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| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5793 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 673 of 3737 28 May 2010 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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...when a cluster of curved black sign stanchions reminds you of Perso-Arabic script.
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 674 of 3737 29 May 2010 at 5:23am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you're absolutely giddy over discovering some scraps of Chinese newspapers used as padding for a product from China.
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| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6006 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 675 of 3737 29 May 2010 at 7:44am | IP Logged | |||||
Well, I generally just get made fun of for saying something that sounds stupid, when in reality, of course, it's just more Swedish-like. It's also, of course, very difficult to convince my friends of this if they're even listening to me at this point. EDIT: And I rarely use actual Swedish words, I just say things more like I would in Swedish, especially using vocabulary I've recently learned. And my Swedish isn't all that great, either, so I guess I say things as I would in limited and broken Swedish. Yah, it just doesn't come out good. Edited by kottoler.ello on 29 May 2010 at 6:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 676 of 3737 01 June 2010 at 6:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you go to the Wikipedia of your target language for some reading practice, and then find yourself correcting typos and grammatical errors.
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5594 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 677 of 3737 05 June 2010 at 2:08am | IP Logged | |||||
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..when this happens to you: if you live outside the US this will not make a lot of sense to you but there is an insurance commercial which uses a talking gecko. He speaks with an accent. One commercial had someone reference it as a British accent and another person offers that he thought it was Australian (which was my guess). The gecko himself is about to clarify where he is from and what is the accent that he has but then-boom-the commercial ends. You know you are a real language nerd from you begin to obsess all week, wondering what is his accent? Is it even a real accent? Perhaps New Zealand? Or a made up composite of several? You are such a language nerd that you post this cry for help here: My fellow language nerds, "what is the gecko's accent?
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| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5699 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 678 of 3737 05 June 2010 at 2:19am | IP Logged | |||||
It looks like it has changed throughout the ad campaign and has been voiced by different people, mostly British. It's apparently supposed to be Cockney, at least in the latest incarnations. adfreak Wiki Edited by egill on 05 June 2010 at 2:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5594 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 679 of 3737 06 June 2010 at 3:17am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks. I suspected that the voice has changed over the years. Still,the cliffhanger ending to the commercial has intrigued me and piqued my curiosity...pathetic, isn't it? That I should care about the gecko's accent. But perhaps that is what the commercial was designed to do. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 680 of 3737 07 June 2010 at 4:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you just had to know the correct spelling and pronunciation of Eyjafjallajökull when it was erupting.
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