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Teango
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 Message 329 of 3737
31 January 2010 at 12:10pm | IP Logged 
When you translate a charity letter written in English from Ghana for your German neighbour, but all the time wonder what they speak over there, and whether you could learn it so as to help your neighbour reply in her sponsor child's native language. You fantasize over adding an exotic African language with lots of clicks and whistles to your language collection for a moment, even though you know next to nothing about African languages, just the fleeting harmonies of Paul Simon and the Ladysmith Black Mambazo band resonating faintly in your ears for a moment. Then you go on Wikipedia only to discover that English IS the official language, and return to your translation secretly a little disappointed...never mind, maybe next time... ;)
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 Message 330 of 3737
31 January 2010 at 9:18pm | IP Logged 
Teango wrote:
When you translate a charity letter written in English from Ghana for your German neighbour, but all the time wonder what they speak over there, and whether you could learn it so as to help your neighbour reply in her sponsor child's native language. You fantasize over adding an exotic African language with lots of clicks and whistles to your language collection for a moment, even though you know next to nothing about African languages, just the fleeting harmonies of Paul Simon and the Ladysmith Black Mambazo band resonating faintly in your ears for a moment. Then you go on Wikipedia only to discover that English IS the official language, and return to your translation secretly a little disappointed...never mind, maybe next time... ;)
Even before reading this I already knew I wanted to learn an African click language :D. And maybe even Pirahã (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language It wouldn't let me make this a working link). The fact that pretty much all speakers of Pirahã are monolingual doesn't discourage me a bit, it actually reinforces my wish to know the language.

I doubt this qualifies as language nerdery, but I was watching George Lopez's comedy show on Comedy Central last night (in which me mixes in quite a bit of Spanish), and 99% of the Spanish that he used that I understood were swear words.

Edited by Johntm on 31 January 2010 at 9:34pm

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 Message 331 of 3737
31 January 2010 at 9:45pm | IP Logged 
This might have been posted already but when you watch MMA fights and you wish the fighters would stop moving so you could read what there tattoos meant.
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Teango
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 Message 332 of 3737
31 January 2010 at 10:56pm | IP Logged 
genini1 wrote:
This might have been posted already but when you watch MMA fights and you wish the fighters would stop moving so you could read what there tattoos meant.

Where would I be without my "pause" button...oh the magic of technology...I confess I once did exactly this whilst watching an amazing Russian figher, simply to see if he had "vor v zakone" mafia stars on his knees or cyrillic on his back I could try to read ...needless-to-say I only found celtic designs and squiggles.

Edited by Teango on 31 January 2010 at 11:14pm

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 Message 333 of 3737
01 February 2010 at 6:21am | IP Logged 
When, upon entering your favorite bookstore, you start moving towards the foreign language section without thinking about it, and when you get there you have to use all your willpower to pry yourself away to keep from spending all your time and money there.
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 Message 334 of 3737
01 February 2010 at 11:04pm | IP Logged 
... when you write your notes in Russian for English class, Swedish for History, German for Science, and Japanese for Spanish ;D (I wish I was that good D: )
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 Message 335 of 3737
01 February 2010 at 11:31pm | IP Logged 
kottoler.ello wrote:
When, upon entering your favorite bookstore, you start moving towards the foreign language section without thinking about it, and when you get there you have to use all your willpower to pry yourself away to keep from spending all your time and money there.

Guilty. Are there other sections?

Edited by Sprachprofi on 01 February 2010 at 11:31pm

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 Message 336 of 3737
02 February 2010 at 3:27pm | IP Logged 
How about this: you know you have become a language nerd when, after not seeing it in a few years you watch Pulp Fiction and now your favorite part/quote is John Travolta talking about "Le Big Mac"


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