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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6382 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 1 of 13 27 January 2008 at 8:02am | IP Logged | ||
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I've decided to take a temporary pause from this forum. I've gained a lot of great ideas here, and I thank everyone that I've learned from. I feel that I'm spending too much time here, which could be more productively spent solidifying my study habits, among other things.
I won't be logged in, responding to PMs, or otherwise around for a while. Anyone looking for siometteikiru's contact information should ask atamagaii. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6540 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 2 of 13 27 January 2008 at 8:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Good luck with your studies!
I'd probably need to through my PC or at least my modem away if I wanted to take a pause from this forum ;D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| atamagaii Senior Member Anguilla Joined 6149 days ago 181 posts - 195 votes Speaks: Apache* | Message 3 of 13 27 January 2008 at 8:30am | IP Logged | ||
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It's high time!
So it's time for me to quit, too. Sheetz doesn't post anything new. You won't be here. Luke has disappeared. I will check only my pms once a week. Good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| furyou_gaijin Senior Member Japan Joined 6329 days ago 540 posts - 631 votes Speaks: Latin* | Message 4 of 13 27 January 2008 at 9:26am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm going to. :-) Will be checking the new stuff once a fortnight or so.
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| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6886 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 5 of 13 27 January 2008 at 10:01am | IP Logged | ||
It's not as hard as you think, if you follow a patented two-step forum reduction program. First, you stop posting, while continuing to read the forum, all the while forcing yourself to refrain from replying to all and sundry posts that really deserve it. This is a crucial step, greatly aided by reminding yourself that the Earth does keep spinning with or without us. Then you stay away from reading the forum for a period of time at least twice as long as the eventual visiting interval. After your brain and body return to their normal temperature, you can resume reading the forum at the pre-selected interval, while continuing to refrain from replying and remembering that the world will be just fine anyway. Edited by frenkeld on 27 January 2008 at 10:01am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6413 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 6 of 13 27 January 2008 at 10:09am | IP Logged | ||
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What is it with people going on break??? This is sad! Edited by Sprachprofi on 27 January 2008 at 10:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6852 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 13 27 January 2008 at 11:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Come on, everyone needs a break now and then. A break from the forum/computer, and a break for the studies. I'm taking my break now (but will return in a couple of hours :) )
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6646 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 8 of 13 27 January 2008 at 12:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have spent a lot of time here, but it doesn't feel so bad yet that I have to quit.
When I'm writing here I always try also to do something else at the same time (like watching TV or listening to music, - I'm somewhere in the third movement of Mahler's fifth right now*), or I just pass through in between reading or listening to stuff on my PC. Sometimes something in a thread catches my interest to the extent that I spend several hours looking into some problem (I have been reading and - sometimes listening to - homepages in Swiss German, Galician, operatic Italian, Sardinian, Aromanian and other languages and dialects because of threads at this forum), and this -- *Mahler fourth movement now -- is as entertaining as studying my 'normal' languages. I have also been following trails in personality psychology and other study related subjects that I might not have followed without this forum. So it is not just time wasted. When I answer a question I do sometimes feel that it is just repetition, but it is difficult to find back to earlier answers even for those of us who have been here for some time. I'm seriously thinking about collecting the more comprehensive (and labour intensive!)of my own answers in 'my own thread' for easy reference, so that I don't ever have to write the same things again. But quitting the forum - not now, at least. My single most important issue with this forum is that the multilingual section isn't used far more actively. I have written quite a lot there (and my thanks to those who have written even more), but it is difficult to revive a thread once it has gone into hibernation. Maybe people are just too shy about writing in a language before they are absolutely perfect in it, but I have survived writing in Swedish and Low German which are not even on my language list. Or maybe they don't want to be the first in half a year to write in a certain thread. Never mind, the fact is that most threads in that section either just die ignominously or fizzle out in simple error correction. There is already enough English in the world, so try something else please (... *and now we have reached the final movement). Edited by Iversen on 27 January 2008 at 12:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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