WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4887 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish
| Message 1977 of 3737 06 October 2011 at 2:01pm | IP Logged |
YKYALNW... You start watching Stargate SG1 again and the first time the title comes up in your head you automatically pronounce it Swedish style because they use their symbol for Earth as the 'A'... You read it STARGĂ…TE instead...
...And everytime you watch it now, you can't help but chuckle at yourself :o)
I love learning languages!!! :o)
Linking a photo won't work for some reason but if you Google it, you should be able to see what I mean... x
Edited by WentworthsGal on 06 October 2011 at 2:04pm
1 person has voted this message useful
|
kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6002 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German
| Message 1978 of 3737 07 October 2011 at 7:15am | IP Logged |
... when the girls down the hall in your dorm have written some French and some Chinese on their whiteboard... and you correct both.
1 person has voted this message useful
|
Remster Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4804 days ago 120 posts - 134 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 1979 of 3737 07 October 2011 at 12:53pm | IP Logged |
You know you're a language nerd when you have to correct a mistake someone made.
Even during a wedding speech, which I did. Mind you though, I was only 12 at that time and not that good with social interaction.
You know you're a language nerd when your parents are typing a letter and they ask you to check the spelling. :P
This thread is so humongously big, that I'm not sure whether this has already been mentioned or not.
1 person has voted this message useful
|
LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5765 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 1980 of 3737 07 October 2011 at 9:34pm | IP Logged |
Kartof wrote:
YKYALNW you get excited that your Spanish teacher is mentioning the
subjunctive tense as your next topic! |
|
|
You know you're a language nerd when you're disappointed that none of your fellow nerds
have mentioned the fact that the subjunctive is a mood, and therefore contains a number
of tenses :]
5 persons have voted this message useful
|
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 1981 of 3737 10 October 2011 at 6:19am | IP Logged |
...when getting a "like" on Facebook is 100 times more exciting when it's for something you wrote in a foreign language you don't speak very well.
Edited by Levi on 10 October 2011 at 6:21am
3 persons have voted this message useful
|
psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5590 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French
| Message 1982 of 3737 11 October 2011 at 2:06am | IP Logged |
Levi wrote:
...when getting a "like" on Facebook is 100 times more exciting when it's for something you wrote in a foreign language you don't speak very well. |
|
|
When getting a "useful" vote here is infinitely more exciting then any vote you may get any where else, or any other "like", for that matter.
5 persons have voted this message useful
|
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 1983 of 3737 11 October 2011 at 2:10am | IP Logged |
...when you tell your friend that you want to show her something exciting and she's immediately surprised when she finds out that it's not at all language-related.
1 person has voted this message useful
|
Kartof Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5065 days ago 391 posts - 550 votes Speaks: English*, Bulgarian*, Spanish Studies: Danish
| Message 1984 of 3737 11 October 2011 at 2:51am | IP Logged |
LanguageSponge wrote:
Kartof wrote:
YKYALNW you get excited that your Spanish teacher is mentioning
the
subjunctive tense as your next topic! |
|
|
You know you're a language nerd when you're disappointed that none of your fellow nerds
have mentioned the fact that the subjunctive is a mood, and therefore contains a number
of tenses :] |
|
|
Whoops, I did know that but I wasn't thinking!
YKYALNW you see BCS on a license plate and immediately think Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
1 person has voted this message useful
|