Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6664 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil
| Message 41 of 94 25 March 2007 at 12:06pm | IP Logged |
Roger wrote:
Basically, MARC FRISCH didn't know i'm dyslexic, and I do find english spelling hard, harder than Italian in some cases. |
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No, I didn't. I'm really sorry about my remark, which I made because I thought the spelling mistakes were due to sloppiness. For example, inversing letters as in 'becuase' instead of 'because' (I know this is typical for people with dislexia) gives the impression of someone who knows how to write it but doesn't make an effort to type it correctly...
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Roger Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6591 days ago 159 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Indonesian
| Message 42 of 94 25 March 2007 at 2:32pm | IP Logged |
No worries, no harm done.
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PETE Triglot Groupie United States Joined 6482 days ago 73 posts - 85 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Spanish
| Message 43 of 94 01 April 2007 at 12:23am | IP Logged |
Negative aspects of being a polyglot? Pfft!
Like saying there are negative aspects to being a millionaire or a super model.
Do you really think that anyone is going to take the complaints seriously?
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awake Senior Member United States Joined 6635 days ago 406 posts - 438 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Spanish
| Message 44 of 94 03 April 2007 at 1:06am | IP Logged |
supermodel? well the fame and money are nice, but the bulimia and heroin
addiction kinda suck ;)
[QUOTE=PETE] Negative aspects of being a polyglot? Pfft!
Like saying there are negative aspects to being a millionaire or a super
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Do you really think that anyone is going to take the complaints seriously?[/
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PETE Triglot Groupie United States Joined 6482 days ago 73 posts - 85 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Spanish
| Message 45 of 94 03 April 2007 at 10:48am | IP Logged |
LOL Touche'
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ecspike Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6907 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English*, French
| Message 46 of 94 03 April 2007 at 8:58pm | IP Logged |
Linguamor wrote:
Wanting to say something, and finding that what you want to say comes to mind in a different language than the language you're speaking. This is especially awkward if the language that you're speaking is your native language. |
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This happens to me all the time unfortunately, no doubt as a result of spending time in France with a group of Americans. Don't get me wrong, all of us were capable of speaking all French but used Franglais kind of as a secret code. We were in Lille where limited amounts of people speak English.
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Asiafever Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 6452 days ago 38 posts - 35 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 47 of 94 07 April 2007 at 5:14pm | IP Logged |
Some people may think you are snob and bourgeois.
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Sierra Diglot Senior Member Turkey livinginlights.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7123 days ago 296 posts - 411 votes Speaks: English*, SwedishB1 Studies: Turkish
| Message 48 of 94 07 April 2007 at 6:46pm | IP Logged |
The most annoying one I can immediately think of has already been pointed out. I hate it when people go out of their way to find gaps in my knowledge of languages I'm studying, then act as though I had made some claim to fluency.
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