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nway
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 Message 1713 of 3737
06 June 2011 at 10:50pm | IP Logged 
^ Interesting. One thing I've noticed is that Spanish speakers will often say, "What happened?", analogous to "¿Qué pasa?", in situations where non-Spanish-speaking English speakers would normally say, "Huh?" or "What?".
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hjordis
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 Message 1714 of 3737
06 June 2011 at 11:04pm | IP Logged 
^Weird. I say what happened all the time, though I also use the other two. Maybe it's because about half the people I grew up with are Spanish speaker. Or maybe they're using it in a way I wouldn't that I haven't noticed.
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nway
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 Message 1715 of 3737
06 June 2011 at 11:08pm | IP Logged 
^ Growing up in an area without many Hispanics, "What happened?" only referred to specific situations that occurred in the past. Only when I had a Hispanic roommate in college did I start hearing "What happened?" used to mean a general "What's up?". It confused me at first, because whenever I was asked "What happened?", I thought he was referring to some specific incident. o.O
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patuco
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 Message 1716 of 3737
06 June 2011 at 11:22pm | IP Logged 
Phantom Kat wrote:
- when you're absolutely heartbroken at learning that a website with many books in Finnish only ship to Finland.

...and why would this stop a true language nerd?
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meramarina
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 Message 1717 of 3737
06 June 2011 at 11:48pm | IP Logged 
You are a language nerd when you go to YouTube to watch videos about linguistics and instead you discover just the right theme song for the language nerd thread!

The Linguist Rap

It's very silly, but it makes sense to me and probably to you, too!

Edited by meramarina on 07 June 2011 at 5:03am

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slav
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 Message 1718 of 3737
07 June 2011 at 1:20am | IP Logged 
When you stay up past midnight studying Swedish, which is a subject 100% unrelated to any of the end of year exams you'll be taking the next day.

It is truly a miracle that I got high scores.
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Levi
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 Message 1719 of 3737
07 June 2011 at 1:45am | IP Logged 
...when you feel as much patriotism for a country you've never visited where they speak your target language as you do for the country where you were born and live.
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slav
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 Message 1720 of 3737
07 June 2011 at 2:57am | IP Logged 
Levi wrote:
...when you feel as much patriotism for a country you've never visited where they speak your target language as you do for the country where you were born and live.


I can 100% relate to this... I love Sweden. xD


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