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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5349 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 705 of 3737 14 June 2010 at 3:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when your main problem in Scrabble is seeing lots of high-scoring words you can't play because they're not in English.
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| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5572 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 706 of 3737 14 June 2010 at 3:30am | IP Logged | |||||
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...when you watch a Swedish movie with French subtitles after you've read the book in English.
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5349 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 707 of 3737 14 June 2010 at 4:38am | IP Logged | |||||
In French you shout "aïe!" and in Mandarin you shout "哎哟! (āiyō!)" 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5629 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 708 of 3737 14 June 2010 at 8:37am | IP Logged | |||||
With my father I always play multilingual Scrabble (with a pile of dictionaries on the table to control any word in case of doubt) And why? - Because I'm a language nerd!!! Edited by Fasulye on 14 June 2010 at 8:38am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kazen Diglot Groupie Japan japanese-me.com Joined 5110 days ago 96 posts - 133 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese | Message 709 of 3737 14 June 2010 at 9:34am | IP Logged | |||||
And in Japanese you shout "痛い！" (itai!) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5338 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 710 of 3737 14 June 2010 at 9:54am | IP Logged | |||||
And when you automatically start to wonder what the word "cup" would be in several languages... Now my journey towards the dark side of language nerdery is complete! Edited by Teango on 14 June 2010 at 9:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5479 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 711 of 3737 14 June 2010 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you buy a computer-magazine and once at home you, living in Belgium, realize "Ah it's in English."
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| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6701 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 712 of 3737 14 June 2010 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When you own:
85 textbooks to learn Japanese, 15 novels and magazines in Japanese 48 textbooks to learn Arabic with stacks of newspapers and videos in Arabic 54 textbooks to learn Russian with stacks of DVDs in Russian 59 textbooks to learn Chinese with 100s of magazines in Chinese and 100s of DVDs 31 textbooks to learn Latin plus over 800 more books and textbooks for Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Navajo, Esperanto, Yiddish, Hindi, Greek and probably many more. 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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