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Asal
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 Message 2745 of 3737
03 December 2012 at 2:11pm | IP Logged 
When in the middle of speaking to somebody, you stop to analyze the word you've just said...and then you start translating it in your mind into all the languages you speak

Edited by Asal on 03 December 2012 at 2:12pm

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Chung
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 Message 2746 of 3737
03 December 2012 at 5:24pm | IP Logged 
... you had a phase where your favourite software was the combat flight simulator Su-25 Stormovik (fly a Russian ground-attack aircraft) so that you could see an instrument panel and HUD with Cyrillic characters, and the multilingual shareware/freeware word processor for DOS, INTEXT (how I loved typing in Cyrillic and Arabic characters).

Once I discovered Sid Meier's Civilization a couple of years later, I reverted to being a typical consumer of computer games but never quite purged the bug for languages. It turned up again when I overwrote the files of the default radio communications and voices (English and German) for European Air War with unofficial modifications in (enhanced) German, Japanese, Polish, Russian and Slovak. Hearing my computer-controlled wingman yell out in Polish Uważaj! Messerschmitt sto dziewięć! ("Watch out! Messerschmitt 109!" [a German fighter plane]) was a nice change from hearing him yell something similar in the Queen's English.
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Serpent
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 Message 2747 of 3737
03 December 2012 at 10:24pm | IP Logged 
When you sell your soul because you wanna watch football in Danish.

(that is, you're a Kaspersky employee and you fuсking download some suspicious shit. and when you lose your add-on settings for abcTajpu you come to this thread because you quoted them here:D)
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langslav
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 Message 2748 of 3737
04 December 2012 at 4:38am | IP Logged 
for idle amusement i downloaded 117,000 language files off of the internet over a 3 day time frame when my family was away. i just wanted to do something useful, that i could use for myself. (categorized by language family into etc folders)
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garyb
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 Message 2749 of 3737
04 December 2012 at 10:55am | IP Logged 
When the Spanish girl that you're dating keeps trying to teach you bits of her language, but you resist because, according to your long-term language learning plan that you've already thought long and hard about, it's not time to start Spanish just yet.
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vermillon
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 Message 2750 of 3737
04 December 2012 at 11:18am | IP Logged 
garyb wrote:
When the Spanish girl that you're dating keeps trying to teach you bits of her language, but you resist because, according to your long-term language learning plan that you've already thought long and hard about, it's not time to start Spanish just yet.



Sorry, that's precisely "not" being a language nerd. A language nerd would never miss such an opportunity.
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garyb
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 Message 2751 of 3737
04 December 2012 at 5:01pm | IP Logged 
vermillon wrote:
garyb wrote:
When the Spanish girl that you're dating keeps trying to teach you bits of her language, but you resist because, according to your long-term language learning plan that you've already thought long and hard about, it's not time to start Spanish just yet.



Sorry, that's precisely "not" being a language nerd. A language nerd would never miss such an opportunity.


Hah, good point: if I were a true language nerd then I'd probably have the time and capacity to actively study three or more languages at once, as many here seem to, and so I'd take advantage of the opportunity. I was just going for the idea of being language-nerdy enough to have an established plan for learning several languages and insisting on sticking to it.

I know it's a slippery slope - it would start with me learning a few words from her, and before I know it I'd be halfway through Spanish With Ease and be progressing even more slowly in my languages than I already am because I'd be dividing my time between three of them. Two is already a massive commitment and compromise. I also rationalise that since my city is so full of Spanish speakers and I already tend to meet a lot of them socially, I'll have plenty more opportunities when the time does come... If she spoke a language that I was planning to learn but was hard to find speakers of, then it would perhaps be a different story :P.
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Tupiniquim
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 Message 2752 of 3737
04 December 2012 at 5:18pm | IP Logged 
langslav wrote:
for idle amusement i downloaded 117,000 language files off of the internet over a 3 day time frame when my family was away. i just wanted to do something useful, that i could use for myself. (categorized by language family into etc folders)


Could you link me to it?


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