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ruskivyetr
Diglot
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| Message 905 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 8:26am | IP Logged |
johntm93 wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
johntm93 wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
johntm93 wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
Levi wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
You know you're a language nerd
when you play games like flipping through
a travel book and radomly choosing a
page and then saying something in the language of the country where that place is. You know you're an even
bigger
language nerd when you just can't find a page for which you can't say anything.
I play this game with my friends and a globe, and they get frustrated. Even if I know only a few words they start
to
get a little annoyed. Then they turn to africa and I'm lost O_O. |
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Well, with four languages you can get at least one of the official languages of every African country except
Ethiopia: English, French, Portuguese and Arabic. |
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Well I know words in all those languages, I meant countries that have like Hausa, Swahili, Zulu, etc. as one of the
official languages (and yes the game dictates that you must say something in each official language). |
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Wow that actually sounds fun. |
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You know you're a language nerd when the fact that someone else says this about a language game melts your
heart.
Edit: And when you play such games on a daily basis :P. |
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I need to find some friends who like
languages...I actually want to play that right now :P |
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I play alone. Often. |
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Is it weird that I don't find that odd, I actually find it cool and want to do that?
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I don't find it weird at all that you would want to do that, mainly because I do it. I often think "is this weird?
naahh I'd totally do this in a heartbeat if someone else suggested it :D!"
The only times I don't play with complete nerdery is when my friends do it to show someone at a party that one
of their friends actually has a shred of intelligence.
Edited by ruskivyetr on 27 July 2010 at 8:28am
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| Levi
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| Message 906 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 8:32am | IP Logged |
ruskivyetr wrote:
Well I know words in all those languages, I meant countries that have like Hausa, Swahili, Zulu, etc. as one of the
official languages (and yes the game dictates that you must say something in each official language). |
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Eek. Countries like India and South Africa would take some real preparation!
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| ruskivyetr
Diglot
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Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 907 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 8:38am | IP Logged |
Levi wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
Well I know words in all those languages, I meant countries that have like Hausa,
Swahili, Zulu, etc. as one of the
official languages (and yes the game dictates that you must say something in each official language). |
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Eek. Countries like India and South Africa would take some real preparation! |
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Makes it more fun :D. I always leave India for last :). South Africa I think I got everything right once (I used the
official name of the Republic of South Africa in all the languages, thanks Wikipedia :).
Edit: Cheating's not allowed, I just said wikipedia because I have read the wikipedia page for south africa about a
million times, and yes, being the language nerd I am, I took the liberty of memorizing them. Never knew that would
come in handy :).
Edited by ruskivyetr on 27 July 2010 at 8:42am
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| johntm93
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| Message 908 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 8:56am | IP Logged |
ruskivyetr wrote:
Levi wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
Well I know words in all those languages, I meant countries that have like Hausa,
Swahili, Zulu, etc. as one of the
official languages (and yes the game dictates that you must say something in each official language). |
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Eek. Countries like India and South Africa would take some real preparation! |
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Makes it more fun :D. I always leave India for last :). South Africa I think I got everything right once (I used the
official name of the Republic of South Africa in all the languages, thanks Wikipedia :).
Edit: Cheating's not allowed, I just said wikipedia because I have read the wikipedia page for south africa about a
million times, and yes, being the language nerd I am, I took the liberty of memorizing them. Never knew that would
come in handy :). |
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Hmmm...when starting out I may have to cheat, limiting myself to the three biggest languages in a country (if it has more than three official languages, of course).
Do you do anglophone countries? If so, what do you do for the US, since we have no official language?
I'd imagine you just skip those though, since you know a few English words.
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| ruskivyetr
Diglot
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| Message 909 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 9:47am | IP Logged |
johntm93 wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
Levi wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
Well I know words in all those
languages, I meant countries that have like Hausa,
Swahili, Zulu, etc. as one of the
official languages (and yes the game dictates that you must say something in each official language). |
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Eek. Countries like India and South Africa would take some real preparation! |
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Makes it more fun :D. I always leave India for last :). South Africa I think I got everything right once (I used the
official name of the Republic of South Africa in all the languages, thanks Wikipedia :).
Edit: Cheating's not allowed, I just said wikipedia because I have read the wikipedia page for south africa about a
million times, and yes, being the language nerd I am, I took the liberty of memorizing them. Never knew that
would
come in handy :). |
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Hmmm...when starting out I may have to cheat, limiting myself to the three biggest
languages in a country (if it has more than three official languages, of course).
Do you do anglophone countries? If so, what do you do for the US, since we have no official language?
I'd imagine you just skip those though, since you know a few English words. |
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Hmmn, I do know a few English words, so it's good to practice using them once in a while. I just do de facto
national languages if there is no official language.
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| karaipyhare
Tetraglot
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Studies: German, Italian, French, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 910 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 3:33pm | IP Logged |
ruskivyetr wrote:
johntm93 wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
Levi wrote:
ruskivyetr wrote:
Well I know words in all those
languages, I meant countries that have like Hausa,
Swahili, Zulu, etc. as one of the
official languages (and yes the game dictates that you must say something in each
official language). |
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Eek. Countries like India and South Africa would take some real preparation! |
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Makes it more fun :D. I always leave India for last :). South Africa I think I got
everything right once (I used the
official name of the Republic of South Africa in all the languages, thanks Wikipedia
:).
Edit: Cheating's not allowed, I just said wikipedia because I have read the wikipedia
page for south africa about a
million times, and yes, being the language nerd I am, I took the liberty of memorizing
them. Never knew that
would
come in handy :). |
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Hmmm...when starting out I may have to cheat, limiting myself
to the three biggest
languages in a country (if it has more than three official languages, of course).
Do you do anglophone countries? If so, what do you do for the US, since we have no
official language?
I'd imagine you just skip those though, since you know a few English words. |
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Hmmn, I do know a few English words, so it's good to practice using them once in a
while. I just do de facto
national languages if there is no official language. |
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Some states and territories of USA do have official laguages:
Hawaiian and English official in Hawaii
French and English official in Louisiana
Spanish official in New Mexico and California (they require some documents to be
trasnlated into Spanish)
Samoan and Chamorro are recognized by American Samoa and Guam, respectively; Carolinian
and Chamorro are recognized by the Northern Mariana Islands
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| karaipyhare
Tetraglot
Groupie
Paraguay
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Speaks: Portuguese, Spanish*, English, Guarani
Studies: German, Italian, French, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 911 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 4:04pm | IP Logged |
your a language nerd when you can write THIS BAG IS NOT A TOY. KEEP OUT OF REACH OF
CHILDREN in 17 laguages.
even nerdier if you can PRONOUNCE those sentences in the 17 languages.
the extreme nerdiest if you learned a lot of grammar and syntax of those 17 laguages from
reading those warning sentences
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| LazyLinguist
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| Message 912 of 3737 27 July 2010 at 6:32pm | IP Logged |
You know you're a language Nerd when you go in to shock after learning that Amazon hasn't
dispatched your Assimil book, even though you ordered it 40 or so hours ago. And more so
when you are checking if it has been dispatched at a frequency of once per five minutes.
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