Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5566 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 1585 of 3737 24 April 2011 at 10:26pm | IP Logged |
...when you won't download any fonts that don't have Latin Extended-A and Cyrillic characters because they're useless.
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Phantom Kat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5062 days ago 160 posts - 253 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Finnish
| Message 1586 of 3737 25 April 2011 at 3:46am | IP Logged |
... when you and your friends, during Spring Break, record the phrase, "My foot is stuck in the oven." in numerous languages; you did Finnish, of course. Other languages were German, Japanese, and Russian. These are now ringtones on your friend's cellphone.
(The whole thing started when your friend admitted that the only phrase she knew in Spanish was, "Mi pie está atascado en el horno." and Google Translate. We sincerely apologize to the natives of the languages we butchered...)
- Kat
Edited by Phantom Kat on 25 April 2011 at 3:47am
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Johnnysd Diglot Newbie Norway johnnysd.deviantart. Joined 5616 days ago 18 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, Italian, Korean, French
| Message 1587 of 3737 25 April 2011 at 12:31pm | IP Logged |
When you put "My foot is stuck in the oven" into google translate to post it as a
facebook status in a language none will understand, because you find it amusing. When
instead of paying that phone bill, you buy a dictionary for a language you might study
sometime during the next two years.
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psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French
| Message 1588 of 3737 26 April 2011 at 3:58am | IP Logged |
Phantom Kat wrote:
... when you and your friends, during Spring Break, record the phrase, "My foot is stuck in the oven." in numerous languages; you did Finnish, of course. Other languages were German, Japanese, and Russian. These are now ringtones on your friend's cellphone.
(The whole thing started when your friend admitted that the only phrase she knew in Spanish was, "Mi pie está atascado en el horno." and Google Translate. We sincerely apologize to the natives of the languages we butchered...)
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When you read this post about the sentence "my foot is stuck in the oven" and you expect that someone is going to post a sarcastic comment that it must be an expression from RS.
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ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6141 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 1589 of 3737 26 April 2011 at 4:10am | IP Logged |
When you've decided to drop four of your study languages in order to focus on the others and it feels like you've just killed a friend. Or rather, four friends.
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ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6141 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 1591 of 3737 26 April 2011 at 4:49am | IP Logged |
paranday wrote:
ellasevia wrote:
When you've decided to drop four of your study languages in order to focus on the others and it feels like you've just killed a friend. Or rather, four friends. |
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When you won't sleep well tonight if you don't know which four. |
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Well that's what we have the profiles for. :) But if you really must know, Swahili, Swedish, Polish, and Romanian. Those are the immediate removals. Within a couple weeks French will be gone too and by July Greek will as well.
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mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5923 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
| Message 1592 of 3737 26 April 2011 at 9:50am | IP Logged |
Kuikentje wrote:
When you've listened all the languages on your dad's GPS / Satellite Navigation, you thought that the speakers' names were incorrect!!
the names must be, for example (not all possible names included):
English:
USA JW, Daristani, Hobbema, Newyorkeric, meramarina, jinx,
GB Languagesponge, teango
AUS leosmith
Spanish:
Zenmonkey, Juan
German:
Fasulye, Meelämchen, doitsuijn
Dutch:
Reneemona
Finnish:
leopejo, hencke
Italian:
leopejo
Afrikaans:
mick33
Danish:
It was "Nils" therefore nearly correct but it must be spelled 'Niels" (Iversen's name)
French:
Arekkusu
Czech:
Vlad
Norwegian:
Solfrid cristin
Polish:
minaaret
All the languages:
Ellasevia
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After I read this post last night I had a wonderful dream that a GPS like the one you mention actually existed so I could buy it.
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