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Cavesa
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Studies: Spanish, German, Italian

 
 Message 2729 of 3737
19 November 2012 at 9:01pm | IP Logged 
true. i hate the most the captchas with combination numbers-letters. especcialy when it
is strangely deformed and you need to decide whether it is O or 0. or sometimes g and q
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stifa
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 Message 2730 of 3737
19 November 2012 at 9:27pm | IP Logged 
Cavesa wrote:
true. i hate the most the captchas with combination numbers-letters.
especcialy when it
is strangely deformed and you need to decide whether it is O or 0. or sometimes g and
q

Or when they include cyrillic or hanzi...and I can swear I've seen some with the
inuktitut alphabet...
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Travis.H
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United States
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 Message 2731 of 3737
20 November 2012 at 8:06am | IP Logged 
...when you decide to learn French because it'll give you more access to Assimil learning
resources.
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Iversen
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 Message 2732 of 3737
20 November 2012 at 12:31pm | IP Logged 
You are a minor nerd if you look "inuktikut alphabet" up on the internet and discover that it actually is a syllabary, not an alphabet. You are a major nerd if you think anyone cares...
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stifa
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 Message 2733 of 3737
20 November 2012 at 2:54pm | IP Logged 
Iversen wrote:
You are a minor nerd if you look "inuktikut alphabet" up on the
internet and discover that it actually is a
syllabary, not an alphabet.
You are a major nerd if you think anyone cares...


You know you are a language nerd when you think that is the most logical syllabary
you've ever seen.

Yeah, and I have a tendency of calling any form of written script that represent a
language an alphabet. Sorry!
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Amerykanka
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 Message 2734 of 3737
23 November 2012 at 1:30am | IP Logged 
When you bookmark the website http://www.learnlangs.com/lang_geek/ on your iPad and take the test
periodically in the hopes that your score will go up (I'm still only at a 33.13%).

When you are translating for an acquaintance who is trying to buy jewelry from a monolingual Nicaraguan
salesman and you start speaking to your aquaintance in Spanish instead of English and don't realize until
your acquaintance fails to respond.

When you talk out loud to yourself using multiple languages . . . in the same sentence.
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Teango
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 Message 2735 of 3737
23 November 2012 at 8:56am | IP Logged 
When you overhear some tourists talking in the elevator, and jump out after them whilst holding the door open on another floor, simply to confirm what Slavic language they were speaking. I felt a bit guilty afterwards, as they almost jumped out of their skins too and probably thought I was going to rob them...but it was all worth it in the end: Czech! :)

Edited by Teango on 23 November 2012 at 8:59am

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Teango
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 Message 2736 of 3737
23 November 2012 at 9:07am | IP Logged 
When you spend Thanksgiving enveloped in table conversation between Mandarin, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish speakers, and have already started drawing kanji on someone's keitai by dessert.

Edited by Teango on 23 November 2012 at 9:08am



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