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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5969 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1057 of 3737 02 September 2010 at 3:33am | IP Logged | ||
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You know you are a language nerd who has been reading too many HTLAL posts when . . .
. . . you see some guy at the store wearing an IVERSEN fan t-shirt, and for a moment you think, wow, the man really IS popular . . . must be the word lists . . . ! but it seems that there's a football player by that name. Edited by meramarina on 02 September 2010 at 3:34am 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5849 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 1058 of 3737 02 September 2010 at 9:16am | IP Logged | ||
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... when you prefer to speak with your friends of the same native language using your foreign languages and it feels completely natural for you!
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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5221 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 1059 of 3737 02 September 2010 at 11:02am | IP Logged | ||
IVERSEN plays football as well ????? 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5811 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 1060 of 3737 02 September 2010 at 12:38pm | IP Logged | ||
When you had to google the name because “our” Iversen is the only Iversen you’ve ever heard of. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1062 of 3737 02 September 2010 at 2:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you spend several hours watching Gaelic football whilst recovering from a hangover the next day, not because you particularly like the game, but simply because the commentary's all in Irish. Edited by Teango on 02 September 2010 at 2:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5558 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 1063 of 3737 02 September 2010 at 2:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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And when you see "Die Fangers!" graffitied on a wall in an episode of "True Blood", and for a split second automatically think to yourself..no, how careless..it should read "die Fänger"!
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| ibraheem Groupie United States Joined 5367 days ago 84 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Mandarin | Message 1064 of 3737 03 September 2010 at 2:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you get a language nerds dream come true: my college library is tossing out many foreign language books and I get to pick from them for free, and I almost thought about talking the whole lot of them! So far I've got a dozen German instruction and auf Deutsch books, conversational Croatian course, Russian phrasebook a textbook and several courses, several Italian, a Finnish course, several French, Spanish, a huge English Japanese dictionary I will never need, some rather ancient looking Latin courses etc... I will be going back as soon as I get back on campus for the final scavenge.
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