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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 697 of 3737 12 June 2010 at 12:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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And you can be sure you're a language nerd if you go instinctively to bookmark it and find that it's already bookmarked (in your ever-growing long list of language bookmarks)...TWICE! :)
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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5594 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 698 of 3737 13 June 2010 at 12:56am | IP Logged | ||
And you know you will probably end up going to bookmark it again in the future. 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 699 of 3737 13 June 2010 at 8:05am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you notice word-for-word translations from your native language into your target language just sound weird to you, so you celebrate.
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5484 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 700 of 3737 13 June 2010 at 8:10am | IP Logged | ||
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When you're on the phone with your Czech friend speaking Czech, while reading in Russian, and typing a German
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 701 of 3737 13 June 2010 at 10:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you watch the World Cup in various languages, all depending on match and channel, and find yourself shouting out "goal!" and expletives in each particular language of commentary... :) [edit] Edited by Teango on 14 June 2010 at 9:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 702 of 3737 13 June 2010 at 11:03pm | IP Logged | ||
What a pity then that I only have the possiblity to watch such matches in German! Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 13 June 2010 at 11:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5970 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 703 of 3737 13 June 2010 at 11:31pm | IP Logged | ||
Oh what a language nerd you are, look what you wrote!
The Word Cup! That might be a good competition to have here! Edited by meramarina on 13 June 2010 at 11:32pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5594 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 704 of 3737 14 June 2010 at 12:15am | IP Logged | ||
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When you had to go to an oral surgeon yesterday to have an infected tooth and an impacted wisdom tooth removed. You already know how to express your symptoms in you target language, so you know you are really a language nerd when you start to wonder,reflecting on your own discomfort,how is pain expressed in other languages? We might say "ouch" or "ow" in English but what would others say in their language? Only a language nerd would care to know.
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