2013 at 10:24am | IP Logged | |||||
And I think I'm going to give myself Spanish for Christmas... 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4334 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 3120 of 3737 18 October 2013 at 6:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's funny, I was thinking of giving myself Esperanto. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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