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| mausi15 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4896 days ago 24 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French | Message 2921 of 3737 28 April 2013 at 11:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
Funnily enough I too was looking up the German word for procrastination today! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2922 of 3737 29 April 2013 at 3:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you need to get some space on both your computer and external harddrive and the only
solution, after removing movies accidentaly saved twice, is to go through your hoarded language resources and remove at least a few which you are certain never to use in future. And it is still better solution than to remove resources for one of the languages on the hitlist (which you are unlikely to begin in fewer than five years from now). 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4872 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 2923 of 3737 29 April 2013 at 9:19am | IP Logged | |||||
I did the same. ;) Edited by stifa on 29 April 2013 at 9:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4827 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2924 of 3737 29 April 2013 at 1:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
I thought about it, then thought, "nah, mañana..." 9 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5218 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 2925 of 3737 29 April 2013 at 3:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
I've put it off until tomorrow.... 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| morinkhuur Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4676 days ago 79 posts - 157 votes Speaks: German*, Latin, English Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi) | Message 2926 of 3737 29 April 2013 at 3:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you get in trouble for vandalising school tables with Chinese characters.
When you repeat someone's question with a different phonology instead of answering it. When you write Arabic words into your food with a fork. When you refuse to watch dubbed movies even if you don't understand the language. 8 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6702 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 2927 of 3737 30 April 2013 at 2:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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An Irish academic attending a conference on Celtic spirituality was asked if there was any equivalent of 'mañana' in Old Irish. 'Oh, yes, several' was his reply 'but none of them have that sense of pressing urgency conveyed by "mañana".'
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4443 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 2928 of 3737 02 May 2013 at 8:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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People get into languages for different reasons. You get to watch movies and listen to news broadcast in other
people's perspective. Things that may not show up in local media in 1 language may pop up in another. There are times you listen to a foreign news broadcast just for the sake of listening to someone speak the language. Not because you haven't listen to the news earlier in the day. Even the same content but done in a your target language. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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