zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6373 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 65 of 204 19 November 2008 at 4:36am | IP Logged |
I'd be flattered if someone got my name and age and actually spent hours tracking me
down and finding out where I live, eliminating all the other possibilities. Then
getting on a plane for 5 or so hours to come break into my house with a screwdriver to
hide in my wardrobe for a further 12 hours waiting for me to come home from work and
then go to bed so that when I fall asleep they can burst out and stab me 21 times.
Very flattered indeed.
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Alvinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 6235 days ago 828 posts - 832 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish
| Message 66 of 204 19 November 2008 at 5:47am | IP Logged |
zerothinking wrote:
I'd be flattered if someone got my name and age and actually spent hours tracking me
down and finding out where I live, eliminating all the other possibilities. Then
getting on a plane for 5 or so hours to come break into my house with a screwdriver to
hide in my wardrobe for a further 12 hours waiting for me to come home from work and
then go to bed so that when I fall asleep they can burst out and stab me 21 times.
Very flattered indeed. |
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If I accomplished this mission you've set, you'd pay me lots of beer bottles and a thick 5000-page English-Spanish dictionary then?....hehehe
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jez Diglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 6307 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Spanish
| Message 67 of 204 20 November 2008 at 7:29am | IP Logged |
Yeah, I'm quite sure people won't find out anything about you when you post your age on a forum about languages...
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Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6110 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian
| Message 68 of 204 20 November 2008 at 7:42am | IP Logged |
jez wrote:
Yeah, I'm quite sure people won't find out anything about you when you post your age on a forum about languages... |
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Well, they'll find out... your age.
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Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6149 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes
| Message 69 of 204 20 November 2008 at 8:04am | IP Logged |
Leopejo wrote:
jez wrote:
Yeah, I'm quite sure people won't find out anything about you when you post your age on a forum about languages... |
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Well, they'll find out... your age. |
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I am sixteen going on seventeen
I know that I'm naive
Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet
And willingly I believe
I am sixteen going on seventeen
Innocent as a rose
Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies
What do I know of those?
Totally unprepared am I to face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared am I
Of things beyond my ken
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7016 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 70 of 204 21 November 2008 at 11:22am | IP Logged |
zerothinking wrote:
I'd be flattered if someone got my name and age and actually spent hours tracking me down and finding out where I live, eliminating all the other possibilities. Then getting on a plane for 5 or so hours to come break into my house with a screwdriver to hide in my wardrobe for a further 12 hours waiting for me to come home from work and then go to bed so that when I fall asleep they can burst out and stab me 21 times. Very flattered indeed. |
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You'll also be very dead indeed.
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JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6123 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian
| Message 71 of 204 21 November 2008 at 12:02pm | IP Logged |
amphises wrote:
I am sixteen going on seventeen
I know that I'm naive
Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet
And willingly I believe
I am sixteen going on seventeen
Innocent as a rose
Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies
What do I know of those?
Totally unprepared am I to face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared am I
Of things beyond my ken
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Touché and kudos, nice verse...
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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5848 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 72 of 204 22 November 2008 at 6:40am | IP Logged |
I am 47 years now.
English: I started learning English when I lived with my family in the USA at the age of 7. (2nd grade elementary school)
Latin: I started with Latin in grammar school at the age of 12. (7th grade)
French: I started with French in grammar school at the age of 14. (9th grade)
Ancient Greek: This language I started simultanously with French in grammar school at the age of 14. (9th grade) After having left school I abandoned this language completley.
Dutch: I started learning Dutch at university at the age of 22.
Italian: I started learning Italian at university at the age of about 24.
Esperanto: I started learning Esperanto with private lessons at the age of 30.
Spanish: I started learning Spanish at university at the age of 31.
Portuguese: I attended 4 courses of Portuguese at university beginning at the age of 33, but after those courses I abandoned this language completely.
Turkish: I started with learning Turkish at the age of 33 simultanously at university and at an adult education centre. Later I had to stop the learning process again and I have restarted learning Turkish nowadays at the age of 46.
Edited by Fasulye on 22 November 2008 at 3:38pm
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