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rantoniops
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United States
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Speaks: Spanish*, English, German, Portuguese, French, Dutch
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 Message 177 of 3737
28 November 2009 at 5:19am | IP Logged 
MäcØSŸ wrote:
When you read the warranty paper of the headphones in every language available.
When you watch movies you would never watch in your mother tongue.
When you take notes at school in IPA.
When you use foreign grammar in your native language.
When you colored a map according to the languages you’re fluent in.



hahahahahhaah omg my dude

i have 2 maps i've colored according to the languages i can speak!

nice one dude
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El Forastero
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 Message 178 of 3737
01 December 2009 at 5:13pm | IP Logged 
Extremely funny this topic. I´m laughing and I don´t know when can I stop.

My contribution:

You are a language nerd when you discuss with a friend in your natie tongue and there´s a sentence differently understood by both of you and you think: "There wouldn´t have been this misunderstanding if we had spoken French".


I post in my blog about this topic. You can read it (in Spanish)HERE
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Iversen
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 Message 179 of 3737
01 December 2009 at 6:09pm | IP Logged 
El Forastero wrote:

I post in my blog about this topic. You can read it (in Spanish)HERE


... in Spanish? Enough proof, anybody who in an Anglophone discussion gives a link to an explanation in Spanish and assumes that people can read it must be a qualified language nerd.


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Gusutafu
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 Message 180 of 3737
01 December 2009 at 6:10pm | IP Logged 
Rikyu-san wrote:
When you speak French to your wife, German to your maid and Danish to your dog...


Sounds more like you are a Holy Roman Emperor to me.
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El Forastero
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 Message 181 of 3737
01 December 2009 at 6:28pm | IP Logged 
Iversen wrote:
El Forastero wrote:

I post in my blog about this topic. You can read it (in Spanish)HERE


... in Spanish? Enough proof, anybody who in an Anglophone discussion gives a link to an explanation in Spanish and assumes that people can read it must be a qualified language nerd.



That's Right, Iversen.

I thought that Spanish lerners can practice their target language reading a post about "how to be a nerd language". The content is alost the same, so they can compare the texts, and whose are really nerd language can critizise end evaluate my translation
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Levi
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 Message 182 of 3737
01 December 2009 at 8:51pm | IP Logged 
I figure a lot of us on this forum, if not an outright majority, would be able to read that Spanish at some level. I certainly understood it pretty well. After all, "if you speak many languages, people will just assume you speak perfect Spanish anyway."
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Rikyu-san
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 Message 183 of 3737
01 December 2009 at 9:52pm | IP Logged 
Gusutafu wrote:
Rikyu-san wrote:
When you speak French to your wife, German to your maid and Danish to your dog...


Sounds more like you are a Holy Roman Emperor to me.


Well, I don't speak French to my wife, and I have no maid to whom I can ein bisschen Deutsch sprechen - but the bourgeoisie in Denmark once did it (or something very similar - maybe some of my fellow Danes can help me out on this one?).

My wife and I do speak a strange mix of Danish sprinkled with English phrases now and then, however... perhaps that is a little bit nerdy, huh? :-)
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mick33
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 Message 184 of 3737
02 December 2009 at 11:04pm | IP Logged 
... I was genuinely disappointed to discover that my computer couldn't correctly display all the IPA characters and stayed up all night trying to make them appear.

Edited by mick33 on 03 December 2009 at 12:54am



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