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meramarina
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 Message 1433 of 3737
08 February 2011 at 3:30am | IP Logged 
I was so upset I had to eat the whole bag of wafers and then spend the evening deciphering the wrapper of a mysterious Slavic chocolate bar I also have. I do not dare open it because I'm still looking at it (Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian, I think . . . ) I hope you enjoyed my artistic depiction of grief, worthy of a not-very-adept three year old.
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GibberMeister
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 Message 1434 of 3737
08 February 2011 at 5:47pm | IP Logged 
meramarina wrote:

You are a language nerd if you find this as disturbing as I do: finding a package of imported cookies with the package printed in fourteen languages, yes fourteen! and that's a fantastic and magnificent feeling until you try to open the package, and rip right through English, Italian, French, German, Portuguese and Dutch . . .



Oh, the sadness.



And THAT is me. I find myself trying to figure out meanings of languages and words by comparing the ones I know with the ones I've no idea of!

My wife has to bring me back to Earth sometimes at breakfast!
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Jinx
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 Message 1435 of 3737
08 February 2011 at 6:39pm | IP Logged 
meramarina wrote:

You are a language nerd if you find this as disturbing as I do: finding a package of imported cookies with the package printed in fourteen languages, yes fourteen! and that's a fantastic and magnificent feeling until you try to open the package, and rip right through English, Italian, French, German, Portuguese and Dutch . . .

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Oh, the sadness.



I literally winced when I read that. And then immediately started imagining what sort of linguistic amusements could take place due to an imperfectly aligned reconstruction of the package... this may be my geekiest moment.

(edited to avoid re-posting the picture)

Edited by Jinx on 08 February 2011 at 6:40pm

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Levi
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 Message 1436 of 3737
11 February 2011 at 5:27am | IP Logged 
...when you kick yourself for realizing, after the game is over, that you should have muted the English commentary while watching the France-Brazil football match and listened to the Radio France broadcast instead.

Edited by Levi on 11 February 2011 at 5:28am

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psy88
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 Message 1437 of 3737
14 February 2011 at 3:37am | IP Logged 
when you are getting your hair cut and your barber starts to speak to another barber in Italian and, even though you have not studied Italian since your university days, many many years ago, you can follow the conversation. What is more amazing-and more proof of being a language nerd- is that you are translating, in your mind,what they are saying into your first target language and feeling frustrated that you cannot ,as yet, translate it into your second target language.
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jdmoncada
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 Message 1438 of 3737
14 February 2011 at 6:02am | IP Logged 
It's already been posted, but this is so me:


...when you accidentally use another language's grammar in your native language
...when you accidentally speak words in another language without realizing it at first
...especially when you're already speaking another language! (My Finnish always has little strange bits of German and Spanish in it. It makes sense to no one but me.)
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Adrean
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 Message 1439 of 3737
14 February 2011 at 9:08am | IP Logged 
When frequent visits to the library collecting courses from different languages makes you stand out to the librarians making you slightly embarassed.
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