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Kafea
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Sámi

 
 Message 2193 of 3737
13 March 2012 at 10:03pm | IP Logged 
When you have contacted pastors in other countries to find the Lutheran liturgy and Christian prayers in different languages because you can easily get them in English too. When you wish the Bible Society would hurry up and finish the Bible translations they have been working on but haven't yet completed, and wish they would just give you what they have so far.
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meramarina
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 Message 2194 of 3737
15 March 2012 at 5:50pm | IP Logged 
When words from a target language start showing up where they should not be.

I just tried to do a Find and Replace correction in a document I'm editing. I neglected to clear the clipboard first, and now the document is full of PÄ…czki (Polish doughnuts)!


Edited by meramarina on 15 March 2012 at 5:51pm

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markdtmj
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neprenezpasmonj
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Studies: French

 
 Message 2195 of 3737
17 March 2012 at 1:58am | IP Logged 
I'm sure this has been said before, but...

... When your phone's custom dictionary is filling up with TL vocab, causing your phone to interpret the
word you were trying to type as one from the wrong language. (that sentence kind of got away from
me... I hope it makes sense....) Probably only an issue for swype users, but it happened in typing this.
"language" was replaced with "langue" which at least means the same thing. Usually it amounts to "it's
very pretty" turning into complete nonsense like "it's very peu" or something like that.

Or

... When you're inordinately proud of yourself for sticking to your TL after popping in to the used
bookstore. (Seriously, there were way more languages represented than I was expecting and everything
was so cheap!!)
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meramarina
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 Message 2196 of 3737
17 March 2012 at 2:58am | IP Logged 
When you really enjoy this multilingual Lion King video, which teaches you the phrase When I was a young warthog in many, many languages.

I admit that I was losing my patience with it at the end when languages started repeating, but still, wow, I could never have guessed a video like this even existed! And, of course, it does demonstrate a very useful phrase.

Hakuna Matata 43 versions
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LebensForm
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Austria
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Studies: German

 
 Message 2197 of 3737
17 March 2012 at 5:05am | IP Logged 
When you pretend to only speak German at a strip club, that your friends convinced you to go because they think you spend too much time studying German and need to live a little, to keep guys from hitting on you, which in fact backfired.

When you spend your Friday night organizing your German grammar binder, putting dividers in and whatnot.

When you can have a complete conversation with your friend about someone in English just by using the cases in German (nominitive, accusitive, dative, genitive) as adjetives in describing that person, and no one else has any idea what you are even talking about. "Shes too accusitive, which probably led him to become dative" in other words, Shes a bitch which caused him to sleep around/cheat.
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Serpent
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 Message 2198 of 3737
17 March 2012 at 2:25pm | IP Logged 
When it drives you mad if you can't even identify a language. (just seen a programme with subtitles in Albanian... had to give up and google several words to figure it out)


When you call a language interesting and your family members ask half-seriously if you're going to study it.
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Ogrim
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 Message 2199 of 3737
17 March 2012 at 3:48pm | IP Logged 
When you have actually read all the 2203 messages posted so far in this discussion, and recognise yourself in at least a third of them.
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Serpent
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 Message 2200 of 3737
18 March 2012 at 3:18pm | IP Logged 
When your friend asks on Twitter if anyone wants anything from Malta, you say a Maltese dictionary and he almost believes you. And then you're disappointed when you see Harry Potter hasn't been translated into Maltese and end up asking for a newspaper in Maltese.


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