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Levi
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 Message 1265 of 3737
23 November 2010 at 6:19pm | IP Logged 
Sprachprofi wrote:
When you're making christmas cookies in the shape of Greek letters.

How would you make a Ξ?
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horshod
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 Message 1266 of 3737
23 November 2010 at 6:25pm | IP Logged 
Levi wrote:
...when you can't help but notice that the hair on your bar of soap is shaped just like a Hiragana ん.


lol I rofled at that one! :D :D
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 Message 1267 of 3737
23 November 2010 at 8:11pm | IP Logged 
Levi wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:
When you're making christmas cookies in the shape of Greek letters.

How would you make a Ξ?


Lowercase, of course.
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ellasevia
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 Message 1268 of 3737
23 November 2010 at 8:19pm | IP Logged 
Qbe wrote:
Levi wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:
When you're making christmas cookies in the shape of Greek letters.

How would you make a Ξ?


Lowercase, of course.


ξ would still be quite a difficult shape to make for a cookie, I'd think! So would ζ for that matter...

Edited by ellasevia on 23 November 2010 at 8:20pm

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Sprachprofi
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 Message 1269 of 3737
23 November 2010 at 8:24pm | IP Logged 
ellasevia wrote:
Qbe wrote:
Levi wrote:
Sprachprofi wrote:
When you're making
christmas cookies in the shape of Greek letters.

How would you make a Ξ?


Lowercase, of course.


ξ would still be quite a difficult shape to make for a cookie, I'd think! So would ζ for
that matter...

We were making Spritzgebäck of
course.
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psy88
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 Message 1270 of 3737
24 November 2010 at 4:27am | IP Logged 
You know you are a language nerd when you give serious thought to taking the toki pona 21 day challenge (see the language learning log) and you have the following reactions from those closest to you: "with so many languages out there why would some one make up a new one?" and, "with so many real languages why study a made up one?"; " Knowing you, I'm not surprised"; "why? So you can say you have mastered an entire language?" and, my favorite: "toki pona? Is that like the hokey-pokey?"
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 Message 1271 of 3737
24 November 2010 at 9:49am | IP Logged 
..When you buy Cosmopolitan in a language which you don't understand because sometime in the future you'll be able to use it to learn the colloquial expressions...

..When you spend a third of your monthly salary on an assortment of grammar books and end up going back to the bookstore to return the books one by one because you don't have money to buy lunch...

Edited by royanazs on 24 November 2010 at 9:49am

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maydayayday
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 Message 1272 of 3737
26 November 2010 at 6:14pm | IP Logged 
royanazs wrote:
..When you buy Cosmopolitan in a language which you don't understand because sometime in the future you'll be able to use it to learn the colloquial expressions...



if you dont buy Cosmo in every airport you pass through because it's not in a new language


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