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| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5424 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 473 of 3737 27 March 2010 at 5:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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| tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6122 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French | Message 474 of 3737 27 March 2010 at 5:51am | IP Logged | |||||
It blows my mind that English and hindi are supposed to be related. Edited by tritone on 27 March 2010 at 5:53am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Rabochnok Diglot Newbie Colombia Joined 5612 days ago 37 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Turkish, Persian | Message 475 of 3737 27 March 2010 at 8:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you palatize l's for the fun of it.
When you ponder about the logistics of communication between the Colombians and Brazilians and International Red Cross members in the hostage release operation going on. (Probably all in Spanish though) When your mom asks you to translate the French on imported stuff at the supermarket even though you don't study it... and you figure it out through cognates and context instead of just blowing it off. Edited by Rabochnok on 27 March 2010 at 8:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5569 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 476 of 3737 27 March 2010 at 8:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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...when nothing brightens your day like being randomly greeted in your target language by a stranger who forgot to switch to the local language.
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| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5472 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 477 of 3737 28 March 2010 at 8:09am | IP Logged | |||||
Not quite as much, at least you can walk from Europe to India (although not really from England), and walk there never stepping into another language family (though it might not be the shortest route). But Not only Hawaii and Madagascar have two oceans between them, there's no language continuity at all between the two. Apparently for the Indo-European family the relationship is only obvious with ancient languages (Sanskrit and Latin). And some say the Semitic family is also related. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5472 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 478 of 3737 28 March 2010 at 8:10am | IP Logged | |||||
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| WortDrauf Already banned: zarathustra, lifelover Newbie Canada Joined 5397 days ago 23 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 479 of 3737 28 March 2010 at 10:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you read the English verb "polish" as Polish, and it takes you a minute to realize the lack of capitalization is intentional and puts an end to your confusion.
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| Rabochnok Diglot Newbie Colombia Joined 5612 days ago 37 posts - 59 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Turkish, Persian | Message 480 of 3737 28 March 2010 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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^ I always think of Polish when I read polish.
When you choose to use an ATM (that you've used several times before and so know by heart) in Chinese to see what the Chinese phrases for such things look like, and are then dissapointed when the receipt is printed in English. (But then again it *is* a good thing to have a record that you can actually understand.) Edited by Rabochnok on 28 March 2010 at 11:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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