slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6661 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 25 of 32 17 September 2011 at 6:20pm | IP Logged |
crafedog wrote:
Well it's been a few days since I first tried it and surprisingly my gains have remained.
I can do the troublesome sounds without problems/tickling now (to 100%) so make of that
what you will.
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It is the emotional element.
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meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5953 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map
| Message 26 of 32 17 September 2011 at 7:01pm | IP Logged |
Very unusual and interesting idea, but however well it might work, I'd have to respond with the knock-your-head-off method, and I believe that this would badly impair any possibility of future communication.
Noli me tangere
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HMS Senior Member England Joined 5093 days ago 143 posts - 256 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 27 of 32 18 September 2011 at 7:53am | IP Logged |
This could tie in quite nicely with my idea of a language learning method using the medium of porn!
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M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6343 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French
| Message 28 of 32 28 September 2011 at 11:39am | IP Logged |
Is there any way to tickle yourself? Maybe I'll have to construct a Tickle-Bot! :)
Just to throw out a groundless explanation, just for fun: Tickling may inhibit some neural pathways in the brain,
creating a more direct access to the magical Mirror Neurons whose speciality is to mimic actions done by others.
In other words: analyzing the sounds too much could block our natural ability to mimic the sounds perfectly. It's
hard to turn off those brain functions by will - so we have to resort to the more barbaric act of tickling.
And no, I don't want to defend this theory. ;D
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Sierra Diglot Senior Member Turkey livinginlights.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7110 days ago 296 posts - 411 votes Speaks: English*, SwedishB1 Studies: Turkish
| Message 29 of 32 28 September 2011 at 12:51pm | IP Logged |
Mods, please close, lock, delete, destroy, and otherwise nullify this thread before my
boyfriend can find it. Isn't there some sort of international law governing incitement to
tickling?
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Kyle Corrie Senior Member United States Joined 4815 days ago 175 posts - 464 votes
| Message 30 of 32 29 September 2011 at 11:43pm | IP Logged |
I got a tickling gimp for Christmas from a close family friend about three years ago, but
upon receipt had no conception of what it's practical purpose or use could be, so I never
took it out of the box.
It seems as though it's time to go dig it out of the attic of the garage.
I hope it's still alive.
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Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 5067 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French
| Message 31 of 32 07 October 2011 at 1:46pm | IP Logged |
When I'm drunk I usually pronounce things that I can't when I'm sober.
My friend was helping me with German pronunciation (he's a native speaker) but I couldn't pronounce at least a single word correctly. But when I got drunk, I started to pronounce even long sentences. It felt easier to immitate, maybe because I wasn't worried about getting it wrong. Weird, isn't it?
I may also say that I was told by him (C1) that my French pronunciation was more accurate.
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leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6536 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog
| Message 32 of 32 07 October 2011 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
So "tickling" is what the kids are calling it these days? Well Volte, I'm glad you're finally getting "tickled" on a regular
basis. i hope you don't smoke in bed afterwards though; that's just dangerous.
Kyle Corrie wrote:
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Sweet Pulp Fiction reference!
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