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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6867 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 3065 of 3737 13 September 2013 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When someone says "But everyone speaks English" and you feel the veins in your neck bulging
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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5102 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 3066 of 3737 14 September 2013 at 12:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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When you consider not speaking with someone because they know your TL, but refuse to speak it
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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6867 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 3067 of 3737 14 September 2013 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you see an out of print book on a language you 'plan' to learn on Ebay hand HAVE to have it
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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5173 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 3068 of 3737 15 September 2013 at 1:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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When your English s's keep on looking like Greek sigmas (ς) when you're doing your homework.
When meeting someone who speaks Pig Latin fluently, is desperate to learn Welsh, and can recite a few lines in Xhosa makes your day. When you walk around your dorm reciting Catullus (rather) quietly. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5209 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3069 of 3737 16 September 2013 at 10:27am | IP Logged | |||||
Haha, yes. As much as it's immature, petty, and potentially socially awkward, I still often want to do it. 1 person has 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 3070 of 3737 16 September 2013 at 2:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
It may be awkward in a concrete situation, but if you have paid a lot to travel to a far-away country and only have a few days there then it would be idiotic to waste your precious time on some local jerk who refuse to speak his/her language to you just because you don't speak exactly like him/her. There must be more friendly, patient and mature individuals around. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5209 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3071 of 3737 16 September 2013 at 2:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yeah that's true. I suppose I'm more thinking of situations like when the person in question is a friend of a friend or both of you are in the same group conversation. If they're a stranger then there's not much awkwardness; when it happened to me in France, at the Paris Couchsurfing meeting for example, I could and did just walk away and talk to someone else. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tsopivo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4473 days ago 258 posts - 411 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 3072 of 3737 16 September 2013 at 6:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
No need to call them a jerk either. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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