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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6581 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 2049 of 3737 09 December 2011 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
You know you're a language nerd when you accept that language changes and find plurality of expression exhilarating and interesting rather than annoying. 11 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2050 of 3737 09 December 2011 at 5:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
i AM still annoyed by things like "can't help but", though :D 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 2051 of 3737 21 December 2011 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You know you're a language nerd when it's 5 in the morning and you're running around your
flat in a blind panic trying to pack in time to catch a flight home. Your girlfriend is writing a letter in German to her landlord asking to check bits and pieces. You look over her shoulder as she signs off and despite all the stress of packing and writing the letter, you still have the presence of mind and the cheek to tell her "you need to revise the passive, dear". Jack 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Rivso Diglot Groupie FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4876 days ago 41 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Dutch, Japanese | Message 2052 of 3737 22 December 2011 at 12:34am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you start revising flash cards while chatting with friends without even noticing and
then wonder why they think you're weird >_< 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| birthdaysuit Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4816 days ago 48 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Swedish | Message 2053 of 3737 22 December 2011 at 1:43am | IP Logged | |||||
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You know you're a language nerd when you somehow manage to steer every conversation you
have towards the topic of language learning, and watch the blank expressions or hear the heavy silences on the phone, but you continue talking. And you don't care... because you're a language nerd. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5966 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 2054 of 3737 22 December 2011 at 2:40am | IP Logged | |||||
When you love and respect all animal life, but if one of them gets in the way of your language learning, you have no problem using it as an impromptu lap desk:
*IMPORTANT ! This is not recommended, however, if the intrusive pet is a cat. Edited by meramarina on 22 December 2011 at 2:52am 10 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5170 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 2055 of 3737 22 December 2011 at 5:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When learning how to count up to ten in Welsh gives you an enormous and entirely disproportionate satisfaction.
When your friend brings you a song written in Russian and asks you to teach her the pronunciation, and you don't say, "You're crazy; I don't know any Russian!", but instead are thrilled because now you finally have a genuine excuse to learn to read Cyrillic. When your chemistry teacher announces an extra credit assignment to your class by saying that you will really like it, and the assignment turns out to be finding the etymologies of the names of ten of the elements. (Due to your enthusiastic reaction, most of your chemistry class probably thinks you are insane now.) 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| LebensForm Senior Member Austria Joined 5049 days ago 212 posts - 264 votes Studies: German | Message 2056 of 3737 23 December 2011 at 5:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you write "Fröhliche Weihnachten" on soneone's whiteboard on their door, than you come by later and Merry Christmas is written in 5 other languages on this person's door inclusing Manderin Chinese and Welsh, and you are deeply pleased with yourself.
When you find this to be absoultely adorable even though you don't care much for Rosetta Stone I do want a little boy like that :) 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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