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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2729 of 3737 19 November 2012 at 9:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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true. i hate the most the captchas with combination numbers-letters. especcialy when it
is strangely deformed and you need to decide whether it is O or 0. or sometimes g and q 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4875 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 2730 of 3737 19 November 2012 at 9:27pm | IP Logged | ||
Or when they include cyrillic or hanzi...and I can swear I've seen some with the inuktitut alphabet... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Travis.H Triglot Groupie United States Joined 4458 days ago 59 posts - 91 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, Sign Language Studies: French | Message 2731 of 3737 20 November 2012 at 8:06am | IP Logged | ||
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...when you decide to learn French because it'll give you more access to Assimil learning
resources. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6705 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2732 of 3737 20 November 2012 at 12:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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You are a minor nerd if you look "inuktikut alphabet" up on the internet and discover that it actually is a syllabary, not an alphabet. You are a major nerd if you think anyone cares...
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| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4875 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 2733 of 3737 20 November 2012 at 2:54pm | IP Logged | ||
You know you are a language nerd when you think that is the most logical syllabary you've ever seen. Yeah, and I have a tendency of calling any form of written script that represent a language an alphabet. Sorry! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5173 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 2734 of 3737 23 November 2012 at 1:30am | IP Logged | ||
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When you bookmark the website http://www.learnlangs.com/lang_geek/ on your iPad and take the test
periodically in the hopes that your score will go up (I'm still only at a 33.13%). When you are translating for an acquaintance who is trying to buy jewelry from a monolingual Nicaraguan salesman and you start speaking to your aquaintance in Spanish instead of English and don't realize until your acquaintance fails to respond. When you talk out loud to yourself using multiple languages . . . in the same sentence. 2 persons have 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 2735 of 3737 23 November 2012 at 8:56am | IP Logged | ||
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When you overhear some tourists talking in the elevator, and jump out after them whilst holding the door open on another floor, simply to confirm what Slavic language they were speaking. I felt a bit guilty afterwards, as they almost jumped out of their skins too and probably thought I was going to rob them...but it was all worth it in the end: Czech! :) Edited by Teango on 23 November 2012 at 8:59am 8 persons have 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 2736 of 3737 23 November 2012 at 9:07am | IP Logged | ||
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When you spend Thanksgiving enveloped in table conversation between Mandarin, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish speakers, and have already started drawing kanji on someone's keitai by dessert. Edited by Teango on 23 November 2012 at 9:08am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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